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Hunting with a Hepburn
Jun 5th, 2016 at 2:39pm
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A friend sent me this pic in an email.

"Standing over one of her many trophy mule deer, subsistence-and-sport huntress “Gusty” Wallihan appears every inch the frontier matron with her dressy bonnet,
prairie-pattern cartridge belt, floral-embroidered gauntlets, hunting knife, and Remington-Hepburn rifle.  1895"

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Re: Hunting with a Hepburn
Reply #1 - Jun 5th, 2016 at 3:05pm
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Old sister looks like she could get the job done! Bet she would bust a cap on you if you messed with her too.


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Re: Hunting with a Hepburn
Reply #2 - Jun 5th, 2016 at 3:19pm
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Seems that same picture was posted here on the forum someplace 6-8 weeks ago? It's a great picture, and was credited to a husband/wife team of hunter-photographers!
  

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Re: Hunting with a Hepburn
Reply #3 - Jun 5th, 2016 at 3:56pm
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marlinguy wrote on Jun 5th, 2016 at 3:19pm:
Seems that same picture was posted here on the forum someplace 6-8 weeks ago? It's a great picture, and was credited to a husband/wife team of hunter-photographers!


Yep. Husband was the photographer.  Here's the full photo credit.

A.G. Wallihan, photographer. Augusta Wallihan—Grocery Shopping. Albumen print, circa 1895. Standing over one of her many trophy mule deer, subsistence-and-sport huntress “Gusty” Wallihan appears every inch the frontier matron with her dressy bonnet, prairie-pattern cartridge belt, floral-embroidered gauntlets, hunting knife, and Remington-Hepburn rifle. (Museum of Northwest Colorado)

I was trying to guess what cartridges she's got in her belt.  .40-70 Straight?   


Maybe just .45-70, since the cartridges don't seem to reach the bottom of the loops.  That certainly would be practical considering it was the Govt. cartridge of the day and region.
  

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Re: Hunting with a Hepburn
Reply #4 - Jun 5th, 2016 at 6:01pm
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40-70 was popular in the Hepburn and those cartridges appear to be quite long. The belt is wide enough that any cartridge long enough to stick out the bottom would be one that would wake you up when you pulled the trigger. That's a nice deer.
  

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