From the times when woods were still mysterious and distant and hunting was a sacred cause.

Great pic.THe size of the deer!

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Locksley,R

Nice one! Any more pics like this??

Wonderful photograph. Thank you for sharing it with us.

thank you mouse, for sharing the picture. i love those pictures from the back before the world turned weird.
and the working horses is just iceing on the cake for me.

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peter

What date would you put on that picture? 1967 would be my guess.

Photo dates in 1950’s. All the guys - L-R farmer, hunter and PH - are allready deceased - hunters son is in his 50's these days. Both hunters carry German military Mausers (restocked) in 8x57.

Hunting those days went like this - hunter had to inform a PH by mail - no phones then - that he is coming by – with confirmation it took 1 week at least. PH sent a carriage (a simple rural one) to pick a hunter on the train station and take him to the PH's house that took ~ 3 hrs. Then they filled their "rucksacks" and hit the road to the cottage in the hills. They would stay there for a couple of days - hunting all days long (no cell phone interruptions and stuff...) . Once a stag was shot a hunting dog was left at the corpse to guard and hunters hike to the nearest village (nothing inside 3 hours walk perimeter) to pick up a farmer with trusted horses that were not afraid of heights and abysses (you can't find those anymore). The sledge on the photo was fastened for the last part of the trip - when they reached reasonably flat terrain or nearest path. Once in the village, animal had to be dressed, meat cut ...no refrigirators then...all in all anything under 1 week period hunting for red stag was an utopia - those guys had all the time in their hands - suckers .

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Originally posted by mouse93:


Photo dates in 1950’s. All the guys - L-R farmer, hunter and PH - are allready deceased - hunters son is in his 50's these days.

It's sobering how little time we have to do what we really want to do. Say you can get a trip a year to do something fun without the family then take away twilight years for infirmity....

It gets very scary indeed.

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Originally posted by 1894mk2:

It's sobering how little time we have to do what we really want to do. Say you can get a trip a year to do something fun without the family then take away twilight years for infirmity....

It gets very scary indeed.[/QUOTE]



Damn good point 1894. I have been trying to make a point to get away at least twice a year for 4-5 days each. My wife is very good about it, certainly much better than some earlier applicants for that job might have been.

But it is hard to say "I'm off to xxxxx for a week with the boys, it is only costing £2K. You stay here and look after the 3 kids".

I should have been born a late Victorian or early Edwardian gent - 100 days a year in the field. Just as long as I could have avoided WW1.