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#11
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Sunset addiction
Last post by Okanagan - July 20, 2026, 08:45:13 PMThe elevation is 5800 feet. That's timberline in this part of the Olympic Mountains. There are wide open meadows and scrubby short trees huddled in tight clumps shaped by winter storms. Blacktail buck in picture below, in a tight patch of trees at the edge of timberline.
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We start down at sea level so it is 15 miles of winding twisty road to climb up there by vehicle. All but the bottom three miles near the highway are gravel/dirt but good road (except for the dust for any car following another!) The top is in Olympic National Park.
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We start down at sea level so it is 15 miles of winding twisty road to climb up there by vehicle. All but the bottom three miles near the highway are gravel/dirt but good road (except for the dust for any car following another!) The top is in Olympic National Park.
#12
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Sunset addiction
Last post by Hawks Feather - July 20, 2026, 10:43:02 AMThat looks like a great place to watch sunsets. I am envious.
#13
Sport Shooting / Re: Well, (SCTP) National Cha...
Last post by Hawks Feather - July 20, 2026, 10:40:50 AMQuote from: FinsnFur on July 20, 2026, 05:43:11 AMQuote from: Hawks Feather on July 19, 2026, 10:45:18 AMTell her congratulations and that grandpa is buying her a Browning trap gun.
Grampa aint got that, I say Grampa aint got that kind a money
Some of the price tags on those thing are thousands and thousand and thousands of dollarsUnreal!
But she is worth it!
#14
The Tailgate / Today in history 7-20
Last post by remrogers - July 20, 2026, 09:41:39 AM1881
July 20
Sitting Bull surrenders
Five years after Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's infamous defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Hunkpapa Teton Sioux leader Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army, which promises amnesty for him and his followers. Sitting Bull had been a major leader in the 1876 Sioux uprising that resulted in the death of Custer and 264 of his men at Little Bighorn. Pursued by the U.S. Army after the victory, he escaped to Canada with his followers.
Born in the Grand River Valley in what is now South Dakota, Sitting Bull gained early recognition in his Sioux tribe as a capable warrior and a man of vision. In 1864, he fought against the U.S. Army under General Alfred Sully at Killdeer Mountain and thereafter dedicated himself to leading Sioux resistance against white encroachment. He soon gained a following in not only his own tribe but in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Native American groups as well. In 1867, he was made principal chief of the entire Sioux nation.
In 1873, in what would serve as a preview of the Battle of Little Bighorn three years later, an American Indian military coalition featuring the leadership of Sitting Bull skirmished briefly with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. In 1876, Sitting Bull was not a strategic leader in the U.S. defeat at Little Bighorn, but his spiritual influence inspired Crazy Horse and the other victorious American Indian military leaders. He subsequently fled to Canada, but in 1881, with his people starving, he returned to the United States and surrendered.
He was held as a prisoner of war at Fort Randall in South Dakota territory for two years and then was permitted to live on Standing Rock Reservation straddling North and South Dakota territory. In 1885, he traveled for a season with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show and then returned to Standing Rock. In 1889, the spiritual proclamations of Sitting Bull influenced the rise of the "Ghost Dance," an American Indian religious movement that proclaimed that the whites would disappear and the dead American Indian and buffalo would return.
His support of the Ghost Dance movement had brought him into disfavor with government officials, and on December 15, 1890, American Indian police burst into Sitting Bull's house in the Grand River area of South Dakota and attempted to arrest him. There is confusion as to what happened next. By some accounts, Sitting Bull's warriors shot the leader of the police, who immediately turned and gunned down Sitting Bull. In another account, the police were instructed by Major James McLaughlin, director of the Standing Rock Sioux Agency, to kill the chief at any sign of resistance. Whatever the case, Sitting Bull was fatally shot and died within hours. The American Indian police hastily buried his body at Fort Yates within the Standing Rock Reservation. In 1953, his remains were moved into Mobridge, South Dakota, where a granite shaft marks his resting place.
July 20
Sitting Bull surrenders
Five years after Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's infamous defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Hunkpapa Teton Sioux leader Sitting Bull surrenders to the U.S. Army, which promises amnesty for him and his followers. Sitting Bull had been a major leader in the 1876 Sioux uprising that resulted in the death of Custer and 264 of his men at Little Bighorn. Pursued by the U.S. Army after the victory, he escaped to Canada with his followers.
Born in the Grand River Valley in what is now South Dakota, Sitting Bull gained early recognition in his Sioux tribe as a capable warrior and a man of vision. In 1864, he fought against the U.S. Army under General Alfred Sully at Killdeer Mountain and thereafter dedicated himself to leading Sioux resistance against white encroachment. He soon gained a following in not only his own tribe but in the Cheyenne and Arapaho Native American groups as well. In 1867, he was made principal chief of the entire Sioux nation.
In 1873, in what would serve as a preview of the Battle of Little Bighorn three years later, an American Indian military coalition featuring the leadership of Sitting Bull skirmished briefly with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. In 1876, Sitting Bull was not a strategic leader in the U.S. defeat at Little Bighorn, but his spiritual influence inspired Crazy Horse and the other victorious American Indian military leaders. He subsequently fled to Canada, but in 1881, with his people starving, he returned to the United States and surrendered.
He was held as a prisoner of war at Fort Randall in South Dakota territory for two years and then was permitted to live on Standing Rock Reservation straddling North and South Dakota territory. In 1885, he traveled for a season with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show and then returned to Standing Rock. In 1889, the spiritual proclamations of Sitting Bull influenced the rise of the "Ghost Dance," an American Indian religious movement that proclaimed that the whites would disappear and the dead American Indian and buffalo would return.
His support of the Ghost Dance movement had brought him into disfavor with government officials, and on December 15, 1890, American Indian police burst into Sitting Bull's house in the Grand River area of South Dakota and attempted to arrest him. There is confusion as to what happened next. By some accounts, Sitting Bull's warriors shot the leader of the police, who immediately turned and gunned down Sitting Bull. In another account, the police were instructed by Major James McLaughlin, director of the Standing Rock Sioux Agency, to kill the chief at any sign of resistance. Whatever the case, Sitting Bull was fatally shot and died within hours. The American Indian police hastily buried his body at Fort Yates within the Standing Rock Reservation. In 1953, his remains were moved into Mobridge, South Dakota, where a granite shaft marks his resting place.
#15
Sport Shooting / Re: Well, (SCTP) National Cha...
Last post by FinsnFur - July 20, 2026, 05:43:11 AMQuote from: Hawks Feather on July 19, 2026, 10:45:18 AMTell her congratulations and that grandpa is buying her a Browning trap gun.
Grampa aint got that, I say Grampa aint got that kind a money
Some of the price tags on those thing are thousands and thousand and thousands of dollars
Unreal! #16
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Sunset addiction
Last post by FinsnFur - July 20, 2026, 05:40:10 AMOh mannnnn what a view 
#17
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Sunset addiction
Last post by Okanagan - July 19, 2026, 09:30:10 PMGuests are not allowed to view images in posts, please Register or Login
A bunch of our family drove up to the top of a local mountain to watch the sunset.
We're on top of a place called Deer Park, looking down on Port Angeles, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and on the other side of the strait is Vancouver Island in Canada. The Strait is 17 miles wide at its narrowest spot just below us.
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Lots of blacktail bucks around, almost tame in the park.
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Added: I have no idea why but suddenly Imgur let me post pics for the first time in two days of trying.
A bunch of our family drove up to the top of a local mountain to watch the sunset.
We're on top of a place called Deer Park, looking down on Port Angeles, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and on the other side of the strait is Vancouver Island in Canada. The Strait is 17 miles wide at its narrowest spot just below us.
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Lots of blacktail bucks around, almost tame in the park.
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Added: I have no idea why but suddenly Imgur let me post pics for the first time in two days of trying.
#18
Sport Shooting / Re: Well, (SCTP) National Cha...
Last post by Okanagan - July 19, 2026, 08:22:17 PMWOW! That's terrific. Congratulations!
#19
Sport Shooting / Re: Well, (SCTP) National Cha...
Last post by Hawks Feather - July 19, 2026, 11:01:36 AMI looked up the Cardinal Shooting Center, and it is a pretty impressive place. Since they moved the National Trap Association's shoot to Illinois, this is the largest trap range (52 trap ranges, 20 skeet, 2 sporting clays, and pistol and rifle ranges) in Ohio. Impressive place for her to shoot. And obviously she was not intimidated by the size or the other shooters.
#20
Sport Shooting / Re: Well, (SCTP) National Cha...
Last post by Hawks Feather - July 19, 2026, 10:45:18 AMWOW! That is fantastic and you have every right to be very proud and happy. Tell her congratulations and that grandpa is buying her a Browning trap gun.