Old guys when they were young

[Ron LaClair]

Recently found this picture dated 1968 of my wife Nancy and I on my Honda Trail 90. I ended up owning two of those great little bikes. I even strapped a deer of two on the back but unfortunately I never took a picture.

Any of you other "older" guys got young pictures?

 

[Ron LaClair]

My oldest Son who is 55 years old now. I'm wearing my green wool jacket with a Michigan Bowhunters patch on the arm.

 

[DK]

We're there many deer in those days? I was born in 65...

[SELFBOW19953]

I'll play, Ron.

Me in 1960 in Florida (8 y.o.).
 

Me in 2009.
 

[Ron LaClair]

Right around that time I hunted for 8 days in a row without seeing a deer. On the 9th day I almost didn't go because it was really windy. I went anyway and killed a doe that evening with my Bear recurve. I tied it on the back of the Honda and road 4 miles home.

This picture is around 1961

 

[Mississippi bow hunter]

Keep em coming, I'm enjoying this. Thanks for sharing.

[Pine]

19 year old me with my first deer . That was about 80# ago .
Still have that much hair but the color has changed .

[Pine]

This is my firs bow kill . It's a 13 stripe ground squirrel , we call them gophers .

[NC BowBender]

Originally posted by Graps:
   
19 year old me with my first deer . That was about 80# ago .
Still have that much hair but the color has changed .

[NC BowBender]

What I was trying to comment on was the Kwikee Kwiver. Just like mine, I don't think they had even thought of a hood for them.
Surprised we're not all injured or worse from flailing around the woods with open quivers.
I started hunting in NC in 1970, every weekend the season was open.
I didn't see a live deer on the hoof for 2 1/2 years.
When I did see one, I about fell out of my Baker treestand shaking so bad.
Somehow, the doe ran into my arrow and died.

[KyStickbow]

Im just a young buck...but I really enjoy looking at these old pictures! Keep em coming guys!

[Kip]

My first bowkill deer 1976 with a K-Mag at my mentors camp Jack Bell.He was one of them small  group of hunters to get bowhunting legal in Louisiana.Here he is  at his yearly rabbit hunt with bows.
 
 
Really miss that man think about him often.

[Kip]

O   one more Monroe Archery Club annual rabbit hunt 1976
Great fun let go a bunch of beagles and big swamp rabbits running all over.

[Eric Krewson]

I don't have any hunting pics of myself in the early days.

Here I am in 67 at Ft Rucker, I was 19 years old.

The next picture is of me out in the shop making a flintlock rifle a couple of years ago.

[Kip]

Found another one my rabbit kill that day above.

[Owlgrowler]

This from '61,'62, with my 2 older brothers.

[Warden609]

Back to the top. Great thread!!

[Bladepeek]

Couple from a ways back:

age approx 12 with my BB gun
 

age 17 when I discovered stick bows. A day at Lake Erie with my solid fiberglass recurve.
 

age 74, earlier this month at the Tomahawk Archer's 2-D shoot in Temperance, MI (the fat old guy with the glasses).
 

[reddogge]

I don't have a single picture of myself with my first longbow in 1955 or my second bow, a solid fiberglass bow in the late 50s/early 60s.

Here is one from 1969 with my first deer kill/bow kill. Sorry I have to keep posting it since I can't go back in time to take some more.

 

And here's me as a hippie in 1972.

 

And here's my best deer to date from the 70s.

   

And a fairly recent picture with my son and granddaughter at a 3-D shoot.

 

[Kevin Hansen]

Great thread!