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Great Old Picts. Thanks. Steve "He wins the most, who honour saves. Success is not the test." Ryan "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Stalin Tanzania 06 Argentina08 Argentina Australia06 Argentina 07 Namibia Arnhemland10 Belize2011 Moz04 Moz 09 | |||
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Cool Pictures. | |||
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Great pics! Thanks for sharing. | |||
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My grandfather's older brother was a serious photographer when not farming.....I got a ton of his old glass negatives and had them scanned to DVD by a local high-end photography studio. I need to post some here for you to enjoy. They are circa 1890, upstate South Carolina locales. My dad passed away this year and I brought some to his funeral for the family to see...my aunt identified her father/my grandfather from a pic when he was about 9 years old, as well as my great grandfather! What a thrill... Will post a few soon. This stuff like you posted Jack is priceless! Hank | |||
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Cap, I would buy a book of these photos. They are spectacular! Great old guys - not so old back then of course. Pretty funny some of them, and pretty good documentation of the gear (iron sighted rifles and wool clothes), and the types of camps and the deer that they killed. Thanks many times, and if you ever make up a book of them, let me know. Brent When there is lead in the air, there is hope in my heart -- MWH ~1996 | |||
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Great fun looking at those. I saw something funny, though, looking at pic HBOB307 (bobcat with strange ducks is the title). Strange ducks? I guess; they're decoys!  Stranger, the other chap with the scattergun with the lodgepole barrel is holding what I believe to be a skunk. It looks to me like it might be a couple of kids at play, based on the oversized overcoats and pipe. At any rate, thanks for posting the link, Cap'n Jack. Good shite!KG ______________________ Hunting: I'd kill to participate. | |||
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It would be interesting to know when and where these wonderful photos were taken. "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" Hamlet III/ii | |||
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My wife and I both have old hunting photos from our dads and grandfathers. Some older ones even predate that but we don't know who everyone is... Great stuff but I don't miss those days. I prefer today's hunting although the adventure seems to be missing now. We even have a bunch of old 8mm movies and we're taking bids on having them converted to DVD. $bob$  | |||
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check out the size of the deer in pic #63: http://www.viewsofthepast.com/photos/hunt/h-deer-063.jpg Mother of Mary! friar Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain. | |||
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Those pictures just prove that lever action rifles are not much good for hunting.  L.W. "A 9mm bullet may expand but a .45 bullet sure ain't gonna shrink." | |||
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Not to mention what dismal failures those sub premium bullets turned out to be. And obviously, only fools went hunting w/o scopes. Pretty amazing what one could hunt with in "the old days." Pretty amazing how different things are in the "new days" When there is lead in the air, there is hope in my heart -- MWH ~1996 | |||
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Excelent pictures of an bygone era. | |||
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Very nice old pictures Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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As they say in the Tim Horton's egg salad wrap commercial "Thanks for sharing!" (You may need access to Canadian TV for this one) Frans | |||
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