Since its hunting season, Deer Camp & Deer

[OnHoPr]

I wonder if any of these will bring back memories of past hunting camps.

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[Kskybroom]

O Yes...
Thanks.....

[OnHoPr]

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[OnHoPr]

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[OnHoPr]

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Well, I wonder if they cast boolits back in those days. I only go back myself to about '70, but the elder hunters in camp when I was 14 yo seen camps like this. The deer hunting may not be quite as good now as back then, but I wish all a good successful hunt this year.

[jaydub in wi]

Excellent pics. Thanks for posting them.

[shaner]

Very enjoyable pictures. I remember all the men when I was to young to go wearing the red plaid outfits. Aint it amazing they took a lot of deer. And didn't wear all the fancy camo they have today's

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[white eagle]

ahh the good ol days
when I started I remember the red outfits and no fancy scent
block hundred dollar clothes and all the other related junk we need
now adays,just a gun and thermos of coffee

[curt48mauser]

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=177866&d=1475264923&thumb=1

Strohs firebrewed flashbacks.

[1988-4551]

That's a lot of deer, and a bit before my time too.

[ammohead]

http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss189/brucerfrechette/DSCF3387_zpsoactfqww.jpg (http://s574.photobucket.com/user/brucerfrechette/media/DSCF3387_zpsoactfqww.jpg.html)No deer yet. Scouting trip from 3 weeks ago. Opener is Monday the 17th, Area 22 South of Ely, NV on Horse and Cattle Camp Loop Rd. Northeast of Molly's Nipples.

[RU shooter]

Great pictures ! Yep remember the old red plaid wool Rich suits too it's what I wore my first few seasons when I was 12 grand paps hand me downs waaaay too big but warm as anything I have worn since. Still have it too just need to loose about 40-50 lbs

[725]

I well remember my first red & black check wool hunting clothes. I think Dad was as happy to give them to me as I was to get them.

[Treetop]

I love these old hunting camp pictures! Walnut stocks, hot blued gunsteel, and iron sights!

On one of my first deer hunts in 1960 or 61, (I was either 13 or 14) my dad's hunting partner let me hold his .38-55 Winchester lever gun and to this day, I still remember looking at the side of that Winchester's receiver and noting how beautiful the bluing was! Treetop

[chambers]

Looking through those photos you see a lot of nice bucks with large racks, today you do not see a photo with that many nice bucks in one photo, this would be there were less hunters and more older deer.

[jhalcott]

I saaw pics from when my great grand dad was a markethunter in ny state.wagon loads of fowl taken in one day.LOTS of deer also.

[OnHoPr]

Looking through those photos you see a lot of nice bucks with large racks, today you do not see a photo with that many nice bucks in one photo, this would be there were less hunters and more older deer.


Since this is sorta a historical type thread, you opened up a whole lot of political can of worms so to speak. Though, it is very interesting from many perspectives depending how you want to look at the quality of deer hunting issue, or at least from the experiences in my state. Obviously, other states have completely different scenarios. But, info and baseline ideals of this nature kinda goes across country in the grapevine of yappin.

Here is a link to MIs history of deer hunting.

http://ww2.dnr.state.mi.us/publications/pdfs/HuntingWildlifeHabitat/Reports/WLD-library/2800-2899/2868.pdf

It is a bit of a read, but you can notice a lot of things or a lot of historical happenings in the evolution of deer hunting and management with the different political entities in power in the course of even national circumstances, such as market hunting, the WWs, population grow (especially a state like MI with its beginning of being one of the top manufacturing states of the country & and the people that came here), being a border state, the increase of agriculture, National and State forest, roads, the start of a muzzleloader season, when the stick and string got pulleys and cable, etc. etc. etc. It only goes up to 1975. In the late '80s there were supposedly a touch over a million hunters. Now, deer license trends seem to be in the 650,000s, but there is a little twist with those numbers. Back in the late 80s the state's deer got TB in the NE Lower (I wonder if any of these happenings may be strange so to speak). To prevent the spread they stop feed piles and went to a doe a day and TB went across the state. In the 90s IIRC deer car accidents were always considered an Act of God, but the insurance companies took the state to court saying possibly basically that it was the state's deer and not God's, so they were going to be held negligent. Well, the state said let's kill off all the deer and sell a bunch of licenses and go to Olive Garden two or three times a week. So now, it may not really be all that many hunters, but still a number of licenses purchased.

Another thing with this management stuff, a lot of buck/doe ratios are given in this info tech world now like 1/1 or 1/3 or 2/4 and such. Well, back in the the DNR or whatever org would put a deer hunting prospectus out in the areas of the state showing the how many bucks per square mile. Well, with this NEW AND IMPROVED "QDM" if they have one buck per square mile and want a 1/1 ratio that means there is only going to be 50 deer on 25 square miles of NF with how many pumpkin patches own there???? This is another thing with the state wanting to sell the QDM and "The Bucks of Tecomate" image. Yea right, for all the metro cable tv viewers, and those shows are decreasing since the QDM is not allowing those types to even get lucky with a 3 pt now and then. Back in the 70s & 80s at least watching the highway you use to see deer coming back on top of vehicles. Now, if you watch the highway you might have to watch a long time the weekend after the opener to see a deer on a vehicle from public land. So, a lot of the deer kill now is happening on private.

Ah, I will quit my yappin, I got things to do. But, you never know there might be long term systematic planning of evilness lurking.

[4719dave]

oh yes the plad cloths ..

[Oklahoma Rebel]

I think the doe population is huge around here, but I rarely see more then maybe 2 spikes/forkhorns each year ( we see them multiple times, so we know they are the same ones, on our 5 acres.now this year we have seen an 8 pt 2-3 times, but they will probably disappear on opening day, I swear they know.

[white eagle]

seems they do know when the hunt is on
opening day is the best chance at least opening weekend
around here if you don't score then it just gets harder to connect