Old Time Hunters & Their ATVs

[Wyatt Burp]

Someone has to tell these guys how to hunt. no one is wearing camoflage. One guy looks to be hunting with an 1873 Winchester. That rifle is totally inadequate. Somebody better get him a Jack O'Connor book to read or make him watch the hunting channel. I'm surprized people didn't starve to death prior to useful rifle scopes. Are we spoiled now or what?

 

[long colt frazier]

I really enjoyed those, thanks for sharing.

 

[Comrad]

Show of hands, who would like to go back to a time like that in this country?
I would.

 

[squidsix]

Those fellers are all photoshopped. There's no way they killed them critters without 300 win mags or nightforce 24x scopes. No durn way.

 

[Iggy]

I sure liked it better when cars had fenders. They was plumb handy for a lot of stuff.

 

[OFT II]

I sure liked it better when cars had fenders. They was plumb handy for a lot of stuff.

Yes Sir, and running boards too.

 

[Marshwheeling]

It's not just the poor choice of hunting arms, those tires and suspension are totally unsuited to off-road work.

 

[Pointshoot]

At least those guys had sense enough to have 4 wheels under them. Its totally impossible that hunters may have rode horses & used pack mules or even walked . . . could never have happened.

 

[Bat Guano]

No way can you do that without a 4WD dually diesel megacab pickup with GPS and 500 amp alternator to run all the electronics. Plus a trailer with 6 ATVs.

 

[Tenn2]

Wyatt,
Nice of you to share pictures of your extended family. You come from hardy stock. HaHa

I really do like those old photos. I have some of my great grandparents and am always looking at them.

 

[Xfuzz]

That cat is something...

Where I hunt most shots are 100 yards or under.
We have started an "Old time" hunting weekend.
Non scoped Lever actions only.
$20.00 each in the pot best deer or hog taken wins it.

 

[bobcat]

That's what I was thinking, that's one big kitty. Very cool pics, thanks for sharing them. How do you come up with so many old hunting pics?

I was wondering if they had been practicing quality deer management with their food plots and timed deer feeders? Must have been, otherwise they wouldn't have got those deer...

 

[tops]

I think it looks nice and speaks well that a lot of them are wearing ties. I get amused sometimes at what hunters now think is necessary to be able to hunt. I would like to hear the old hunters laugh at these modern clowns that put on all their latest camo and then put on a bright orange vest and hat. Keep the pictures coming. Larry

 

[Wyatt Burp]

That cat is something...

Where I hunt most shots are 100 yards or under.
We have started an "Old time" hunting weekend.
Non scoped Lever actions only.
$20.00 each in the pot best deer or hog taken wins it.

In an early 80's Guns magazine there's an article by traditionalist Mike Nesbitt called "Roaring 20's Deer Hunt". Him and a freind ride horses and only use guns and ammo appropriate for the era. I still have it and it's a great article. What is your lever gun of choice?

 

[Xfuzz]

Winchester 94 1963 mfg 30/30..and a Winchester Trapper same cal.
whenI hunt from a stand.

 

[SandW_itch]

I thought old timey ATVs had 4 legs.

 

[feralmerril]

Well matt, it has to be this 94 30-30. I bought it new when I was 16 in 1957. It was my first centerfire rifle and I bought it for deer hunting. I added the williams peep and a pad for LOP. I once shot a buck with it in a wet snowstorm at about 220 yards. I have never had to readjust that peep. Its always right on. The rifle hasnt once malfunctioned. I have about another dozzen far more exspendsive, more powerfull scoped rifles in all actions, more levers, bolts, auto and pump. This would be the last to go. It will do the job and is my first and is about 55 years old.
Its still in great shape and probley still the one I have the most experiance with. My folks used to own a old country general store I grew up in in my early years. I had the people they sold it to order it for me. So it also came from the store I lived in. By the way, I still have the original rear sight and steel butt plate for it. Found it in dads stuff after he died.

 

[feralmerril]

Somewhere I have old family pictures from the 1920s and 30s of some contraptions my uncle built. At about 12 years old he was building snowmobiles and cars! He was always like that. He was a batchlor all his life and ran a junk yard for fun besides his day job. He had a airplane engine he was building a snow mobile for ice lakes when he died. Uncle eldon was born in 1915 or 1916. I have wrote of him before about him being in the 82nd AB and his war experiances. When he was around 11 and mom 13 my grandpa fixed up a model T truck to have a grocery route of grandpas general store. Uncle Eldon did the driveing and mom would do the selling. They had several looping routes to outlaying farms in wisconsin. Mom would trade groceries for eggs and products to sell in grandpas store. Uncle eldon would buy a boat or snowmobile and build his own trailers and they looked as good as factory built. Here is a picture of his hobby junk yard taken about 1953 from a airplane. If he wasnt at work, hunting or fishing he always seemed to have a cutting torch in his hand.

 

[Xfuzz]

Wyatt,

I think nice repoductions of those photos would sell
like hotcakes.

 

[310Pilot]

Well, they obviously couldn't have taken those deer (or the mountain lion) without camo clothing, magnum bolt action rifles with $5,000 scopes on them (or AR-15s, the 30-round mags almost make up for their lack of power) and ATVs - therefore, it must be surmized that those old cars could do a heck of a job hitting deer (even when backing up, as in the first photo) without sustaining much damage, unlike modern cars!

Great photos of an America now gone (sadly).