Old dudes and old photos.

[mtnwrunner]

Winner winner chicken dinner! Still have the pack but gave the optimus 8r to a friend a few years ago. Dang it.

 

[mtwarden]

Randy what’s the shelter?

 

[smoke]

My Grandpa and me in 1963. He grew up in Germany and didn't get to hunt until he immigrated to the US. I still remember this day!

 

[Agross]

Awesome photo. What a buck! Look at the mass.

 

[Glendon Mullins]

This thread is bad ass!!

 

[smoke]

Awesome photo. What a buck! Look at the mass.

Thanks! My Grandpa hit the buck but it ran into some heavy timber. He got a bunch of guys to track and they let me tag along. After they lost the trail, they stood around debating what they should do next. I wandered about 20 yards from the group and there was the buck in some brush. I pulled my cap gun and opened fire - which caused the buck to get up and run. My dad finished him off but my Grandpa gave me the antlers. It was the first deer I ever saw and 60 years later, might still be the biggest!

 

[mtnwrunner]

Randy what’s the shelter?

Man, it was so long ago, I don't recall other than it was like 5 pounds. BUT, it was the 2 pole cross over design that I think is super strong.

Randy

 

[mtnwrunner]

Came across some more old photos.......
Me in 1963, I was 6.....my dad took me with him hunting all the time.

My dad and neighbor with bucks from eastern oregon....run of the mill.


My dad and uncle on a road hunt.


Gotta love the classics.

Randy

 

[Dos Perros]

My great grandpa had a sheep camp in the Sierra Nevada. One summer his hands found an abandoned mule deer fawn, and with the blessing of the Forest Ranger he made it his pet.

 

[bow_dozer]

What an awesome thread and photos. I will go dig thru scrap books from my dad and grandpa and throw some up.

 

[AKDoc]

Photo from over 30 years ago...my first fly-fishing float in remote western Alaska....


...and thankfully many more followed (with the same Sage fly-rod).


(my apologies to the OP...it's not a hunting photo)

 

[87TT]

Cooking up some elk tenderloins in the mid 80's Colorado. Elk camp was an old one room homestead cabin.

 

[gonhunting247]

Came across some more old photos.......
Me in 1963, I was 6.....my dad took me with him hunting all the time.View attachment 676319

My dad and neighbor with bucks from eastern oregon....run of the mill.
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My dad and uncle on a road hunt.
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Gotta love the classics.

Randy

I love the pick-up also. I grew up with those trucks

 

[rayporter]

this goes with the first elk.
first trip in. what an education. i had no help packing so i built wood panniers and copied a pic of a diamond hitch. we guessed it was 12 miles to a fork in the trail with a forrest service sign that said "3 miles to end of trail"

we were headed for the "end of trail" little did we know.

 

[rayporter]

a couple hours after this pic---------after dark. this tent was flat!
but by 8 am he had his elk and by noon i had mine. then the real fun started. we had no clue of gutless or most anything related to packing meat. the meat fell off at least 5 times before we got to the truck

 

[Killerhiller40]

Grandpa with a whole buck strapped to his Honda 90. Must’ve been a heck of a ride out. Those single tracks he was on are no joke

 

[Telford29]

Here is one from the 70s , im the little guy, standing next to my Dad.

 

[Or.hunter]

My Grandfather in 1969.


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[TaperPin]

Not my photo - it was on Etsy, but I really like the rifles used right after (during?) WW1 before scopes and sporterized mausers became popular.

 

[Dos Perros]

Is that a Model 99 Savage on the back row?