Old Duffers were young once.

[ber643]

LOL Ron, (My gosh, I did look a little like he would in later years, huh?) I knew I was flirtin' with the danger of runnin' out of fingers doin' all that cipherin'. It is just my multiple entities - ha-ha. Actually it was a mis-type mis-take (since edited) and I was 16 in '51 Thanks for cathing it, Ron.

[Ron LaClair]

LOL, I figured it was a type-o on your part. Man you are an old duffer aren't you, you're a year older than me    :eek:

You sure do look like that Leanardo guy. When I was  young everybody thought I looked like Elvis        :cool:

[ber643]

That'll work - (note to self: don't let wife see pic of young Ron - LOL)

[Ron LaClair]

(note to self: don't let wife see pic of young Ron  

23 years old...ahhhh, those were the days my friend  

[Ray Lyon]

Ron, you look pretty good all cleaned up.

Was that photo taken with one of those old, black powder flash camera's?    

[Ron LaClair]

Was that photo taken with one of those old, black powder flash camera's?  

Oh a wise guy eh?  

Fast forward 20 years to the mountain man period.
   

[DCM]

Should have been more careful what you put in that pipe.  ;-)

Great thread.  Thanks to all.

[Ron LaClair]

Should have been more careful what you put in that pipe. ;-)  

It was Prince Albert....in the can    :p

[ber643]

I used to have someone in the family that smoked that (I think my Grandfather on Ma's side). Anyway I always had plenty of those nice flat cans to put earthworms in to go brook truoting when I was a kid - slipped in the back pocket great.

[Eric Krewson]

This is a two part picture story.

 

I was walking down the road at my hunting club when I ran into a guy carrying what looked like a limb with a string on it. I asked him if he hunted with "That", "yes" he said. Kill deer with "that"? Again he replied in the affirmative. I had to learn more about "that". He invited me to his house and taught me the basics of bow making.

At a family gathering a later I over heard my wife's cousin talking about going to the farm. After the company left I asked my wife about the "farm". She said" I forgot, Marie inherited a farm years ago". We had been married for 15 years and this important info had been gathering dust all this time.

Turns out the farm was only 15 miles from the house, 185 grown up acres with 5 acre woodlots and honeysuckle patches all over it. The wood lots had 3ft diameter white oaks in abundance.A quick look at the property showed it to be a deer paradise.

I obtained a permit to hunt the land from Marie, set up in a woodlot and saw 12 deer the first evening in the stand. I was carrying my first functioning selfbow, a 70# hickory bow, made with instruction from a great guy who took the time to show me how to make a bow.

On my next trip the doe in the picture walked right under my stand, first selfbow and wood arrow kill. Yep you can kill deer with one of those "things". Been bunch of years since this picture was taken and lots more deer have fallen to my selbows.

The land sold the following year.

[Raven]

Ron, Did you star in the movie "The Mountain Men"      :cool:  Nice pic!!...........Raven

[Ron LaClair]

Raven, No I didn't but if I'd of had an agent back then maybe I could have been an extra.  

Bernie, I carried worms like that too when I was a kid fishin trout on the creeks. I think those tobacco cans were pretty much of a standard for carrying worms in those days.  

[leftbow]

Ron. You could have given Bill Holden err.. I mean that Leonardo Decaprio guy a run for his money.

[ber643]

Yep, Ron - my Pop showed me to use them, and to put wet leaves in his (and later, my) creel to keep the delicate skin of the trout from drying out before ya got home.

[Charlie Lamb]

This one is from 1968. I hunted crows on a roost near St.Louis at night. What a blast! I think that place is a tourist center now.

Not bad form... 83# Honkin Hoyt Pro Hunter 58".

 

[Islandlongbow]

Eric thats a great story. Funny how you just fall into things..

Jerry

[Ron LaClair]

Here's a picture of the MLA's first rabbit hunt in 1983. The thing I remember most about that hunt was that it was 20 below zero early that morning and we had to wait until almost noon before it warmed up enough for the dogs.

 

[JimE.IV]

I've read all 28 pages and I just wanted to say thanks.

This absolutely the best thing I've ever seen or read on an internet messageboard.

Van:  Was really nice to see those pictures, especially the ones of your dad. I just love to see pics from 50's and 60's of people just having fun with archery on those field rounds, I'll never get tired of seeing them.


Ron: I collect old Archery periodicals and have seen you in many of them, to get a first hand pictorial review of the history is awesome, Thanks.

[ber643]

What a nice accolade, JimE IV - and for a very special ol' "Mountain Man" to all of us (even if he does take pleasure in reminding me I'm a year older'n him - LOL - I feel like a kid at his knees when it comes to Archery and all the frontier doings  I used to read about in books and dream of as a kid.)Like Ron once "said" to me of his wife's thoughts, I think he actually was transported to us from another life/time frame - LOL (Also nice mention for Van and his Dad).

[Charlie Lamb]

Here's an early "catch" of frogs. Circa 1964. The bow is my little Kodiak Magnum (1962) and I still have it.