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Offline Ron LaClair

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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #80 on: April 16, 2015, 08:52:00 AM »
Me in 1955 with my new Bear Kodiak double shelf. That's a 1953 Mercury in the picture

     

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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #81 on: April 16, 2015, 01:43:00 PM »
What's the quiver in that bottom pic Ron?  Kindda looks like a St. Charles?
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #82 on: April 16, 2015, 01:56:00 PM »
I just turned 24 but I feel like an old guy...you guys were having so much fun I had to jump in. This one was somewhere around 1996 probably. You can see I still had the training wheels on (only part time, I did shoot a trad bow as a young'un) in this one    :biglaugh:  

 
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #83 on: April 20, 2015, 08:37:00 PM »
:thumbsup:    :campfire:    :archer:

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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #84 on: April 21, 2015, 11:17:00 AM »
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[QB] 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.

my father is 77 and still uses the kwickee with no hood, he's stubborn and has a loud voice and I like to listen to him lay into people who tell him its dangerous, it usually begins with,  how old are you? then after 5 minutes they wished they never brought it up.
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #85 on: April 21, 2015, 11:38:00 AM »
Great pics, guys.  Love seeing these.
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #86 on: April 21, 2015, 05:46:00 PM »
Ran out of bowhunting pictures but here are some fishing pictures from the early 50s.

My dad and I gudgeon fishing 1953.
   
Flounder fishing 1954 Ocean City, MD.
   
My Dad and I on the Rt 50 bridge in OC in 1954.
   
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #87 on: April 21, 2015, 07:53:00 PM »
Great pics!
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #88 on: April 21, 2015, 10:56:00 PM »
35 years ago.

 

About 4 years ago

 
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #89 on: April 22, 2015, 08:25:00 AM »
Kwikie Kwiver, I still have the scar 40 years later. I ran my hand down my bow limb to the handle with out thinking while I was talking to a friend who pulled up in his jeep. The first Bear Razorhead I encountered cut me to the bone and headed me to the Dr in a hurry.

The light line is the scar.

 
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #90 on: April 22, 2015, 09:47:00 AM »
I did the same Dang Thing, Eric!!!!!  :biglaugh:

I had an old Kwiky-Kwiver, backward on my old 50# Bear Alaskan, so I could "step-through" string it.....

I strung it up... Then slid my hand down the upper limb, right into a 4 blade Zwickey Eskimo!!!!! Nice & deep, right into the heel of my hand... No Doctor though, Dr.Mom scrubbed it out, poured peroxide in it, swabbed it down with mecurachrome, and taped it up!!! You can barely see the scar anymore...

(I did have a "Purple Hand" for a month or so)   :rolleyes:
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #91 on: April 22, 2015, 07:19:00 PM »
I wish someone had taken some photos back in the late 60's and early 70's. I got my start hunting deer in 1968.........brings back some good memories!!
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #92 on: April 22, 2015, 07:24:00 PM »
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I did the same Dang Thing, Eric!!!!!    :biglaugh:  

I had an old Kwiky-Kwiver, backward on my old 50# Bear Alaskan, so I could "step-through" string it.....

I strung it up... Then slid my hand down the upper limb, right into a 4 blade Zwickey Eskimo!!!!! Nice & deep, right into the heel of my hand... No Doctor though, Dr.Mom scrubbed it out, poured peroxide in it, swabbed it down with mecurachrome, and taped it up!!! You can barely see the scar anymore...

(I did have a "Purple Hand" for a month or so)     :rolleyes:  
AAGGGHHH mecurachrome-flashbacks    :eek:


Great pix!!  Keep em coming guys!
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #93 on: April 22, 2015, 11:11:00 PM »
My Grandfather (on the left), in 1948-Newfield, NY.
   
Me in 2009, Dover, DE.  Wish his bow was still shootable!!!
   
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #94 on: January 28, 2020, 01:15:57 PM »
TTT  Good Stuff
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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #95 on: January 28, 2020, 02:10:44 PM »
First deer Dec 2,1967. Bear Kodiak 47# Microflite #8 Black panther broadhead

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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #96 on: January 28, 2020, 02:17:23 PM »
Spring bear 51 yrs later 2018 Bear T/D 56# axis 340 Bear razorhead

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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #97 on: January 29, 2020, 12:51:17 PM »
My first bow killed deer, 1973 I think. I had a bear Kodiak Hunter, 20116s and Bear razor heads.


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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #98 on: January 29, 2020, 03:51:43 PM »
My Grandfather (on the left), in 1948-Newfield, NY.
  
Me in 2009, Dover, DE.  Wish his bow was still shootable!!!
  

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Re: Old guys when they were young
« Reply #99 on: January 30, 2020, 05:12:25 PM »
I guess since I really dont have any really early pics with a bow I'll start with this one.  I am the second guy in from the left standing.  If you old guys look real hard you may recognize a few folks from Englnd in the pic...  The Kinks.  We opend for them at the Accadamy of Music, NYC, I think it was 65...  My rocker and long full head of hair days.


About 15 years ago looking professorial:


And this past year at an American Mountain Men camp in KY.  The hair is still long, there just ain't as much of it:

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