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Offline TexMex

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #20 on: May 10, 2005, 09:26:00 AM »
Great pictures, thanks for sharing.
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Offline lilbobby

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2005, 09:30:00 AM »
I could look at this for hour's, thanks to everyone!  Great photo's, hope you post somemore, really nice! Pure enjoyment!
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Offline Dave Bulla

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2005, 09:33:00 AM »
Wow!  Keep them coming guys!  I haven't been doing this long enough to have any vintage pics like those, someday though... Got some cool old gun huhnting pics but not bow.

Warren, I realize the deer down south are not as big as those up north but was that a yearling?  Guess practicing on small game really does help on deer.  "[laffsmyl]"  

Just kidding.  I'm guessing you have lots more where that one came from, get them puppies scanned and posted.  You too Charlie.


Where's Van on this one?
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2005, 10:29:00 AM »
I know there's a bunch more "older" guys out there with pics... besides me, Troy and Ron. Give it up guys!

This one from 1967

   
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Offline WildmanSC

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2005, 01:02:00 PM »
"Braing us some more of them there fotygrafs"

LostHawg,

They look more like fifty, sixty and maybe in a case or two seventygrafs!!    ;)    :bigsmyl:  

Old Duffers,

If when we were younger we would have taken a little better care of our bodies instead of thinking we were indestructable, we would be a younger old duffer, today!  If you know what I mean!

I'm sitting at the keyboard the fifth day after having arthroscopic surgery on my right knee.  Right now I feel real old!!!  My knee is doing the best it has since surgery, but it is still worse than before the surgery!!!  The surgeon removed a bone chip from the joint that is about 3/8" L x 5/16" W x 1/4" H.  I'm not sure where it broke off from, but may find out when I go back for my post-op visit tomorrow and see at least portions of the video of the operation.

I can verify that getting old is not for sissies!!

Bill
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #25 on: May 10, 2005, 01:33:00 PM »
Bill,

Next is total knee replacement, I've got two of them. Had to go through airport security this morning, I thought they'd never quit waving that wand over me.      "[tunglaff]"    

Here's a picture from deer camp 1959, the first year my wife and I hunted together. We stayed in that 9x9 umbrella tent for two weeks and drank out of a clear stream nearby. You can't drink outa those streams anymore.

I had a blind by a wild apple tree and two coons came in to get apples. They ended up in our cook pot. Notice the bare broadheads in the National bow quiver. Those are old Goshawk broadheads.

My face is darkened with burnt cork. Any of you remember that?

       
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #26 on: May 10, 2005, 01:36:00 PM »
These are awesome guys!  :thumbsup:   I love looking at these.   Ron, I was two when you shot that fox!!! My grandfather left behind scores of photos of his life and the city and state we grew up in, they are among my favorite photographs. It's just so neat to look at them,  these remind me so much of those.

Thanks guys, keep 'em coming.

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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #27 on: May 10, 2005, 01:43:00 PM »
First bow kill, early 70s.

 
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Offline Van/TX

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #28 on: May 10, 2005, 02:43:00 PM »
I think I got one of my dad with an alligator in 1957   :saywhat:   I'll look this evening. Yeah I know, there was no alligator season back then   :D   It made the front page of the hometown newspaper though   :bigsmyl:    ....Van
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Offline Al Snow

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #29 on: May 10, 2005, 02:48:00 PM »
Great thread!  Van, can you post a larger version of your avatar pic?  That one fits the category.
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Offline David M. Mathis

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #30 on: May 10, 2005, 04:26:00 PM »
Everyone has alot of hair back then.
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Offline WildmanSC

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #31 on: May 10, 2005, 04:50:00 PM »
Ron,

I know I'm facing double knee replacement at some point in the future.  I would just like to hold it off a bit.  It's sorta funny, I haven't even noticed my left knee hurting the past 4 or 5 days.  Of course, that is because my right knee is hurting so much!!

How are you doing with the knee replacements?  Did you have them both at the same time?  Have they put any limitations on your hunting?

Take care of those artificial knees!!  

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #32 on: May 10, 2005, 06:44:00 PM »
Bill,

I had my knees done a year apart. A year after the last one I went back to Colorado, it was great to go up and down mountains again without pain. Do it, you won't regret it.
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #33 on: May 10, 2005, 06:46:00 PM »
Here's the question Ron's coon picture brought to my mind: Anyone buy lard by the crate anymore?   :D
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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #34 on: May 10, 2005, 06:48:00 PM »
Here's me shooting my 1958 Kodiak Special. It was 68" 45#@28" and was my tournament bow back then. My hunting bow was the 52# Kodiak.

Man I wish I had that slim build again    "[tunglaff]"  

   
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #35 on: May 10, 2005, 07:22:00 PM »
Boy I love to look at old archery pics.  Here's that gator my Dad shot in 1958 on the way to work.  He shot it with a regular broadhead first.  It sunk immediately.  Then he shot it with a fish arrow to drag it to the bank.  Stalking gators from the bank... Cool.  I had a pic of it in the back of his 1954 Chevy Belair but I can't seem to find it   :bigsmyl:    

 

Keep 'em comin'.  This is cool  :thumbsup:  ...Van
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #36 on: May 10, 2005, 07:45:00 PM »
I think Van was borned rurnt.   :bigsmyl:  

Nice pics Van.
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #37 on: May 10, 2005, 08:03:00 PM »
:scared:  
 

In the background my Dad's 1954 Chevy.  Dang, that suckers 6 years old by then  :)  ....Van
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Re: Old Duffers were young once.
« Reply #38 on: May 10, 2005, 08:07:00 PM »
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Van,yer paw is a cool lookin feller,I bet he didna change oil fer a livin...
 
As a matter of fact he did  :bigsmyl:    :bigsmyl:  ....Van
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« Reply #39 on: May 10, 2005, 08:39:00 PM »
This is the early 60's (color film) Kodiak Special, 66", 60#@28. Shootin them new fangled fiberglass Micro Flights. The word Traditional haden't been invented yet.   :bigsmyl:


   
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