My first deer hunt was in 1958 spot and stalk. Any buck you killed was a trophy. Never hunted with a feeder untill 1967. It was a five gallon bucket with a hole in the bottom and a paddle sticking down. The would move the paddle and it would release corn.

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Thought you would like pic of my Grandfather (on left) after a deer and turkey hunt in 1949 close to Rocksprings. My Grandfather worked for Texas Highway Department and contractors/engineers would get together to hunt and play poker on these trips.

I love these old time hunting pics!!

Heck yea, strap'em to the hood. Awesome.

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Strap em on th hood even if they had a pickup. Now this is uh great thread for us old timers. keep it coming guys love n it

Won't give age but will say that this Aug. my licenses will be 1/2 price. Grew up on a ranch in Hill country, SW of Enchanted Rock so some of land was granite outcroppings and some was where the hills and ravines begin. Started shooting deer in mid 50's. Only bucks legal then. Best hunting at oat/wheat patches. If u used any bait it was cottonseed meal and sweet feed (horse & mule feed). Also you could knock missletoe out of mesquite trees and that drew deer to the spot. The blind was a 2x4 or 2x6 in a tree or logs piled. Aboout then the screw worm was eradicated, deer population exploded and you were allowed to shoot does but u had to go to check station and get a metal tag put in their hock. About that time feeding corn started but no auto feeders. U fed the deer while checking the cattle and deer pens kept the cattle out. If u had a loud truck, the deer may be waiting near the blind for u. Then early 60's wool and mohair market went south and deer population exploded more as ranches sold of the goats. Built high fences to keep deer out of crops and increased number of cabins and paying hunters. Hunter brought box blinds, fed more and eventually auto feeders. Ranchers were issued doe tags in Gillespie and Llano counties at rate of 1 per 25 acres. Hunting became big business as the kids left home for cities and careers. And now the baby boomers are retiring. They, their kids and grandkids like to hunt and enjoy a cabin. And Mr. Hunter hopes to get 1 gun per 300 acres at $10/acre of land valued at $4 to $6k/acre. Good luck, it's supply and demand.

A man who don't lie ain't got nothing to say...

the buck on the left looks to be a pretty good one!

all I have is the low resolution version my mom sent, next time I'm back home I will scan a highres and get a better look. Appears to be very wide and long beams, but don't see many points.

my Grandpa only had one shoulder mount, not of a giant I'm told, but nice symmetry. Grandma wouldn't let in their Brady house, so he had it at his office at highway or maintenance building in Brady. It was there late as early 80's when he retired. Let me know if anyone was ever in that building and saw it. My mom and I have made some attempt at finding a picture or the actual mount. He didn't remove it after retiring. Thanks.

Being from East Texas, I only remember feeding the dogs we used to run the deer with. The most fun you could ever have is lining a log road with hunters armed with shotguns (about 150 yds apart) and listening for the dogs. If a deer of any kind came across that road you took the shot and ducked if the other hunter shot. Most of the time, the man that was making the drive got the deer. They(the deer) would usually double back. the next day, if you didnt get the deer, they would be right back in the same bedding ground.

I remember sitting in a hole next to an oat patch on our place in San Antonio. I had my Dads 250-3000 savage model 99. A small buck came out and in those days you shot any deer. It was the first buck I had ever seen while hunting. I emptyed the savage on that deer and never even got close to him. Worse case of buck fever I ever had. I was about 13 at the time.

Back in 1977 I was in the 5th grade and was hunting with family and friends at Sanderson in Terrell county. We would take a pick axe and cut that soto bush open for the deer to get to. Did this just off the ranch roads and down in the canyons,it worked great. In the early 80"s I was hunting in Brown county and started using PVC pipe feeders and right after that my firt timer was a home made job out of a ammo box and heater fan motor with a 24 hour clock. Could still get a lease then for 250 to 500 dollars. Times have really changed.

Here's some old timers for you guys... my great uncles back in the 1920's





Whack'em and Stack'em

When I was 11 or 12 my first deer I shot was with my dads 250-3000 savage model 99, It was a spike buck with 6 inch horns.