looks like a krag or two in there, is the guy on the bottom left holding a 71?.. I'll guess 1931, great depression, and since they all look like my scott kinfolk, i'll guess tenn.
The guy second from left in the back has something other than a Winchester lever action. I can't tell whether it's a bolt action or a Savage 99. Who can guess?
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Kinda looks like the photographer forgot to tell 'em to say cheese! Unknown county PA, circa 1910. I get lost looking at photos like this. In my estimation, they're priceless. Only a generation or two earlier, there were no photos ... of anything.
Kensco, You've got me wondering just who did take the photograph. I don't imagine there were many "hand" cameras in 1910 (?). It must have been sort of a big deal to have such a picture taken in the middle of the deer woods in 1910(?). Perhaps, one among them was a profesional photographer and he brought his equipment along. Not very up on the history of photographic equipment.
Nickudu The photographer is the gentleman in the bottom left holding the shutter string!! So given that knowledge I'd have to say this was taken in the Late twenties -early thirties some where back east. Darn them some long barreled 94's !!! Does anyone know what the was the longest barrel was for them-those got to be 32-34"?
Gunnut45/454, You may well be right about the string (it just seemed out of position to me) but the photo is almost a certainty as 1910, according to the source documentation.