Gorgeous Sunday here on the Hi-Line:


Botched a couple shots so we took a time out for some dump shootin'. When is the last time you did some real, old fashioned, dump shootin'?




She made a beautiful 15 yd shot. Offhand. She's also a damn fine retriever of dead schit.



Zero wind, 50ish degress. Our goal was 10 and we made that in about 2 hours.



Travis

Great pics Travis! Admit it she out shot you

What a beautiful little girl.

Send some wabbits. Can't buy one here.

Great pics... looks like a wonderful afternoon... a real bonus this time of year there around Havre MT...

plus I love that old Chevy Pickup...long since scrapped or not....

Nice!

I was actually just wondering if you or BGG went out and enjoyed this uber weather.



Good sized hole for a farm dump.

Awesome!!! Great gal, great photos..

Cool. I'm looking forward to those days with my little one

Too bad someone ripped off your wheels but other than that looks like an awesome day! I remember fondly chasing rabbits when I was your daughter's age none round here tho. Thanks for posting cool stuff.

Nice day, for sure..

Very, very cool!

Very cool indeed. Haven't done a proper dump shoot since my teens, was good entertainment though. What kind of place you hunting there, looks like lot's of old stuff scattered around. Used to love snooping around old abandoned farms and homesteads, always find interesting stuff. Kid looks like she had a hoot.

PS what up with the grass, aren't you supposed to be covered up in snow on the Hi-line?

Not even close.

I make a special point to let my children know I'm better than them. And everybody else.



Travis

Unemployment can do that.



Travis

Mini-'flave (non-female type) decided to hang out with his buddy all weekend. His buddy is Gruff's son.

Anyway, fugg them. Took the girl instead.



Travis

Lots of bunnies in that dump too. Great time.

We were covered in snow until the warm front came in. My street literally went from a sheet of ice to dry pavement from the time I left to the time I got back this morning. About 5 hours timeframe.



Travis

Always good to see the ladies out with pink rifles.
Girls rock!!!

Good deal!

I took my oldest daughter for a Gator ride and we did some shed hunting. The boy stayed at the house with his mom and little sister. My youngest daughter talks too much for prolonged outdoor activities....

Its not right to lie to little cute kids.

No they don't.

They're inferior in every way.

But we must love them.



Travis

That there's a nice mess of dead bunnies. Way to go Flavette!

Good stuff.

My wife sends her best GFY!

Very nice, Travis. And look! Travis has a smile on his face, not they typical hard-ass look. She must really be special to get that out of you...Great pictures and I am sure a good memory for the both of you. Thanks for sharing.

Well done! She needs a GFY sticker on that cannon...

What a wonderful way to spend a day!

what a great photo story. Congratulations on such a fine looking daughter, and for being such a good Dad.

Needs more notches before it earns the sticker.




Travis

Thanks. I didn't start getting drunk until the drive home.




Travis

That CZ brings the best out of me.

Ridiculously deadly rimfire.



Travis

Bullchit I know for a fact you are an old softy!

What's your method for cooking the bunnies?

We used raise em' for meat. Stew and pan fried was par for the course. Tried baking like chicken, once. Not enough fat.

I remember that truck before Travis defiled it by shooting out the windows. The biggest problem with that was he did it from inside...

That's you? I thought you were the guy in your avatar.

First Bricktop now Defalve. Wtf?

Ever brined them and smoked them with apple wood? Very good stuff!

Simple grilled at low heat with lots of garlic and butter. Rabbits are fun to hunt and eat. This weekend there could be more bunny fatalities...

UBER job Travis and Mini-flavette! That's a nice mess of wabbits..





I know, I used to think SamO was Waylon Jennings.

Great stuff kudos sir!

Dude, your youngest daughter? I seem to remember Eleanor doing a fair bit herself...

Haven't smoked or grilled but those little quarters look tasty, Shrap.

Cooked my first bunny kill over a wood fire on the shores of Lake Powell one spring when I was about 12. Plugged it with an M1 carbine. Edible but pretty dry as I recall.

Rabbit eats muy well.

The 19 got some blood today as well. Might have to pack it when I head to Bozeman.

That wins the day. Congratulations!

She gets it from her mother!
Well done Mini 'Flavette!

Outstanding!!!

Where'd ya steal it.

LD

BTW, who's the short schit in the pic? I'm talkin about your rifle..

Is that one of your window guns??

BTW, that 19 looks pretty sweet.

LD

pretty little girl travis, she looks like you, but not enough to hurt her!

Wishing you the worst GFY


Coop

Good stuff 'flave, continue to cherish it.

Love the binocs and pink-camo config.
Bought 3 pair for adult use (no one steals these in an unlocked vehicle).

CDNN rocks!

Looks as though the 10X Super Chicken is working out rather nicely...

... and to compensate for the superior skills of the lovely lass sporting irons....

Rabbit hunting, darmit I miss that $hit!

This ^^^^

She is truly beautiful, Travis. You, sir, are a lucky man.

I let my 10 year old daughter read that. She said something that sounded alot like GFY.

Good kid, that one.

No snow?

Geez....I need to move there.

Wanted to go to the range today but it would look like a SammO thread...


Nice work!

We always save all the rabbits legs all season. Then at the end, prepare them like chicken wings. Simply amazing!

Sweeet.

How do you like that Savage for her? I am thinking about picking one up for my little-guy here soon.

Me as well. They seem beaucoup mieux over the Davey Cricket.

Not to step on deflave's thread, but my boy has a Rascal and he loves it. Good shooting little rifle. Good trigger. Way better firearm than a chipmunk or most any other youth .22 I've been around.

Great day shootin' rabbits. Nice of you Trav to loan her your pink Rascal.

Another report from Chinookistan.

We saw the sun over here today and lost about 3 inches of the snowpack.

Cute 'Flavette. You're a good man.. Time flies, capture the fleeting moments. Make memories now for later when they say adios, fare thee well..so long!

Outstanding.

Great pictures, looks like a perfect day!…..You are blessed to have a "Little hunting buddy" to enjoy it with.

The pink one is a Rascal the black one is a CZ 455 with the factory 16" barrel. They're threaded as well.



Travis

The Savage Cub was more better but the Rascal is still the best of the itty-bitty youth rifles IMO.

The rear peep is crude but when it's adjusted, it stays adjusted. It shoots very well.



Travis

I'm using a 6X42 Leupold with M1's. Got the 25 MOA from DIP as well as the Burris inserts. I have dope to the 250 on it right now.

Yesterday schit was killed anywhere from 2 feet to 120yds. I'm loving that rifle.



Travis

The pink bino is mine. The rifle is hers...



Travis

I encourage them to leave any time they like.



Travis

Good For You!

Cool!!

Very nice! I'm thinking Pat needs to use your daughter's pic on the website for his sling. Nice improv.

Cool report, Dogknot.
You may be ugly, but you are a good dad.
Nice.

Good deal Travis!

the interesting thing about deflave and the personna he portrays on here is the 180 degree difference between reality, and what he like to portray.
I have absolutely no doubt that little girl owns him, Just like my daughter owns me.
The good thing, is if he is nice to her, is she might take care of him when he starts needing depends, and a drool bib. Girls are much more likely to do that than a boy child. My daughter is now past 50, when she was a kid she loved to shoot a ithaca single shot lever .22 i had. Which then automatically made it HER rifle. NOT. I finally located another one and she got that at Christmas. I think she still covets mine tho.

You'll notice it is a Montana Sling hat she is wearing as well.

Pat is actually one of the sponsors of Team 'Flave.

He provides us with slings and belts (after we pay for them) and will also say hi to me. Unless we're in public. Or there are cameras. Or he's busy.



Travis

Ugly?

I'm the one in the green jacket, you dipschit.



Travis

It is probably hard for a lot of people to believe, but anybody that knows my family will tell you it is straight prison rules in my house. My children may seem sweet and loving, but they are quite cold and a bit evil IMO.

And I already wear depends. But only on weekends.



Clark

This is a great story
Small child feeding the family...
When there is no elk meat in the freezer.

Travis;
Top of the morning to you sir, somehow I missed this yesterday but am glad I didn't miss it entirely.

Thanks for sharing the family hunt photos again - I never tire of seeing families afield and/or/especially fathers and kids sharing that experience.

It looks like you all got the makings for a couple good meals there and the dump shooting took me way back to Sunday afternoons in Saskatchewan where we'd occasionally go shoot rats at the nearest town's dump.

Lastly, I'm heartened to see you've included photographic evidence that at least three trees exist on the southern side of the medicine line thereabouts.

Thanks again Travis and all the best to you and yours this week.

Dwayne

Nice job Clark! Rim fire excursions with any mini-model rock!

How much for the pickup? I've restored much worse! Oh, and you already owe me for the window.

Not to mention Mini-'Flave was the only one to cut his A-tag.

Not my finest season...

Well, at least you drove them around so they could fill the freezer, right?

Dwayne Man!

If you look long and hard enough, you can find some trees around here.

I had no idea you could own firearms in Canaduh. I bet dump shooting there is almost as fun as dump shooting here. Almost.

I will give them your best. Thank you.



Travis

Mini-Flavette is beautiful,Mini-Flave is a dead-eye (BOTH ARE!!) and they fill da freezer!! If they keep this up, you can drink beer full time!!

No idea. You'd be amazed what all you find around old farms and ranches around here.

I have a good friend that got a 66' Charger with 383 and all, for free. All original. Nothing altered. Just needed restoration. Guy was sick of looking at it and about to divorce so when my buddy asked about it, he just told him to take it.

It's incredible what you find in the middle of nowhere.



Clark

Yep.

I always tell them that as long as they chip in for gas, and blow into the breathalyzer when it starts to beep, I'll take them wherever they need to go.



Travis

You are wise. That is the plan.

You'll also note that I strategically spaced them out. 13, 7, and 1.

With this system I always have somebody to talk to. As one gets old enough to realize they hate me, the next one steps up and becomes my friend.

I should probably have one more...



Dave

Smokin A tag Buck!
Would say he's a chip off......... but, you know....
but hey! At least they let you go to drive them around.
That's something right there, You should be near to busting a couple buttons.
As you so richly deserve.
XXOO GFY

That is awesome Travis!

Great pics!

That elk meat comment was pretty damn funny too.

twofish

By the time the oldest hates you, they'll have a license. Then, they can drive themselves and you still have the other two. That system works.

Good on Flave for teaching Flavette to shoot.

But I'd still love to be a fly on the wall in a few years, when boys arrive to take her out on a date...

Nice picture. I like how you got the Toyota emblem off the face of the deer. Who needs a 7mm-08-250...

Haha awesome!

Hope they have thick skin.



Travis

I always get a kick out of people slamming on their brakes in the middle of the season.



Travis

Nice! (Surely that cutey takes after her mom!)




May every serious bone in your body be broken too!

Dude, you know Mini-Flave gettin' a buck like that is way better any way!





I still remember when I was Mini Flave's age and shot my first buck.

Damn we are getting old!

Very cool. Time spent killing stuff with kids is hard to beat.

I don't know about the contents of that dump, but there aren't many (non-breathing) things as fun to shoot at as porcelain toilets laying in a dump. ...note, that is porcelain toilets laying in a dump...not to be confused with a dump laying in a porcelain toilet.

Been a while since I've seen a junked car in a dump, but years ago they were pretty common, and lots of fun to perforate.

It was pretty impressive.

Especially when you consider that I pushed him into the ground first. And tried to take his rifle away.



Travis

There were some nice sheets of glass. And we love oil filters.



Travis

It's kinda funny, but most of the old cars you see around the dumps here don't have any holes in them. The glass might be shot out, and all the road signs are shot to schit, but there must be some sort of unwritten rule regarding the bodies.


Travis

THIS