If I was alive in 1966 I wouldn't hunt with an AR either.
Travis
Semi-autos from Rem, Rug, and Win were pretty common in the New England deer woods back in the late 1960's. A lot of WW2 and Korea vets were fans of the firepower that their Garands put out on the battlefield and that experience translated to many of them being Remington 740/742 users in the deer woods.
When I started deer hunting, my Father wanted to start me off right, so he outfitted me with a Remington 660 in 6mm to use when hunting fields and the Ruger 44 International to use when still-hunting. I never saw a tree stand until the early 1980's, it was all standing, driving, or still-hunting back then.
