Another Uh Oh.... This heya is one of 2 guns that went on the bike from New Hampsta to Cal and back. Even had a pack of clothes for 1805 for 2...
When I go hunting, I have a 20" 20 gauge SxS Spartan coach gun just for the Wing. I break it down and it goes in the trunk. I checked the Hawken Carbine, the stock won't fit, but the 20" barrel does.
I hunt with a contender a lot, though, have a trailer hitch on the bike with a couple of trailers to choose from, but I don't like towing 'em unless I have to. I have gone goose hunting towing my box trailer and deeks and stuff, though. My new 10 gauge 24" H&R breaks down and fits in the trunk, too, though. Hell, I even hauled a hog home on the back of the wing, once, hog on a Honda.
I bought that 20 just for the bike 'cause every year I trek up to Waco for dove season at a friends farm. I was taking the Winchester 12 gauge auto in a gun case strapped to the back, but I'd always worry if I had a problem and had to leave the bike with the gun on it, or would I try to hitch a ride carrying a gun case. LOL! I was paranoid stopping for a bite at a restaurant, just better having the gun locked up in the travel trunk.
The old Wing has a built in compressor, kinda neat. I carry one on my little SV650 when I'm on that, too. Tubeless tires are wonderful. I remember in about 1978 getting a flat in the middle of the West Texas desert on the way back from big bend. 100 plus, no shade, had to patch a tube on the rear of my RD350 Yamaha. It was a pain, took over an hour. I had taken a hand bicycle pump on that trip strapped in with my camping gear.
Ah, but I was in my late 20s at the time and handled it a little better than I would now, I reckon.
But, back on the subject, my hats off to the re-enacters for keeping history fresh and alive. Schools don't seem to teach much history anymore and it's a good thing to expose folks to the actual history, to see that their ancestors really did fight and die for their freedom, if nothing else.
We're coming up on 175 years of Texas freedom from a Mexican tyrant. The revisionist historians would have you think that it was a white interloper vs native Hispanic war, the USA and manifest destiny, westward expansion by force. Well, nothing could be further from the truth! First of all, there were whole units of Hispanic Texans, Tejanos, such as Juan Seguin's unit that fought with Houston, in the fight. Santa Anna was the Saddam Hussein of his day. He was a tyrant. The whites who came here and originally made treaties with Spain, agreed to become Spanish, then Mexican citizens. It was an agreement that benefited both parties. It went sour because of the chaos in Mexico (which has gone on since the Mexican revolution in one for or another, corruption and such that exists to this day) and a certain tyrant who wished to run the settlers out, destroy the original agreement, take their lands and improvements and send 'em back to the US. No, it wasn't ALL good guys and bad guys, the Texans from the south brought in slaves against the agreement, but hey, a deal is a deal. The Texans didn't like to take poop off dictators, bottom line, they appreciated freedom over their very lives. They were Texans, not Americans, and they were the good guys. I fear students of Texas history don't get taught that anymore and re-enactments might help to make them understand the point. Besides, I hear it's a good show.
I'll make it over to Goliad or maybe up to the San Jacinto battle grounds for a re-enactment some time.