Sentimental lane....

[Jim Boyd]

Sitting on tree limbs
Homemade Baker tree stands
2x4 stands nailed in the Y of a tree
Buying your first “real stand” - mine was a Cottonwood
Vienna sausage and crackers
Eating at Waffle House at 5 am
Forester Sisters on FM radio
30 yard shots where the arrow arced like a rainbow
2wd trucks buried in mud holes at 530 am
Larry Munson and the Dawgs while we napped under trees midday
Seemingly, the most expensive rifle scope on the planet cost $100
Zip up camo overalls
Binos - what binos?
Frozen feet
Bug spray by the quart
Lost in the biggest black water swamp you have ever seen



What else do you recall???

 

[turkeykirk]

Home made VW woods buggy.
Flannel shirt and blue jeans(cold)
Cheap deer leases. Often got to hunt for free.
Sounded like a war on Opening Day and Doe Days.
Hunt November and could hardly wait for Bonus week after Christmas.

 

[baddave]

food plots were illegal .. hunting over a baited field.. compound bows were illegal

 

[7Mag Hunter]

sleeping in back of truck under a truck topper..
kerosene lanterns..
Army surplus camo sticks for face and hands..
Hunting in green Army fatigues and Army boots..
hunting with iron sights..
Opening day was Buck only..
1st stand WAS a Baker Stand...
2nd stand ( 1 year later) Warren and Sweat "Special"...
Primitive camping on the ONF far from any other hunters..

 

[brownceluse]

Pork and bean sandwiches for breakfast lunch and dinner.

 

[jbogg]

No headlamps
No hand warmers
No gps
No range finder
No thinsulate
No gortex
No trail cameras
No 4x4
I definitely appreciate the advances in technology, especially cold weather clothing. Used to freeze to death.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Saving to buy my first rifle in 1979. Marlin 3030 and still have it. Fried backstrap, taters and onions and still do that. Building ladder stands out of scrap lumber, don't do that any more. Treebark camo overalls and an old army jacket from Ole Sarge's.

 

[bowhunterdavid]

Green army jacket-single cab pickups with gun rack in back -wearing two pair of jeans to stay warm-baker tree stand-- Avon skin so soft to keep ticks and chiggers off--742 woodmaster 30/06 with no scope-- and plenty of red man chew..

 

[saltysenior]

Red and Black coat and hat., corduroy pants , surplus army boots, 12ga L.C.Smith w/5 shells on my first solo hunt....10 minutes later a dead spike that looked like a trophy.....

 

[bullgator]

The sound of mud tires heading to camp on Friday before opening day

 

[transfixer]

Sleeping on the floor of a van in freezing weather
Handwarmers that had burn sticks you had to light
Beanie weenies and Vienna sausage for lunch
Making sure the come-a-long and chain were in the truck
Baker deer stand , without a hand climber
Rem742 with iron sights ( who needed scopes ? ) lol
blue jeans, flannel shirts, orange boggins
sitting around the campfire listening to the "old" guys tell stories

 

[bilgerat]

1 buck and 2 doe limit
sleeping in the kids tent
Daddy and all his buddies playin poker all night n the bunk house
sitting in the big "treehouse" stand with dad
getting to hunt all By Myself at the age of 9 with dads old 20 gauge single shot
getting a new marlin 30-30 in August of 1968 on My 10th birthday and killing My first buck with it in Early Co. that fall, a trophy 7 pointer
dad smearing blood on My cheeks , I wore that "war paint" with pride all weekend.
Riding in the back of the truck with the tail gate down, holding that lil 7 pointer as we took it to the cooler in town.
And peanut butter and nanner samiches and a grape Nehi

 

[kevincox]

The anticipation of the first shot on opening morning
Flannel shirts
Untuned bows
Aluminum arrows
Woodland camo
Spike tree steps
Long Johns

 

[Milkman]

Recurve bow and wooden arrows

Shotgun with buckshot and slugs

Excited to see fresh deer tracks

Pictures with articles on front page of county paper of hunter with deer

Camping out with other boys in the woods to get an early start ( 3 miles from home)

 

[DEERSLAYERJOHN]

Sounds like most of the stuff we did.
Every body coming out of he woods around 10:00 A.M. to go to the check station to see what was killed.

 

[Longhorn 16]

Using a sleeping bag in a climber for late season hunts. I really appreciate the new gear and actually being able to afford to purchase proper gear.

 

[Pointpuller]

Buck knife folding hunter that you couldn't get sharp.
Army boots that leaked and weren't warm.
Wearing 3 pairs of TUBE socks.
Army jacket with jeans.
Baker climber with no hand climber.
Seeing 10-15 does an afternoon in 3 Lakes WMA and never a buck.
Putting bread bags over your boots to walk through swamps. It sounded good but feet still always got wet.
Taping a wooden match stick to recurve bow riser for a site.
We had mosquito repellent in a plastic bottle that you squeezed out on your hand and applied.
Listening to the Gator football games in the dove field on a radio that was as big as a car battery in the early 70's.

 

[Last Minute]

Opening of deer season in the everglades looked like Ft. Lauderdale beach during spring break..
Camps setup everywhere..literally..
Getting lit up from static electricity from grabbing the dew covered truck door handle first thing in the a.m after camping under powerlines...
Honda atc's with high handlebars so we could drive standing up and see over the sawgrass..
Still hunted barefoot..nothing kept your feet dry and lugging around water logged boots just wore you out and was the opposite of quiet...
Airboats, half tracks and full tracks piled with deer..
Refrigerated tractor trailers filled with bucks..
Driving through the glades and see hundreds of deer without getting out of the truck...

Then along came South Florida water mismanagement flooding area and drowning everything out...
Operation deer save...look that up on YouTube
Mercy hunts...
It'll never be the same...but I still hunt it every year it's open...

 

[PappyHoel]

I remember having a place to hunt

 

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