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[Bucksnbears]

Incredible.
What's so fun looking back through the years is how we dressed, hair styles, foot wear, gear , vehicles ect.


Looking back, the first pic I posted in this thread, I shot him straight down below me.
Could not find him that evening so went in the morning.
Found him (way back in).

Needed to get back to a job sight ASAP.
Carried him out over my shoulders to my truck for ( 1/4) mile or more.
I was strong as hell back then, but remember my legs were like Jellow when I got to my truck.
I will try and find a recent Pic of what it looks like now where that pic was taken.
Did a bunch of bedding area cuts last winter.

I think these pics were taken within 20 yards of each other, just many years apart.

 

[IowaBowHunter1983]

Nice buck, but I gotta know, what's your shirt say?!

Tennis ball. Some tournament shirt from New York.

 

[T_Max]

1999. First buck. Classic photo for us at the time...

 

[Buckscrape]

... Kinda like this one. '92 I think.

 

[JNRBRONC]

Shotgun buck from 1983 (picture taken in the BIL's front yard late that night) and my first antlered bow kill in 1991 (PSE Vulcan round wheeler shooting aluminum arrows tipped with Punch cutter expandables).

I'm too old, you do the math......

 

[T_Max]

1983 was a good year!

 

[Farm boy]

My dad in 1954 at r deer camp's first cabin.
Built by my grandpa when he was 14.
I was 1 year away from hunting out of that cabin before it was torn down. Dad hunted with a 99, 300 savage.
Zoom in on the bottom picture u will c another 99 against the door post, most common rifle in camp.

 

[JNRBRONC]

My dad in 1954 at r deer camp's first cabin.
Built by my grandpa when he was 14.
I was 1 year away from hunting out of that cabin before it was torn down. Dad hunted with a 99, 300 savage
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Iowa's first modern day deer hunt was in 1953

 

[Copenhagen Tob]

First buck, first bowkill, got him shoulder mounted, I can replay that hunt in my head so vividly like it happened yesterday, probably was 1997 or so

 

[Bucksnbears]

I've got very few old pics I can post.

This one is about 1996ish.
My daughter n me were out cruusing the country side. Seen a fox bail into a roadside culvert.
I told her to go stick her foot in one end and make some noise. I guarded the other end.
He came out full speed and I Nailed him at about 15 yards running full out.
As long as you shoot, the arrow has to land somewhere? LOL.