Ozark Mountain Rondy, sort of.

[token tory]

I'm not sure where this goes, but this seemed the most likely place. :idunno:

Just got back from a 10 day get together in the Sylamore Creek area of the Ozarks swapping tall tales & good times with a few friends. This is the 5th year for the get together, & while not strictly speaking a Trad M/L rondy this year there was a lot of trad rondy aspects to the camp.

We had about a dozen attendees from places like Arkansas (of course), Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Florida & Kentucky, just to mention a few. Some who tried to come didn't make it, & some we didn't expect showed up.

I left minus some .50 cal RB I'd promised to one of the group. These came to me in trade for something else, but I only have a .44 cal so they became trade goods. But I gained a pound of FFFg in Holy Black & a 35 Lb pig of soft lead.

(We promptly adjourned to the shootin' range to burn some of the "real thing" as MD frowns heavily on BP in apartments, so this was my first experience with the "real deal")

Several others got to play with the '58 Remmy so we may have created a "new addiction" for one or two of the group who have so far been modern shooters only.

IN addition to shooting-related stuff we did some horse trading for other things as well, I swapped tents (again, it's a tradition now) with one of the other members, traded back a pack I traded off a few years ago & we all swapped tricks for fire-starting, setting traps & snares (no real trapping was done, just the techniques demonstrated.) & traded campfire cooking recipes, some of which originated right here in the recipes section:bow:

Like the title says, not quite a real mountain man rondy, but it definitely had the flavor of one. :hatsoff:

 

[Dave Rosenthal]

Sounds like a good time was had by all! :thumbsup:

I'm going to my first Rondy this weekend!

Dave

 

[SmokeEater2]

It sure was a good time and it's a good thing I came home with all that newly acquired lead too.
Right after I got home I stumbled into a pretty good deal on the .36 squirrel rifle I've been looking for so I've got a lot of casting to do. :wink:

 

[token tory]

Excellent!
As you may have guessed SMOKEEATER2 is one of the group. Actually the BP donor.
Thanks man, I finally shot BP after what? a year of substitutes :bow: :surrender:

AIF (another of the group) was swearing he saw the balls meandering downrange :youcrazy: I thought originally it was a trick of the light, but thinking it over more I think maybe he was seeing the wads?

 

[ny griz]

:thumbsup: Now that sounds like a good ole down home rondy.I like,great pics.Griz :hatsoff:

 

[nit wit]

I was just in the area 3 weeks ago, we camped in the barkshed area. My oldest boy got married in the woods. Beautiful country, similar to Maine but warmer. I was amazed at the clear cold water, I liked it alot.
Nit Wit

 

[token tory]

If you were in Barkshed you were real close to us, we were at the Gunner Pool campsite.
Kind of like Barkshead, but not 100% primitive. (We had "thunderboxes.") :rotf:

Beautiful scenery, mostly vertical in nature.

Sylamore Creek is a great spot for doing a little scouting/trekking as well.

The range is the one on the White River, close to Barkshed.

 

[nit wit]

Wow, we were there. The first photo is where the wedding took place on top of the look out. Thanks for sharing, brought back good (recent) memories.
I hope to get out there again someday.
Nit Wit :bow:

 

[SmokeEater2]

Wow, we were there. The first photo is where the wedding took place on top of the look out. Thanks for sharing, brought back good (recent) memories.
I hope to get out there again someday.
Nit Wit :bow:

Wow! That's a great place for a wedding! Hope you get a chance to visit our little patch of woods again someday.

 

[SmokeEater2]

Excellent!
As you may have guessed SMOKEEATER2 is one of the group. Actually the BP donor.
Thanks man, I finally shot BP after what? a year of substitutes :bow: :surrender:


Yep, Your spoiled now. That imitation stuff will never be the same for ya'.

 

[nit wit]

The people and country in the Ozarks are alot like the natives in Maine and we have bugs that chew you. I think I had a few chigger bites, the gift that keeps on giving.
I imagine I will go again, it would be real good to burn some powder with you folks!
Nit Wit

 

[token tory]

Ya just need to take preemptive "Chigger medicine" shots!
(Its kinda like snakebite medicine, but in smaller swigs.) :rotf:

There's more than just chiggers in them thar woods too.:surrender: Something bit/stung me on one foot & it turned really nasty real fast, big ol seepin' weepin hole in the foot, so the others think maybe a Brown Recluse tagged me. I used OTC medications & lots of alcohol swabs & it's finally drying up & healing, but it looked really funky for a couple of days.

 

[BigSkyRambler]

I fondly remember Gunner Pool. A friend of mine and I camped there for what I think was Arkansas' first "primitive" [muzzleloader] deer season in 1972. We were 15 and woefully unprepared. But most of the other hunters were old-time buckskinners and they took us under their wings and showed us some neat new stuff. All I shot was a skunk and my buddy tried to skin it to make a hat - with expected results. :rotf: