Welcome to AH.
You're right, a little more info is appropriate. As far as the Vintageguy goes, it's more to do with interests but I'm 54 so it could apply to me too I guess. In the past as a young man I started out gun collecting by acquiring old interesting guns past being desirable as collector pieces but sound and restoring them, mostly side by side shotguns then later rifles too. I'm a big fan of damascus.
I have a 6.5 Swede I'm pretty fond of too. Great round to shoot. The turkey hunting from horseback came about because of a particular place I liked to hunt was about a 3 mile walk to get in there before daylight so I figured I'd try a horse. Well, that really opened up how much ground I could cover in a morning. It also increased several fold how many birds I could locate once the horse figured it out. She'll listen too and I can watch her ears and tell if she's heard one. I've called, relocated 300 yards, called again doing this 3 times before I could hear the one she indicated she heard the first time. Friends get a kick out of it and I get lots of funny comments over it, but they can't hear them before her either.
Welcome Eric. You've come to a place where there is a wealth of info and a lot of great folks. I was bit by the bug a number of years back and its been a grand adventure. My last trip was 2019 to Namibia. I brought my youngest daughter and she made her old dad rather proud.
No, I still do the steering but she most definitely indicates direction with eyes and ears focused on the source. I usually pause on ridge tops to call and for a few outings after the season closes she will stop on her own when we reach an ideal listening point, stand still several seconds and then bump my boot with her nose as if to ask “you gonna wake up and call or not”?
I really want to hunt Cape Buffalo and am looking at South Africa for my first trip. Still hoping for this year but it’s uncertain due to the Covid mess.
