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Post by steiny on Oct 7, 2012 20:35:04 GMT -5
OK, I know there are a bunch of guys here that have a few more birthdays than myself, thought this might be interesting. I started hunting at 13 in 1973 and things have changed a bunch since then.
Just throw out some random comments, memories, etc. for days gone by.
When I got started, blaze orange wasn't required, but dad had us wear red hats.
Nobody had a slug gun, we all used our bird / rabbit guns.
You could hunt the whole neighborhood and nobody cared.
Shot my first buck at 17 with a 35lb Ben Pearson recurve and bear razorheads, no sights.
Only saw seven deer the entire first season I shotgun hunted.
Portable tree stands were pretty much unheard of. We either nailed them up, or climbed up and stood in the crotch of a big tree if we wanted to hunt off the ground.
Darned few places sold archery gear. You generally had to drive a ways to find a bow shop, and selection was very limited. Bear was the dominant brand, we never heard of Matthews.
Add on to this guys ..................
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Post by raporter on Oct 7, 2012 20:51:24 GMT -5
Had to go to the courthouse to get your deer license.
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Post by steiny on Oct 7, 2012 20:58:12 GMT -5
Cut off a fox's ears and turn them in for a $3.00 bounty. Remember that?
Aint this better than griping about youth hunts and OBR?
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Post by ms660 on Oct 7, 2012 21:38:13 GMT -5
If you killed a deer,,,,,any deer, buck or doe, people would come from miles around to look at it.Not having any hair left on your arms from sharpening your broad heads until they would shave.
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Post by schoolmaster on Oct 7, 2012 22:46:04 GMT -5
Bird guns, recurves and bucks only.
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Post by jjas on Oct 7, 2012 22:48:55 GMT -5
Here's a couple of things.....
Treebark camo.......
Baker tree stands.....
And if you were lucky enough to have killed a buck people didn't ask about gross or net....they just asked how big and you'd answer by saying how many points he had......
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Post by practicalsportsman on Oct 7, 2012 23:47:42 GMT -5
In the 21 years of deer hunting i can say i have had some great memories, I can remember taking a button buck when i was 15 which was my first deer i ever shot. Can anyone remember their first buck an the response you got from your family, i sure do got hugged by my uncle martin since his passing i will always remember that.
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Post by antiwheeze on Oct 8, 2012 9:07:50 GMT -5
I remember treebark, Baker stands, foster slugs and paper maps. Only thing that had a battery was a flaslight.
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Post by themoose on Oct 8, 2012 9:28:41 GMT -5
I bowhunted my senior year in high school(1966). I hunted every chance I got and saw a total of 9 deer(8 does) and was told by some others that there weren't 9 deer in the county.. I was raised by my mom and picked up bow hunting from a "Roy Rodgers" bow for my 8th or 9th birthday... worked and saved to get a Bear recurve and used the original Bear broadheads... lucky enough to get invited go with my uncle(home on leave from military) to a high school friend to help him learn to shoot a bow...turns out the friend was the only guy known to actually have killed a deer in the county at that time... He was impressed by "how that skinny kid" could outshoot the old guys and took me under his wing for that fall... the rest is history... have enjoyed hunting whitetails for these 46 years....work kept me out of the woods in archery season when I was travelling all over the country for work.. but I get a chance now to return to my youth... soon leaving(end of Oct) to go back to Indiana and bowhunt until gun season. Hunt 1st week then go to Ohio for 1week gun, than back home to Indiana for a week of bow, then a week of MZ...
Sometimes it's good to be old and still a kid,
TheMoose
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2012 9:32:33 GMT -5
My first compound bow was a Allen, I worked at a Bear dealership and they didn't have a wheel bow for several year after the Allen came out. Ended up completely wearing that bow out.
The stands we used were homemade after a pack frame deal that the Benoits used. Just a simple hang on deal, not even close to being totally safe. Falls were common back then.
Most areas did not have deer, unless it was one of the original stocking areas. Very unusual to see a deer on private property unless it was on the edge of one of the stocking areas. All the seasons were buck only then.
Micro flight arrows or cedar. No aluminum or graphite.
You could use rifles in Ky. but not all calibers. Hunted Fort Knox a lot because it had deer, used a 870 that I had drilled and tapped for a scope. Most guys had no sights at all and shot smooth bore guns. The first specialty slug available was a BRI that was actually made for police work. Did grat and put the scoped guns range out to 125 yards.
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Post by schall53 on Oct 8, 2012 9:40:37 GMT -5
Hunting Kingsbury F&W area during archery and not being able to take antlerless in the area.
No check stations.
Being able to hunt nearly anywhere because nobody else was hunting deer.
Being excited to just see a deer track.
The first year Bowhunter magazine was published in Ft. Wayne.
Hunting with recurves, didn't even know of such a thing as a compound bow.
Sharpening broadheads , no replaceable blades except for the Bear head.
Having to go to the courthouse to buy your deer license.
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Post by cleetus on Oct 8, 2012 10:25:22 GMT -5
Hunted with a Bear Alaskan bow
Deer camp consisted of camper shells on pickup trucks
Food was cooked over a fire (usally pork and beans, hot dogs)
Our restroom was a fallen log out in the woods
LOL...we used my aunt's perfume as our cover scent because my uncle swore it worked (actually did)
We bought our camo cloths from an Army surplus store
We made our own climbing stands (still use mine today)
You got DRAWN for your doe tag with shotgun and could kill three bucks (two with bow one with shotgun)
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Post by saltydog on Oct 8, 2012 10:50:54 GMT -5
Waiting for a notice in the mail saying you were drawed for doe permits !!!
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Post by water63 on Oct 8, 2012 11:01:29 GMT -5
I was high tech back in the late 70's early 80's I had a Baker tree stand Treebark camo and a Indian Archery compound with all steel cabling no string. Gun hunted with a old Western field with a slug barrel smooth bore. A big day in the woods you might see 3 deer buck only gun season either sex archery. Muzzleloader was a kit built CVA Kentucky rifle bought at JC Penny.
Still remember way back when you couldn't hunt on Sundays.
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Post by daneowner on Oct 8, 2012 11:20:33 GMT -5
Took my first deer with a bow in 1973 at the age of 28. I had bought a used bear grizzly, 45# and the guy threw in some cedar shafts with the old bear broadheads. Spent a lot of time sharpening then to a razor edge, ( lost a lot of hair on my arms & legs checking them, lol!) Most of the time, when i'd shoot a deer, that little inserts in the broadhead would be missing and i'd always worry, is that thing in the meat somewhere ?
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Post by dbd870 on Oct 8, 2012 12:28:29 GMT -5
No camo, brown brush pants and can't remember what I wore for a coat. Ithaca Model 51 IC choke - used it for everything, all I had.
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Post by mrbuckfly1 on Oct 8, 2012 14:49:14 GMT -5
I shot my 1st deer on Thanksgiving day in 1963.I was 14 years old at the time and dad and I were hunting my uncles farm near Gosport Indiana.The Remington Sportsman 48 automatic shotgun had a modified barrel and was loaded with federal paper cased slugs.It give me deer fever so in october of 1967 I stepped in to the woods with a bear grizzly 47 pound recurve.The arrows were feathered cedars tipped with bear razorheads.I was hunting near my home in Vermillion co.and finally 4 years later managed to put a 108 pound field dressed doe on the ground.Deer populations were pretty skimpy during those times and they just weren't everywhere.I have seen the deer populations increase and many changes in hunting equipment over the years and things seem better but this morning I still stepped in the woods with a 47 pound recurve carrying feathered cedars and tipped with zwickey glue on broadheads that I sharpened myself.Guess some things never change and for that,I am happy.
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Post by Decatur on Oct 8, 2012 15:54:33 GMT -5
I remember me and the neighbor guy taking a burnt piece of wood out of his fireplace and rubbing the black on our faces.
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Post by steiny on Oct 8, 2012 19:30:47 GMT -5
Great stories ! I think I've still got some Jim Crumleys Treebark coveralls somewhere.
Most folks used to make out of state trips for decent deer hunting. Dad always went out west with his buddies.
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Post by Sasquatch on Oct 8, 2012 20:33:19 GMT -5
I remember being excited to buy a trebark jacket, and being so poor I died an old pair of white jeans with walnut hulls and used acylic paint and a marker to make my own camo out of them. I crushed apples to make a cover scent. I took an old pair of work boots with bald soles and carved tread into them.  |
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