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Show Beer hunt means black powder for mountain men By CINDY LLOYD Mountain Man, Frank Dimick and his wife, Judy, of Pleasant Grove plan on hitting the mountains again with the deer hunting season beginning. Frank and Judy hunt strictly with black powder, and Frank feels it's the only way to hunt. The Dimicks have attended the Mountain Man Rendezvous in Fort Bridger, Wyoming and really enjoy roughing it like the pioneers. Frank has several pistols and rifles that he has assembled himself from kits as well as Tomahawks and hunting knives. Judy has made her own capote, (sort of a coat) fashioned from a Hudson Bay Blanket, with a matching mat-ching possibles bag. When Frank and Judy camp, they use cast iron cookware to stir up such yummies as sheepherders stew. Frank also likes to eat wild food like cattail sprouts, which he says are good in salads and also likes the cattail bulbs which he ' cleans and cuts up to fry similar to potatoes. Frank said he likes sagebrush tea although it does have a harsh flavor. Hardtack is made from flour and water and baked till it is a big thick cracker. Frank and Judy make their own antelope jerky. One item acquired from the Rendezvous at Fort Bridger, was a replica of a 1670 Hudson Bay pin, which Frank wears on the bright orange French Trapper hat Judy knitted for him, along with a Hawk Feather stuck in it. Frank would like to get two more hides to add to the two he now has so that he may fashion himself a pair of buckskins. Frank says he uses the pelvis bone of his animals to make a hidescraper to dehair his hides in the old way. Mr. Dimick collects guns as well as making them, among his collection is a 1861 scope percussion gun made of brass and one of the first Browning Automatics ever made which he inherited from his father. To make a fire with flint and steel, as the mountain men do, Frank went through at least three flints and steel as well as many bleeding knuckles, but feels he has finally gotten the process down pat. The largest deer Frank bagged were a couple of four points weighing from 150 to 180 pounds. A favorite hunting ground for the Dimicks is near Moon Lake, north of Duschene. Frank related the tale of Judy's first deer. It seems the two were driving up Hell's Canyhon, out by Duchesne, when Judy spotted some deer. Frank said, "No, there's no deer." Judy argued they were there. As they drove closer Judy said, "There's a buck!" Again Frank said, "No, there's no buck." Judy argued there was a buck and finally grabbed Frank's muzzle loader and shot it. Sure enough it was a buck! Frank was amazed! He also said that Judy's squaw name is "Two Moons" but refused to say how she happened to get the name!(?) An incident that happened to the Dimicks and fellow hunters last year while camping, was being snowed in. During the night snow drifts built up so tall and wide that they couldn't drive out. So using real mountain man ingenuity and two four-wheel drive vehicles they continuously rammed N the drifts with one vehicle until it was stuck, then pulled it out with the other, and repeated the method for three and a half hours until they broke through. One more tale that Frank told (in order to show his measure of intelligence) in-telligence) was how he smashed his toe. It seems Frank was trying to ram a ball home in his muzzle loader and didn't want to scratch the stock on the rough ground, so he set the stock on his toe instead. The end result being a smashed toe and loss of the toenail. Frank said he spends about three months of the year out of doors hunting. Frank plans on participating par-ticipating in a Black Powder Buffalo Buf-falo Hunt in Nebraska in the near future. Good Luck to Frank! ! i V if it ' "SU V-.. t - i ., ' "!: 3 Vv -. . , , . ' XV .-'' U NV : w -x ll ' . ' ) - s . J t g : ':-.. I fc .. . . ' . : Mountain man Frank Dimick on his way to the mountains with his Kentucky long rifle and skinner hunting knife. |
