Bob invented horn rattling and wrote the first book, article and made the first film on antler rattling in 1954. he was a Texas Icon.
Pix of Bob with general Billy Mitchells Winchester Model 1886 44/40 rifle given to Bob before WW11.
TINK
Texas A & M Graduate
he was in no pain talking normally to ER staff when he flat-lined from heart failure and too much blood in the lungs etc. he felt NO pain and died instantly mid sentence.
He only dated one girl in his lift his wife Willy Auld Ramsey
One of th guns was purchased by him from a Killer for $4.00 and a six pack of beer. The Norton boys buried $2,000,000 in cash on his ranch is Mason glass bottles and its never been found. It was cemented in a cave and camoflauged the entrace. When they went back to get the $$ His Dad had removed the arrows and sign and rock piles pointing to the cave so they would never come back and haunt them and the Norton never did.
$$$ robbed from the Bandera Bank and the bank of New Branunfels TX Film Norton boys was made about them. His daddy knew them and Bob Meet them as a kid in 1924.
i treasure it today.
I will miss him
Tink Nathan
There are accounts of antler rattling back as far as some of the Indian tribes of the Northeast in the 1600's.
The Gears, anthropoligists from WY have written of it many times. Apparently, it was a fairly regular technique for many native American tribes.
Someone had to tell the world about the technique besides just passing it on to the "kin folk in the holler" and most hunters don't read Anthropological Illustrated. This guy gets his due respects!
SWH
Definitely an interesting man and great pictures, Tink. Thanks for posting.
Of course it was an Indian trick But he master the art and made films and wrote books
I have seen the film as a kid of a nice buck coming right to the camera while Bob was bent over rattling
He also wrote the first rattlign stories for Field and Stream Magazine a la 1954 I figured the word "invented" would be understood by all hunter no need to quibble at a time like this Thanks
TINK
bob saw real wild Indian on his daddy ranch s a youth They follow Indian trails known on to them that skirted white people
they never caused trouble
Well its A Winchester I am getting long in-the tooth too....
yes I am blessed
Some where I have a pix of bob in my Living room where he was admiring my stuff imagine that? been honored to other like Fred bear, Jim Dougherty Judd Cooney, Dr Judd Grinnel, BillWadsworth, max Greiner, Dutch Wambold Keith Schuyler, MR" (Marion) James & Janet, and others come to visit. Fred Bear invited me to spend Christmas eve with him and Henryetta in his all wood hand made Log home on the Au-Sable River in Grayling MICH
Merry Christmas all bowhunters
TINK
