Here's a pic of my Grandpa Amos Cockett on the right with one of his brothers on the left and my mom in the middle. This was taken in Eastern Oregon at my great Uncle's place. Picture taken around 1953

Great pic...Nice buck too...

Hey pathfinder I like that. Got a few of my dad and neighbor I called grandpa but all blacktails. Precious photos.

Very cool to have ! I also have one that I'm sure I the only one "Ever" to have a pic of and I mean no one else can say they have a pic like it to.....soon to post...you all will like it...its one of a kind guaranteed !

Excellent photo! Looks like a pretty nice buck also. Possibly lever action kill?

Great photo

Very cool. I love the photos from yesteryear.

Very nice old photo. I'm sure you have it framed somewhere, a great keepsake for sure. It does look like a lever action, would you know what kind?

Great photo!

I just enlarged the photo to get a look at the rifles. It looks like sword ferns to the left of them and moss all over the tree. Sure looks like western Oregon, which would make that one big blacktail.

How do you think they killed a nice buck without full camo kits, scent blockers, buck bombs, GPS, illuminated scopes, energy drinks, and rangefinding binoculars?! 😂😂

Very cool photo.

some how I still manage to....

back on topic.. cool photo... nice deer... I was learning to crawl and was teething about the time that deer was taken...

Man, that sure “looks” like a blacktail and so does the country in the back ground.
If it’s a mulie it’s a really nice buck, but nothing remarkable....
If it’s a blacktail, it’s a monster.....!
Anyway you can research it, or even locate the antlers?
Maybe they’re still in the family somewhere.

BT53

I'm with you. There's no sword ferns in eastern Oregon.

Is that 4 points on the right side? Hard to see via my phone, but looks blacktail to me..

Love the old pics.

I could look at those old pics for hours. I have a few from my fam, but not many. One thing I always liked is that no matter how big of an old moss-back monster the people are posing with they always have this "no big deal" look on their faces.

The pics always send me into detective mode and check out their rifles, boots, camps, clothes etc. It never fails to gett my imagination running rampant of the how, what, and where. Good times for sure. Thanks for sharing.

P.S. Id bet a fist full of nickels most didnt spend hours on end day after day fretting over which rifle, in what stock, with which load, scope and ballistic coefficient, sectional density blah blah blah. They managed to keep it fun.

Sorry to all, been off for a while. My mom said it was at her uncles in Eastern Oregon where that buck was taken which was over by her uncle's place. But if it was a western side buck then it would have been up by there near my moms home in Holley Oregon outside of Sweet Home , possibly up the Calapooya. I'll send my moms brother and ask him where that was taken. Also he has all my Grandpa's guns ect as they favored him over my mom even though she was older. Gram was jealous of her !

Some of my Grandpa's guns at his house out in Holley . My my hiding her face. Next pic is her Mom's parent's ( my great grandparents)sitting with some Old rifles,1 may be a shotgun. 3rd pic is my mom's dad (2nd from left) and his brothers..all Crockett's

1st pic - I believe the pump on the bottom is a 22.

cool pictures