Old Duffers were young once.

[mich-mtnman]

man. thats what im talkin about charlie! great pic!    
and ron... your house is awesome!

[Ron LaClair]

Good shot Charlie    

I've got a center shot heart in a jar of formaldehyde (had to look up the spelling on that one)   :D

[Ron LaClair]

A buddy and I ran onto these spawning suckers in a creek when we were turkey hunting about 25 years ago. We shot them with wood arrows with no string attached. Had to hit em in the head or gill plate, then snag them in with the longbows. I was shooting 80-90 pound bows back then  

 

[Charlie Lamb]

Ron... sure makes an impressive trophy!  

[Charlie Lamb]

Love those suckers too!! Bet they eat good from that clear cold water up your way.

[JasonV]

Originally posted by Ron LaClair:
 I was shooting 80-90 pound bows back then  

I guess you don't need a string when you pin them to the stream bed!!!

I bet that was a blast!  (And it doesn't even look like you got your feet wet)

[Ron LaClair]

Charlie, when we get a good bunch like that we usually smoke em      

Jason,

The stream was only 6 to 8' across, so we didn't even need boots, we just ran up and down the bank. I've even got some good video of it. Those first video cameras were big heavy things that you rested on your shoulder and carried the power pack over your shoulder   :eek:

[Ron LaClair]

Here's a couple more. Some  rabbits sometime in the 70's and a caribou taken in 1983.

     

   

[nanook712]

One more try

 

[Ron LaClair]

Wow!, that turned out kinda big didn't it?   :eek:

The shot on the Boo was one of the prettiest shots I've ever made. He was running full bore at 30yd's + as I swung a lead with the 80# flatbow. The all white cedar arrow and the caribou met for a perfect double lung hit.  

[Guru]

This is a great history lesson...AWESOME!!!

[Ron LaClair]

Thank you for reducing my pic  

[Van/TX]

This is good stuff.  Thanks guys!

Here's a few of my Dad and friends.
Dad and Fred looking thru an old archery scrapbook.


Dad and Roy Hoff at a hunt in TX



Dad and Ben on a hunt in Louisiana.  May have been one of Ben's last hunts.



Dad and Ben on a ATV (before Honda)    



......Van

[Archer 1]

Here's a forkhorn taken 15 years ago. It was a 25 yard shot, with my 62# longbow, cedar arrow, and old Bear Razorhead.

[timbow]

thanks for all the photo's guys!!!!!!!!i love this thread......i love old photo's!!!!!!let's see more!!!!!!!!

[Ron LaClair]

Another buckskin picture. I'm not sure of the date but it must have been early because my beard wasn't grey    :D  

 

[Ron LaClair]

This is the early 80's on an elk hunt in Colorado. A different set of buckskins and I was hunting with a pair of heavy osage selfbows that I named "Bodacious" and "Bo Derick", 87 and 90#. Bo Derick had a hole from a knot through the bottom limb     :eek:   ...  It makes me hurt to think about shooting those heavy bows now      

The hat is otterskin, a copy of the one worn by Charlton Heston in The Mountainman movie.


   

[Archer 1]

[IMG]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums  Here is one of Mr. Bear and myself taken at the Michigan Bow hunters shortly before he passed away. What a great gentleman he was.

[Archer 1]

Don't know what happend, I'll see if it works this time.

[2-BIG]

Wow this stuff is awesome! Soon as I get purty nuff I'm gonna take a lot of pictures for a future Duffer thread!