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Thanks some realy Great pics!

Enjoyed them.

I like old pics like that

Very nice indeed. Some monsters back when!!!

Great pics. Some dang nice bucks too!

Really enjoyed seeing those myself. I read the story on that #14 mega buck that the guy in the black hat gunned with a .300 Savage M99 and I wanted one of those (the buck and the gun) ever since. I only have the M99 so far. What an animal that thing is!!! I sure would like to reread that story again. I think that it was in a North American Whitetail magazine years ago.

I always enjoy seeing these hunting pictures from the past...thanks for posting.

Pretty incredible. I'd like to know how many inches some of those were. Those guys back then probably never measured any of them. The elk was awesome.

There's one I sure WISH I had a video of. When I was a baby, in '49, my folks were living on a ranch in so. Idaho. Dad was working on the ranch and Mom was teaching school nearby. One evening, Dad walked down to the creek and saw a forky standing in the water. He had a pretty good arm and he threw a rock at it. It dodged but didn't move. Dad threw a couple more and the dumb deer kept dodging them but still didn't run. Then something distracted the deer and Dad hit it right behind the eye, knocking it out cold. He didn't have a knife so he dragged it to a fence and tied it to a post with his belt.
Dad returned to the ranch and got a gun and a knife. Several other men laughed but went along to see this phantom deer he got with a rock. When they got there, it was awake and kicking but the belt held until Dad could shoot it. He had plenty of help dragging it back to the ranch.

Awesome pics!

Obviously there were periods of plenty back in the past and hunting was a norm. Also years where if one simply saw a track it made the paper. Wonder what those market deer tasted like being hauled about with the jacket on for several days?

Cool old pictures.

Very cool!

Cool!!

Wow there's some very impressive critters in there...

Great stuff shaman, thanks for sharing

-Jake

#14 was measured...I’ve seen another write up on that huge buck.

That was fun, thank you for that I hunted the deer camps of the late 50s and 60s, I got to lesson to all the old timers and there stories !!!!

Thanks Shaman!!! Enjoyed that!!!!

I done a 'vintage' deer pic just last year......

LOL.

Great vintage pic huntsman.

My brother and I packed a bear out on a pole one time... About a mile. Friggen' killer.

Great old pictures. Reminds me of the pictures hanging in the camp we used to rent in Sherman Mills Maine.

'A couple of these deer were taken in that general area.

I love the old photos - thanks for posting.

One of my all-time favorites is this pict of my grandfather circa 1956-ish.
Registered gun kill was 35,562 with 294,645 deer tags sold.
Tag cost; $2.50.

I like the hidden messages they whisper, like no laser ranger finders, open sights, no scent free clothes, no 700 yard shots, no need for a 5000.00 trued action custom barreled wonder etc. not against all that, just saying there were lots of deer killed without all of that.

There still are.

Amen fellow hunter. I used to live in northern Wisconsin, many of those photos reminded me of that country. One in a great while a longer shot presented itself the photos sure brought back a ton of memories and I sure thank you for posing them.

The picture of the deer and the Elk hanging was taken in Emporium PA in Cameron County.
The man standing there is the late Norman Erickson, then PA game warden for that county.
Both animals had been shot illegally, and were hanging behind Erickson's house, I remember the incident.

There are a lot of old pictures of my Mother with dead deer, although She never killed one, or even hunted. When She was a late teenager or maybe early twenties, Her Uncle kept the camps' deer dogs year round, and His wife cooked for the deer camp. My Mother and sometimes Her younger Sister would go visit the deer camp maybe once a year. I think my Sister has the pictures, as I don't seem to have any of them. miles

very cool pics

Very cool!

# 14 is a BEAST!!

While I was looking for my old family vintage deer pics, I found an old one that I consider worth showing here. It is a vintage duck hunting picture taken in Oakville Iowa in 1911. My grandfather and my dad are on the far right. My dad is the the little kid holding the double and my grandfather is holding the mod. 97 Win. 16 ga.
Now I will start looking for old pics of deer hunting .

Ken

And that group of duck hunters killed all those ducks without a thread of "CAMO" clothing.

or a dog.....

or a punt gun......

Great pics!!

Wonderful pics, thanks everyone.