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Back Then
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:01 pm
by 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.
Re: Back Then
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:06 pm
by 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.
Re: Back Then
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 4:55 pm
by 44whiskey
very cool picture from when the world was a very different place. thanks for posting
Re: Back Then
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:24 pm
by 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!!
Re: Back Then
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:32 pm
by ROMAC
I guess we will never know but the big bore looks like it could be an eight!
Re: Back Then
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:46 pm
by Jeff S
In the caption, the author guessed either an 8 or a 6 ga.
Re: Back Then
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:16 pm
by 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.
Re: Back Then
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2024 5:12 am
by fox-admin
I love the old pictures of guns and ducks. Model 11 Remington
Re: Back Then
Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:51 am
by 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.
Re: Back Then
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:53 pm
by Researcher
I'm fortunate to have enough old family hunting pictures I could produce a book like that.
Re: Back Then
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:06 pm
by 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!
Re: Back Then
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:47 pm
by TOOL MAN
Researcher wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:53 pm
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!!
Re: Back Then
Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:19 pm
by Sporrns
DarylC wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:16 pm
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
Re: Back Then
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:49 am
by Stan Hillis
Sporrns wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:19 pm
DarylC wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:16 pm
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.
Re: Back Then
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:09 pm
by DarylC
Stan Hillis wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 5:49 am
Sporrns wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:19 pm
DarylC wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:16 pm
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.