Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Long shot, anybody recognize these guys?

Over a year ago a photo album was sold at auction for a couple hundred bucks. It was photos from a California hunting trip.

I saved some of the photos from the auction on my computer because I liked them.

I just purchased three old photos of the same guys, same trip, but different shots than where in the album. It seemed to be a odd coincidence.

I wondered if any of the four hunters might be recognizable. Long shot, but what the heck.

Here are the photos saved from the first album.







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and these are the ones I just purchased.

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Don't know them, but very interesting photos.
Thanks for sharing.

The guy on the right in the last sepia-colored picture, crouching below the deer on the swing set, looks a lot like Elmer.

Granted, the fellow you are talking about where's a hat like Elmer's and has a cigarette in his mouth in much the same way, I don't believe that's Elmer.

None of my family shown, but they are using the same guns many of my family members used.

Cool photos!

jim

Great pix!
Thanks for posting them.
I get a huge kick out of looking at the guys and what they used for hunting in those days. The rifles all look to lever guns.

Very cool Savages.

The guy in the first and second black and white pictures - what cartridges do you suppose those are in his belt? They don't look like a .250 or .300 Savage, might could be .30-30's.

.303 Savage, perhaps? That would have been right for the era.

Why can't we buy hats like that any more? Love 'em.

Great pics. Thanks. Can't say who anybody is other than happy hunters. Some things don't change.
Ernie

Hard to find horse hair felt anymore. And wool felt just doesn't cut it.

Great pics.

- Tom

Looks like late 1920's to me, It would be easier if you could have gotten the Lic plate number and State. Then you could run down the plate. Lever guns were very popular with hunters from there advent to the late 1930's when bolt guns started ruling the roost.

Well I knew it was a long shot, but it doesnt hurt to try. They are still a fine addition to my savage photo collection. Glad you enjoyed them.

One more just for fun.

Grogel:

That last photo is pre-1920, I'm certain.

Very interesting choice of hunting clothes. A three-piece business suit and a bowler hat! He must have been hunting on his lunch break. And why on earth did he roll the bib overalls up to the knees? That's got to be pretty uncomfortable as well as counterproductive. He's about to lose the crease in his trousers.

At least he loosened the tie.

- Tom

Tom,1906 on that one.

Not to mention the classic, "I don't really need these hands," pose.

Our local Gander Mountain has old time hunting pix of the walls around the store. They're blown up large size, and I probably spend more time looking at them than I do shopping.
Their choice of hunting clothing back then is just awesome; bowler hats, white shirts and neck ties, knickers, and no gloves.
Every one of the guys in the pix has a wide brim hat on. Today, if anyone was caught outside hunting with hats like they wore, everyone would be making fun of them.
But, there's no making fun of the artillery they used..Savage 99's. Actually, Savage would be well served to use some of those pix for their ads today. Kind of looks like, if you ain't shootin' a 99, you ain't nothin'.

I thought this was common knowledge yet today.

What a fine set of pictures... What a fine buncha hats!

I have around 100 pre 1950 photos in my album some just of hunters and their guns or people just posing with their guns.

The guys on the savage forum get posts of them as I find them.










But I love the game photos.








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Gary
That Photo is great. I know that not water in that flask!
Dad always had a small one with him at camp,,and always had a toast on any deer brought in.
Damm i'll miss him.
Great photo,reminded me of him.
Steve