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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: lazydrifter on February 08, 2009, 09:32:41 PM

Title: Deer hunting pictures from 1940
Post by: lazydrifter on February 08, 2009, 09:32:41 PM: Here are a couple of pictures from Eastern Oregon in 1940. It was my dad's 1st buck. He took it in to have it mounted and he got drafted into the army. When He got home the shop was closed and he could never find it. The 2nd picture is of his buck on the left, which he told me once was a 6X4. The buck on the right was his brothers 4 point. The buck in the middle was a winter kill he found. It was a 15X13. When you blow the picture up it is just amazing. My dad passed away about 5 years ago and I tried to find the big winterkill horns but they had been destroyed in a fire at his bothers house some years before. I guess this is what pictures are for and what memories are made of.
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Post by: agchawk on February 08, 2009, 09:34:19 PM: Very cool! Thanks for sharing! I love lookin' at those old hunting pics. It is too bad that the big winter kill rack isn't still around, it looks like a real bruiser
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Post by: Wea300mag on February 08, 2009, 09:36:49 PM: Those are some amazing classic pics, thanks for putting those up.
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Post by: Red Dawg on February 08, 2009, 09:37:12 PM: there it is, great pics and story. Like everyone else I love to see those vintage pics from the good ole days.
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Post by: huntnphool on February 08, 2009, 09:38:42 PM: Thanks for sharing, those are very cool.
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Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on February 08, 2009, 09:41:16 PM: Those old photos are always a pleasure to look at. Thanks for posting. Oregon sure had some nice bucks back in those days.
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Post by: Aneoakleaf on February 08, 2009, 10:11:15 PM: Thanks wapiti. Treasures well worth sharing! Great bucks!
Did you grow up hunting with your dad?
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Post by: lazydrifter on February 08, 2009, 10:17:09 PM: I did. We lived in Walla Walla until I was 10 and I remember as just a little tyke trailing along with my dad. Packing my BB gun. Finally started hunting when I was 12 and we had a lot of great hunting trips together. My other 2 bothers never got the hunting or fishing bug like me. They did some but not with the intensity I did.
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Post by: PacificNWhunter on February 09, 2009, 07:51:40 AM: :tup:
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Post by: boneaddict on February 09, 2009, 08:01:58 AM: OUTSTANDING....Thanks for Sharing. Vintage photos are the BEST!
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Post by: robodad on February 09, 2009, 08:09:26 AM: I wouldn't be caught dead riding around in that hunting rig today !! :drool: Oh I see the bucks now !! :chuckle:
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Post by: blacktailer on February 09, 2009, 08:28:28 AM: Cool pics and thanks for posting. The winterkill sure has a lot of mass and some nice browtines!!!
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Post by: Guy on February 09, 2009, 08:46:18 AM: Great old photos! Thanks for sharing!
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Post by: fc2038 on February 09, 2009, 11:10:49 AM: Thats pretty cool. Those are some old photos :yike:
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Post by: WAPITIHUNTER on February 09, 2009, 01:52:51 PM: Quote from: Aneoakleaf on February 08, 2009, 10:11:15 PM
Thanks wapiti. Treasures well worth sharing! Great bucks!
Did you grow up hunting with your dad?

My most memorable hunts were with dad. He started bringing us along at a very young age.

I have a step Grandfather that lived in Oregon and my Mom and step dad live in Bend, Or. They both shot some beautiful bucks down there over the years. Dwight, my grandfather shot some giant bucks back in the 60's but unfortunatley he was hunting for meat and he ended up giving the antlers away. They were like that middle buck on the truck in your picture.
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Post by: farmin4u_98948 on February 09, 2009, 02:38:05 PM: Love the old pics..... Thanks
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Post by: beave on February 09, 2009, 04:50:24 PM: very cool to see old pics
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on February 09, 2009, 05:15:46 PM: 8)
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Post by: TeacherMan on February 09, 2009, 07:23:00 PM: Just makes you smile. I would have loved to of seen it in those days, at least the hunting ;)
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Post by: Elkstuffer on February 09, 2009, 07:32:00 PM: Great "classic" pictures!! Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: arcticguy57 on February 09, 2009, 08:28:16 PM: Lazydrifter, Great photos. If I had my choice, that's when I would have liked to lived in this country. Is that a Marlin rifle your Grandad is holding? Do you anything about that vehicle?
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Post by: lazydrifter on February 09, 2009, 09:01:11 PM: that is an old Marlin 30-30. He got rid of that long before I was born. Said it kept jamming and cost him a couple of big bucks. I don't know anything about the vehicle. In fact I was looking at the picture the other day and I'm thinking it was a car. I remember my dad told me they used to pull a utility trailer with it. Unfortunately his last brother has passed on and all I have to go on is a few old pictures and stories he told.
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Post by: Idahocougar on February 10, 2009, 08:46:06 PM: Nice post, I enjoy seeing those old hunting pics.