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Going through some old pictures last night I found this of my brother and I . George was 13 and I was 11. We ran a trap line for preditors after school. A neighbor took our picture. Can only immagine the looks you would get now carrying your guns and coyote through town.
8 years later the lady that took the picture worked at the local community's college helped me to get some funds to go through the Aviation program and get my Airframe and Powerplant license.

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looks like you got the heavy end of the stick on this cache...are you toteing a single barrel shotgun...charlie

That's funny. 1968 seems like only a few years ago, doesn't it? I was only four years old but already terribly worried over the shooting sports, having fired a .22 rifle for the first time only a year before. Kentucky, you know... :cheers:

:rotf::biglaugh: 1948 seems like such a long time ago! :whistle:

I'd been hunting by myself for eight years by 1968 :shock:

Great picture Phil!!

I'll have to dig out some of my old pictures to see how old I really am :eek:






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That made me laugh out loud, Dean. Thanks for that! :rotf:

Hey Phil - Sorry to hi-jack your thread....

This is 1968. Kathy and me with what was left of the buck, after butchering, that I took on opening day of the '68 Vermont deer season. A little 6-pointer weighing about 125 lbs.



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Dean thanks for your posting. I love vintage hunting photographs. I hope others will post some pictures, of their early hunts. When I found this picture last night it brought back lots of memories of my hunts together with my brother.
Many nights we layed in our room and talked for hours about hunting and such. Reading through the Herters catalogue, Fur/Fish/Game, Outdoor Life and others. Sharing what we learned and dreams. Great Memories.
Hunting has been the common bond since we were kids that still assures we get together 5 or 6 times each year.

Charlie yep it's a single 20 gauge made by Sears, if I recall it had a big hammer and a round push button on the side to open. Looking at the boots we were wearing reminds me how good I have it today with my KENETREX. back then I could wear anytime from a size 6 to a 16 . Just put on two pairs socks and another one roll up in the toe. LOL.

This one is over 50 years old. This guy still hunts pheasants, and other birds. He is a better shot these days

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Wow what a great picture.

This one is over 70 years old and I am the little guy, Father was an excellent shotgun shot.

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Father was also an excellent fisherman. Photo is also over 70 years old. i am the the boy on the right. fish were caught on Bear Lake here in Idaho.


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This photo was about 50 years ago. I would put a couple of deer in the garage and before Miss Mary and I could get them aged, cut up and in the freezer the neighbors and friends would have them eaten.


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We didn't have a meat saw when I was young - we would cut them down the spine like that with an old cross-cut saw. Your arm knew you had done some work when the deer was finally split in two.





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I would love to have an area for the members to post vintage photos, for the sake of history. Too many of the old pictures meant a lot to the people involved and are now stored away rarely to be viewed and enjoyed.
I for one enjoy these photos. They are a moment captured in history that can never be quit repeated. They are in a way a record of some of the hunts we now wish we knew more about when we acquire a vintage gun.
History of the family, friends, guns, dogs and memories that the good lord blessed our lives with and should be shared.

Phil and the rest ,this is fantastic ! I'll have to see what pics I can find ....though my beginning years were in the early 80's we were behind you guys in most every way ,field and stream was about the only magazine that you could get that was hunting related and my brother had a subscription to that , a big deal in itself ....friends would come over just to see those .

we went to the local corner store with a gun draped over my shoulder many times after school,to pick up a little lunch ,we basically hunted out the back door ,I shot grouse and had snares where my house stands today...my first introduction to stockwork was an article in an old f&s, I was instantly enthralled and been trying to learn it ever since .

All the kids I grew up with hunted and fished ,to be honest I think its just me left ,there's guys that will go if I call them but it will be the only time they'll go all season ...I don't understand ,the Newfoundland outdoors can be disheartening at times (just ask Brian Hornacek ) but I've never lost the interest or passion, these day's I could care less about killing something ,though I do get pissed about letting the dogs down when I got shit in my eyes ! to me it's just to get out and walk breath in the cool air ,I shoot big Moose not for the horns but fore the amount of meat ,the two go hand in hand ...And Dean if you think and sawing a deer down the spine is tough try a moose ,we still do it that way ....damned if I know why ;)

It seems I could wax poetic about this forever ,but I'll leave it at this
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Great thread guy's keep it coming !

Dean, He called you 'VINTAGE":shock::rotf:

I was just laughing with Kathy about that a few minutes ago..... I guess if the name fits...:shock:... we should wear it proudly :smiley7:






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"Vintage" is a good one for Dean. I have a few others also......:rolleyes::whistle: This is an awesome thread! Thanks guys....












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Best way to split a moose is with a chainsaw. I've heard some folks say they replace the bar oil with Wesson oil but I think that's just a story. You just drain or leave the bar oil in and you can't even tell because it all happens so fast. Nowadays we all carry Dewalt cordless Sawzall's and a spare battery or two in our moose/caribou/deer hunting kits. They save you a lot of labor I can tell you.

Newfoundland was disheartening relative to my Ptarmigan dreams but made up for it in overall experience. Its a place where you go to "hunt" not "harvest". Game is earned through your efforts not paid for to be put out in the field for you to kick up or fed out of a feeder while you sit in a blind with heaters and iphones. Newfoundland defines your passion for hunting, if you don't have it don't hunt there, if you are like Chris Dawe and myself its beauty and ruggedness welcomes you!

Today's pictures will one day be a memory of the past. Yes that is a Parker 16 gauge leaning on the tree my friends!

david lien is that car in your picture a chevrolet it appears to be a 36 chevy coupe convertible...i really like this thread...charlie

1956 on the Chester River, Maryland's eastern shore. With my Dad. My first time in a duck blind.

Hey Brian ,that looks like a great guide you had!!!! ...a little wet perhaps , but I think we had a great time !... on a side note I took your buddy Benny B-S on quick run on the barrens we had a nice frosty morning with a good gale blowing from our backside ,the pup was working his way back to me from a 300 yard cast just like he's supposed to ...a float plane fly's towards me real low over the dog when it gets to me I figure I'll shift grip on my gun to wave as he flies over head(could be Rich Flanders ) ....as two Ptarmigan get up ,dip over a blind ridge to coast to God knows where ,we searched for an hour and turned up nothing only a couple dry points .

All in good fun

Vintage
 

Apple Computer claims anything over 5 years old is "Vintage".

No kidding.

Thanks for the memories guys. I feel youthful and revitalized.

Just kidding. I'm older than Phil...barely.


Great stuff.

Am I three or four in this picture? It has got to be either 1949 or 50. By later in 1950 we had a new Chevy, a 1950 Fleetline.

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Three Chucks my Father dispatched with his Winchester Model 54 .22 Hornet.

Dave, I think the split windshield gives it away as a 49. One of my first cars was a 49 Chevy I think I paid $50 for it. Wish I still had it.

Looks like a '48 Chevy to me.




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that old chevy is between 1946-48 its a master deluxe coupe...1949 thru 1952 a new body style...the 1953 chevy has the new winshield with no center division bar in it...with out seeing the grill of this car almost impossible to tell which year 1946-47-48....charlie

I love these old pictures, they are just so "Real". Love your pants, remember my mom buying us cloths to grow into.

The car is a 1948, my Mother's foster brother bought it from Dad when Dad got the 1950, and drove it until I was a Junior in high school. So, it lived next door to us into 1963. After that a local auto shop had it for quite a few years.