Amazing Picture
 

This amazes me. Surely they didn't hunt in those clothes.

O.K. We've taken care of that. Now can we get to the church?

Maybe those roosters made a mistake and crossed the cemetery.

Researcher (Dave Noreen) can probably answer your questions about his picture.....






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Or those shoes....................:shock:

ps Must have been road hunting on the way to church !

I am in no way making light about these gentlemen. What is so amazing is how they reminded me of my only memory of my Grandfather McPherson with a coat and hat like these fellows are wearing in about 1950. He passed away in 1951.

I bet they did hunt in those cloths or at least a coat and tie. I think hunting was more revered back in the day.

South Dakota without a doubt, road hunting on the way to a hunting buddies funeral. He would have understood ! Had to shoot the birds in the middle of the road or they would have tore those big legged pants crossing the fence to get them.

It's legit, of a time if you didn't have shotgun or rifle in your hand or handy you weren't living.

And nobody gave it a second thought... unlike today when you would be quickly surrounded by a SWAT team in full armament.






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[QUOTE=Dean Romig;213480]Researcher (Dave Noreen) can probably answer your questions about his picture.....

Dave will probably tell you that it was normal attire for the time. His uncle and Dad if I'm not mistaken.

Looks like a couple of city slickers to me. :)

Gerald,The picture you posted of the gentlemen reminded me of a picture of an English engraver on my engravers forum sitting in a suit,tie and a white apron while engraving,I made a comment about it and two gents from across the pond came back and said that the way all tradesmen dress in the UK.Maybe these gentlemen were from the UK or Europe. J.J.

My Dad shot pheasants in a white Arrow shirt buttoned to the neck and a necktie. In advanced age, he softened up a bit and wore colored shirts when hunting.

Sounds like gentleman to me.

This is my grandfather probably in the 1920s. Dressed for the field but ya gotta love the tie.

glad we have the decesion to wear a tie or not these days..but your granpa looks good in attire i really like the boots...charlie

I've been known to wear a tie out shooting.

I don't know about the tie, but I've seen him wear out a marsh full of mallards

On a game shoot in the UK one will always wear a tie it's the form you know.
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I can remember in the early 70's we could not hunt deer in GA counties on Sunday without the permission of the County Sheriff. I hunted in Monroe County then and the Sheriff there forbid it. Always headed home after Saturday evening hunt.

There is still no Sunday hunting for deer in Pa. or no hunting period on Sunday in Maine

My theory; having your picture taken back in those days was such an important occasion that a gentleman would dress up for such a thing.

I wrote the story of that picture up and Cote' published it in The Double Gun Journal, Volume Eleven, Issue 3, page 186. It was October 1948, and all the family had returned to Grandpa's farm west of Minneapolis for Grandma and Grandpa's 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was the big day, and everybody was dressed up getting ready for the celebration, when Grandma looked outside and spotted two roosters crossing the driveway and heading for the copse of woods behind the machine shed. Too much for my Father and Grandfather! They each grabbed their shotguns, whistled up the dog, and one went each way around the machine shed. As luck would have it a rooster went each way when the dog rooted them out and they each got one.

I don't recall anyone in my family wearing a necktie to go hunting. From Sioux Lake, Minnesota, October 1931, when my parents were first dating, my Mother and Father in the lower picture and my Father on the left in the upper photo with his cousin Edna in the middle and her husband Willis with his foot on the bumper of the car --

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My Father and Kipper Dandy in Columbia County, Washington, October 1972 --

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Dave, your mother and cousin Edna are dressed exactly the same from head to toe!!!

Great pictures. It shows that hunting with doubles runs deep in your family.

looks like they were driveing a model a ford for transportation....good hunting looks like to me...charlie

One of my favorites. Arthur Davenport Fuller "Let's Go"

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J.F. Kernan

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Like the work of J.K.Kernan.

The gentleman on the left in the first picture is sporting a hat nearly identical to the one I have been wearing for years while upland hunting. I may look for a proper tie to go with my Borsalino hat this year.

neat hat for sure and addind a tie will make you look better yet....charlie

I hunted in Germany and Luxembourg for over seven years. On drive hunts in the 70's and 80's hunters were expected to wear a tie or a turtleneck. Or a subdued scarf.

amazeing..would like to have been on one of them hunts...the europeans seem to take their hunting apparel to a higher level than we do...charlie

Yes Charlie they do. Sometimes they even go to church just before the hunt on St Hubertus Day. 3 November. Priest blesses hunters, dogs, and guns at the alter. It truly is amazing and lots of grins.