Classic Deer Hunting Pix
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: Zbone
11-Feb-25
Classic Deer Hunting Pix, you guys have any to share?
Info on this one:
1904 Larger-than-life deer await transport on a railroad platform. The “Official Railroad Map of Wisconsin” included text that stated, “The northern portion of Wisconsin may be justly called a sportsman’s paradise, both for fishing and hunting. Deer hunting along the lines of the Wisconsin Central is exceptionally good during the open season.” The major railroads, as well as smaller, local lines, such as the Dunbar and Wausaukee in Marinette County, Hazelhurst and Southeastern in Oneida County, and Chippewa River and Northern in Gates (later renamed Rusk) County, passed through small settlements and logging camps with now-forgotten names like Bagdad, Sillhawn and Veazy. It was a good situation for hunters, who typically set up camps in proximity to railroad access or used abandoned logging camps, of which there were many. Locals with horses and wagons were eager to provide transportation for hunters and gear. original photo
From: Zbone
12-Feb-25
Anybody know who this is?
Luv the flannel..8^)
From: Bou'bound
12-Feb-25
Chuck Adams grandfather
From: Pete In Fairbanks
12-Feb-25
I'll see your classic deer hunting photos and raise you a classic moose hunting pic! Me with my first moose...!
From: Zbone
12-Feb-25
Nope Bou...
From: Murph
12-Feb-25
Fred Bear
From: Shug
12-Feb-25
My uncle with his first buck
New Jersey
My uncle with his first buck
New Jersey
Nice Pete!!
From: Shug
12-Feb-25
My grandmother and her first NJ deer…
From: Shug
12-Feb-25
My great uncle Charlie with a Maine bear..
From: Shug
12-Feb-25
3 well known bowhunters… Any idea who they are?
From: Shug
12-Feb-25
Not necessarily classic but…still nearly 45 years ago My first Bear and deer..
From: ahunter76
12-Feb-25
1958, my 1st Deer
From: Charlie Rehor
12-Feb-25
Dads one and only archery kill 1956.
Dads one and only archery kill 1956.
My Dads one and only archery kill. 1956, People drove from all around to see it hanging. I was three years old. My mother didn’t think it was important to get the antlers in the pic….
From: stagetek
12-Feb-25
I'm not sure who the one on the left is, but I believe Jim Dougherty is center and Tink Nathan is on the right.
From: Shug
12-Feb-25
Very good Mike… Len Cardinale- Dougherty and Tink
From: JSW
12-Feb-25
My great grandfather, on the left. 1930's Colorado
My great grandfather, on the left. 1930's Colorado
From: Zbone
12-Feb-25
Murph got my second photo right, that is Fred Bear as a young man... I wonder what that bow is worth now...
I know 2 of the 4 in your picture Shug... Man in the middle is Jim Daughtery, man on the right is Tink Nathan,,, so I suppose you are the kid?...8^)
From: samman
13-Feb-25
From: samman
13-Feb-25
My first kill with any weapon. Over 40 years ago now. 45lb Bear grizzly.
From: samman
13-Feb-25
Me with my dad circa 1967. I didn't look real happy, but did not have any affect on my wanting to be a hunter.
From: 12yards
13-Feb-25
Cool pics. I often wonder when looking at Zbone's initial picture if whitetail populations exploded at the turn of the century after the northwoods were logged off. You would think with little hunting pressure and vast acres of new growth, deer populations would have responded. Probably were some massive bucks dying of old age back then.
From: milnrick
13-Feb-25
The bearded guy in the cowboy hat is Tink Nathan, one of the others may be Bill Wadsworth (NBEF).
From: Shug
13-Feb-25
Rick… Len Cardinale- Jim Dougherty and Tink
From: Lewis
13-Feb-25
Back in the 60 s in Charleston S.C. a lot of stuff going on in that picture Lewis
From: Zbone
13-Feb-25
Shug - Who is the kid?
From: Trying hard
13-Feb-25
I can't find any old archery/bowhunting pictures....we took so few pictures back in the day...and the pics we did have are scattered about.
From: tobywon
13-Feb-25
Horace Hinckley buck, 1955 and 355 pounds dressed as Maine’s heaviest deer. I just always liked the old photo with the barn.
From: ahunter76
13-Feb-25
Front of my 1st full time shop/lanes, 1964 (64 thru 82)
From: ahunter76
13-Feb-25
1958 our annual archery club out of state week bowhunt to N. Wisconsin. Did this Many years. My NR tag was $10 & included a Bear & all small game with a bow.
From: sitO
13-Feb-25
From: Shug
13-Feb-25
ZBone Tinks kid
From: bowelk65
13-Feb-25
Great pic Samman love the scout I have a 1977 that I drive in the summer with the top off.
From: mooseslayer
13-Feb-25
Can anyone ID the year of the vehicle. That's my uncle, thinking 1940's.
From: Zbone
13-Feb-25
Thanks Shug...
I always liked this photo, the buck was Ohio's state record nontypical at the time and still ranks pretty high...
From: ahunter76
13-Feb-25
1965, weekend hunt to N. Wisconsin. 60# Pearson Golden Sovereign, #8 Micro-Flite 8s Fiberglass arrow. Wearing my Vietnam Camo in the snow.
From: Shug
13-Feb-25
Some great pics
From: Ridge Runner
13-Feb-25
My Grandpa’s crew 1942 in Florence Co WI.
From: cnelk
13-Feb-25
Me and my dad - 1968
From: 808bowhunter
14-Feb-25
Kauai goat hunting
Kauai goat hunting
From: 808bowhunter
14-Feb-25
From: 808bowhunter
14-Feb-25
From: Zbone
14-Feb-25
I remember reading about this guy back in the day...
From: Kanati
14-Feb-25
Shug, Butts and Bows in Belleville?
From: Shug
14-Feb-25
Correct George
From: samman
14-Feb-25
samman's Link
Not sure where that link came from.
From: samman
14-Feb-25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RFcMhvbuS8 Sorry guys. Maybe this time.
From: samman
14-Feb-25
samman's Link
Speaking of vintage, here is a link to a Fred Bear hunting video for Kodiak bears.
From: Ryan Rothhaar
14-Feb-25
Hey Gary, John Hale is still around and still deer hunting. One of the absolute best trophy whitetails bowhunters nobody knows. John is in the top 1% of 1%.
R
From: Bigtines
14-Feb-25
I like these pics.
From: Corax_latrans
14-Feb-25
Almost all of these are faked. You can tell, because almost nobody is wearing Camo…..
And cnelk’s photo…. LMAO….
;)
From: Zbone
15-Feb-25
Yeah Ryan, I remember him back in the day but don't remember if he wrote articles or if I just read articles about his whitetail prowess... Do you know him? If so, what part of Indiana was/is he from? Why I asked is because I just got home from Indiana this 1AM from looking at a dog yesterday evening and traveled up I65 from Nashville through Louisville KY and up I65 through the lower half of Indiana while it was still light enough to see and was checking out the terrain... I liked it, flat farmland, and looked like big buck woodlot country, similar to what your father wrote about in Ohio... My kind of country, no hills to climb in my old age...8^)
From: Ryan Rothhaar
15-Feb-25
Yes I know John very well. He’s from down around Linton, IN. He has always hunted strip mine reclaim ground. The older “stripper hills” weren’t really reclaimed, but aerial seeded and grew up in brush, pines, and some hardwoods. The land was left like a plowed field, but on big scale, with the ridges 20-40 feet high in general with high steep banks at the end where mining started and a pond at the other where it ended. Deer paradise once it grew up. Down around there it was mostly public ground, and even the mine owned land was open to hunting. Really tough country to hunt unless you knew every inch of it. Lots of hunting pressure.
John never wrote anything. He’s locally known and known by folks that pass on big buck lore. The picture you posted was from Dan Bertalans book about whitetails bowhunters. John did a few seminar talks back in the day.
John is one of these guys with a wall full of big bucks killed on public ground, right in the middle of where the deer hunting pressure is. Not on TV setups.
If I was a big whitetail he’s one of the last guys I’d want after me.
R
From: Saphead
15-Feb-25
I remember John Hale. Met him once. I ask a lot of questions back then trying to learn how to play this game. I was amazed by the amount of deer he had killed. Read that book by Dan B. Anyone notice that Savage 99 leaning on the rock in the first goat pick? 250 would have been perfect for those goats. But it could have been caliber. Like those 99's great thread Gary
From: Painless
15-Feb-25
Here’s the first big deer my dad ever harvested. Taken on Kitchen’s Creek, Caddo Lake. I was 6 back then, intrigued with picking tics off the big guy.
From: Painless
15-Feb-25
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From: casekiska
15-Feb-25
Jackson County, WI. 9-30-64. First bow buck. 45#, Bear K-Mag. Bear Razorhead w/insert blade. Small eight, but a trophy to me at the time.
Jackson County, WI. 9-30-64. First bow buck. 45#, Bear K-Mag. Bear Razorhead w/insert blade. Small eight, but a trophy to me at the time.
From: Zbone
15-Feb-25
Thanks for the info Ryan... Am familiar with old strip mines, still a few in my area... Out of high school, worked for a reclamation outfit, but a lot of the old ones prior to the 1970's weren't ever reclaimed, matter of fact I own a small road front property where an old coal tipple set... Yeah, great deer habitat, great cover, a lot of those in my area got grown up with spiny locust trees and multiflora rose, I think a lot of public Egypt Valley is still like that... Now, some of those old strip walls have eroded down, but multiflora and greenbrier are still present and prevalent...
I see that that rifle now Doug... Thanks 808bowhunter for sharing, I assume that is Catalina Island?
From: Shug
15-Feb-25
1982 Baker climber
From: Zbone
15-Feb-25
Your cheated Shug, I never had a hand climber, always hugged the tree...8^)
From: Shug
15-Feb-25
Funny Z.. Actually that’s one of those moments in life I’d like to go back to …knowing what could have happened. I had a monster 115” buck come by on the other side of the tree that I couldn’t d shoot
From: Stan Rauch
16-Feb-25
My first bow buck, 1960 in SD.
From: BOHNTR
16-Feb-25
Good to see you posting, Stan!
From: Rob in VT
16-Feb-25
From: Bou'bound
16-Feb-25
This one goes back a ways. Great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather and uncle
From: Lewis
16-Feb-25
Those Bakers were I thought were the greatest thing since sliced bread. I still have two down at the barn.When they came out with the hand climber that was the icing on the cake.Never forget the time I shimmed up a tree before daylight and it had a lot poison ivy on it my arms looked like Popeyes crazy memories.Good luck Lewis
From: ahunter76
16-Feb-25
1972- I broke my hunting bow a couple days b/4 season so used my 70" 40# Target bow. Twin Forky Bucks walked up to my stand (standing on a limb about 6 foot off the ground). I arrowed this one at 15 yds with a complete pass through. Aluminum arrow tipped with a 3 blade High Precision BH.
From: Saphead
16-Feb-25
Stan
Great to see that photo
From: Zbone
17-Feb-25
From: BC
17-Feb-25
The suit and tie are a nice touch.
From: MF
17-Feb-25
Cool pics! Yeah, I like the ties. Gonna wear me a tie at the cabin this rifle season.
From: Zbone
17-Feb-25
Funny thing, Papa Bear was born in 1902 and my grandfather was born in 1901, and not only did they kinda look alike, they wore the same type Sunday-Go-To-Meeting cloths, suit and tie and even the fedora hat...
From: tobywon
17-Feb-25
Couple deer in that photo it looks. Also is Carl holding a shed antler? Can’t seem to make out what’s going on with antler.
From: Zbone
17-Feb-25
First time I noticed the antler, but I don't see but one deer...
From: ahunter76
17-Feb-25
1966 Forky.
From: tobywon
17-Feb-25
Zbone, is that another deer head between the deer and Fred's head? maybe a reflection, but doesn't seem positioned right for that. Cool photo.
From: Zbone
17-Feb-25
I blew the photo up a little, but I don't think there is another deer there and the one that is there looks like a 6-8 month old fawn... It does look like Carl is holding a shed or a broke off antler...
From: RD
17-Feb-25
first deer Dec 1967 Necedah, Wis. #47 Kodiak, #8 microflite arrow with Black Panther broadhead
From: RD
17-Feb-25
First mule deer 1972 Wyoming
From: Zbone
19-Feb-25
"Cedar Lake, Ontario, Francis Buckley B&C 160-3/9" typical whitetail shot with a .348 Winchester Model 71"
From: Zbone
20-Feb-25
1971, Lake County, Montana, Darrell Brist, .338 Winchester Mag, scores 173-1/8 points
From: t-roy
20-Feb-25
Not sure of the year. Most likely in the late 40s. My dad’s dad is third from the right.
EDIT: asked my dad about this pic. He told me that it was taken somewhere in Minnesota, when my grandpa and some friends would take a trip up there to hunt deer every year. Iowa’s first deer season wasn’t until 1953.
From: Stan Rauch
20-Feb-25
My first muley, 1954 in northwestern SD.
From: samman
20-Feb-25
My dad in 1963. Looks like an easy pack out.
From: ahunter76
20-Feb-25
1982 Oct 4th, Illinois.
From: Zbone
20-Feb-25
Luv the character on this rack, check out the mass... For only scoring 153, I take that any day, all day...
MONTANA 1956: "With baseball bats for main beams, this Valley County whitetail was killed by Grace C. Elliott in 1956. It's typical antlers score 153"
From: Mint
21-Feb-25
Great thread and pictures guys.
From: Cheesehead Mike
21-Feb-25
Me in about '75 with the old "thutty-thutty".
From: scent
21-Feb-25
I agree very nice thread and pics, love nostalgia!
From: ahunter76
22-Feb-25
About 1974. Weekend trip to N. Wisconsin with some of my archery shop/lanes customers. I would organize it for 4 weekends mid Oct to mid Nov.. Near 8 hr Drive from our Illinois base. Tent camped. Was a blast...
From: kakiatkids
22-Feb-25
Love some of the old guns in some of these pics.
From: Zbone
24-Feb-25
This one is kinda neat, caption reads - "Stevens County, Washington, in 1063... The 14x13 whitetail scores 201-4/8 points, ranking it at 23rd in Washington for non-typical whitetails"...
Was thinking the only whitetails in Washington State were the protected Columbian subspecies, until I just looked it up and learned western whitetails exist in the eastern portion of the state...
From: Zbone
25-Feb-25
1977, Alfred Pieper, non-typical 212-6/8 point whitetail, 12-gauge, Houston County, Minnesota..
From: Zbone
05-Mar-25
Looks like it took 6 men with double barrel shotguns and rifles to get this one...8^)
From: KC9
07-Mar-25
Father in Law in the 40's. PA
From: Lewis
07-Mar-25
Great pictures y’all KC what year is that station wagon Good luck Lewis
From: DGW
07-Mar-25
Looks like a 57 Ford.
From: Zbone
10-Mar-25
KC9 - What about them boots? The lacing on those boots has 24 eyelets, they look like lineman's or lumberjack boots... Don't know, but wouldn't think they had specialized boots specifically for hunting back then, or if they did, maybe LL Bean Maine hunting boots???
I still have a pair of Lineman boots but mine aren't near that high, although I worked with a couple old timers that had similar knee-high climbers...
From: Zbone
11-Mar-25
Check out this LL Bean Maine Hunting shoe...
From: KC9
12-Mar-25
The man sitting is my father in law. Just guessing it's late 40's picture, could be 50's. He was born in 1925, and I thought this was when he returned from the war. I was guessing him to be mid 20's in the the picture. Don't know anything about the boots, I know he wasn't ever a lineman.
From: scent
12-Mar-25
Vintage 50's wagon, Ford? Love that pic.
From: Bou'bound
12-Mar-25
What size are those boots do you know?
From: Saphead
12-Mar-25
Looks like the pic from 1800 w all the shotguns the guy on the right killed a ground hog?
From: Zbone
12-Mar-25
Doug, bet it was an organized drive were they shot every that moved...8^)
Bou, sent you a PM on the boots....
From: Zbone
15-Mar-25
From: Zbone
16-Mar-25
Although we didn't kill a lot of nice bucks like these, it reminds me of back in the days when I group hunted during our weeklong gun season... Good times, good friends...
From: Zbone
17-Mar-25
Reminds me of some guys I know...8^)
From: scent
17-Mar-25
Nothing tastes better then sharing a deer at beer camp, especially after a successful hunt... thanks for the memories.
