Blast from the past

[M1A1ABRAMS]

I got my hunter safety card from the local fish and game organization. Was given by members of the club but there were several game wardens there as well. Was a good class back then.

East Berlin fish & game ?

 

[hesse]

I do. And the days before ATV's! I also remember the trucks in the high school parking lot with rifle racks in the back with 870's hanging in them, cause guys were going hunting after school! Nobody batted an eye! Now, they call in the National Guard if a kid brings an aspirin to school and most of them don't know which bathroom to use!

Don't forget the forbidden plastic knife

 

[Mcranch]

Man I forgot some of those names. Noel Feather, Ben Lee a lot of old hunting "idols" from the old vhs days I'm sure are gone now. We used to have a local hunting show called Call of the Outdoors. I asked the last host of the show what ever happened to the tapes. He said they were all mistakenly thrown out during a clean up one year. They cleaning crew got in a lot of trouble I was told. I can still remember sitting with my dad watching Harry Allaman with the old super 8 I presume videos on Sunday at 12. Then there was Tom Fegley and the last host was Jack Hubley. Harry and Tim have passed on.

We can't forget The American Sportsman with Curt Goudy. Watching Fess Parker take down a grizzly.

 

[Bret GRAVELINE Graveline]

We can't forget The American Sportsman with Curt Goudy. Watching Fess Parker take down a grizzly.

I'll always remember the one with Clint Walker stopping a charge from a Cape Buffalo

 

[YZ-80]

I have a story that most of you won't believe. The year was 1980-1981 and I was headed to central Oregon. I pulled onto hwy 97 going north and didn't realize I was speeding. There was a state trooper headed south and as I looked in the mirror he was turning around. I immediately pulled over and waited for him. I had an early Ruger Redhawk on the passenger seat. I removed the coat that was covering it before he got there. He chewed on me for awhile before noticing the gun. He excitedly asked if it was one of the new Rugers.I handed it to him and told him that it was loaded. He unloaded it and handed it back. I asked him if he would like to shoot it and he replied one shot and we will call it a warning. He checked for traffic, walked around the front of the truck and touched one off! I doubt that would happen nowadays

This was the nicest cop I ever ran into. He pulled me over in TX many years back and we had a chew together (Red Man). He had a faint smell of 2-cycle oil about him, which I thought was odd. Anyway, nice guy, gave me a warning.

 

[Mcranch]

I was one in North Austin , Tx
Between Pflugerville& Austin was solid fields
Oh , best friend had a YZ80 just a few yrs before

There is still air of farming going on between Plfugerville and Hutto but the development has really kicked in. Was in the area and noticed a sign for a residential development stating, starting from the mid-400,000. It will soon be all houses in another 10 years

 

[hesse]

Being from Michigan originally we had opening day off of school because half of the teachers hunted. Opener is November 15. We talked about the guns the scopes we used what distance we could be shooting at before range finders , bdc reticle.

 

[YZ-80]

Being from Michigan originally we had opening day off of school because half of the teachers hunted. Opener is November 15. We talked about the guns the scopes we used what distance we could be shooting at before range finders , bdc reticle.

And probably plenty of .270 vs. 30-06 debates!

 

[Mcranch]

Back in 1969 when I was ten, we would go to the local movie theater in downtown Greeley Colorado and watch hunting movies. I remembered watching Fred Bear shoot a Grizzly bear with his recurve. Other movies were safari in Africa where they hunted every species from warthog to elephants. I also saw movies about duck and goose hunting where the flocks were enormous. Went to junior college in sterling Colorado. During fall and winter semester went pheasant, dove , duck and goose hunting. Didn't have a way to store or cook them. Made friends with a girl working in the chow hall she put the birds in the freezer and a farmers wife working there would cook them. Best two years of my life. Everyone had a gun in there rear window truck rack. Boys and girls. Miss them days.

Safari in Africa, was that the name of the movie ? because we watched it also but I couldn't remember the name of the movie. I asked the theater owner that still had a binder of the movies shown years later but I couldn't remember name or year it was shown. The theater was The New Isis at the stockyards in Fort Worth. I think it was a 80 pound recurve that Fred used. My brother got to meet Fred and has a picture together. When you get older it's good to have great memories.

 

[WinMag4me]

Outdoors with TK and Mike was funny poke with hunting
Wayne and Sonny Outdoors
Sonny Shoyer from Duke's of Hazard
Watched those religiously
Good times and life was simple

 

[buck33]

Learning to use my Burnham brothers predator call from a 45 rpm record!

 

[hesse]

And probably plenty of .270 vs. 30-06 debates!

243, 270, 30.30 , 306,
Then 7mm or 300mag. Good times that and when you where hunting there was no phones or tablets you enjoyed the woods

 

[del2les]

Anyone remember Jim Dougherty and the "Easton Bowhunting" shows in the 60's and his bow hunting skills? Loved watching those shows along with Fred Bear's and learning how to bow hunt with those old recurves. When I was a youth in the South, there was a guy, Mr. Pounds, who lived about 25 miles in the next county and was a custom bow maker. He had moved there from Ohio, and he and Fred Bear were old friends from years prior. Pounds Archery would have Fred down as a friend and the occasional promotional bow shoot to promote the fairly new sport of archery hunting and various bows.

 

[YZ-80]

Anyone remember Jim Dougherty in the 60's and his bow hunting skills? Loved watching those shows along with Fred Bear and learning how to bow hunt with those old recurves. When a youth in the South, there was a guy, Mr. Pounds, who lived about 25 miles in the next county and was a custom bow maker. He had moved there from Ohio, and he an Fred Bear were old friends from years prior. Pounds Archery would have Fred down as a fiend and the occasional promotional bow shoot to promote the fairly new sport of archery hunting and various bows.

Nope. Marlin Perkins is as far back as I could remember on Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom". He was pretty smart. He'd stay in the jeep and his associate/buddy would get mauled by whatever tiger, bear or anaconda they encountered.