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Simple Bark Tan Heart Shaped Pouch with Horn
This bark tan pouch features a hanging pocket on the inside. My wife wove the strap and I added leather ends and added a forged buckle for adjustments. This is also my personal hunting pouch. Andy Ordelhiede made the 60 grain powder measure out of copper. Harris Maupin made the cow horn to hold my powder. Not For Sale
Small Bark Tan Panel Pouch
Small bark tan panel pouch with folded welts and rolled edges around bag and flap. Flap features pinked cutouts and a decorative stitching on hinged part of flap attachment. Cowhide strap with forged buckle with adjustments. Pouch also has a decent size pocket inside. SOLD
Bark Tan Heart Shaped Pouch
Small Heart Shaped bark tan deer hide pouch. Pouch is fully welted with a small pocket inside. Cowhide strap with a forged buckle with keeper and adjustments. Pouch also has a few repairs. Sewn at 8-10 stitches per inch. Front part of pouch is lined with canvas and back is lined with calfskin. SOLD
Mason-Dixon Historical Park West Virginia
Spent most of the day driving from Maryland towards Missouri but got sidetracked by the last marker of the original Mason-Dixon Line. They did fall about 23 miles short of their original goal, but the Indians said they shall not go any farther in October of 1767. We stopped at the Mason-Dixon Historical Park in West Virginia. It was blustery and windy but we decided to make the trek to go see it. It was Read More …
Center Seam Folded Welt Bark Tan Bag
This bark tan deer hide bag features a folded welt down the middle of the flap as well as the center of the bag itself. This bag also has a rolled edge around the complete bag with hidden stitches on the front. Hand forged buckle compliments the hand woven strap my wife made for me. The bag also features a pocket inside. Lined with blue and white pillow ticking this is a great bag that Read More …
Medicine Bow National Forest – POTA
We made this area our work week area. It is nice and secluded away from pretty much everything. We only had one vehicle drive by the whole week we were there. While Gayla was doing her video presentation I setup HF radio outside and activated the POTA park US-4403. I had 154 total unique contacts. It was a beautiful day to be outside in Wyoming. I used the 44 foot line wire to the 9:1 Read More …
Activation of Starvation Lake – Duchesne, Utah
I was ready to be done driving for the day so we went to Juniper Point Campground at Fred Hayes at Starvation Lake State Park. I cooked up some steak and boiled some eggs for some deviled eggs later this weekend. This place is also a POTA park (US-3092 – Fred Hayes at Starvation State Park) for amateur radio. I activated it with 33 unique contacts and 35 contacts total on FT8. I was the Read More …
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest POTA US-4499
We stayed at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest for a quick overnight stop when heading south from Glacier National Park. I put a 9:1 UNUN to a 72 foot random wire in a tree with my throw weight and activated POTA Park US-4499 with 22 total contacts on FT-8. I even made contact with my brother back in SW Missouri on the 20m band. Not too bad for only running 10 watts for the whole activation.
HF Radio in Montana
We pulled into Willow Creek Recreation Area after a long days drive on HWY 2 from Eastern Montana. It was fairly warm but a steady wind kept it quite pleasant. After settling into camp for the work week I decided that I wanted to experience a low noise floor and also do a little bit of antenna testing on just a few watts on a long wire antenna. I setup my 27′ fiberglass fishing mast Read More …