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  • john17427

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    In the last few years I've developed a thing for looking at old hunting photos. Pre-50's stuff and really the older, the better. Especially from the 20's and 30's. I primarily like to see the firearms they were using, but also the game, clothes, dogs, vehicles, basically all of it. Especially if it's in Louisiana. I've always been a history nut. This is just the latest interest.

    Not many pictures of my grandfather when he was younger, and he passed just before I was born, which was some time ago. All I have are the stories. Here are the few (two) pictures I have, taken in Chackbay. My dad back in the 50's with a deer they took in the swamp and my grandfather in the 30's with his Walker hounds. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of my grandfather with his double barrel, though I have the gun. It was the only gun he had and he hunted everything with it to feed his family. He did have a 22 rifle to run his trap lines with.

    If you have old family pictures like this, I (for one) would enjoy seeing them.



     

    Paintball

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    I remember rabbit hunting in the 80's with my Grandfathers. They were great men and I miss them both dearly. I do not have any hunting pictures with them only fond memories. I have faith that I will see them again.

    The attached is a picture of my Great Grandfather on my dad's side. He passed away when I was 3.5 yrs old, but I remember counting school buses with him on his front porch in Baker, LA.. He was a patient and kind man.

    These were his favorite squirrel dogs.
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    Magdump

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    Neat find digging through a bunch of old stuff from my Grand Dad’s place.
     

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    Bigchillin83

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    my OL' MAN in the mid 80's very proud of his little 80lb swamp doe... dont really realize how much you miss stuff like this till its gone... How much he and i will miss this with his grand kids... Much credit to him with my lever action obsession.. I still got this ol marlin 1894 .44 mag and thanks to him a whole stable full of them...
     

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    john17427

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    Great pics guys. My dad just passed in August, about a month shy of 93. Going through his effects now so hopefully some more old pics will turn up. I think in my grand fathers time, and my father’s younger years, hunting was a way of life and they didn’t consider taking a picture of what was going on at the time, if they even had a camera with them. My grandmother was a shutterbug when she was young (think 1918) so I know they had them even back in the swamp.
     

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