The good ol days

[Oddball8945]

strong bag limit for deer 

[tcook8296]

Thank God for that! One deer?

Grandma would go hungry

[T10R4]

Showing my age, but those were the days! Everyone was a hunter, no anti's, could hunt everywhere, butchered our own, the excitement was incredible. To those who missed that time I feel so bad for those that remember be thankful...

[T10R4]

Oh yeah, and least we forget walking down the streets with a shotgun, bow or traps and it was normal....

[hammer4reel]

No missile except for buckshot

 

Guys used to know how to hunt back then.

was no need to shoot deer far, and LOTS of deer fell to buckshot, ( still does ) 

[hammer4reel]

Oh yeah, and least we forget walking down the streets with a shotgun, bow or traps and it was normal....

 

used to walk a brace of beagles down the road, past the school and hunt the railroad tracks just about every afternoon after school.

many days there were 4/5 of us.

That would be a gang today 

[Bigsquirrel]

That was the biggest thing that hit me when I read that! "One deer a year"...

 

Hey, though, we have limits now... we are no longer unlimited. It's only 9 a year season, buddy, and not one deer more!

Not my reg set.  Unlimited does, 2 at a time. 2 at a time is not defined either.  Shoot 2 in a herd and drag them to the truck, rinse and repeat?  Let's face it.  In NJ it is kill all the deer because the insurance industry is paying us a lot of money.  Write as many tickets as possible that require no court time.  I am the DFW.

[HeadedWest1]

Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing. How things have changed since the 50s. We now have unlimited antlerless and 6 bucks per year bag limits. Maybe Jersey's good 'ol days are here today, sarcasm intended.

[Lunatic]

Guys used to know how to hunt back then.

was no need to shoot deer far, and LOTS of deer fell to buckshot, ( still does ) 

 

 

Different, simple times.

I wonder if you can become a good hunter harvesting only one deer per year. .

[Lunatic]

So I’m helping my mom go through a lot of boxes and albums and such for this ancestry.com thing she’s doing. I came across this gem from 1952 that was mixed in with my grandfathers football and mason stuff. Pretty neat to see the regulations and the pledge that was on the cover. Thought I’d share.

 

How about this one:

Woodchuck: May be taken......by landowner when in the act of destroying poultry, crops or property. 

 

Almost like the groundhog was protected. No hunting them on public land. Also "destroying poultry"? How?