Vintage Hunting Photos (Good Old Days)

[airedale]

Love looking at vintage hunting photos and art, some hard looking folks back in the good old days and many depended on hunting so they could eat. An old timer that grew up in the depression  days said "He knew things were getting better as he was starting to see rabbits and other small game crossing the roads without a dog and hunter following in close pursuit.

Edited July 16, 2018 by airedale

[Bionic]

I, too enjoy historic photos of hunting, and old school logging.

[Paula]

There is a page on Facebook that has old pictures, love seeing them. 

[Bionic]

Look at that last photo, with the oil lantern, it just gives you this indescribable feeling...I have a couple lanterns in my home, we burn on the weekends.  It is just REAL, getting back to how life should be.  

[turkeyfeathers]

[airedale]

I like old advertising and the work of the old outdoor artists especially Philip Goodwin.

[grampy]

41 minutes ago, airedale said:

Love looking at vintage hunting photos and art, some hard looking folks back in the good old days and many depended on hunting so they could eat. An old timer that grew up in the depression  days said "He knew things were getting better as he was starting to see rabbits and other small game crossing the roads without a dog and hunter following in close pursuit.

Those airdales in the first picture, look just as hard as ol Coyote Jack!

[mowin]

Too cool.   I've got some B&W photos of my dad, uncle's, and brother in the late '50's early '60's. I'd love to post them, bi  there in storage at the moment. Trying to sell our current house and purchase another, but so far 3 buyers for our current home have had to back out because the bank won't untimely give them a mortgage.  

[Pygmy]

Thanks for sharing, Al...Obviously Coyote Jack didn't have a TV in the cabin to watch on those cold winter nights...Hehehe..

I like the grouse hunter...The shotgun looks just like one that my Dad bought for $10 back in the late 1930s...

It is an Ithaca, made in 1899..It has  " NEW ITHACA GUN"  inscribed on the receiver...I still have it..

[airedale]

A few more.

Edited July 16, 2018 by airedale

[Pygmy]

Waaaaay, cool Al...…<<SMLE>>….

[moog5050]

33 minutes ago, Pygmy said:

Waaaaay, cool Al...…<<SMLE>>….

Pygmy

you were handsome as a younger fella!

[turkeyfeathers]

29 minutes ago, moog5050 said:

Pygmy

you were handsome as a younger fella!

And taller 

[moog5050]

10 minutes ago, turkeyfeathers said:

And taller 

We all shrink with age, perhaps some more than others.  

[Pygmy]

Hehehehe...I was better looking at 18 than that dude....I if I knew how to post my high school senior picture I could PROVE it....hehehe..  Nice looking Marlin rifle that young fellow  has, tho…...

[Lawdwaz]

1 hour ago, Pygmy said:

Hehehehe...I was better looking at 18 than that dude....I if I knew how to post my high school senior picture I could PROVE it....hehehe..  Nice looking Marlin rifle that young fellow  has, tho…...

This is me at 13.  Yea, the one on the LEFT.  1974 and the first "bunny".  You can also see I was huge Sabres fan too........

It took a number of years before my good looks kicked in.

https://imgur.com/a/EzFF5JH

Edited July 16, 2018 by Lawdwaz
I'm an idiot; don't know my right from left sometimes.

[mowin]

2 hours ago, airedale said:

A few more.

In the third pic, either the bucks we're a lot bigger bodies back then, or the men were smaller.  Or both... 

[Lawdwaz]

These are great pictures guys, thanks for posting them.

[airedale]

[turkeyfeathers]

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[Pygmy]

The dude with the two grey foxes around his neck has what looks like a Winchester m1887 lever action shotgun...

It could also be a M1901, which was basically the same gun, except beefed up to handle smokeless loads...

I remember when Ed hart's Gun Shop was in Cohocton back in the 1960s..He had two of those Win lever shotguns on his rack , a 12 gauge and a 10 gauge..I can't remember what the price was, probably some exorbitant amount like $50...

[moog5050]

Where is all the camo?  How did they kill anything without high tech camo!

[grampy]

10 minutes ago, moog5050 said:

Where is all the camo?  How did they kill anything without high tech camo!

And guns that shoot 650 yards!

[moog5050]

8 minutes ago, grampy said:

And guns that shoot 650 yards!

Even my recurve looks super high tech by comparison.