No scopes, no camo, no carbines

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No scopes, no camo, no carbines

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How can they be successful? :)
HuntersBigElk.jpg
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ ... 21/id/4255
Hunters1907.jpg
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ ... 1/id/11118
Hunters5.jpg
http://cdm16079.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ ... 1/id/11670

Photos from the Denver Public Library collection.

The link will let you zoom in to see details of the photos.

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Define "carbine"...

Some of those rifles don't look to be much over 20"... and my 20" "short rifle" is more of a "carbine" than my M4gery ever was...
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Great old photos, I like hunting the old fashioned way.
Way too many techno gizmos these days to even make it proper sport, the critters we hunt haven't got any more difficult to kill since Davy Crockett was a boy!.
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Them boys was hunters. They also came from a different time and place where getting the meat was the game, not just getting out for a weekend with your bud.

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I wore blue jeans, SE sneakers, and a hooded sweatshirt, same thing I wore cutting firewood and hauling fish aboard, to make meat. The venison never noticed that I wasn't wearing makeup. :lol:

I know someone who grew up hunting in Idaho. He wore a cowbell and walked right up to 'em. No camo. No paint. Just go get the job done.

Old school is still cool
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Great photos & thanks!!



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Love these old photos , thanks.

That first picture they have been using buck & ball, they look like SxS's.
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No scopes, no camo, no carbines...

... and no hunting regulations.

They could hunt any time and use any means or method.

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FWiedner wrote:No scopes, no camo, no carbines...

... and no hunting regulations.

They could hunt any time and use any means or method.

:wink:
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" How can they be successful?"

must be the earliest form of photoshop?!
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Re: No scopes, no camo, no carbines

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It seemed to work too.
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Button down shirts.
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bcp wrote:How can they be successful? :)
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Re: No scopes, no camo, no carbines

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Well lets consider someone carried a camera. From the apparent era this is quite a gadget indeed. Also horseback hunting is a game of gadgets. To us it is old school, to them it would be high tech. Many folks hunted with much less. It is interesting how few wore sidearms.

The most new gadget might be all the expensive lever actions, once considered a joke from an old timer's Springfield or front stuffer's old school opinion.
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Re: No scopes, no camo, no carbines

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Who needs an overcomplicated dangerous lever gun anyway 8)
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Old Ironsights wrote:Define "carbine"...

Some of those rifles don't look to be much over 20"... and my 20" "short rifle" is more of a "carbine" than my M4gery ever was...

When I zoom in, they all look like 24-26 inch rifle barrels, with the solid forend cap, not the band.

For example: (click to enlarge)
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Looks like a Marlin on the left, too.

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Grizz wrote:I wore blue jeans, SE sneakers, and a hooded sweatshirt, same thing I wore cutting firewood and hauling fish aboard, to make meat. The venison never noticed that I wasn't wearing makeup. :lol:

I know someone who grew up hunting in Idaho. He wore a cowbell and walked right up to 'em. No camo. No paint. Just go get the job done.

Old school is still cool

Properly dressed for hunting:
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thanks for that Bruce. obviously beyond my pay grade . . .

love the photos, can't afford the attire . Heh
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