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At the end of June I flew out with my girlfriend and my grandfather to my aunt and uncle's ranch in Montana for a week. It's a 300+ acre lot in Superior, which is about 60 miles from Missoula. It's beautiful there- they have a main house for their family, a 2 bedroom bunk house, and a big saloon that my uncle built to entertain guests and business partners. Here's the hand-made bar that my uncle put in it. The saloon still isn't finished:
There was also plenty to do every day- they have Polaris Ranger ATV's that were fun to drive around the property and up into the mountains with, and he has a shooting area marked out. I got to shoot plenty of guns, including a Henry Repeating .22, Remington .223, Winchester .22 from the very early 1900's, Browning .22LR pistol, and my favorite, a Kimber stainless TLE .45ACP. This trip let me fire a gun for the first time, and these were all very nice guns! I got to shoot three mags through the 1911, and I'm already in love with it!
Here's a couple pictures of the 1911 taken just before a field strip and cleaning:
Here's my grandfather's Sig p225 9mm that he carried when he was an Air Marshal:
And the Browning .22 pistol:
They have 15 or so horses, and my girlfriend (the equestrian) and myself (indifferent to horses) both had fun riding. Here's my grandfather, who was in the military from World War II through Vietnam and later in law enforcement sitting helplessly at the mercy of horses in an ATV
:
Here's a cougar that my uncle shot in 2004. It was the largest cat shot that year, but the taxidermist didn't have a form large enough for skin so without consent he cut down the hide to fit a smaller form. The result is a pretty ugly, lanky cat that's much smaller than the original product. Luckily, he still has a picture of the fresh-killed cougar and a plaque for it:
Kind of looks like one of our moderators, huh? Hope they weren't related
There was also plenty to do every day- they have Polaris Ranger ATV's that were fun to drive around the property and up into the mountains with, and he has a shooting area marked out. I got to shoot plenty of guns, including a Henry Repeating .22, Remington .223, Winchester .22 from the very early 1900's, Browning .22LR pistol, and my favorite, a Kimber stainless TLE .45ACP. This trip let me fire a gun for the first time, and these were all very nice guns! I got to shoot three mags through the 1911, and I'm already in love with it!
Here's a couple pictures of the 1911 taken just before a field strip and cleaning:
Here's my grandfather's Sig p225 9mm that he carried when he was an Air Marshal:
And the Browning .22 pistol:
They have 15 or so horses, and my girlfriend (the equestrian) and myself (indifferent to horses) both had fun riding. Here's my grandfather, who was in the military from World War II through Vietnam and later in law enforcement sitting helplessly at the mercy of horses in an ATV
:
Here's a cougar that my uncle shot in 2004. It was the largest cat shot that year, but the taxidermist didn't have a form large enough for skin so without consent he cut down the hide to fit a smaller form. The result is a pretty ugly, lanky cat that's much smaller than the original product. Luckily, he still has a picture of the fresh-killed cougar and a plaque for it:
Kind of looks like one of our moderators, huh? Hope they weren't related
