Cannon City Colorado, 1878.


Women Hunters, 1880.


Dry Lake, North Dakota, 1909.


The Gray Boys, Elk County, Pennsylvannia, 1920.


Hahns Peak, Colorado, 1907.


Pennsylvannia Hunters, 1933 (?).


West Texas, 1900.

Pennsylvannia, 1941.



Texas, 1900-20.

Better days, YES! There was no peta then, just real, down to earth people.

Nick, may I post your women hunters photo on the womenhunters.com forums? The ladies would enjoy seeing that one.

Feel free, Ann. I've also got some '70's "Cosmo" photo-shoots of Burt Reynolds dear hunting the Catskills, the ladies might get some pointers from.

Cute, Nick, but actually, Cosmo was a better magazine back then. Now it is designed for teenage foo-foo girlies. Oh, Burt looked better then too.



Can you find some more archival lady hunter photos for me? I'd like to do an article for womenhunters.com.

Guys, if any of your wives or girlfriends hunt that is a good site for them to visit.

I am working on an article for another magazine for women wanting to hunt Africa.

WOW!!
That first photo is KILLING ME!!!
. . . and to think that bagging a truly proper mule deer today is a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Regards,

JohnTheGreek

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John,
I was hoping someone would take notice of those beauties. To think that bucks of such quality were a near "expectation" is a bit overwhelming, today. Seems as though the fellows in the photo considered them fairly "routine", making no attempt at all to show them off. That's a whole lotta horn in there! May be 3 bucks, I think.

[ 01-20-2003, 22:51: Message edited by: Nickudu ]

Nickudu,

Boy, wouldn't these guys be smiling if they knew that guys pay thousands of dollars to go to Mexico for a CHANCE at a buck like these today.
There are obviously at least three bucks in the wagon . . . maybe four? Look at the front of the wagon . . . there are tines to the right of the "photographs" sign that are clearly not belonging to the bucks at the rear of the wagon. They belong to a buck with his chin on the buck nearest the man in the right of the photo. Now look on the right side of the "photographs" doorway . . . are those tines slanting up and to the left belonging to that same buck with his chin resting on the right hand buck's back?????
If so . . . DAMN that is one WIDE MULIE!!!!

I have never taken a nice mulie but man, I think anything in this wagon would sure look great on my wall! The funny thing is these guys probably nailed the horns to their barn or maybe even tossed them aside since all they wanted was the meat anyway.

Best Regards,

JohnTheGreek

Yea, I think your right, John .. 4 bucks. Looks like that farside mules' got an antler too, on the right side of his head, Who'dda thought ...

Nick,

Missed a chip shot on a big coyote this morning, and now more mulie horn then one man can stand.....................just ain't fair!

Great pics, as usual. Life is good.

Joe

Nickudu

Really nice historic pictures.
There were some moster deer in the good old day's. This is not fair

I like the old days hunting, clothes, cars, and the animals

/ JOHAN

Nickudu,
I get the idea that those guys in the first picture were pretty proud of their bag. After all, these guys went to the trouble to pay to have pictures made of their deer in 1878. Also notice one of the guys is carrying a Sharps, a true long-range gun for the time. The other also appears to be carrying a long-barreled single shot. These guys look like serious hunters to me.

MRMD,
Welcome Doc! Good eyes ... You may well be right but somehow the "trophyhunting" angle didn't occur to me, in conjunction with the 1878.
They do have a certain seriousness about them, don't they?