Old Tyme Hunting Pics
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From: cnelk
24-Dec-09
Came across an old photo of me & my father [now gone] taken ~1968 in N Minn.
I remember that hunt. We sat in a crotch of an old jackpine one evening and this doe came by. My dad shot the doe and I got to track her!
From: BB
24-Dec-09
Here's a photo of one of my hunting partners taken in early Oct. 1969 on our very first archery elk hunt. He took this 5x5 bull and I was hooked on elk hunting with a bow. He is now in his early 80's. He was one of, if not the toughest guys I have ever known. He was fun to be with and taught me a lot when I was just a punk kid. We shared many hunting camps together and have many found memories.
Merry Christmas. BB
From: Elkhunter - Home
24-Dec-09
Here I am with my dad's old Fox db. Christmas break when I was 15 I think. I know it was a gun kill but what the heck. LOL
All military camo back then, how in the world did I not freeze to death.
From: live2hunt
24-Dec-09
BB, that must have been unreal to bowhunt elk back in those days, wish I was there.
From: HuntinHabit
24-Dec-09
Cool pictures, anxious to see more. But, you guys are just reminding me of all the years I have put off scanning old pictures into a digital format. I already have a nagging wife, thanks for backing her up. 8^)
From: BB
24-Dec-09
live2hunt you would never beleive the stories I could tell you about those days. We were rifle hunters, basically hunting elk with bows. There was not a single other hunter in the woods in those days. In fact we got on TV with that elk, cause back in those days nobody had heard of anyone taking an elk with a bow. I bugled that bull in with an old tin whistle I made just before I went on that hunt.
Here's the same guy helping me dig my very first pit blind when we were antelope hunting in the early 70's.
That's my old 70 Chev blazer in the background. In those days I used to cut sage brush and line my blinds with it, but nowadays, for good reasons, that should never be done. This was probably around 1973 or so.
From: BB
24-Dec-09
Here's are some of our family members going fishing in Wyoming way back in the 1930's
From: BB
24-Dec-09
Here's the very last critter I ever took with a rifle the year before I decided to hunt strictly with a bow. This was taken in 1970. It was a Wyoming buck taken in my old stomping grounds around Evanston, Wy.
From: BB
24-Dec-09
Here's the largest mule deer I have ever taken. I won the big buck contest that year with this buck and part of the prize was a free mount. I still have that head in my storage room. This buck was taken in 1974 and was over 33 inches wide. He has cheaters on each side and if you look close you can see them.
From: BB
24-Dec-09
This is my son with his very first mule deer. I think he was 15 years old, he now is 28.
From: BO-N-ARO
24-Dec-09
Love this one of my dad taken back in the 50's.
From: BB
24-Dec-09
BB's Link
And here he is as a little guy with a buck he watched me arrow in the Book Cliffs.
For those of you who like old time photos, the link will take you to my facebood page where I have several albums of old time photos.
Merry Christmas. BB
From: Greg Kush
24-Dec-09
Dad isn't sure exactly which year this was, but it appears to be 1967 or 1968 based on how old my two sisters and my brother appear to be in the photo. I was born in '67 and was still a baby at the time, so I wasn't in the photo. This big doe was my dad's first ever bowkill and pretty much started a love affair with bowhunting that is shared by just about everyone in our family.
Thanks, Dad.
From: Skeeter
24-Dec-09
Here is a picture of my great grandfather, he shot this bull in 1958 in Gunnison county, Co. I am lucky to have him around today and every chance I get I visit him to hear stories of times past,it's priceless.
From: Skeeter
24-Dec-09
Here are some more of my other great grandpa on the other side of the family, I feel lucky to have so much hunting heritage in my family. These pics were taken in the late forties and early fifties in Western Wyoming.
From: Skeeter
24-Dec-09
I love those old trucks
From: Skeeter
24-Dec-09
I have some more somewhere
Neat pictures everyone!
From: snag
24-Dec-09
Got to love that plaid camo! Skeeter do you know if that was a .30-30 that your great grandfather used to kill the bull? Cool pics.
From: gus_hoyt
24-Dec-09
I love these old pictures, I have a bunch of my grandfather in Idaho and Canada in the 50's but they are buried in a storage unit for the moment.
From: Skeeter
24-Dec-09
snag- yes it's a early winchester model 94 .30-30, he gave me that exact rifle a couple years, along with some knives he made, so it means a lot to me.
From: Gulchman
24-Dec-09
1957--Wisconsin --my grandpa, dad, and me.
From: LostInTheWoods
24-Dec-09
Really cool pics everyone.
From: Paul @ the Fort
24-Dec-09
There is something realy neat about black/white photos.
Thanks for sharing. Paul
From: btb
24-Dec-09
First bow kill, December 26, 1975. Bear recurve with fiberglass limbs.
From: Driver
24-Dec-09
me about 1980
From: Driver
24-Dec-09
I have never seen that pix before and don't know where it came from, honest. I'll try again, it was suppossed to be a couple of old scanned in photos of an elk and a whitetail.
From: Driver
24-Dec-09
From: Africanbowhunter
24-Dec-09
here goes
Elk Hunt Colorado about time of 1972 P & Y Meeting in Denver Colo at the Brown Palace Hotel? 1969 maybe Notice I was using a Stabilizer on my Howatt Hunter Bow that far back TINK
From: Africanbowhunter
24-Dec-09
A few more
ASK TINK from Bowhunter Magazine
From: Africanbowhunter
24-Dec-09
One More
Christmas with Ted Nugents family Toby & Shasha right after death if first Ted's wife (d) in a truck wreck Michigan
TINK
From: flyingbrass
24-Dec-09
cnelk, you win the contest!
From: Bear Track
25-Dec-09
Bear Track's Link
I've got a ton of these that I'm saving for our new hunting lodge to put up
From: Bear Track
25-Dec-09
Bear Track's Link
Here's another
From: Wages
25-Dec-09
these are great. I love the old hunt photos.
Bear track, please share a few more if you don't mind
From: Bear Track
25-Dec-09
You asked:
From: Bear Track
25-Dec-09
another
From: Bear Track
25-Dec-09
This one is cool. Chains on the tires and a deer across his wife's and his lap.
From: Bear Track
25-Dec-09
I'll stop with this one.
From: bullelk
26-Dec-09
Nice pics, Ron. That fellow with the beard in the last shot looks like one bad dude!
From: tadpole
27-Dec-09
first buck 1965 Ohio. Taken with Herter's recure and herter's cedar arrow. The broadhead was a 2 blade bear I believe. Taken after the Ohio gun season ended. Best buck of the year in our bow club.
From: 4FINGER
27-Dec-09
In an old cafe in Antimony, Utah...4finger
From: 4FINGER
27-Dec-09
Slipped a Zwickey 4bld Delta thru this mulie just after daylight, opening morning, early 80's...4finger
From: Shug
23-Jan-10
1982... The same Cemetary where they would film the burials The Sopranos. My friends family were the caretakers there... I worked mowing lawns and digging graves...as well as shooting rabbits and feral cats
From: bowriter
24-Jan-10
Comin off the moutain.
From: bowriter
24-Jan-10
Coming out of the Cocodrie swamp after a hunt amny years ago.
From: Mark Hockenberry
30-Jan-10
My Grandfather, late 1950's. 1954 Bear Kodiak II.
From: Mark Hockenberry
30-Jan-10
My son and I, 2001, same bow. This buck was 3 yards from the base of his tree when I shot.
From: Mark Hockenberry
30-Jan-10
From: Mark Hockenberry
30-Jan-10
From: Mark Hockenberry
30-Jan-10
From: kyhunter
30-Jan-10
My Grandfather bottom left, 1962
From: TXHunter
30-Jan-10
That's very cool that all you guys have such a rich family bowhunting history.I really liked the deer taken with Grandad's bow 33 years later!
Thanks for sharing, TXHunter
From: Rob in VT
30-Jan-10
Very cool pics! Here are a couple of my wife's family from 1944.
From: Rob in VT
30-Jan-10
One more with the old Vermont truck.
From: Daniel Berglund
30-Jan-10
Me and my Dad.
From: ahunter55
30-Jan-10
My 1st Deer-1958
From: ahunter55
30-Jan-10
My 1st Archery Pro shop 1965
From: ahunter55
30-Jan-10
Mid 60s-a Wis. Weekend Hunt
From: ahunter55
30-Jan-10
Another mid 60s
From: ahunter55
30-Jan-10
60s again
From: ahunter55
30-Jan-10
60s again-darn, I killed a lot with them recurves & wood arrows.
From: ahunter55
30-Jan-10
Gulchman. Left-reunion (1999)at my home of the fellas who took a kid under their wing in 1956. Right is some of these fellas with their annual out of state trip bowhunt in probably 57-58. Most are gone now & I think of them almost every time I go Bowhunting.
From: Canuck
31-Jan-10
My buddy Jim and I packing for first archery moose hunt, 20 years ago. This year will be 21! Regards from Canada!
From: Canuck
31-Jan-10
First remote camp we set up on that hunt.
From: Canuck
31-Jan-10
one more, inside that camp
From: Canuck
31-Jan-10
oops sorry, release went off on the draw!! here is the inside of that first camp.
From: INbowdude
31-Jan-10
I knew Ahunter55 would show up here! Man, he's the Fred Bear of Iowa!
From: Bob Dunn
31-Jan-10
My Dad, around 1960, with his 1959 Kodiak. He's been gone a year now and I miss him dearly.
From: ahunter55
31-Jan-10
Next few are from mid 70s-I'm guessing no later than 74-75. Colorado Muley
From: ahunter55
31-Jan-10
Colorado Elk 70s-my son @ 10 will be 36 in a couple weeks.
From: ahunter55
31-Jan-10
How I packed out those Colorado Mulies in the 70s-young & dumb
From: ahunter55
31-Jan-10
Ooops-last one was a mistake. This is packing out
From: ahunter55
31-Jan-10
Another packin out on in the 70s.
From: BuckSlayer
01-Feb-10
My Grand father (second from the right) and his hunting party from the fall of 1956. All these bucks were taken around the Virden, Manitoba area. I owe my love of hunting to him and my dad.
From: 13 points
01-Feb-10
Ahunter, if I remember right, the compound hit the market in '78....looks like an Allen in yer hand.
From: John Ryan
01-Feb-10
I think that it's more like 1974. I bought a Bear Alaskan that year I think. Quite a clunker by today's standards, but it was quite a change from a Bear recurve back then. Killed a small doe with it that year.
From: Trkytrack
01-Feb-10
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing.
From: Razorback
01-Feb-10
I like the camo in Buckslayers photo.
From: ahunter55
01-Feb-10
They came out but not many played with them much & then the big changes for compounds came in around 1977. I know, I sat with about 200 Recurves, Longbows in the shop at that time & couldn't move them as the switch to Compounds was becoming the thing. Allen was the 1st one I ever saw. Many Mfgs. got caught too & many like Pearson worked out a deal to take back some of your stock in exchange for their new stuff coming out. It was a tough time for Archery dealers in some cases. The Colorado Doe was with a Jennings W. metal rised with a wood grip (I never ever shot an Allen). Most of my Recurve Animals were taken with Pearsons (Ark)& American Archery (Ws). My 1st Deer was an Eddings made in Iowa, My 1st Hog with a Custom Renegade made by a friend in N.C.back then. I shot my 1st Bear with a Groves Spitfire with a overdraw & cutaway in the handle so your broadhead could be drawn into the handle itself allowing a shorter arrow thus giving you a little more speed (they wanrted more speed back then too) The majority of my other animals with compound have been Dartons-I shoot them today as does my Brother, Son & 1 Son-in-law. Oh, I shot a few with Carrolls & a couple with Bear Bows too.2010 is the start of 54 years Bowhunting so you know I had to use a variety. Shot tons of tournaments in those days. I won my Division in 1970 at the Great Lakes Sectional (5 state tourny) shooting a 38#, 70" Amercan Archery Pro Supreme. I had a Reynolds sight, shooting fingers with a tab. I shot a Perfect NFAA field (560), a 297 outdoor PAA (300) & a Pefect NFAA Animal round. I took 3 State Broadhead Championships back in those Days & I was probably shooting American Archery Bows for those too & probably 55#s. Oh, those are days Looonggg ago. I'm still not to shabby of a shot.. Lets see some more oldies. This pic is a last day Ws. early season Doe I took with a my Carroll Target Bow 55#s-1977. I know because my 3 year old son was with me when I shot it. He's gonna be 36 in a couple weeks.
From: 13 points
02-Feb-10
Man, I haveta find some of my old pics!!
From: Woodman@work
02-Feb-10
Fascinating pictures! Bear Track, those guys look like they just got out of church. Not sure I'm tough enough to hunt in dress shoes, a three piece suit, and a necktie.
From: ahunter55
02-Feb-10
Lets see some more fellas-the "real old" days must have been fasinating in the deer Camps. My little Brother in mid 70s.
From: ahunter55
02-Feb-10
Another of him, mid 70s.
From: pappy
02-Feb-10
here is my first deer with a compound. It was october 1975. This was a allen bow, I think it was called olympus but i do know it was under the allen patent.
From: ahunter55
03-Feb-10
Pappy-that being a poloroid Picture, it's even a relic.
From: BB
03-Feb-10
Here'e how they hunted in Wyoming in 1944 when it was a bit snowy.
From: ahunter55
04-Feb-10
Come on fellas-lets see some more. 60s, 70, even 80s is 20+ years ago... My son carrying out a Quebec CXaribou for another "old' hunter. He was 16 & is now soon to be 36.
From: ahunter55
04-Feb-10
1965-wood arrow & MA3 Blade-custom made recurve..
From: ahunter55
05-Feb-10
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From: Gene
07-Feb-10
Here's one of my dad taken in the late 60's with a 8pt that dressed at 229 lbs.It was taken in the town of Bath NH with his 348 lever action. My wife and I had this deer done over with a new cape in the late 90's and donated it to Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature(Museum of the hunt and Nature)in Paris,France. My wife also wrote an article about it which was published in Woods and Waters and also in the Northeast Big Bucks Club magazine.She got right on board with this donation as it got her another trip to Paris!!
From: Gene
07-Feb-10
Here's a photo of my dad taken with the deer ready to make the trip to France. Dad is now retired and lives in Florida and does his hunting now through his sons.
From: ahunter55
07-Feb-10
Great pic & Deer.
From: Ogoki
07-Feb-10
Around 1950 . My Dad on the right . Lost him a tear ago this moth . Sure miss him..........
From: Ogoki
07-Feb-10
I can't type tonight ........That should have said "Lost him a year ago this month".
From: ahunter55
07-Feb-10
My son & I when he was SIX. He's now 36. he's shooting his 1st compound, a PSE & I'm shooting A Darton SL1000..
From: trclements
08-Feb-10
trclements's Link
Here is a web site full of old pics from the west and if you do a search for hunting or archery a bunch come up.
http://mwdl.org/index.php/search/results
From: pachanga
08-Feb-10
Here is a picture of my Dad as I think he was 12 years old here in the picture. This would be from 1940. I still have the bow he shot this rabbit with. The limb split on it as he made it out of osage and shaved it down with a piece of glass.
From: squid
08-Feb-10
squid's Link
We have some great history at our lodge and boxes of old photos that are 100+ years of of people hunting in northern Maine.
You can read about the history and see some more pictures over at our site.
From: squid
08-Feb-10
squid's Link
We have some great history at our lodge and boxes of old photos that are 100+ years of of people hunting in northern Maine.
You can read about the history and see some more pictures over at our site.
From: ahunter55
08-Feb-10
Just awesome how our fore fathers managed to be successful & even record those times...
From: ahunter55
09-Feb-10
100 posts-lets see some more oldies...
From: Bear Track
09-Feb-10
Some more from my collection
From: Bear Track
09-Feb-10
From: Bear Track
09-Feb-10
From: yrovikle
09-Feb-10
Great pictures! Bear Track...what a collection!
From: ole thumper
09-Feb-10
I wonder, how many of those long ago hunters, shot holes in their hands! Seems they always have their hands over the end of the barrel.
From: Bear Track
09-Feb-10
I just got a pm from one of you guys thanking me for my pictures. I've got more but they are on disc being framed and you'll have to come up to camp to see them next year. I love that old stuff.
Ron
From: ole thumper
09-Feb-10
I wonder, how many of those long ago hunters, shot holes in their hands! Seems they always have their hands over the end of the barrel.
From: ahunter55
10-Feb-10
Great photos for sure. Yea, how did WE get by in the old days without all the "trinkets" it takes to kill a deer now adays...Keep em comin...
From: StillHuntin@Work
10-Feb-10
ahunter55, I ask myself that question every time I go in the basement or get ready for a trip. I still remember shells, rifle, knife, a piece of rope and go. Of course my kids feel a lot better since SPOT came along :)
From: ahunter55
10-Feb-10
One from 1980 My little Brother.
From: ahunter55
10-Feb-10
A weekend trip to Ws. in the 70s
From: ahunter55
10-Feb-10
Another Ws. weekend trip from the 70s. I Bowhunted Ws. many years (started in 1958). My 1st Non-Resident Lic. cost $10 & included Deer, Bear & all small game with a Bow. What a deal...
From: ahunter55
11-Feb-10
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From: Daniel Berglund
11-Feb-10
I found one from '69
From: cnelk
11-Feb-10
Me - 30 yrs ago. My 1st bow kill
From: ahunter55
12-Feb-10
Acouple from the 70s.
From: ahunter55
12-Feb-10
Another 70s
From: ahunter55
12-Feb-10
another
From: Sharpstick
13-Feb-10
Good thread.....Love it
From: ahunter55
13-Feb-10
Hard to beleive it's been over 30 years since I killed this Bear. A DIY hunt back when they were considered a pest & all you needed was a small game lic. to hunt them.
From: ahunter55
14-Feb-10
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From: Shug
14-Feb-10
My Uncle ... Bill Kronyak not sure of the year but I do know it was the 60's
From: ahunter55
14-Feb-10
Shug-cool pic. Back in those days the quiver he has was used by tons of archers KwiKee, including me. Notice-no hood & it held 4 arrows. You could get a plastic hood (open on thesides) that would clip to the arrow in the qiver in the back. If memory serves me right-quiver was $3.95 & hood was an extra $1.00 or so when it came out. There was another Foam Bow Quiver about that time for like $2.00 that held 6 arrows & slid over the ends of your bow down toward the handle. The Kwikee slid on & had a clip that snapped in place. Oh, how they have evolved & so had the PRICE....heres a couple from 1959.
From: ahunter55
14-Feb-10
Another from 1959-this was typical for back Quiver. I saved a long time to buy this one for maybe $10.
From: pappy
14-Feb-10
I still have my old bows ahunter55 and one has the bow quiver arrow holder you see pics,,slips over the ends of bow and,no head cover on mine . so good do see all these pictures
From: Roger Norris
14-Feb-10
Great stuff!!
From: BB
14-Feb-10
1969
From: BB
14-Feb-10
Another from 1969
From: BB
14-Feb-10
This is from the early 1970's or so as I recall. Wyo moose when very few hunted those big critters with a bow.
From: BB
14-Feb-10
From back in the 60's when I still rifle hunted.
From: BB
14-Feb-10
Earily 70's
From: BB
14-Feb-10
Mid to late 70's I think.
Have a great bowhunt. BB
From: BB
14-Feb-10
Early 1970's
From: 13 points
15-Feb-10
Now that has to be the best camo ever.....I think I still have mine.
From: INbowdude
15-Feb-10
BB, Nice striped pants under the camo. I think I had a pair of bellbottoms like that once.
From: ahunter55
15-Feb-10
I also took a dirt bike to Colorado a couple years in the early 70s to get me in places I couln't with a 4 wheel drive. Lots of bowhunters in my area started using Camo with the nam pattern in those days. Probably because so many of us served during that time & thats what we brought home when we got out of the Military. keep em comin.
From: ahunter55
15-Feb-10
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From: ahunter55
16-Feb-10
Quebec Bear 1990
From: ahunter55
16-Feb-10
Ws. around 1975
From: Wages
16-Feb-10
I've got a collection of these like BearTrack, here are a handful.
Hanging Mooses
From: Wages
16-Feb-10
I like the way the one guy is aiming at the other guy (not that I would ever encourage anyone to take a picture like this). I'm amazed at how many old pictures do have guys gathered up pointing rifles at each other (though they are typically more inadvertant than this).
doh! I just noticed that BearTrack already posted this one. lol, sorry.
From: Wages
16-Feb-10
still 3 arrows to spare!
From: Wages
16-Feb-10
I think this one is called "My Second Best Pronghorn". :)
From: Wages
16-Feb-10
More mooses and a piebald whitetail.
From: 1942
17-Feb-10
My first deer, about 1982
From: ahunter55
17-Feb-10
great old pics.
From: ahunter55
18-Feb-10
Lets see some more everyone-Do you ever wonder how the old timers killed anything without all the gadgets of today (haha).
From: St. Croix
18-Feb-10
All I can say is I gotta do a better job of recording, via pictures, my own hunts. I don't remember the last time I took time to take pictures, seems I'm in a hurry to cut em up and get em frozen. For the sake of my son I gotta do a better job. I want him to be able to enjoy looking at "Old Time" pictures of Dad's hunting adventures as much as I've enjoyed looking at all these!
Lots of great memories here guys, keep em coming!
From: Bear Track
18-Feb-10
Wages, you probably pulled it off here to save and forgot when you posted that picture twice. No problem, they are there for everyone to enjoy!
From: ahunter55
18-Feb-10
Since the 90s & Video Cameras I've recorded all my Bowhunting & family things plus put still photos on DVDs. Now it is so much easier to keep those for any of the family well after we are gone..
From: Wages
18-Feb-10
BearTrack, I'd say that's exactly what happened. It's one of my new favorites, due to the aim and expression of the fella on the right. Thanks for sharing it.
Here's me and my first buck, I grew up where bucks were few and far between and when does tags were hard to come by. I thought I'd really done something when I took this one. His horns still hang in my garage. I miss the kid in this picture sometimes, and I miss that old dog more than a guy ought to after so many years too.
From: Wages
18-Feb-10
Here's another favorite of mine, I have no idea where I got it, probably from BrearTrack!
From: Wages
18-Feb-10
here's one of a big cat on the hood of a fella's car that seems to have put his steering wheel where his glove box goes!
From: Wages
18-Feb-10
here's one more, I like the caption. It brings back memories of a day when a buck like this was a big deal. Now days you can't make the same statement about the old timers, because every year it seems you can see a picture like this in the local paper (and yet it still isn't of me!) lol
From: cnelk
18-Feb-10
I cant quite remember what I was hunting when this pic was taken. But we too young to have have a license!
Thats me with the rifle and my cousin with the brawn - LOL!
From: cnelk
18-Feb-10
Me and my grandpa after hunting 'pa-ridge'
From: ahunter55
19-Feb-10
Great photos fellas-Gather them all up & have em put on a DVD so all your kids, G-Kids & Great G-kids can enjoy them. That Mountain Lion on the hood of the old car is one of the largest I've ever seen. No trick pics in those days.
From: ahunter55
19-Feb-10
1972 Forky taken with a 70" 50# American Archery Pro Supreme(Wisconsin Co.). This was my target Bow. I had just gotten married & my 60# Hunting bow cracked & I didn't feel I could afford to buy another at that time.
From: Drop Tine
19-Feb-10
My dad around 1953
From: 13 points
20-Feb-10
I love seeing the deer on the cars....no big, ol' 4WD trucks that you have to have now.
From: Zbone
20-Feb-10
Some great pix, and ya gotta luv Grandma with the bear.
From: ahunter55
21-Feb-10
Ywa-If you put one on a car or truck now thats visable someone wants to lynch ya...More oldies please.
From: ahunter55
21-Feb-10
Some fellas I took Bowhunting Mule deer in Colorado around 1980. One has passed on.
From: oldlefty007
21-Feb-10
great pictures here i really enjoyed taking a look at them. lots of history!!
From: ahunter55
22-Feb-10
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From: ahunter55
22-Feb-10
my 1st in 1958 2nd year of Bowhunting.
From: ahunter55
23-Feb-10
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From: ahunter55
23-Feb-10
Feb. 23rd-my son is 36 today-this is him @ 6
From: ahunter55
23-Feb-10
At 16 on Quebec Caribou Bowhunt.
From: ahunter55
23-Feb-10
And 26-he looks about the same today since he works construction.
From: ahunter55
23-Feb-10
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From: fishmagician
24-Feb-10
Colorado 1976, just a few days after President Jimmy Carter was elected, look how dry it is in the background. I had hunted this area years before in knee deep snow at the same time of year.
From: ahunter55
24-Feb-10
That is one nice Muley...
From: fishmagician
24-Feb-10
ahunts55, That was one nice deer!! One of the longest shots I ever made, but what really strikes me is how dry it was that year, but in the 80's and 90's we had more snow than I ever wanted to push with my snow blower..No one was hunting the area, and usually it was filled with outfitters. Had he not broken off that back point I would had him measured just for grins....Those were the days.
From: ahunter55
25-Feb-10
Yea, I started going to Colorado around 1964 & experienced every kind of weather you can imagine over the years. My 1st ever trip to Co. was mid Aug. opening day & it snowed so much we stayed up all night in case we had to break camp & get off the Mountain. I also remember, in those days 30"+ Mulies seemed to be everywhere. Again, great Buck...
From: ahunter55
25-Feb-10
A little Muley about 40 years ago.
From: sunsignarcher
26-Feb-10
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From: ahunter55
27-Feb-10
Top pic was me 4 months into a 6 month stay (in a tent) in the Colorado Mtns 30+ years ago & the bottom is a 1 month Stay in the Boundary Waters back in that time period also.
From: ahunter55
28-Feb-10
ttt Anyone else have some oldies????
From: Wages
02-Mar-10
Here's another group of old timers, one guy seems to be pointing his gun at another guy. I can only assume they must have been kin! lol
From: Wages
02-Mar-10
I don't know how you skin them when you hang them this high!
From: Wages
02-Mar-10
skunks!
From: Wages
02-Mar-10
I don't know how you get this many foxes, but they have to be more fun to skin out than 4 skunks!
From: ahunter55
02-Mar-10
My Grand Dad was a big Fox & Coon dog hunter. I wish I had some of his pics. They had a slew of Fox like that also. They ran them with Hounds. He always had Fox & Coon hounds when I was growing up. He had a hammer, double barrell 12 he used. It seemed forever long & I could barly hold it up.
From: Extreme Predator
03-Mar-10
OUR HERITAGE. STAY ORGANIZED TO OPPOSE THE ANTIS
From: ahunter55
04-Mar-10
lets see some more everyone. These are some great old photos.
From: Bingo
05-Mar-10
Thanks for sharing those great pics guys. I can't help but feel a certain kinship with the men in those pictures, even though those pictures were taken before i was born.
From: psemf4
05-Mar-10
My dad first mule deer at age 16(1959)
From: psemf4
05-Mar-10
Have no idea what that picture is....
From: ahunter55
05-Mar-10
psemf4-I can relate to your Dads success. I took my 1st deer in 1958 at age 16. 2010 starts my 54th year Bowhunting (never ever bought a Biggame gun tag). I'm going on my 1st Antelope Bowhunt this fall-DIY. If I'm drawn I am hoping for a shot at a Buck with my compound & any Doe's with my recurve just for old time sake.
Keep them pics comin fellas.
From: fishmagician
05-Mar-10
How about making a new Old Tyme Photos 2 thread, won't be so long opening up....
From: ahunter55
07-Mar-10
Fishmagician-Old TYME Pics continues #2
From: Zbone
07-Mar-10
Hey Wages, trapping skunks was common back in the day. My grandfather was born in 1901 and trapped them a lot and claimed they were the top dollar furbearer back in those days.
He called them polecats. Said the less white on them the more money they brought. He categorized them by their stripping. The ones all black except a little white on their heads were scarce and called blackies, or black polecats and brought the most money. The big white stripes all the way through the tail like the one on the left in the photo were called whites and weren’t worth much. He had different terms for the thinner ½ and ¾ stripes. Called them forkies, or haft fork or ¾ forks or something like that.
He had a way of killing them once in a trap without getting sprayed. If I remember correctly, he picked them up by the base of the tail. No joke.
He passed away in 1986, but boy I wish I had the chance over to talk with him about things like that.
From: ahunter55
07-Mar-10
Zbone-You reminded me of what my G-Father used to do. He would use a piece of barb wire to twist them out of a hole. I had to be 5-6 one time with him when he got one-MAN, what a stink, I never forgot that.
From: Zbone
07-Mar-10
Too funny, buy yeah, that was how they used to determine what was in a hole, whether groundhog, rabbit, skunk, etc, by the guardhairs they could twist off...8^)
He also used to kill groundhogs down in their burrows by somehow exploding magnesium with water under a cover rock. Don't exactly know how they did it, but even my dad used this method.
Grandpa used to hunt cottontail rabbits with the aid of a ferret back in the day too.
He used to say, they used to say - "Did ya bring the kitty"...8^)
From: ahunter55
08-Mar-10
Yep-I remember my grand dad talking about useing a ferret for Rabbitts..
From: ahunter55
08-Mar-10
ttt
From: Shug
04-Apr-12
1963 I believe...Maine Pope and young Black Bear taken by fathers Uncle Charlie ..
