70s / 80s era photos

[LateNightFlight]

So inspired by Ironwood's 70s era hog photos, I thought it would be fun to upload a few of my own. These are late 70s and one early 80s.

Got some photos from when you were kickin' it back in the day? I'd love to see em!

First up, my old buddy Mike (far left) dropped an arrow in this dude's spine from an honest 70 yards. We had become long range specialist because I took mine at a confirmed 60, but only after I totally blew a shot and went over the back of a much nicer 30 yard buck. Perhaps that's from too much practice at long range? It was such a horrendous drag off the mountain, over manzanita and lava rock, that buck had hardly any hair left on his sides. (Me on far right)


There's no sustitute for great dogs, two labs and two springers. 4 dogs, 4 fair shooters, 8 dead roosters a half hour after the opening bell on public land! Grizzley Island, CA (Rest in peace, Kaela! I still miss your big black head everyday!)


I didn't take a buck with a bow in '82, so I went back with a rifle. Snow covered Mt. Lassen in the distant background. "Hey mister. Can you come up here and take a pic with my camera?" Thanks old dude, whoever you were. (Now I'm the old dude. )


Share em if you got em! And you younger guys - take pics! I regret that I was very sporadic about having a camera, and even worse about hanging on to the pictures I did have. The quality was usually so bad they were eventually tossed. I'm lucky to have these.

[Luciano]

Hm, nobody jumped on this one?!

GREAT PICS MAN!!!! SERIOUSLY

[Luciano]

O... and for convinience, God bless the digital age. ...Read your comment ... so I should enjoy my late 20's huh? Oh well very late... I'm 29

[maddog31751]

LNF, I'm new to the board, but can relate to the 70/80's era. I'm 57 yrs. old and have hunted since I was 9. Here is some pics from my late 20'3 early 30's, when my hair was still brown



antelope, Wyoming. Taken with a muzzleloader, at 165 yds.[didn't wear glasses then]



Tenn. pig with same muzzleloader



my 1 and only pronghorn buck.



boar taken with a bow.

Hope you enjoy.

maddog31751

[Rem308]

Very cool...I like seeing these older photos. Thanks for sharing.

[LateNightFlight]

Awesome, Maddog! Thanks for posting those! I hear ya about brown hair being a 'used to have' situation. I'm happy to still have hair, many of my friends don't. But now mine is more like winter cammo.

so I should enjoy my late 20's huh?

Luciano, enjoy and take pictures! (Ah, to be in my 20s again. Where do I sign up fo that?)

I put the arrival of digital cameras up there with sliced bread and light switches. Back in the day, when I did think to have a camera on hand, I tended to cook the film in the glove box, shooting off a roll of film over the course of a year and would then get back really poor and sometimes blank prints. I still managed to accrue a box of photos, but then lost most of them after they sat in the dripping wet humidity of a landslide for months. (True story. My neighborhood was ultimately wiped out.)

Since the digital photo age has arrived, I shouldn't have any excuses, but I'm still not very good about taking care of the photo part of a hunt. Some years ago, I also lost a not backed up hard drive full of photos. (Doah!)

Take lots of pictures and do whatever you can to secure them. I have plenty of regret that I can't share a photo log and stories about many adventures. There's no 'do-over' for this.

[bcarver]

Where those cheesy mustaches on sale?
And yes I had one too.
No seriously you guys looked like rejects for a Tom Selleck Look-a-like Contest.