You might be Old School if.....

[2dogs]

I still have my 1960's 9 1/2 hp Johnson that had sheer pins, it stills starts on the first or second pull. It was a classic.

[Roach]

I still have my 1960's 9 1/2 hp Johnson that had sheer pins, it stills starts on the first or second pull. It was a classic.

Me too. Also have a 15 hp Evinrude that must be a 50's model that has the double hose tank to provide the pressure. I still play with them in the summer.

[hdforester]

Got a 3.2 Wizard that you have to wrap the rope around. Western Auto brand from eons ago.

[Roach]

Had a Ted Williams from Sears down at the camp in Grand Isle...note I said "had".

[TODO]

I remember going to Gibson's as a kid. It must of closed in cleveland in the mid 80's.

[mudsucker]

Had a Ted Williams from Sears down at the camp in Grand Isle...note I said "had".

I have a 1970 Sears 4 horse that my dad and his bro'in-law went "halves" on. It cost $99.00 in 1970! I have a WWII era green Army ammo belt that My great Uncle Jack used to use to load his .410 shells in to squrille/rabbit hunt with, with strings tied all around to attatch the days kill on. Old Falks wooden d.r. call and a Falks wodden pintail/widgeon call. Had the old Walls Blizzard Pruf insulated coveralls(old school pattern, see my pic in members photos from a trip to Gayeudan LA in 1986) that I passed down to 10mi. grandson about 5 years ago as they no longer fit my fat booty. I too started back in the point system days. My father did not hunt so I was introduced to it by a friend in 1981 when I was home on leave from the Navy! I was hooked and got to join the same camp when I got out in 1984.

[cwink]

Had a Ted Williams from Sears down at the camp in Grand Isle...note I said "had".

I have a 1970 Sears 4 horse that my dad and his bro'in-law went "halves" on. It cost $99.00 in 1970! I have a WWII era green Army ammo belt that My great Uncle Jack used to use to load his .410 shells in to squrille/rabbit hunt with, with strings tied all around to attatch the days kill on. Old Falks wooden d.r. call and a Falks wodden pintail/widgeon call. Had the old Walls Blizzard Pruf insulated coveralls(old school pattern, see my pic in members photos from a trip to Gayeudan LA in 1986) that I passed down to 10mi. grandson about 5 years ago as they no longer fit my fat booty. I too started back in the point system days. My father did not hunt so I was introduced to it by a friend in 1981 when I was home on leave from the Navy! I was hooked and got to join the same camp when I got out in 1984.

Old School.. Mud..

[mudsucker]

Look Ma. No grey beard yet!

[BeastMaster]

even after Gibson's closed in cleveland... it was/still is referred to by many as "Gibson's Parking Lot"
anyone remember when it was Alco.. i used to walk up there to the Sunflower to get milk or bread

[swamprooter]

MS first duck stamp...wasn't even a stamp but a license....got my DL that year and got to drive to Isola from Indianola all by myself with a 1100 that wouldn't shoot but 1 time in sucession....had a 30" barallel with full choke and lead #5 XX

[TWR]

Yeah, I remember you. It wasn’t too many years later either you or Chris Portera (ya’ll tried to blamed “double 00” but he wasn’t there) shot a hole in my boat over on Millers Bend in the Mississippi and had me trying to navigate back to the ramp with a 20 mile-n-hour northerly blowing and the temp in the teens with water squirting up from the floorboard like a fire hydrant. Those Winchester XX magnums with the white buffer powder cut through that aluminum hull like butter. I could be wrong though, it may have been that Rice fella, my memory has been giving me trouble lately. Anyway, next time Po’s back in G’ville lets meet up and have a greenhead shoot down at Glen Allen (old home site) and break a seal or two for old times sake!

[swamprooter]

TWR....you are the original river Rat.....no one on this board can wear your waders!.....Po shot the hole in your boat with that hammer side by side that day. We should have sunk in that river that icy day.....i have thought about that day over and over how lucky we were. i think also that was the fastest drop in temp ever recorded and something like 50+ duck hunters died on the Mississippi River tributary that 24 hours....whew.........Po doesn't even hunt anymore the feathers...trying to get him back to MS...hes a scrawny surgeon now....not the fighting italian anymore!......your old school greg! you come from a long line of them!

[GrizwalD]

i have a 52' or either 53' johnson 5hp sittign in my garage that they would use to keep the hole broke up on those frozen morning way back when

[h2o_dog]

you might be Old School if .....
you're the guy on the far right in this picture:





same guy on the right here when the green was more plentiful (circa 1969?):
(aforementioned 3 horse Johnson is visible here)




and he and my dog will both be waiting for me at the boat at 5:45 tomorrow morning!

[ewd506]

I stopped by there with my dad when I was 9 and my dad had him tune a chick major my dad had. It had mud dawbers in it and ole Butch chewed his booty out. I had never heard anybody speak to my dad that way, its funny now

Thats good stuff Acornman!.. I have some of those mentos.......i hunted on the land of the guy that taught CHick how to make calls and met his daughter last year. Does anyone know who that is?.Who did Chick teach?...........This is not old school but remember when you could drop by Butch's shop and he would turn you a call right there in his shop and bitch about it the whole time?

Barely Old School here........
I remember the first weighted keel PLASTIC decoy i ever saw.....Flambeau..
Remember when you could look on back on box of shells and it gave you the size shot for every upland game.
I remember my first pair of hunting pants..waxed tin cloth Ducbax..(73') ..wore them till they rotted off.