Old Duffers were young once.

[Van/TX]

More clues later.  I really like this one though.  It's one of my favorites of Ben and Dad.
Louisiana deer camp (Spring Bayou) early 60's.

I can just hear Ben saying " This thing (Deadhead) is like a hand grenade....all ya gotta do is git close "

       
 

[Ron LaClair]

Here's a series of pictures taken when we went to the World Longbow Championship shoot at the Howard Hill Archery club in Alabama in 1981. Before the shoot Jerry Hill took a bunch of us on a tour to see Howards home and afterwards to see all the Howard Hill memorabilia at Jerrys home.

Mrs Ben Pearson is standing next to Jerry in the center of the photo. I'm over on the left in shorts holding up a post.    


Howard set these post to hold his target bales. The wood was a little rotten so I put a piece in the bottom of my quiver for luck

   

 
At Jerrys place I'm holding one of Howards bows, "White Eagle", I could feel the Mojo    :D      


 When I put on Howards glove I felt a warm sensation go up my arm. I remember saying, "I can feel Howard in this glove,.. I'm going to win this shoot tomorrow"
     


The next day we arrived at the shoot      

[Van/TX]

Dang, got goose bumps on that one Ron   ....Van

[Ron LaClair]

Here I am taking a long shot on the range with a bunch of onlookers. Pressure?....naw        
 
   


 The results, the title of World Longbow Champion  1981....thanks Howard    
     

[Van/TX]

Another favorite of mine.  Dad giving Ben Jr. some pointers on instinctive shooting  :p    Just kidding    Ben Jr. had the best teacher there was      :D  .....Van

Deer Camp South Arkansas (Between Eldorado and Hampton)

 

[Ibow]

This has been the most enjoyable thread I have ever looked at on this site (or any other for that matter). Thanks Ron, Charlie Lamb, VanTx and all the others that have posted the great picts here. I have really enjoyed it.

[Ron LaClair]

Early in 1982 Nancy and I went on a trip and passed near Poplarville Mississippi where Bob Wesley lived at the time. I had never met Bob or even talked to him by phone but decided to stop by and say hi. I called from a pay phone in town and he said stay right where you are, I'll be right there. In a few minutes Bob showed up, we shook hands and he told me to follow him to his house. What started out to be a quick stop to say hi turned into a two day stay. Bob and his wife Fran were most gracious host and wouldn't take no for an answer when they ask us to spend the night.

After sleeping in the same bed as Howard Hill when he visited his friends the Wesleys we were treated to a fine southern breakfast then Bob took me to his private shooting course for a round of shooting. If I remember right I trounced him pretty good but Bob said he hadn't been shooting much lately. I told him about the Howard Hill shoot in Wilsonville Alabama and encouraged him to to come to the shoot that summer.

After we left Bob did some serious practicing and showed up at the World Champaionship shoot that year. No one was happier than I when Bob won the title in 1982. It couldn't have happened to a nicer gentleman. I haven't seen Bob for a number of years but we email on occasion and I still consider him a good friend.

         

[Raven]

Great Stuff!!!!          

[Charlie Lamb]

I think this one was spring of 1970. I was turkey hunting and found this snapper swimming down the creek. Shot from up on the bank and put the arrow through his shell.
I came back for him an hour later only to find him gone! Finally spotted my arrow (with binoculars) moving like a periscope down the creek a hundred yards away.
A blunt through the back of his head did the trick that time.

 

[Charlie Lamb]

Lots of hot springs flow from the hillsides along the Green river in Northwestern Wyoming. In an effort to capture it on film I took this photo and didn't do it justice.  :D  

 

[TexMex]

Boy, all this photos would make a great screensaver.        

[Otto]

I've been going to Cloverdale now for 12 or 13 years, and every year I tell myself I'm gonna take a camera and every yr I find an excuse not to.  This thread has been the motivation I needed.

All of this is a link to the past history of the sport and all of us appreciate what you have done.

To Ron, Van, Charlie and others, thanks so much for documenting the past and for providing all of these incredible images.

Otto

[Cody Roiter]

cool Ron

[Ron LaClair]

Here's a shooting demonstration in the early 80's. That's me in the buckskin shirt doing the old foot shot. I learned how to do that years before when I broke my arm during hunting season and had to shoot with my foot if I wanted to hunt that year.  

     

[Raven]

Ron,
   Who's the guy in the leather vest?? I remember seeing a video of you two shooting a speedround, you ran out of arrows and began shooting some of his      :D    

[StanM]

Raven,

That's Norm Blaker, unless I'm mistaken.

Stan

[Raven]

Thanks! Who is he?  :confused:

[Danny Rowan]

Hey Charlie,

I think photobucket is trying to tell you something. Last two pics say Photobucket Bandwidth exceeded.LOL

Danny

[StanM]

Raven,

If that is indeed Norm, then I'm going to wait until Ron, or somebody more knowledgable can chime in.  I know him only from the articles that he's written (the last I read was from a while back).  What I seem to remember about him was that he was a hardcore traditionalist, a bowyer, and a heckuva shot.

Stan

[Charlie Lamb]

Yeah Danny, they want money from me now! Hope this next one comes through.

It's a picture taken sometime in the mid 50's. In this group of real old timers is Earl Hoyt Jr. and Paul Jefferies. Founding fathers in this state.

Any guesses?