Back Then

[Jeff S]

While putting stuff away in my basement, I stumbled upon one of my favorite books “Back Then” by Willow Press. It’s a wonderful collection of photos from the golden age of hunting.

One of the photos shows 3 salty looking gents posing with their guns and ducks. Take a close look at the firearm held by the guy in the middle. It’s massive. Perhaps he’s a distant relative of Craig Larter or Stan Hoover.

[Researcher]

Great stuff!! That massive gun the gent in the middle is holding looks like a rather short-barreled muzzle loader to me. I'd speculate the gent to the left, with the snazzy checkered suspenders, is holding a Baker hammerless.

[44whiskey]

very cool picture from when the world was a very different place. thanks for posting

[Stan Hoover]

Nice find Jeff,

I believe Dave is probably correct on the short barreled big gun being a muzzleloader, maybe a 10 gauge???

Those gentlemen are serious market hunters for sure!!

[ROMAC]

I guess we will never know but the big bore looks like it could be an eight!

[Jeff S]

In the caption, the author guessed either an 8 or a 6 ga.

[DarylC]

That gun makes your 8ga Stan, look like a smallbore. I wouldn't be surprised if It was a 4ga. Could be a coach gun.

[fox-admin]

I love the old pictures of guns and ducks. Model 11 Remington

[Stan Hillis]

Cool picture. I like the way they posed for the camera. The far right guy is blowing a duck call.

Here's another. Judge Newt Morris and two friends after a local quail hunt near Marietta, GA (which is on the northern edge of Atlanta). Morris has a look in his eyes that I would not like to see, standing before the bench for sentencing. Morris is infamous for the part he played in several lynching/executions in Forsyth Co. in the early 1900s.

[Researcher]

I'm fortunate to have enough old family hunting pictures I could produce a book like that.

[Foxnut]

That short barreled behemoth in the first pic must have swung better with the short barrels!!! Wow! Wonderful pics of the nostalgic past! Would love to see more of our family/friends from days gone by!

[TOOL MAN]

I'm fortunate to have enough old family hunting pictures I could produce a book like that.

No time like the present, Dave! The numbers on our birthday cards seem to be increasing at an alarming rate. Remember, the longest journey begins with a single paragraph...LOL!!

[Sporrns]

That gun makes your 8ga Stan, look like a smallbore. I wouldn't be surprised if It was a 4ga. Could be a coach gun.

Maybe he cut the barrels back on a $250 Grade Parker hammer 8 ga. for closer work over decoys. Much easier to handle in the blind, anyway! Kevin

[Stan Hillis]

That gun makes your 8ga Stan, look like a smallbore. I wouldn't be surprised if It was a 4ga. Could be a coach gun.

Maybe he cut the barrels back on a $250 Grade Parker hammer 8 ga. for closer work over decoys. Much easier to handle in the blind, anyway! Kevin

Perish the thought! Aside from ruining the originality, can you imagine the muzzle blast from those shorties, and in a blind too? Concussion makers!

I have experienced the difference in muzzle blast in a blind when someone uses a short barreled gun with magnum loads. It can be horrendous.

[DarylC]

That gun makes your 8ga Stan, look like a smallbore. I wouldn't be surprised if It was a 4ga. Could be a coach gun.

Maybe he cut the barrels back on a $250 Grade Parker hammer 8 ga. for closer work over decoys. Much easier to handle in the blind, anyway! Kevin

Perish the thought! Aside from ruining the originality, can you imagine the muzzle blast from those shorties, and in a blind too? Concussion makers!

I have experienced the difference in muzzle blast in a blind when someone uses a short barreled gun with magnum loads. It can be horrendous.

I can't stand the ported barrels in a blind or worse yet, a pit. If a buddy shows up with one I carry a roll of black electrical tape to quiet it down.