Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Which era in American history would you choose to live in?

Unless you got captured and tortured to death by the Indians. Or got a toothache. Or appendicitis. Or...or...

I think it would have been ideal to have been born around 1930 resulting in being about 15 at the end of world war II. From there I would have been ahead of the population bubble of boomers and enjoy a life of buying cheap housing, real estate, and most types of investing, always being ahead of the wave of boomers needs driving prices up.

I would have been old enough to have been an adult during the 50's and 60's to have enjoyed the golden era of western mule deer hunting, as well as the horse power race of OHV V-8 engine cars, and
fast and easy women from the era after the pill but before aids.

If a guy was born in 1930 and still alive today, he would be 90. Old enough to enjoy his grand children growing up and starting their older families before leaving behind the world and technology.

VarmitGuy, I lived the 50s and 60s hunting big mule deer and Elk in N.W. Colorado, I always wonder why hunters today call a Mule Deer, with a 30" spread a Monster or a Hog??

In the 50s & 60s our standard was 40" and above, my brother in law and me were talking about some of the bucks we killed back then a couple of day's ago, One buck we both shot at and I got was 43 1/2" inside spread with 11 points on 1 side and 13 points on the other side. He shot first and missed over his back I shot and dropped him, BIL e-mailed picture of the buck, he's still Pissed he missed and I didn't. Rio7

They ate a lot more than dogs. The game was extremely plentiful, but the winter overs were hard.

200 years ago people weren't stupid. They knew sticking your pecker in the wrong place was not good. So not everyone had VD because not everyone had low character.

Life was hard, no doubt about it. Here is a great story on how Lewis was shot in the arse by his hunting partner because, well spectacles were in short supply in the wilderness.

https://www.lewis-clark.org/article/3011

Ya, life was more difficult. Life is more than avoiding risk. Any of us can die at any time for a whole host of modern reasons. Hell, degenerative diseases have sky rocketed in modern times. A whole host of aliments were much rarer then, like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Obviously a lot of people lived through those times so it was not as bad as made out.

There must of have been something special to plant roots in early Kentucky else they would not have flooded in.

I can tell not many people have read the INCREDIBLE hunting stories of the pre settlement Bluegrass state. Even the Indians traveled there for the spectacular hunting.

BTW - Danial Boone lived to be in his 80s. Still hunting in his old age. He left Kentucky because he valued the freedom of the unsettled country.

By the time the early 1990s arrived big game all across the US were decimated, except Alaska.

No game laws and unrestricted subsistence hunting with better rifles will do that.

+10 this these folks had common sense and all attended various schools of hardknocks. You didn't see young guys walking around with their ball cap backwards, pants halfway down their ass either. Mb
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Right now. Even though the pioneer days and the World War II era seems fascinating to some, Like the song goes, you should of seen it in color. Might change your mind. Although it might be great to visit, wouldn't want to stay.

That may have been OK if you were in a a Star Trek frozen pod for the first 20 years. You might want to do some research on how hard it was to live through the depression, then WWII. The few years after WWII weren’t without their time of scarcity either.

When you consider how the depression had no silver lining, WWII was a life of rations and no luxuries, I would bet by the time you were 20, you would wish you were born then and not sooner.

I wouldn't necessarily want to have lived back 300 years ago but I would like to be teleported back to around that time just to spread the word that the country would be much better off in the long run if they would just pick their own cotton.

In the 1820s when my ancestors first came to tx, I would really like to have meet some of them.

In a time where there was justice.

Amen. Screw muzzleloaders

Born just as the WW2 ended, and I have lived thru the best of times as a youth in my early teens. Hunted and fished myself to death starting at about 10. Can remember that first Daisy pump BB gun with that crooked stock....wore it out then on Christmas got a new one. Then at about 11 or 12 my cousin and hunting partner started to like the girls and every thing changed....had to do it all by myself for a couple years. That would put it at about 58 or 60....the best years of my life. Before the segregation set in, LBJ, space launch, '58-'60 cars, catching 8 lb bass off the bed, priming sand lugs, wood burning stoves, killing 8-10 hogs every winter, Mama giving me a bath outside in a tin tub that the sun had heated the water, helping her hang the clothes on the line, my first hamburger cooked over Daddy's home made charcoal pit, riding my first bicycle down a rain slick highway and going over the handle bars and busting my head open, getting on the school bus with my fingers taped up with black tape by Daddy because I would not quit biting the fingernails, playing "spin the bottle" at my first girlfriends house and got that first kiss. Made the high school basketball team 1st string and 4 years of being top scorer, lost the county championship on a last second shot that haunts me to this day. Oh, those were the days. Everything changed after high school and really started down hill since then....been some good times and good years but will always be the best of times when I was many years younger. Can't regain those years...just relieve the memories till I die.

You'd have been swept up into Korea.

Federalist period

1795 up to about 1830-ish.

Perfect just now!

Back before they outsourced everything.

From about the 30's to the 90's.

When the rebuilders, machinists, smiths....both tin and black...repair men....back when they were working.

Tradesmen and women.

Anytime after antibiotics works for me.