Good Ol' Days

chewyman55

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I was going through some of my grandpas old stuff and found this clipping in the back of a book. The caption reads:

"Verl Creager, 17, of Devils Slide, bagged this beauty last weekend near Castle Rock in Echo Canyon. The 238 pound animal (field dressed) had a three-way antler spread of 90 inches and 25 points of one inch in length or over. His father, Lester Creager, said it was the largest deer he has ever seen."

Ogden Standard Examiner, Nov 2, 1960

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That's pretty freaking awesome right there!! Thanks!!

Joey


"It's all about knowing what your firearms practical limitations are and combining that with your own personal limitations!"
 
Three way antler spread?

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+1 Zim. I was thinking spread plus beam lengths???
Great buck and cool find!

Mntman

"Hunting is where you prove yourself"


Let me guess, you drive a 1 ton with oak trees for smoke stacks, 12" lift kit and 40" tires to pull a single place lawn mower trailer?
 
>Three way antler spread?
>
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>Member RMEF, Pope & Young Club,
>UBNM, UWC & the SFW
>Hate Club

Probably outside spread, inside spread and tip to tip.
 
The sad part is antlers like that routinely ended up tacked on the barn or in the dump.
How about some score estimates?
 
Awesome buck!!! What dreams are made of and what makes going over the next hill top and waking up the next morning in freezing tempatures all WORTH IT!!!
 
Probably guided by Mossback. ;)

That's a whopper! I honestly wouldn't be able to hold the crosshairs still if I was aiming at that bad boy. That is a buck I simply couldn't comprehend.
 
"Probably guided by Mossback. ;)"

OMG, how does that name possibly get pulled into every post on this site?

Great buck. Just goes to show that bigger animals were able to get big back in the day due to less pressure.
 
>"Probably guided by Mossback. ;)"
>
>OMG, how does that name possibly
>get pulled into every post
>on this site?
>
>Great buck. Just goes to show
>that bigger animals were able
>to get big back in
>the day due to less
>pressure.

200,266 deer hunters statewide is less pressure?
 
"200,266 deer hunters statewide is less pressure?"

Yep a hell of a lot less pressure from scouting, optics, guides, shed hunters, atvs, chute planes, etc.

smart ass
 
Not to mention those 200k were spread out over the entire state, not just the public land. You could hunt most private land back than.

Yelum
 
LAST EDITED ON Jan-03-13 AT 00:13AM (MST)[p]So I guess we need to cut another 30,000 or 40,000 tags to thin the hunters out some and get back to the Good Ol' Days!
 
>LAST EDITED ON Jan-03-13
>AT 00:13?AM (MST)

>
>So I guess we need to
>cut another 30,000 or 40,000
>tags to thin the hunters
>out some and get back
>to the Good Ol' Days!
>

That would help grow more mature bucks.
There's always next year
 
>>LAST EDITED ON Jan-03-13
>>AT 00:13?AM (MST)

>>
>>So I guess we need to
>>cut another 30,000 or 40,000
>>tags to thin the hunters
>>out some and get back
>>to the Good Ol' Days!

>
> There's always next
>year


Not for another 30,000/40,000 hunters!
 
LAST EDITED ON Jan-11-13 AT 12:18PM (MST)[p]Utah was deer heaven back in the day, you can see all the great habitat.
I wish I could go back in time, how about a deer hunt in October 1957?, even back to the 1980s would be great.
 
This is one of my menoirs of the "Good Ol' Days of the 60's...I
hunted a little before work, college, the draft, and "the Viet Nam experience" kinda screwed things up a little, but I remember seeing what seemed like hundreds of deer a day, and some real dandy bucks. Unfortunately, I settled for smaller bucks with a willow-antlered 4pt. being my biggest buck. For my hunting parties, this would have been a "dream hunt"..."Eight hunters, eight days, somewhere out of Tuscarora, Nevada"...
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I killed my first buck when I was 13 in 1970 above Tuscarora, a borrowed model 94 30/30,I had no binoculars, just a pocket knife, we parked the wagoneer and I headed up a sagebrush draw, I remember a big heavy buck running down the draw past me, I unloaded 7 shots and never touched a hair, the guy that took me saw the buck from above and later said it was so big he couldn't do anything but trot.
I went over a draw and another buck jumped up, first shot 20 feet high, second 20 feet low, and the third one got him.

A nice 3 by 4 for me and big 4 by 4 for another older teen that was with us that day.
I think about it now and realize what an amazing amount of deer there were back then and what incredible experiences people had hunting deer in the good old days.
 
>LAST EDITED ON Jan-11-13
>AT 12:18?PM (MST)

>
>Utah was deer heaven back in
>the day, you can see
>all the great habitat.
>I wish I could go back
>in time, how about a
>deer hunt in October 1957?,
>even back to the 1980s
>would be great.

piper,
I hunted the 1980s and I don't recall that era being much better than today. A few more deer then perhaps, but Utah was in a pretty good deer decline by 1980. Now the 50s and 60s were a totally different story.
My rifle toting days began in the mid 60s, when an open sighted 30-30 was the norm and most people weren't so trophy minded. Few people ever turned down a fork horn and it was all about "gettin yur deer!" regardless how big.
There were a few more big bucks that got by back then because we didn't have the equipment nor the "need" to go after them.
I have to admit though when I was a boy I loved sitting on main street and watch the cars go by with bucks strapped to the hood. Definitely a different time!
 
Old thread, but a good one with that pic.
How cool it would have been to have hunted big bucks in the 60's???
 
>LAST EDITED ON Jan-11-13
>AT 12:18?PM (MST)

>
>Utah was deer heaven back in
>the day, you can see
>all the great habitat.
>I wish I could go back
>in time, how about a
>deer hunt in October 1957?,
>even back to the 1980s
>would be great.

piper,
I hunted the 1980s and I don't recall that era being much better than today. A few more deer then perhaps, but Utah was in a pretty good deer decline by 1980. Now the 50s and 60s were a totally different story.
My rifle toting days began in the mid 60s, when an open sighted 30-30 was the norm and most people weren't so trophy minded. Few people ever turned down a fork horn and it was all about "gettin yur deer!" regardless how big.
There were a few more big bucks that got by back then because we didn't have the equipment nor the "need" to go after them.
I have to admit though when I was a boy I loved sitting on main street and watch the cars go by with bucks strapped to the hood. Definitely a different time!
Brings back memories.It was definitely about filling your tag. In the sixties the high tech guys were using Weaver K4 scopes, and 7x35 binoculars. Granddad’s place was hunting camp, and the apple trees were full of deer. I remember Granddad saying more than once, “ya can’t eat the horns”. Most of the horns went on the pile down by the corral. Few pictures were ever taken.
 
Brings back memories.It was definitely about filling your tag. In the sixties the high tech guys were using Weaver K4 scopes, and 7x35 binoculars. Granddad’s place was hunting camp, and the apple trees were full of deer. I remember Granddad saying more than once, “ya can’t eat the horns”. Most of the horns went on the pile down by the corral. Few pictures were ever taken.
When I was a teen my neighbor shot a huge buck in a nasty hole. He talked me into hauling a hind quarter out. When we all got to the truck they showed up without the horns. I mentioned it to a friend with horses and he said they may pick them up if they got down there, which they eventually did. The horns got tacked to a barn and years later we pulled them off and they taped over 200"s. I have a similar set from my father-in-law killed in the late 50s. He had them laying on the ground in an old granary. Well over 200. Yep, "you can't eat horns"!
 

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