Look How Simple & Inexpensive It Used To Be….

[cshold]

Deer sure have gotten smarter and tougher over the years.

[Borregos]

One happy guy

[M. M. Wright]

Yeah, but that's Fred Bear isn't it? Skill level makes a huge difference that equipment can't make up for.

[AJMD429]

Scrawny deer; the girth of the body seems less than what I'd expect with the girth of the antlers.

[cshold]

Yeah, but that's Fred Bear isn't it? Skill level makes a huge difference that equipment can't make up for.

"Skill level makes a huge difference that equipment can't make up for"

Exactly...
Vendors would have you believe otherwise.

[keyston44]

Scrawny deer; the girth of the body seems less than what I'd expect with the girth of the antlers.

They didn't have the bait fields, I mean food plots back then they have now.

Key

[wolfdog]

They sure have gotten smarter and tougher. When I was a youngster I could go hunting with an open sighted 30-30 or my Bear recurve wearing blue jeans, and a red plaid jacket and have prety good success hunting whitetail. Now a days if I am not camoed up, and drenched in deer pee, toting a scope sighted rifle I don't stand a chance.

[cshold]

They sure have gotten smarter and tougher. When I was a youngster I could go hunting with an open sighted 30-30 or my Bear recurve wearing blue jeans, and a red plaid jacket and have prety good success hunting whitetail. Now a days if I am not camoed up, and drenched in deer pee, toting a scope sighted rifle I don't stand a chance.

You got exactly what I was gettin at wolfdog.

[Grizz]

I'm thinking that it's far enough into winter that the buck has lost all the fat and is living day to day on local forage. Long winters do make 'em look scrawny. Good photo.

[dennie]

I went thru the Fred Bear museum in Grayling, Michigan years ago. Quite a display of critters that Fred harvested with a stick and some string! I believe that Ted Nugent now owns the property. I have taken small game, and some pests, with my Bear bow. Great fun!
dennie

[cshold]

Fred Bear, born March 5th, 1902, in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania was an American bow hunter and bow manufacturer. Although he did not start bow hunting until he was 29 and did not master the skill for many years, he is widely regarded as what some people like to call "A by god legend" and pioneer in the bow-hunting community. Bear was a world traveler, film producer, and the founder of Bear Archery.

http://thearcheryhalloffame.org/Bear,%20Fred1r.html

[Blaine]

Some people have the "touch".....There was a fella at my old job that could pull nice deer out of a scruffy patch of dandelions, or, catch monster fish in mud puddles....

[nemhed]

Fred Bear had skill, no doubt. Keep in mind the whitetail population in the North America probably measured in the thousands back then, not the millions we have today.

[ollogger]

That old buck most likely breed every doe for 20 miles around & went into winter lean
I still have my Bear 45# grizzly I bought in the 60s, now that im close to 60
im not sure I could pull it back with out some agony

Liked old Fred a lot

ollogger

[Old Savage]

wolfdog - it is a well known fact that deer cannot see red plaid or blue.

[Mescalero]

I still have a Grizzly and a Super Magnum 48".
I still shoot them although I have not hunted in over 30 years.
But I could if I had to.
And my mountain truck box still has a a Bear take down in it.

[2571]

Here in MI we remember him not for his smile nor hunting ability but for his vicious hatred of organized labor.

[1894c]

i'm old, because I recognized the photo of Fred Bear, my Dad loved his equipment...great memory... :)

[cshold]

wolfdog - it is a well known fact that deer cannot see red plaid or blue.

I believe that Fred.
I wore my vintage 1940’s wool red plaid hunting outfit
two days of the PA. rifle season last year.
Made meat each of those days.