Old Duffers were young once.

[Ron LaClair]

A picture of my son and I with some of the fur we took one fall. That little boy is a 44 year old man now.    :eek:  

   

[Cody Roiter]

ron i found some howard hill pics thank youuuuuu
ron

[Van/TX]

and he said, "right click?...how do you right click?" ...  ..  
 

Ron, that's funny          
 

[Van/TX]

Here's a pretty old one.  My Dad shooting indoor Chicago Round.  He was a pretty good target archer.  Just didn't have the time to devote.  Had too many mouths to feed   :D   41# Palomino, Microflite #5's.....
 

 ....Van

[Steve O]

Van,

I sure hope that was a clip on tie    I know if I shot my bow that dressed up, the boys would be picking my head up near the target.

[Ron LaClair]

Van, I shot with your dad at the Howard Hill shoot in Alabama and at the GLLI in Michigan. If I remember right he was left handed   :confused:  Did he switch?

[JC]

Awesome thread guys, my greatest respect and admiration for all of your contributions to our sport.

[Van/TX]

Steve, not a clip on.  Don't know why but grown ups for some reason dressed up for everything back then. (Well, maybe not Ron) It's really strange        .....Van

[Van/TX]

Ron, I was wondering if you noticed.  My Dad hunted all his life lefthanded but he was right handed and right eyed. In the late 50's when we got interested in tournament shooting (though he had shot target archery in the 40's) he switched to right hand target bows but continued to shoot lefthanded hunting bows.  I sort of did the same thing but later in life except I was left handed and right eyed.  Some times I put the shooting glove on the wrong hand    

He loved the Howard Hill and GLLI shoots.  I got some pics of y'all there     ....Van

[Charlie Lamb]

Did a lot of my own dark room work in the day. Here's one I got in the carrier upside down and it makes me look left handed.

   

[Ron LaClair]

Van,

Thanks for confirming that I'm not losing my memory, not totaly anyway.

Your dad was a real gentleman and I enjoyed talking with him. One time at the GLLI he had a big box of Pearson Deadheads. I liked the Deadheads and had taken a lot of game with them but they were hard to get after they stopped making them. I ask Sterling where he got so many Deadheads. He just smiled and said, "Ben Pearson was a friend of mine."    Then he gave me a handfull of them.   :D

[Charlie Lamb]

An old photo of the St. Louis Bowhunters. I think these were the winners after a tournament.
In the group are Tom and Owen Jeffrey.

   

[Charlie Lamb]

Road? Ya mean the frozen creek?

[Razorbak]

GREAT PHOTO'S
is my imagination but doesnt Ron look like the original Grizzly Adam..  

[Ron LaClair]

is my imagination but doesnt Ron look like the original Grizzly Adam.    

When the Grizzly Adams show was popular I was long haired and bushy bearded. I got called Grizzly Adams  quite a lot. I don't know what Dan Haggerty looks like today, I wonder if he got fat and grey too?  
     

[Ron LaClair]

Here's one from 45 years ago, me with a good mess of Red Horse suckers

     

[Charlie Lamb]

Here's one of a weasel... shot a bunch of those little beggars over the years.

   

[Charlie Lamb]

Had to shoot a porcupine...cause I'd seen Fred Bear do it. Killed a couple in those early years. Even skinned one... ONCE!
   

[Blue Moose]

Great thread. One of my regrets is that I didn't do a better job of documenting my hunting life. NOTE TO YOUNG FOLKS: Take pics! 40 years from now they'll be cool like all these;) TM

[Ron LaClair]

Charlie, you said you skinned a porky once, did you eat it? If not you should have, they're mighty tasty.

When I was a kid I used to shoot them and my grandma would cook em in the oven. I nailed the skins on the outhouse and dang near had it covered until they made me take em down.