Turkey Creek
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Busily retired |
| Location | Drummond, Oklahoma, United States |
| Introduction | Above all in my life is my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ followed by my darling wife, my children and grandchildren. I have always loved the outdoors and in 1985 my wife, 3 year old daughter and I moved to the Bitterroot Valley in western Montana for a year before moving to Buffalo Wyoming at the foot of the Bighorn Mountains where we lived for 11 years. During this time I packed mules, guided hunters and worked in a sporting goods store. I have been interested in traditional muzzleloaders and buckskinning since the mid 1970's and have hunted exclusively with muzzleloaders, lever guns and single shot black powder cartridge guns since the mid 1980's. I. now hunt only with traditional muzzleloaders with a preference for flintlocks. I enjoy building muzzleloading guns and am trying to build one or two a year. I also enjoy making the accoutrements such as pouches, powder horns, knives, etc. I also enjoy brain tanning buckskin and practicing the skills of the frontiersmen and western beaver trappers. |
| Interests | Hunting, distance running (preferably trail running), the Rocky Mountain west, Wyoming, traditional muzzleloaders and accoutrements, American history, particularly the western fur trade era, traveling by foot, horse and canoe, camping and hiking, reading books and watching movies, especially western movies, and drinking coffee. |
| Favorite movies | My favorite movies are Rio Bravo, any other John Wayne movie, Jimmy Stuart movies, Jeremiah Johnson, Last Of The Mohicans, The Mountain Men, The Patriot, and any Tom Selleck or Sam Elliott westerns. |
| Favorite music | Western music from The Sons Of The Pioneers to Ian Tyson, Irish music, bagpipe music and bluegrass. |
| Favorite books | The book I have read more times than any other is Drums Along The Mohawk by Walter Edmonds. I also like any western novel by Louis L'More and Terry C. Johnston, especially the Titus Bass series. Non fiction histories, especially those related to the western fur trade. |