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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 12:44 AM
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I have read of great deer populations in Guadalupe county back in the early 1800's, even bear and buffalo. Cool pictures
My great granny killed a bear in Forney/Kaufman County.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 02:14 AM
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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OMG-all of those deer where harvested and not one of the hunters pictured had on any camo. Probably didn't use doe -n- rut scents, or any of the other hunting gimmicks that are marketed today.....Man those where the good ole' days! To be fair, it’s not really tough to kill a bunch of 1,2 & 3 year old bucks either though.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 06:15 AM
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A lot of judgments on here without knowing any facts. For all we know those deer were taken off a 50,000 acre ranch. In 2019 the limit in that county was 2 bucks and 2 does per hunter.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 06:27 AM
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 10:36 AM
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Outstanding pictures. In the first one, with the man in the far right with a cap on with flaps tied on top, I wore a cap similar to that in my first deer season in NM in the late 1950's, it was red for hunter safety, so Dad said. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 03:43 PM
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 04:07 PM
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Wonder where they were killed. Guadalupe county didn't have many deer back then. Maybe they were west of I-35? I too have a hard time believing that they were taken in any of Guadalupe county or in any of the surrounding counties. I was not quite alive at that time but was in the mid 50's through the mid 60's in Bexar and as I said my Grandparents had the farm in that area. There were not that many Deer around in those years. Maybe west more into the Hill Country. But I could be wrong. But for that amount of Bucks to be taken in a short amount of time seems odd if they were indeed taken in that area. Landowner told me it was taken in Guadalupe county. If you look at the middle picture bottom left hand corner there is some name and “seguin” underneath it. That could also be where the photographer was from. Just because your saw the picture at the ranch or they are pictured at that location does not mean they were killed there. Could have been killed up north of New Braunfels or even further west. Then chances are they were all killed on that ranch. One things for sure is they were all cleaned and then the meat was used. A lot of sausage was made back then or the meat was canned to store it. I know when I grew up we still made a lot of sausage. Notice there were no tags on any of them like you would be required to have today. I know in the early 60's we had bag limits and could not take any does or spikes.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 10:17 PM
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The person who owned the picture ( it was his family in them) told me that they were taken in Guadalupe county at their ranch.
Did not specify where in Guadalupe county though.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/01/20 11:23 PM
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Probably killed at different locations then brought to the house in pictures. Then they had a old fashioned sausage making fest. Like STX said bet they did not waste anything. Interesting
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/02/20 01:01 AM
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I would be willing to bet money they came from south of Seguin, down in what is known as the sand hills or over toward Gonzales. This is all south of I-10. A friend of mine farms north of Geronimo and sees a few bucks in that area quite often. He also owns a ranch south east of Seguin and with out fail every year connects with a dang nice buck off his place.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/02/20 04:13 AM
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A lot of judgments on here without knowing any facts. That’s the norm.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/02/20 03:29 PM
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Thanks for Sharing, I miss the Good Old days.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/02/20 04:45 PM
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A lot of judgments on here without knowing any facts. That’s the norm. All I know for a fact is that my Grandparents had a farm in Guadalupe County. It was between Marion, McQueeney and Seguin. They owned it from the mid 1930's until the mid 1970's. Theirs was mostly fields but a neighbors was mostly brush. He never killed a deer off the place. And it was not because he did not want too.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/02/20 06:08 PM
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A lot of judgments on here without knowing any facts. That’s the norm. Yep, not many on here old enough to have hunted back before corn feeders, deer stands, etc. I miss the old days of hunting.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/02/20 07:40 PM
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/03/20 05:55 AM
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Very Cool - thanks for sharing!
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/03/20 05:11 PM
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Thanks for sharing! History has changed over the years and we have learned from history (hopefully). Don't misjudge our forefathers/mothers hunting. I'm sure nothing was wasted and communal skinning, sausage and jerky making was common.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/05/20 08:55 PM
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Great pics. Love seeing what those folks were wearing. It's obvious that gathering was a major affair.
My Grandfather grew up on a large ranch in Mason County in the 30s and early 40s. He said when he was in high school he would shoot bucks and take them into town. Said 10 pts and even 12 pts were common then. Hunters from the cities who were going home empty handed would buy the buck from him so they could take it back and claim they killed it. Said he shot 17 bucks one season doing this and sold every one for between $50 and $100 each. While my Grandfather loved a good story, this was more of a "yeah this happened" than a tall tale so I believe him.
That story has always impacted me, both from how good the hunting was then but also how stewardship/conservation wasn't even a thought, and how amazingly deceitful/prideful those "city" hunters were.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/05/20 10:05 PM
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A lot of judgments on here without knowing any facts. Those people had just gone through the depression. I would bet money they used ever ounce of meat they could get off those deer. And, Yes, great photos.....Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/06/20 03:00 AM
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LETS GO BRANDON
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Re: Deer season 1939-1941
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02/06/20 11:24 PM
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Nice pics! And nice bucks without any breeding, protein feeders etc. imagine that!
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