Butte man’s cave is ‘classy Redneck’

‘Man Cave’ is written in letters adorning the entrance to Osborne’s haven. Probably the classiest one around, the cave is spotless, as well as color-coordinated in camouflage.

“I said don’t make it Redneck,” said Osborne’s wife, Corinne. “It’s classy Redneck.” The Osborne cave is filled with hunting and fishing gear, including 20 pairs of boots, one for every mood, time and temperature. The couple moved into their rural Butte home this summer and Osborne started chiding his wife about the many pairs of shoes she owned until he started unpacking his Man Cave boots.

“I shut up real fast,” he said.

The cave was the first project Osborne started and finished at his new home and one his wife agreed upon, knowing all her husband’s things would be accumulated in one place and not all over the house.

“I said ‘I’m going to build a room for all my stuff,’ ” he recalled. The room has gotten rave reviews from friends, some of whom are featured in a photo collage of Osborne’s hunting, camping and snow machining adventures.

The only thing to make it out of the cave is a European elk mount hung in the couple’s stairway.

Guns, ammo, hunting clothing and assorted manly accoutrements decorate the basement room, neatly and precisely arranged. The ceiling is the product of Charles’ imagination.

“It’s a duck blind,” he said of the camo-colored fuzzy ceiling. “I really do like it in here.”