The Good 'Ol Days [Archive] - Hunt Talk Forums

wilecoyote76

10-21-2009, 10:18 AM

I know most have seen these pics of my grandpa and his 37.5" buck from way back when but I figured I would post them again because I never get tired of looking at it! This is an Idaho buck shot with an old Remington model 760 .270 pump action rifle with iron sights. I don't know what year but I think it was back in the 50's.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_r7GZB3Ne8a8/St8i86RGSpI/AAAAAAAAA9Q/CM3nJXZkMEU/s640/IMG_0004_1.JPG
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_r7GZB3Ne8a8/St8i9FKFCXI/AAAAAAAAA9U/-5d7R8wYfRU/s640/IMG_0007_1.JPG

Dinkshooter

10-21-2009, 10:47 AM

Now those pictures I like Wile. Nice.

Big Fin

10-21-2009, 10:59 AM

Cool stuff guys. Glad we started this one.

I don't have much old stuff, but love to read and see that from other guys.

Keep 'em coming.

rosco

10-21-2009, 11:31 AM

Don't have a story for this pic. I didn't come across it till after my grandpa had passed.

But the buck was taken in the Bear Lake area in the 50's. The pic was snapped in Montpelier Idaho.

my grandpa and his brother.

http://i540.photobucket.com/albums/gg342/steveberrett/IMG_0007.jpg

Breaks Runner

10-21-2009, 02:54 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0018-5.jpg

Here's one of my prized photo's from way back. Some of you will know this ram as the "Chadwick Ram" On the left is Roy Hargraves, on the right is Frank Golata....this is the only field picture I've ever seen of this great ram. It was given to me by the late Duncan Gilchrist. This world Record Stone Sheep is considered by many to be the greatest trophy ever taken in North America. Both horns are over 50" long!!

Dinkshooter

10-21-2009, 03:11 PM

Wow that is awesome breaksrunner thanks.

guppie9

10-21-2009, 05:05 PM

As long as CJ doesn't post any of his old pics, we'll be OK!!!!

cjcj

10-22-2009, 06:44 PM

As long as CJ doesn't post any of his old pics, we'll be OK!!!!

I'm your "Huckleberry":hump:... now I will start looking:)

cjcj

10-24-2009, 12:11 AM

Remember the old tags [ with steel locking band?]

montanadogs

10-24-2009, 06:51 AM

awesome pics guys. I wish I had some left, but fire took everything that my dad had a few years back. thanks for sharing.

DRAFTSTUD

10-24-2009, 07:40 AM

Here is a short tale of a Hunt in the late 60's, no pictures. When Whitetail deer started being hunted big time in Louisiana there was Open Land everywhere because the Timber companies let you hunt on their land. It was sorta the same as what you have in the west as far as opportunities to hunt.
I was 13 or so when this took place, my uncle Marshall was the Head Huntsman for a group of Uncles, brothers (He was 1 of 18!!!!) cousins and people he worked with at the Paper Mill in Monroe, Louisiana. It always started with loading up the big dogs into the pickup and getting the horses saddled and loaded. Then everyone met at the Mt. Ida Baptist Church or at Whorley Hill. I can remember the old red clay roads and some of the people even today.
This day was a little different in that it was a Doe day, one of maybe 2 per season. We went to be put on "Stand" as I was a stander today as usual which I didn't mind because about mid morning Aunt Betty would come by with thick ham sandwiches and a hot sweet potato and hot chocolate. It was a festival during those holiday hunts!
As I am standing there a man and his son-in-law come by with a secret device....a ladder stand! This thing could not have been 6' tall with a flat plywood seat! The Old man had made his son-in-law drag that thing to a spot he knew about in the woods just before the dogs were turned loose. The old man had shown us his single shot shotgun before the hunt and his 5 shell wrapped in wax paper, an 8 guage!
As the hunt started I could hear the dogs headed mu way then turn towards where the old man (80;s) was sitting when BOOM! I tell ya the leaves started falling, here comes the son-in-law to pick up the old man and when they come out there lays a Forkhorn on top of his dog box. Those were some Good Ol Days. John

elk_hunter

10-24-2009, 10:14 AM

Some great bucks and good stories! Keep them coming!

Breaks Runner

10-24-2009, 11:19 AM

Khunter

10-26-2009, 02:08 PM

1966, South Texas Whitetails. My Mother in these photos.

sweetnectar

10-28-2009, 10:00 PM

Wow, I love all these old pics. Great idea for a post.

Breaks Runner

10-29-2009, 05:17 PM

Breaks Runner

10-29-2009, 05:30 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0021-5.jpg

About 25 years ago....Mountain Caribou from the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories.

Big Fin

10-31-2009, 02:44 AM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0013-3.jpg

Big Fin: You know this guy.....Doc Tom holds up a Whitetail buck I shot on the Powder River in SE Montana 28 years ago this fall....our field pic taking abilities have improved a little since then!!.......grin!!

Very cool buck Pat. Would love to find one like that......someday.

Doc told me he was going out last week for a big muley, not too far from where this buck was probably taken. Haven't heard how he did.

Breaks Runner

10-31-2009, 10:34 AM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0002-5.jpg

Doc snapped the shutter on this one....about 1980. Back then in parts of SE MT you could shoot a mule deer buck and a whitetail using your "A" tag on either or and your"B" tag on a whitetail buck.

We had some great trips down there back in the day!! Looking for more pics to scan!!

Breaks Runner

10-31-2009, 10:41 AM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0058.jpg

Here's another one from the early 80's....check out that ugly shirt and long curly 80's hair......laffin!

Greenhorn

10-31-2009, 10:53 AM

Dude, did you used to drive a camaro back then? You know the one with the big eagle on the hood?

:D

I don't have any really cool vintage photos, but here's one from 1983. My first buck..
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/Rued/HuntingPhotos/DeerHunts/WT_Kurt_1983.jpg

Greenhorn

10-31-2009, 10:55 AM

Oh, and where's the 09 elk picture? Aren't we living in the "Good 'Ol Days' for BIG elk? I don't expect to be disappointed. All the raghorns out here have escaped me.

Breaks Runner

10-31-2009, 11:13 AM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0023-5.jpg

Doc's whitey from one of our early 80's hunts to the Powder River.....

Kurt, I passed on 8 or 10 bulls the first three days...320-330's. Mr. big is playing hard to get...

No Camaro....just an old beater F 250 with headers....they could hear me coming fron two counties away!!

Breaks Runner

10-31-2009, 11:28 AM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0025-4.jpg

My first antelope.....1971. Dad took me north of Forsyth the 2'nd weekend of the season. We were hunting out of his 61 International Scout. It had rained for two days and we had to chain up all four to get around...back then nothing was posted and you hunt about anywhere you wanted. We were'nt looking for big ones, just filling tags....I can only imagine what was runnig around out in that country back then!

duckhead59

11-02-2009, 11:27 AM

greenhorn...those were trans-ams that had the scoop thru the hood and bird on them
breaks runner...great pics. headers...yeah I had those too...damn they were loud...lol!

Greenhorn

11-02-2009, 12:13 PM

That lope photo is great!

Breaks Runner

11-02-2009, 02:07 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0022-5.jpg

Doc poses with a haul from the Powder River....man those were some good times!!

Kurt....That whitetail...my god!!! 170 something?

Big Fin

11-02-2009, 02:25 PM

Good times, I will say so.

Never knew Doc when he sported a beard. Wish we could do the one muley and one whitetail buck now, but that would be a disaster. Ah, the good 'ol days, for sure.

Breaks Runner

11-02-2009, 03:55 PM

Whitetail or Mule Deer? Hmmm.....what would you choose to hunt if you had to choose only one?

Might be a good thread..........

Greenhorn

11-02-2009, 04:09 PM

I haven't hunted whitetails for years - easy choice.

Pat, that buck was 181 gross and 160 net. I think he had a 174 frame as a 5X5, but the forked eye-guards killed his net score. I have his sheds from the year before. I probably won't ever have a chance at one that good again.

Here's a shot of my first antelope - near Vida MT.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/Rued/HuntingPhotos/LopeHunts/firstantelope.jpg

Greenhorn

11-02-2009, 04:24 PM

skinning whitetails in the yard with friend and sisters.. early 80s.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/Rued/HuntingPhotos/DeerHunts/1984deertractor.jpg
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/Rued/HuntingPhotos/DeerHunts/1984deertractor2.jpg

TheTone

11-02-2009, 04:42 PM

Awesome pics guys, love the one with the 4 bucks in the truck.

Breaks Runner

11-02-2009, 04:47 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0038-2.jpg

Check this one out....Mountain Goat I killed in the Madison Range back in 1977....8" Billy.

Lawnboy

11-02-2009, 05:41 PM

18796
Ok I had to bribe the wife to post this picture. She had just been camping and had no makeup or hairdoo at the time. She's pretty particular about how she looks in public. Now the buck in the picture. It sits in a basement closet in Blackfoot Id. It belongs to my brothers wife's uncle (jack). This buck is in the "Idaho's Greatest Mule Deer" I believe it was shot in the late 50's near Soda Springs. If I remember right it scores in the 230's? It is an abosolute hog as you can see. What a shame that Uncle Jack won't get it mounted. Was awesome to get a shot of it on camera though.
18795
Ok this is my wifes Grandpa's buck from Soda Springs as well. Shot in the early 50's not too far from the first buck. This buck is also in the above mentioned book. I had the honor of having this buck on my wall for about 3 months. It has totally ruined me for judging mule deer. Nothing I will ever see will come close. This buck was on a plaque above his computer forever. When I saw it I couldn't believe it hadn't been mounted. I brought it home and had Jerry Andres mount it for me to give to him for Father's Day. He about cried when I gave it to him. He said it looked just like the day he shot it. He said that when he walked onto it that it had it's head down looking "sneaky" at him. It was cool to see him reflect on the hunt that gave him this buck. The crazy thing is that this isn't even the biggest deer he had shot. He had one that someone talked him into entering a "Big Buck" contest. Well it won and he never saw his horns again. He said it was an absolute monster. He told me of the numbers of huge bucks they shot and cut the heads off only to pack out the meat out:( He's an awesome guy with some incredible mule deer stories. I'll try to dig up an old photo of his father with a big one. I saw it once at a family reunion. Just in case your wondering. His buck is 37" inside:eek: I think Fred King scored it at 221. Enjoy

Breaks Runner

11-02-2009, 06:10 PM

Wow!!!!!!!

TheTone

11-02-2009, 06:25 PM

Awesome bucks Lawnboy, cool to be able to look them up in Idaho Muley book as well.

Pat, I've always liked the looks of your unit 11 Idaho buck as well since I basically grew up on that mountain.

csutton7

11-02-2009, 06:48 PM

very cool guys---thanks--------chris

Breaks Runner

11-02-2009, 07:56 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/Idaho1991.jpg

I guess 18 years ago would be back in the day....sure doesnt seem that long ago. I wont soon forget that day!!

TheTone

11-02-2009, 08:32 PM

Thats him, thanks. There aren't many (or maybe any) of that quality left in that country, although there was about a 230" non-typical taken about 3-4 years ago.

oleefish2

11-02-2009, 08:48 PM

Great pictures thank you..I wish my dad would have taken pictures of some of their hunts..

elk_hunter

11-02-2009, 09:18 PM

Holy crap those are some monster bucks; absolutely gorgeous!

Moosie

11-03-2009, 01:31 AM

Is it just ME... Or Does BREAK RUNNER have alot of the same Hats as BUZZ ?!?!?!?! :D :D

Nice critters fella's !!

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0025-4.jpg

My first antelope.....1971. Dad took me north of Forsyth the 2'nd weekend of the season. We were hunting out of his 61 International Scout. It had rained for two days and we had to chain up all four to get around...back then nothing was posted and you hunt about anywhere you wanted. We were'nt looking for big ones, just filling tags....I can only imagine what was runnig around out in that country back then!

DRAFTSTUD

11-03-2009, 10:08 AM

That is a Buzzer Hat! LOL. Where do you buy one????? John

noharleyyet

11-03-2009, 10:54 AM

That is a Buzzer Hat! LOL. Where do you buy one????? John

They are commune standard issue.;) ....think they are known as the Fudd model....however Buzz prefers to call it the Elmer Keith model.:)

JoseCuervo

11-03-2009, 11:50 AM

Dude,
That is a sweet Member's Only jacket!!!

How come there aren't any Moon Boots in the picture?

skinning whitetails in the yard with friend and sisters.. early 80s.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f389/Rued/HuntingPhotos/DeerHunts/1984deertractor.jpg

wyomuledeer

11-03-2009, 12:02 PM

Those are some incredible bucks. Thanks for sharing.

Ovis

11-03-2009, 12:49 PM

I hate to be the one to point this out, but I didn't see any scent free super camo clothing in any of these pictures. I think I have sucker written all over my face from spending millions of dollars on such lines of clothing.

A photo from Duncan Gilchrist...how cool is that?

Loving this thread...

Breaks Runner

11-03-2009, 03:32 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0017-2.jpg

Gallatin County Montana on the west side of the Bridgers....1977. Collared and released by FWP.

yellowdog

11-03-2009, 04:54 PM

Here is a deer my dad shot in 1962.

Breaks Runner

11-03-2009, 04:59 PM

Heck of a buck....you should get that mounted..

Randy11

11-05-2009, 12:34 AM

Breaks, were those deer transplants from somewhere else or just captured, collared and released?

Breaks Runner

11-05-2009, 08:20 AM

Captured right there...back in those days you take a drive going along the west side of the Bridgers around Christmas time and count thousands of mule deer wintering not far from Springhill road. Some of the biggest bucks I've ever seen were there....sure has changed.

Nemont

11-05-2009, 10:05 AM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/Idaho1991.jpg

I guess 18 years ago would be back in the day....sure doesnt seem that long ago. I wont soon forget that day!!

Breaks Runner
I was racking my brain where I saw that pic before. I think Brian Krumweide had a copy of it when he managed the store in WP.

Great buck

Nemont

Breaks Runner

11-05-2009, 10:42 AM

Nemont, That would be right...I gave a pic to Brian to hang in the store at Wolf Point.

Stop by sometime and visit.....Pat

Greenhorn

11-05-2009, 10:54 AM

Does Brian still live up there? I knew him in high school.. ages ago. Great guy.

Nemont

11-05-2009, 11:09 AM

Not to derail this thread

Brian is one of the local Edward Jones Reps. He is also an assistant coach for the Scottie football team. His son Keil is a stud athlete already as a 7th grader, really really good at hockey.

Greenhorn

11-05-2009, 11:21 AM

That doesn't surprise me - Brian was a great athlete as well.

Breaks Runner

11-05-2009, 12:03 PM

I've played softball and baseball with Brian on and off since I moved up here.. super good guy and a fanatic waterfowl guy....he's also killed several bull elk with his bow too. He works part time for me in my sling business.

One time I was playing in a co-ed softball tournament with him in his home town, Medicine Lake. Anyway there was a local annual event going on there that Saturday night with street dance etc. a lot of people buzzing around. We walked downtown from his folks place to check it out...it was funny as hell he is like an ICON there!!! A local hero for sure! Folks flocked around him like a rock star....I still give him hell about that night! Super good guy and one of my best friends.

Breaks Runner

11-10-2009, 11:30 AM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0003-6.jpg

I stand next to my best friend of my childhood...he is holding his first buck. Taken on November 23rd 1973 in the north end of the Bridgers, near Bozeman, Montana. His dad dropped us off before daylight that morning and my dad picked us up at dark....we didnt have our drivers licenses yet! We shot the first buck we saw..I had filled both my "A" and "B" tags earlier on small bucks. After he shot this buck the mountain came alive with deer and most of them were bucks....big bucks. Some were as large as I've ever seen even to this day....those glory days of mule deer hunting are gone forever. My good friend was killed in a car wreck only a few short years later...I think of him often when I'm out hunting alone in the mountains. The hunting days we shared in our youth will never be far from my memory.....

belly-deep

11-10-2009, 07:32 PM

His dad dropped us off before daylight that morning and my dad picked us up at dark

Those really were the good old days...try that now and somebody would turn you in for child neglect.

Spitz

11-10-2009, 07:52 PM

You guys sure have some amazing pictures. I wasn't around for what are considered the good old days but the facts and record books certainly support the theory. However, though bigger mule deer were encountered at a higher frequency, it doesn't seem as though hunters traveled away from their home states the way they do today.

Those of you who experienced the opportunities of the past and take advantage of hunting many states for different species today . . . how would you compare the two? Or, if you had to choose just one of the two to experience which would you pick as the "good old days"?

Dinkshooter

11-10-2009, 08:24 PM

I don't know Spitz, but the one stop on the time machine I would like to make is mid 1960s, Central Colorado with a pair of Swaros and a spotter:D Not sure if you could have beat that hunt.

Lawnboy

11-10-2009, 09:35 PM

I would of loved to hunted anywhere in Idaho in the 60's to the 80's. Especially southeast idaho. I also would of loved to be here on the Bridgers during the 70's and 80's. All the stories that BreaksRunner is telling is making me wish they would come back to the Bridgers. I moved here in the late 80's and saw the tail end of the glory days.

BreaksRunner what is your opinion as to why the numbers have crashed? It seemed to be a bad couple of winters in the early 90's that really dropped the numbers but I'm not sure if that can be blamed. Your thoughts?

Oak

11-10-2009, 10:10 PM

I don't know Spitz, but the one stop on the time machine I would like to make is mid 1960s, Central Colorado with a pair of Swaros and a spotter:D Not sure if you could have beat that hunt.

I agree with that.

Colorado B&C entries, 1964-1969: 79 typical, 23 non-typical

Idaho would have been another good hunt, especially if you like your bucks a little on the trashy side. Same period: 30 typical, 26 non-typical

schmalts

11-11-2009, 12:41 PM

I would love to post pics from my younger years but my damn scanner is not working since I went to VISTA on my PC. HP software is a joke

JoseCuervo

11-11-2009, 01:04 PM

I agree with that.

Colorado B&C entries, 1964-1969: 79 typical, 23 non-typical

Idaho would have been another good hunt, especially if you like your bucks a little on the trashy side. Same period: 30 typical, 26 non-typical

I know an old outfitter that could bump up the 26 non-typical if he ever entered his bucks. He outfitted "back in the good old days" and he said his clients from back east usually wanted real "normal" racks. So they would spend all their time finding wide/tall typicals for the clients. Then after he was done with clients, he would go "clean" the gene pool and hunt the non-typicals. He had a few hanging on the wall that I am sure would inflate those numbers in the book from that era.

belly-deep

11-11-2009, 09:28 PM

BreaksRunner what is your opinion as to why the numbers have crashed? It seemed to be a bad couple of winters in the early 90's that really dropped the numbers but I'm not sure if that can be blamed. Your thoughts?

Even the biologists don't really know. I drew a tag in 2006 and talked to Dave Pac about the unit. He said they thought when the unit went on a draw the bucks would come back but they have yet to see the class of deer that were there in the 70's.

My guess? Go up there on any given saturday in the winter. Everybody and their dog--literally--running around in those mountains. The big bucks get run down during the rut and then run to death by a black lab.

Breaks Runner

11-11-2009, 10:41 PM

Lawnboy,

I think there are a lot of factors involving the decline of mule deer in the Bridgers and a lot of other places in the west. the increase of elk numbers for one. Predation for another...Mountain Lions were classed as a predator in Montana up until 1977. After that they were managed as big game animals. Coyotes are another factor.....the compound 1080 was banned in 1972. A few years after that coyote populations across the west exploded. I started hunting big game with my dad in 1968 and never saw a coyote until 1973...there werent many around back then. There werent any subdivisions either...think of the winter range that has been lost to that! I'm sure there are a few gagger bucks that slip through the cracks every year but they are few and far between.

I can remember back if you had a fourwheel drive you had a big advantage over a lot of other guys that hunted...seriously! Times have changed..lots of dedicated hunters are out there hunting hard for the big ones...back then not many people cared about hunting for big ones. I can recall a guy who lived across the alley from me when I was a kid had four or five whopper mule deer racks just tossed up on his garage roof and its where they stayed for years,turning white and cracked...today that guy would be considered some kind of trophy mule deer hunting "guru". We all just took it for granted. Im just glad I got a glimpse of it in my youth...it was something else!!

BTW, Dave Pac gave my that photo of the bucks running out of that trap. It was taken north of the Maher ranch.

Breaks Runner

11-11-2009, 11:00 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0035-1.jpg

My last Bridger's buck....11-20-1985

Dinkshooter

11-11-2009, 11:24 PM

Maybe if you Montanans didn't hunt them bucks til the 30th of freaking November?

Where is your orange?:D

That is a dream buck for 90% of the current die hard muley hunters.

Dinkshooter

11-11-2009, 11:31 PM

My guess? Go up there on any given saturday in the winter. Everybody and their dog--literally--running around in those mountains. The big bucks get run down during the rut and then run to death by a black lab.

Absolutely, I agree 100% with that. Then by the time spring time comes and the sheds hunters come out(guilty as charged at times) they are doomed.

Here locally they put in a giant subdivision. Open space donated to the county surrounding it that is supposed to be closed from Dec 15-April15. Any day of the week you can see people out there "Living the Colorado lifestyle" running, hiking, biking, etc. They are not hunters and they could give a shit about any deer they may disturb and or kill. I hate the new west.

Breaks Runner

11-12-2009, 08:19 AM

I take off the "Orange" for pics....always have always will.

noharleyyet

11-12-2009, 08:23 AM

...breaks,

You darn sure hang some nice wallpaper.

Oak, some good stats, thanks.

M Orion

07-02-2010, 12:21 AM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0030.jpg

That's me holding the rifle...one of the first Ruger M77s ever built....late 60s. Buck was killed in the Crazy Mountains, Montana

I was looking through these old photos and thought... What if you could go back and see the photo in it's original color? So I did a little restoration.

I hope that it takes you back in time. Enjoy!

21008

M. R. Byrd

07-02-2010, 05:53 AM

My mother took up deer hunting at age 75. Here is her one-shot buck.

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa152/MaynardReeceByrd/Momsbuck.jpg

Here I am with my youngest son on his first deer hunt at age 16.

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa152/MaynardReeceByrd/Buckman16yrs.jpg

Breaks Runner

07-03-2010, 05:11 PM

Nice job on the color enhancement!! Now can you make his forks about 10" deeper?.....grin!!

Breaks Runner

07-03-2010, 05:13 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0021-8.jpg

WAAAAAY back....again.....laffin! Powder River.

Breaks Runner

07-03-2010, 05:17 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0028-6.jpg

Pic of one of our trapping expeditions to the Missouri Breaks back in the early 80's. Stayed and trapped there for 30 days, then went to the Powder for another month....fur was worth good money back then....man, lots of memories..

Breaks Runner

07-03-2010, 05:27 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0025-3.jpg

About 30 years ago.....Fur trapped in Gallatin, Park and Maegher County, Montana.

BuzzH

07-03-2010, 05:38 PM

Pat,

Those are some great pictures.

Those kind of inspired me to do a bit of digging, heres a few you might get a laugh at.

First deer, shot it after school in the Blackfoot, classic garage picture. Sure wish I would have taken pictures from the start, but it was just different back then.

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/buzzmd4.JPG

First elk, again, another great garage picture:

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/elkhunting/websize/buzzelk13.JPG

I remember this day well...near Avon Montana opening day 1983...they never had a chance. My Dad and I each shot a bull elk...Dad got a mule deer buck, my brother got one and my Dads buddy got a mule deer buck as well. Not sure how we did it, but we got them all back to the truck the same day...WHOLE.

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/elkhunting/websize/buzzelk12.JPG

This picture was in the fall of 1985...moved up a notch to take a picture in the front yard. First elk I shot with a bow, Dad called it into to about 12 yards.

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/elkhunting/websize/buzzelk10.JPG

Breaks Runner

07-03-2010, 05:46 PM

Buzz, That group picture behind the camper is awesome!! I'll bet that turned some heads driving back to town!!

BuzzH

07-03-2010, 05:47 PM

In the early 90's we started hunting North Central Montana and were pretty darn tough on the mule deer...

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/4muledeer.JPG

Found these two deer traveling together and a buddy and a buddy and I each got one of them...no survivors.

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/2muledeer.JPG

A wide one in 1990...

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/widemuley.jpg

Dad with one from arond 1994:

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/Dadsbuck.JPG

My younger brother Matt was the toughest of all on mule deer over there, he took one every year for many years:

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/mattsmd2.JPG

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/mattsmd5.JPG

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/mattsmd6.JPG

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/mattsmd3.JPG

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/mattmd6.JPG

http://photos.imageevent.com/buzzandpat/muledeer/websize/mattsmd1.JPG

BRI

07-04-2010, 08:30 AM

Buzz - Thanks for that trip down memory lane! Everytime I see that buck from 1990, the image of that rattlesnake comes to mind. Also remember dragging that thing for 2 miles? WTH?

Breaks Runner

07-05-2010, 05:23 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0049-2.jpg

One from the early 70's......still my favorite animal to hunt.

1_pointer

07-05-2010, 08:57 PM

Great pics fellas! Those trapping pics are crazy neat!

tarheel

07-08-2010, 09:08 PM

In 1957 at the tender age of 14 I went on my first deer hunt along with my father and grandfather and other members of a hunt club. This was in eastern North Carolina where we ran them with Walker hounds; (it's pretty thick in places). Within minutes of the dogs being released, they struck and brought two 6 point bucks to me, so in order not to embarrass any family members; I killed the lead buck. Scroll forward 10 years to-67; I'm fresh back from S.E. Asia and posted in Colorado when I get a call from my father just before Christmas. It seems that he, my younger brother who is now 14, and our grandfather who just turned 79 were hunting with a deer club on adjoining stands when Grandpap killed a 6 point, made sure he was dead, then walked a few paces and died of a massive coronary. 25 years later my father was two months past his 79th birthday and he, myself, that same younger brother and his two sons were hunting together on a private lease when my father killed a 6 point. Biggest difference is that my father is still with us,will be 96 in Sept, and we all went turkey hunting together spring of -09. We weren't able to get him interested in going this past spring so I called toms for his 85 year old brother. What are the odds of so many coincidences in one family?
This might all sound like a tale, but it's all true to the last word. My brother now has Grandpap's Belgian Browning he killed the deer with, I have the empty casing he shot him with as well as all the buckshot he carried in his jacket, and we all have precious memories of a man we all loved, a family who have hunted and fished all our lives together, and the gratitude for being able so to do. Lest I forget; I'll be 67 this month and am joining my nephew in Wyoming for antelope season. If I get a 6 point, it will have two up and four down!

Lawnboy

07-08-2010, 10:07 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0035-1.jpg

My last Bridger's buck....11-20-1985

Pat was that buck up Limestone? I think i recognize that tree.

shoots-straight

07-09-2010, 09:18 AM

I've put this same picture on here before. It's my first elk. 1973.
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u246/shoots-straight/1stbull12.jpg

noharleyyet

07-09-2010, 09:34 AM

SS, great pic no matter how many times I see it...classic.

You and Buzz must shop the same hat store.:D

Breaks Runner

07-10-2010, 06:48 PM

Pat was that buck up Limestone? I think i recognize that tree.

That is exactly where I killed that buck....it was 25 below zero that morning. I can still see that buck coming out of the timber with his neck streched out following a hot doe. And still remember the high pitched "crack" of the rifle in that cold, still air. There is nothing in the world like hunting big game under those conditions...it quickens my pulse right now just thinking about it.

Lawnboy

07-10-2010, 09:48 PM

There wasn't many of us hunting that area in the late 80's early 90's. We didn't have 4 wheel drive back then so we would have to leave way early and walk that road. I remember my dad telling us to hustle because we could see headlights coming behind us. I know a few of those times it was you. There were some absolute giants around back then. I know of a 37" buck shot there in 92 and my dad took a 32" that same year. It's a shame that the unit isn't even close to that now. I still hope to draw because of all the memories I have and the lessons my dad taught us about mule deer hunting. Truly the "Good Ol Days" How wide was that buck? Looks around 27-28". Any score? Didn't your plates say Hntntrap or something like that?

Breaks Runner

07-10-2010, 10:06 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0011-2.jpg

He was my first of only three 30" bucks I've killed to date....30 1/4" outside. 181 gross and 177 net.

That was my plate letters back then......laffin!

Lawnboy

07-10-2010, 10:19 PM

Yep, I've been there. My nephew shot his first bull there this year about 250 yds up the ridge from were your buck lays. That opening/draw is picture perfect muley country. That area gets plenty of traffic these days. My little bro is still cussin you for shooting a deer he was after:D You walked up on him one morning early at first light on a ridge that runs into the bottom of Limestone. Don't know if you remember him but I'll have to remind you someday.

Do you have any more Bridger deer pictures? I'm getting excited and hope I can finally draw. It's only been 7 years waiting:mad:

Breaks Runner

07-10-2010, 10:28 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0047-2.jpg

This one was 28" wide....back forks sucked. Not too far from the one in above pics..

Hard to believe thats a draw area now...sad.

Breaks Runner

07-10-2010, 10:32 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0045-1.jpg

Shed antler in my right hand was found in the Bridgers....8" H1.

Lawnboy

07-10-2010, 10:38 PM

I believe that was the exact day and spot you met my brother. He ended up missing the bigger one that escaped up out the top of that draw. He finally killed a real nice non typical the next week on the other side of the far knob in your picture. I'm trying to find any pictures of that deer.

What's sad is that you can't hardly find a nice buck in the area, let alone any deer numbers to speak of. I did see a 170 class buck two years ago in the head of that little drainage were you shot this one. But that's about as big of buck as I have seen lately.

Lawnboy

07-10-2010, 10:40 PM

http://i423.photobucket.com/albums/pp311/patrickgsinclair/scan0045-1.jpg

Shed antler in my right hand was found in the Bridgers....8" H1.

yikes:eek:

Wyodeerhunter

07-11-2010, 12:36 AM

amazing array of photos from everyone. Very cool and thanks for taking the time to share them with us.

Breaksrunner,
Whats the story on that other shed? Also the buck with the dropper in the back?

jodum

08-31-2010, 09:31 PM

idnative1948

09-02-2010, 03:04 PM

A lady at work I have gotten to know gave me this photo to work on for her. If I remember correctly 1979 just before, or after she was married. Looks like some wicked country.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o70/idnative1948/CopperBasin1979.jpg

muleystalker

11-10-2010, 01:32 PM

Not an old pic but to my daughter they will be the good ole days later in her life.
her at age 13 first antelope and elk 2006 season
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/ghostrider1369/IMAGE182.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/ghostrider1369/S4020698.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/ghostrider1369/kashaelk1-1.jpg

and then her second antelope at 13 being a teenager she hasn't been out much since.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/ghostrider1369/S4021369-1.jpg

Zach

12-23-2010, 03:13 PM

This has to be one of the coolest threads ever on any board!

Keep the stories and pics coming....

fiveptbill

01-16-2011, 06:47 PM

Finally got around to scanning in some pictures. The first one is of my first antelope ever. This is to this day my biggest antelope. I was 14.
The second picture is of my first archery elk. I was 19 in this picture and had just finished Basic and AIT for the Army. I am sure glad my picture taking skills have improved.

nightwalker

08-17-2011, 09:35 PM

Hello Breaks Runner,

I sent you a PM yesterday about that picture with the Chadwick ram. Did you happen to see it? Would sure like to hear from you on it. Thanks.

jore07

08-17-2011, 10:46 PM

awesome thread guys thanks for posting. Though I have no pictures to post I have really enjoyed reading through, thank you.

AkBearHunter

11-03-2011, 12:57 PM

Have to agree, this is one of the coolest threads ever. I'll have to get a scanner and gets some pics posted up. Never killed anything like what's in this thread though.........wow!

elkrchr

11-30-2011, 10:08 PM

Here's a few photos from 1976 and 1979 from our deer camp in Wisconsin. The first two photos are from 1976 and my dad is on the right with his first deer, a 3-pt. The last photo was taken in 1979 which was the first year I could hunt deer and join the guys in camp. My dad is on the left posing with his largest buck ever. The camp was built in 1941 and my dad called two nights ago to fill me in on this years events as this was his 40th straight year in camp. The camp has no electricity, no water and is about 1.5 miles from the access road.

idnative1948

11-30-2011, 10:34 PM

Way cool story! The old Sno Jet brings back lots of memories of my bro and I trapping yotes and cats with dad. My grandkids are watiing to be old enough to ride great pop pop's Honda 70 that he used during spring trapping. Still has the scratches on it from where he always kept a couple of traps hanging over the back of the seat

devon deer

12-01-2011, 02:29 AM

Here is a picture taken in 1968 of a large whitetail buck killed by my friend. The two guys on the left have now gone on to the big hunting ground in the sky. Lots of good memories of hunting with my two best friends.

I have just gone through this thread and there are some great pictures, but this one posted by jodum made me laugh, it looks like the deer pushed its head through to make sure it wasn't missed out in the picture.
Cheers
Richard

recon6036

12-01-2011, 06:18 AM

Pops and I with my buck shot on opening day in 1984

Wapiti Warrior

12-01-2011, 08:01 AM

Hey Breaks Runner, I use to work with Bob Savage from Bozeman, do you know him? I saw your trapping picture and know he was big into that in that area.

John

Mikeflies

12-01-2011, 08:28 AM

Those are some awesome pic's. Thanks.

LuckyMike

12-20-2011, 04:54 PM

First I'd like to say, like several others have, this is a great idea and a super thread. Also, Breaksrunner's contributions are most interesting and informative. Keep it up!

Here are a couple of old pictures I have to contribute. Both of these animals were taken in 1965 from an area that later on was purchased by the State and became the Beartooth Game Range near the north end of the Big Belt mountain range.

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My friend, Al Bergum shot this bull, shown here with my wife an oldest daughter. We spent some time and effort to show it off to our friends. Then Al, who had never killed an elk before, stashed these tremendous antlers in the rafters of his garage. They stayed there until 1985 when the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation held its first banquet in Helena. The antlers were measured and then displayed at that banquet. After 20-years in storage they netted 373" B&C!

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The following weekend I went back to the same general area where Al had shot his bull and found this buck. It remains one of the largest I've taken. It was 28" wide and unofficially scored 176" B&C.

Sorry, we didn't make a practice of carrying a camera in the field in those days. I would love to have had some good field photos like we take these days.

JCS

12-20-2011, 07:26 PM

Here is back in my day. Started killing raghorns and never quit.

JCS

12-20-2011, 07:27 PM

And back in my dads day. He used to shoot deer like this every year.

highmountian

12-21-2011, 10:17 AM

So i got to talking with this old fella the other day and he said his wife had shot a big buck back in the day (1950's). He said that is was a pretty good one so I asked if he would show me. Sure he said. I went into his living room and he show this buck to me. It has never been scored or in any book. I think it should be! What a buck. He just had a new cape put on it a couple years ago. You should also see the rams he has, WOW! I might put this buck up on another thread so we can guess the score!!!