Old Hunting Pics

This is a pic of a pic...of the biggest buck I ever killed (right after I fished him out of the river!
This was circa 2004

First deer, 15 years old....1965

Rembrandt said:

First deer, 15 years old....1965

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I like the deer AND the Impala.

Here's my biggest antelope in Wyoming 1975.

Here's another - my first big buck in Wisconsin 1973 with the back end of my first new car/truck, a 1969 Bronco.

Armored Farmer that looks like a Thompson Center Muzzleloader with the fine buck??

Bull

Love seeing these old pics. I posted a couple in the other thread. Couple more.

Early 90's. My 1st goose


Turkey, somewhere around 2000

1987.....First deer hunt for my boys.

1st elk, 1979. 1st big game really. I'm sort of in shock here.

I love the old school bow. If I'm seeing right it has the camo sleeves over the limbs.

Patocazador said:

Here's another - my first big buck in Wisconsin 1973 with the back end of my first new car/truck, a 1969 Bronco.

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Nice buck. Love Early Model Broncos.

My Daughter's buck she shot from her bedroom window when she was 14 (in the back of my '69 Bronco) and my '70 Model Half Cab, just for fun.

jmr40 said:

I love the old school bow. If I'm seeing right it has the camo sleeves over the limbs.

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Thanks, yes, A Darton bow set at 65# with the sleeves. I found it was affordable and, with a lot of practice in the woods and at the range, adequate power and accurate. I don't remember the stats anymore but it put my arrows where I pointed them and only stopped in the rib on the far side of this one. I can't say the .54cal muzzleloader I graduated to would do any more (except at about 2x the range; 30-60 yds).
However, I mis-judged the step of a bigger bull two years later when I aimed for the heart and shot him in the elbow. The strike sounded like a rifle shot. He glared at me and shook it off. No penetration. If he'd have decided to contest the insult, I think I'd have been SOL.

In 1979 that bow was not legal in GA. We were the last state to allow compound bows for hunting. They started allowing them at some point after 1980. I'm guessing about 1982. I used to have the camo sleeves on my recurve. It is one of those things that I'd completely forgotten even existed until I saw your pic.

Flintknapper said:

Nice buck. Love Early Model Broncos.

My Daughter's buck she shot from her bedroom window when she was 14 (in the back of my '69 Bronco) and my '70 Model Half Cab, just for fun.

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Thanks. I wish I still had that Bronco but my stepfather rolled it while taking a turn too fast. He was drunk as usual.

What a great thread. Love those old pics!


My dad, sister, and I all tagged out on opening day around 1990

My dad about to gun down a pheasant over my dog. He has his 20ga model 12 skeet in this pic.


Here's a couple of kids from 35yrs ago.
I still have the Hawken, single-six, and the girl.
Circa 1983

Armored farmer said:

I still have the Hawken, single-six, and the girl.
Circa 1983

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The "girl" is a stunner. How did you rate her?

Patocazador said:

The "girl" is a stunner. How did you rate her?

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Honestly...?
She loved my horses.
I'm not kidding.
She will admit it to this day.

Old pictures bring back memories. Hunting quail near the South Canadian River in Oklahoma in 1965. My lifelong friend hunting quail in the snow early 1970's. My wife with our new 1981 Jeep CJ-7 in Colorado and I still use it for hunting every year. Elk hunting in Colorado in 1979, my wife is on the right and I am the cold one behind the camera.

Is that the heater option for an open-top Jeep?

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That particular day it snowed the whole day and several times we stopped to build a fire to warm up. Those Jeep heaters were poor even with a top. The next day we quartered a brush bull and put him in the back seat and came off the mountain with chains on all four wheels. The mountain road was so slick that even with chains the wheels would slide. We were south of Stonewall, Colorado and west of the Tercio store. On the south side of Red Mountain we could look down into New Mexico. That hunt made me decide that in the future I would never shoot anything I couldn't drag.

jmr40 said:

I love the old school bow. If I'm seeing right it has the camo sleeves over the limbs.

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Yep. That is the way we rolled back in the 60's. I think that I need another recurve.

This is from the mid 80's I'm guessing. I'm holding an old Browning Nomad recurve. I got the bow from a guy in a gun trade. He threw it in for next to nothing. I had it set up with sight pins and have used it a lot. It is still my favorite bow. I also have a compound bow. I don't like the compound as much, but even with the sights on the recurve I have to practice regularly to be any good. I can pick up the compound and make good hits without touching it for months. I used the canned Krylon camo on this one.