Some Old-Timey Bucks

[TwoDogs]

Been hearing a little about me makin' too much trouble on this forum and not enough contribution. Okay....alright, just for your viewing pleasure here are pics of some bucks from the good-ol-days that I've taken during my trips around the west. I have an extensive collection of these photos. Nope.....these ain't my bucks......just my photos. All these bucks were hanging in public places. Enjoy these.....and dream a little.

Oh......one more thing. I have a few questions 'bout these whoppers.....

1) Do ya think they were taken with 1000-yard rifles?

2) Do ya think they were scouted with trail cams?

3) Do ya think the hunters used quads?

4) Had chute planes even been thought of in those days?

5) What about radios and cell phones?

6) Was gang-hunting the way to success in those days?

 

[TwoDogs]

A few more. Answer my questions and I'll put up some more.

 

[justr_86]

Cool pictures.

Your welcome here but you choose to debate in very bad places and times.

You find out who your friends are when you see who shows up to help pack your bull out!

 

[brownie]

Nice Bucks! Hard to say how they were harvested, but it looks like their all graveyard dead. Thanks, Brownie.

 

[30plus]

Nice bucks
My father inlaw has some great photos of big bucks they used to get every year "gang hunting" they would surround a canyon and push it to the shooters and everything with horns was shot there would be 20+ guys every year and a lot had tags for the wives. Not many tags went unfilled. They never scouted, most brag about never needin to sight in the rifle. have yet to see any binos or spottin scopes in the pics but they sure killed some nice bucks.

 

[NMPaul]

twodogs your a weird dude.


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[Teeb]

I'll play. Got nuthin' to loose!

1) Do ya think they were taken with 1000-yard rifles?
Highly Unlikley

2) Do ya think they were scouted with trail cams?
Extremely doubtful

3) Do ya think the hunters used quads?
Maybe a horse

4) Had chute planes even been thought of in those days?
Nope

5) What about radios and cell phones?
Maybe an AM radio in the Jeep

6) Was gang-hunting the way to success in those days?
If you consider dad, mom, son, grandpa, and the
neighbor kid a gang --- yep!




Life is like riding bulls. You're never truly ready ..... it just gets to be your turn.

 

[Huntemup]

I saw the 4th picture down and reminded me of a big ol' buck an old-timer that I knew shot "back in the day".

 

[missalot]

Here's a question for you...do you suppose there were a few more big bucks running around back then (pre 4 wheel drive)?

 

[treedagain]

one good point is that the seasons went WELL into NOV.....EVEN DEC in some places

 

[nickman]

Whatever they used in the taking of these bucks, you can bet your azz, it was cutting edge and whatever they could afford......just like today.

 

[zekers]

Some very impressive bucks there. Looks like your "trips around the west" took you to someone's private collection. Obviousely that person acquired those heads, so you have no idea how they were harvested, just heresay. No doubt most of them were killed back in the mule deer hayday, by guys with multiple tags in their pockets and longer seasons. I would have loved to go hunting just once back in those days.

 

[BacDoc]

Is that last one in the first post the Broder buck? That guy at Rainbows Inn in Chalis Idaho owned it and a bunch of others. If I remember right he got caught Poaching in Idaho (Not that buck). It looks alot like it if not. The old timers, some did it right, and some did it wrong. Just like today. BacDoc

 

[HiMtnHntr]

LAST EDITED ON May-12-10 AT 06:50AM (MST)[p]Looks like you've been to that little shop in Gunnison, too. It's not a public place, it's a store. I stop there every change I get. Some impressive bucks in there, that's for sure. I have photos of some of those same bucks, though not an extensive collection of them . . .

 

[Silentstalker]

No to all your questions except #6. To #6 I say gang hunting WAS the way they hunted. I have heard many a story about the party hunting way. Shoot till all the tags were full. The only difference is back then they all carried guns, now days 1 guy carries a gun and everyone else carries bino's and spotting scopes.

Nice collection of big bucks for sure!

 

[The_Quadfather]

I am sure a lot of those bucks have a "story" behind them that was swept under the rug. Much like a lot of the bucks we see posted on the web today...

 

[HiMtnHntr]

The wide buck in the fourth picture is 40" wide and scores 245 3/8". You can read the story on Colorado's Biggest Bucks and Bulls.

 

[EDGE_1]

No doubt they used every cutting edge advantage they could back then. Party hunting was huge. Even grandma in camp had a tag and absolutly no intetion of picking up a gun. I've also heard stories of old timers that used the headlights to kill some too.

Sweet Bucks though!!! Share some more!

 

[woodruffhunter]

Other than to get into another arguement, why would you even ask the question lol....

 

[longshooter338]

Those days are gone but not forgotten and i didnt remember seing any 2,3,4 year old bucks in those pics either all older age class bucks thats what happens when you dont shoot every pisscutter you see.

 

[Ticks N Tines]

1) Do ya think they were taken with 1000-yard rifles?

Nope. They could get a lot closer to bucks back then.

2) Do ya think they were scouted with trail cams?

Nope. No need for a trail cam on the winter range in December.

3) Do ya think the hunters used quads?

Who needs quads when you got a horse?

4) Had chute planes even been thought of in those days?

Uhhh.. What the heck is a "Chute Plane"? I don't know anyone that has ever used one for hunting.

5) What about radios and cell phones?

What about them? You don't need those to kill deer.

6) Was gang-hunting the way to success in those days?

When they hunted in October, yes. For those big bucks, they probably just killed them on the winter range or during the rutt. Give me a rifle and let me hunt the LE units or the Wasatch front every year during the rutt and I'll bring home a biggun every year too.

There wasn't much managment going on back then and the deer herds were out of control. It wasn't uncommon to see big bucks all over back then. Now they are a little more catious and we have "Seasons" and "Regulations" for hunting.

I know a guy that lived up here in Northern Utah and hunted in the 70's. He took a 30" buck every year for 5 years and passed several huge bucks year after year. To do that now would be close to impossible.

Times change buddy

 

[NVPete]

Don't think you'll see something like this, either:

Nevada Area 6 (1964); "somewhere out of Tuscarora"; Eight NR hunters (Calif.), eight days hunting, 8 respectable bucks!!

 

[ktg]

7. Do ya think any of those bucks were taken in a 'pumpkin patch'?

 

[muleybull]

Ive been around some of the old timers that have killed some old timer bucks. Grew up in country that was full of hunters and small towns. Deer season was almost a holiday off back in my early days for schools.

Here are a few more questions...

1. Do you think any of them were killed in the spotlight?

2. Do you think any of them were killed in the wrong unit?

3. Do you think any of them were killed out of season?

4. Do you think any of them were killed for a hunter with a tag, by a hunter without a tag?

5. Do you think any of them were run down in pickup trucks?

6. Do you think any of them were killed while driving cross country?

7. Do you think any of them were killed by road hunters?

I figured I may as well throw a couple questions your way...

www.muleybulloutfitters.com

 

[TwoDogs]

MB,

The only difference I see between the tactics on your list versus mine.......is that those on your list are now illegal. Those on mine ain't.........yet.........unfortunately.

 

[TwoDogs]

 

[sageadvice]

I don't care to get in any pissen match one way or another but i do love seeing pic's of huge ol bucks like this!!!

These kinda pic's, plus those of newly taken big bucks from through out the West is the main reason i came to this website in the first place!! Thanks!!

Joey

 

[Gator]

Old guns and old bucks they just kind of go together.

Question did they shot long range back then YES they did How far did they kill those buffalos back in the day.
Maybe these Names will ring a bell or two
BILLY DIXON
ADOBE WALLS

Everyone thinks far shooting was started yesterday. LOL


"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".

 

[Adventurewriter]

A buddy of mines grandad lived in the Meeker Area of Colo and they would take cross country ski's start at the top of a huge Winter Range draw and he said the garage was full of huge racks some approaching 40 inches. Never saw them but I knew his family had a long hunting tradition and was from that area.

 

[bonedaddy]

I talked to the guy that owns that store and he said a bunch of that stuff comes from divorced couples. The old lady gets pissed off after they split and sells the guys trophys to him. He gets em dirt cheap cause most of em don't have a clue what they have. I'd have to kill her...

 

[quickdrawkinker]

No doubt today's hunters have evolved--some for the better and some for worse, but one thing is for sure--Taxidermy sure has improved!