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Offline mich-mtnman

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #180 on: May 15, 2005, 10:56:00 AM »
man. thats what im talkin about charlie! great pic!  :thumbsup:  
 and ron... your house is awesome!
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #181 on: May 15, 2005, 11:11:00 AM »
Good shot Charlie    :thumbsup:

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

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #182 on: May 15, 2005, 11:17:00 AM »
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   :scared:

   
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Offline Charlie Lamb

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #183 on: May 15, 2005, 11:17:00 AM »
Ron... sure makes an impressive trophy!  :thumbsup:
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #184 on: May 15, 2005, 11:19:00 AM »
Love those suckers too!! Bet they eat good from that clear cold water up your way.
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Offline JasonV

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #185 on: May 15, 2005, 11:23:00 AM »
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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)
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #186 on: May 15, 2005, 11:31:00 AM »
Charlie, when we get a good bunch like that we usually smoke em   "[redneck]"    ;)

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:
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #187 on: May 15, 2005, 01:44:00 PM »
Here's a couple more. Some  rabbits sometime in the 70's and a caribou taken in 1983.

     

   
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #188 on: May 15, 2005, 01:51:00 PM »
One more try

 
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Offline Ron LaClair

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« Reply #189 on: May 15, 2005, 01:53:00 PM »
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.   "[dead]"
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #190 on: May 15, 2005, 06:54:00 PM »
This is a great history lesson...AWESOME!!!
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #191 on: May 15, 2005, 07:31:00 PM »
Thank you for reducing my pic   :thumbsup:
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Offline Van/TX

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #192 on: May 15, 2005, 10:00:00 PM »
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)   :bigsmyl:  

 

......Van
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Offline Archer 1

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #193 on: May 15, 2005, 10:40:00 PM »
Here's a forkhorn taken 15 years ago. It was a 25 yard shot, with my 62# longbow, cedar arrow, and old Bear Razorhead.
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Offline timbow

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #194 on: May 16, 2005, 05:54:00 AM »
thanks for all the photo's guys!!!!!!!!i love this thread......i love old photo's!!!!!!let's see more!!!!!!!!
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Offline Ron LaClair

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« Reply #195 on: May 16, 2005, 06:32:00 AM »
Another buckskin picture. I'm not sure of the date but it must have been early because my beard wasn't grey    :D  

   
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #196 on: May 16, 2005, 06:54:00 AM »
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     "[dntthnk]"  

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


     
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Offline Archer 1

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #197 on: May 16, 2005, 06:56:00 AM »
[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.
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Offline Archer 1

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #198 on: May 16, 2005, 07:00:00 AM »
Don't know what happend, I'll see if it works this time.
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Offline 2-BIG

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #199 on: May 16, 2005, 07:29:00 AM »
Wow this stuff is awesome! Soon as I get purty nuff I'm gonna take a lot of pictures for a future Duffer thread!
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