Old Hunt Photos
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Ammo Smith
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As I said, I do not have many pictures of me hunting. The few that I do have are getting old now. Here they are:
Georgia Whitetail, shot Dec 31, 1969, Oconee National Forest, Monticello Georgia. I had been hunting this one deer for 2-1/2 years. Hard to see in the picture but the deer is 9-1/2 years old, had no teeth left and probably would have died that winter.
I shot him on the last day of the 1969 season in Georgia. Shot with a .35 Remington Marlin 336 at 40 yards in the neck. Deer weighed only 195 field dressed but was over 6 feet long, hung by neck. Deer rough scores 171 BC points.
Pronghorn Antelope shot near Bill Wyoming in October 1976. I was hunting with 3 other people and all four of us got our animals in the first two days. That part of Wyoming has antelope running around like jack rabbits all over the land. My animal was about 135 pounds and had 14-1/4" left and 14 inch right horn length. A decent buck for that area. Mine was the second largest of the four animals shot.
Next was a guided Mule Deer hunt that I took in Colorado, Grand Mesa in 1978. I did not have a partner , so they paired me up with some guy from Pannsylvania, who they said had hunted there before and was an okay guy. Well, he went out with the guide opening morning and the other guy shot his first deer. I did not score on opening day.
The next morning this guy from PA shows up again with his rifle? I asked What the ___? The guide said, no problem, I shall stay with him. Well while I was stalking my deer, this idiot shot another buck mule deer and wanted me to tag it, HAH! I went back out and stalked the deer that I wanted and killed it at 300 yards with my .300 H&H. For $1500, plus out-of-state license of $150, there was no way that this monkey was shooting my deer! My deer is a 4-point that weighed 275 pounds, dressed. You can see from the picture that he is a hog!
That last deer in this write-up is one of the mule deer that I killed in southern Utah, (Pinto Basin). This deer is 4 point on one side and three point + one on the other. Utah at that time (1986) did not have a lot of trophy deer available. Two really hard and full snow packed winters had killed most of the mature bucks and fawns in the northern rocky's. Pickings were slim and I was glad to get this mature desert mule deer.
This deer weighed about 165 pounds dressed and was shot with a .270 Winchester Custom at approximately 300+ yards across canyon. I have not measured the horns and I do not have them anymore, my ex-wife does.
Georgia Whitetail, shot Dec 31, 1969, Oconee National Forest, Monticello Georgia. I had been hunting this one deer for 2-1/2 years. Hard to see in the picture but the deer is 9-1/2 years old, had no teeth left and probably would have died that winter.
I shot him on the last day of the 1969 season in Georgia. Shot with a .35 Remington Marlin 336 at 40 yards in the neck. Deer weighed only 195 field dressed but was over 6 feet long, hung by neck. Deer rough scores 171 BC points.
Pronghorn Antelope shot near Bill Wyoming in October 1976. I was hunting with 3 other people and all four of us got our animals in the first two days. That part of Wyoming has antelope running around like jack rabbits all over the land. My animal was about 135 pounds and had 14-1/4" left and 14 inch right horn length. A decent buck for that area. Mine was the second largest of the four animals shot.
Next was a guided Mule Deer hunt that I took in Colorado, Grand Mesa in 1978. I did not have a partner , so they paired me up with some guy from Pannsylvania, who they said had hunted there before and was an okay guy. Well, he went out with the guide opening morning and the other guy shot his first deer. I did not score on opening day.
The next morning this guy from PA shows up again with his rifle? I asked What the ___? The guide said, no problem, I shall stay with him. Well while I was stalking my deer, this idiot shot another buck mule deer and wanted me to tag it, HAH! I went back out and stalked the deer that I wanted and killed it at 300 yards with my .300 H&H. For $1500, plus out-of-state license of $150, there was no way that this monkey was shooting my deer! My deer is a 4-point that weighed 275 pounds, dressed. You can see from the picture that he is a hog!
That last deer in this write-up is one of the mule deer that I killed in southern Utah, (Pinto Basin). This deer is 4 point on one side and three point + one on the other. Utah at that time (1986) did not have a lot of trophy deer available. Two really hard and full snow packed winters had killed most of the mature bucks and fawns in the northern rocky's. Pickings were slim and I was glad to get this mature desert mule deer.
This deer weighed about 165 pounds dressed and was shot with a .270 Winchester Custom at approximately 300+ yards across canyon. I have not measured the horns and I do not have them anymore, my ex-wife does.
Darkhorse
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That is a real good Georgia Whitetail OD3! There are still some good deer coming off the Oconee occasionally. The forest is about 1 1/2 hours north of me but for some reason I've only hunted the Piedmont NWR section and that for turkeys only. I was on a large lease who's northern borders were the Oconee NF around '79 and remember huge white oak trees and you could hear the acorns dropping from my deer stand across the line. Everytime we drive through it I think about hunting it.
That old buck could be one of the original transplanted deer from when they were building the herd. Some of these were from Wisconsin and other northern states. Good genetics.
That old buck could be one of the original transplanted deer from when they were building the herd. Some of these were from Wisconsin and other northern states. Good genetics.
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Ammo Smith
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Thanks Bill, I appreciate your comments. I was beginning to think that nobody believed that I was a hunter here on this forum? :mrgreen: These are all the pictures that I have. The rest are gone, including a bunch of big game fishing stuff too that I lost. Oh well, I still remember and that is what counts.
Bill I just went back through and noticed the mule deer that you killed when you were young. That is one hell of a deer, Bill!
Bill I just went back through and noticed the mule deer that you killed when you were young. That is one hell of a deer, Bill!
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Ammo Smith
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Oh, I know Vince, I am just joshing these guys a little. Turn about is fair play!
The largest one that I have killed horn wise is 31" outside to outside, with a 3 inch cheater point on each side, counting the cheaters he is 6 on one side 5 on the other. Very wide and not really tall. Here is a picture of them, that's a 36" yardstick laying across them
cloverleaf
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Doc- When you are less than two hours from the Missouri river in SD, it is something you can do. The early 80's were the beginning of the light goose explosion. In the Fall they were tougher to find but in the right places the light geese were there by the thousands. We had some ducks and a few geese around on the south east side of the state. In the spring they come back north by the thousands. My grandfather was famous for his "stock dam jumping" for ducks. Good places along the Sioux river for wood ducks too or so I am told. The NE third of SD is known as the prairie pothole region of the state. At that time there was as much public ground open to hunting in Minnehaha and McCook counties (SE side of the state ) as there was anywhere in the state. I was right in the middle. Pheasants were a given even in the "bad" years. And I lived inn the middle of it all. There were WT's and Muleys and pronghorn and Elk and if you were lucky you could find Bighorns and Billies (protected then). Lets see...gophers and Prairie dogs, partridge and coyotes, big Fox Squirrels, rabbits and Jacks.....Yep I grew up in paradise, that's for sure. CLDrMike":na5c5y2e said:
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Ammo Smith
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Bill, I have not been very lucky with mule deer for large antler size. I think now any one who kills a 30 inch+ mule deer on public land with more than 4 points has done something special. That 6x5, 31 inch that you killed is one hell of a trophy mule deer!
Guy Miner
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Great old photos guys! Loving it.
Charlie - in the background of your pronghorn photo is a Chevy Blazer (or GMC Jimmy). Was that your rig? Always liked those and had a Blazer for about 12 years.
Regards, Guy
Charlie - in the background of your pronghorn photo is a Chevy Blazer (or GMC Jimmy). Was that your rig? Always liked those and had a Blazer for about 12 years.
Regards, Guy
DrMike
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Troy,
I turned down the opportunity to move to Spearfish about fourteen years ago, choosing to move farther north here in BC. Yeah, SD had some attraction for me.
I turned down the opportunity to move to Spearfish about fourteen years ago, choosing to move farther north here in BC. Yeah, SD had some attraction for me.
Guy Miner
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Like most, my old photos are not digital, and I'll have to try to scan or photograph them, and frankly there are darned few of them anyway. I didn't do a lot of hunting photos until I got a small digital camera.
In the meanwhile, from about 12 years ago when my youngest son got his first deer, a mulie doe at around 275 yards with one shot from the 6mm Remington, using the 95 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip of course! One shot, through and through, instant drop. Dang I was proud of him, and he was mighty pleased as you can see:
I got this bull elk up in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming 15 years ago. One shot with a 7mm Rem mag, using a 175 gr Nosler Partition at about 180 yards:
And about the oldest hunting photo I've got in digital format, I'm thinking about 1985 or so, hog hunting. Used a .300 Win mag with a 180 gr Nosler Partition. Huh. Bet that combo would still work just fine for about 90% of the hunting I've done:
Yeah, that was a leaner Guy Miner, still in the Marines.
Regards, Guy
In the meanwhile, from about 12 years ago when my youngest son got his first deer, a mulie doe at around 275 yards with one shot from the 6mm Remington, using the 95 gr Nosler Ballistic Tip of course! One shot, through and through, instant drop. Dang I was proud of him, and he was mighty pleased as you can see:
I got this bull elk up in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming 15 years ago. One shot with a 7mm Rem mag, using a 175 gr Nosler Partition at about 180 yards:
And about the oldest hunting photo I've got in digital format, I'm thinking about 1985 or so, hog hunting. Used a .300 Win mag with a 180 gr Nosler Partition. Huh. Bet that combo would still work just fine for about 90% of the hunting I've done:
Yeah, that was a leaner Guy Miner, still in the Marines.
Regards, Guy
DrMike
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Excellent photos, Guy. I like the photo of your son; always enjoy seeing younger hunters score since it refreshes the joy of the hunt that I experienced in the early days.
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This is like stepping into the Delorean and letting the flux capacitor do its thing!
Great pics Charlie, Guy, and Bill. Charlie that whitetail is fantastic, Guy what an elk, and Bill that is a sweet mulie.
Great pics Charlie, Guy, and Bill. Charlie that whitetail is fantastic, Guy what an elk, and Bill that is a sweet mulie.
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Ammo Smith
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Guy Miner":3eh0n7x8 said:
Guy, that was my 1973, Jimmy, 2 door, 350 cid, 350 HP, with Cepek-Armstrong tires. It got 6 miles to the gallon off road and about 8-10 miles to the gallon on-road. Good thing gas was only $1.25/gallon! It also ate wheel bearings if you ran it hard off road.
Guy that Wind River bull is a nice one! I hunted up there also but never got a bull.
Guy Miner
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Thanks Charlie!
My Chevy Blazer was a full size, like yours, but built in 1990. Had the fuel-injected 210 hp 350, automatic, 3.73:1 gears. I added the manual locking hubs and an aftermarket limited slip to the rear end. It was quite the critter. Had a 32 gallon gas tank, and needed it!
We did a LOT of family camping trips "out west" with it.
I was really fortunate to get that bull. His antlers are on the wall in this room as I bang away on the keyboard. I've never had a shot at a bull like that, in season, since.
Guy
My Chevy Blazer was a full size, like yours, but built in 1990. Had the fuel-injected 210 hp 350, automatic, 3.73:1 gears. I added the manual locking hubs and an aftermarket limited slip to the rear end. It was quite the critter. Had a 32 gallon gas tank, and needed it!
We did a LOT of family camping trips "out west" with it.
I was really fortunate to get that bull. His antlers are on the wall in this room as I bang away on the keyboard. I've never had a shot at a bull like that, in season, since.
Guy
Guy Miner
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Sometime I've got to break out my older photos, although that hog hunt does go back 30 years.
Most of my older photos are bird hunting trips. Used to do a lot of that, and find that I'm getting fired up about it again.
Guy
Most of my older photos are bird hunting trips. Used to do a lot of that, and find that I'm getting fired up about it again.
Guy
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