Today I don't think any magazine would publish a picture of a deer that 1 man can hold with 1 hand.

Think they used scent control?

That's a beast!

Nate

How did they shoot these big monsters without magnums loads, camo, scent control, gore tex?
Wool still is the best out door garb.
Guess they were hunters. Great pictures, black and white classic photos are so reminiscient of my youth. This is an American heritage of which I am proud to belong. I can not say that about the current state of team sports I played as a youngster, then later as an adult.

Yeah those are definatly scent-loc pants and the vest is Cabelas guide series, the shirt looks like mossy oak wetlands camo and the hat is a Indiana Jones knock off. Probably used a Jarrett custom in something like .338RUM. Just jokin- thats a really nice picture of a huge blacktail taken in a era when hunters were hunters and hunting was how you fed your family, not about fat wallets,inches of bone and commercialization.

Amazing Pictures! Its neat seeing the "roots" of what made hunting what it is today.

I think its interesting to note these guys took some amazing animals with no modern high-tech gear. It says something if they can get animals without even camo. Perhaps we should reconsider the importance of the hunter as compared to the importance of his gear.

I love the old photos.
not only is it nostalgic, but it just goes to show how modern hunters are so caught up on the latest gear/camo/gadgets. It is all nice to have but people have been taking game for years without all all the fancy gadgets and gizmos.

I love these old photos!!When I was 17 (1956)I went deer hunting for the first time.A neighbor farmer took me,we tent camped in northern WI.What I thought was the most fun were stories told about earlier years.I always wished there were pictures,but even when I started not many had cameras.

Cool old pic ! wish we could hunt like that now without all the gimmicks and " correct equipment"

In 1968 I bagged a big beamed 3 point, not counting eye guards, Blacktail, that yielded 178 lbs. of meat from the butcher shop. I'm not sure of the total dressed weight. This old buck lived his years in the Upper Skagit Valley of Washington State. I love looking at old photo's like the one submitted of M.H. Palmer's 1925 buck, what a monster!

One thing that certainly surpasses the evolution of time; the story telling and moderate embellishment of the difficult shot with your hunting buddies!

Good pics, thanks for posting em.

Time can change most of things.flexible led strips