Old pic of buck pole in gaylord

[MI newguy]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/deerpile.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/deerpile3.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/deerpile2.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/deerpile5.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c239/212007154/deerpile4.jpg

Found these on buckmasters website.
http://www.buckmasters.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5180

[2PawsRiver]

Interesting Pics, thanks.

[glnmiller]

Boy, those were the days. Thanks for posting.

[Mickey Finn]

Great pics, thanks for sharing!

I wonder if the first photo, was the work of market hunters. That looks like a bigger bear on top of the one wagon.

[Whit1]

Ya gotta love those pix from days of yore.

[KEN WES.]

i noticed that there wasnt a spike or fork horn in any of those pics, did they
practice qdm or did the deer just all get bigger then.

[uptracker]

Wow...those days are over.

[MI newguy]

These I found are from Nebraska, I believe.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/twodogs2025/f696391f.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/twodogs2025/43b1fd30440a9783.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/twodogs2025/ggram1949.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/twodogs2025/lewisdaniels4.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/twodogs2025/P1010815.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/twodogs2025/4fdc77e8.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/twodogs2025/P1010817.jpg

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b24/twodogs2025/PICT1226.jpg
http://www.buckmasters.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5194

[Tapfoot]

I like it that most of the people have smiles :) , none of that tough guy mad face :mad: .

[KalamazooKid]

..... finally, proof of big bucks in Gaylord! Great pics!

[outfishin_]

It looks as if they never shot any small bucks ever.....all of those bucks in the pics all had beautiful racks......hmmmm....times sure do change..

[Linda G.]

They shot anything they saw in those days...it was all meat.

I think we have to remember that this is during and right after the majority of the lumbering era. The habitat was much better, therefore, there were more deer. A lot fewer people in those days, too, not to mention those folks had access to about five times as much land as people do now.

[Sib]

The top photo was taken at the bridge and it's difficult to guess the age of the pic. The second photo looks like it was taken during the 30s. The rest are hard to tell when their from.

In the early days of Michigan's deer season you got 5 kill tags with your license and logging was one of Michigans biggest industries. Less hunters and better habitat through logging would be the main difference, imo.

[Whit1]

They shot anything they saw in those days...it was all meat.

I think we have to remember that this is during and right after the majority of the lumbering era. The habitat was much better, therefore, there were more deer. A lot fewer people in those days, too, not to mention those folks had access to about five times as much land as people do now.


Linda and Sib,
Ya took the words right outta my mind........errr!.....mouth!

[Sib]

The top photo was taken at the bridge...

Lol, I guess I should rephrase that, The top photo was taken at the ferries, before the bridge was built. :lol:

Nothing says deer camp like old photos. I have the walls of my blind papered with old photos.

[Lil' Tanker]

They shot whatever they saw yet they only shot big bucks??

Where were all the little six pointers that we have today?

Better habitat I am sure does help...., it keeps all the yearling buck shooters from finding and blasting them.:p

[franky]

Actually you say better habitat and such, this is statistic is just from the past 10 years but, out forests in the Midwest has increased 4%, not sure how much of that is michigan but thats just a stat that i thought might be helpful.

[GRUNDY]

Lack of hunting pressure. How many licensed hunters were there in the "good ole days". I bet alot less, and I bet the deer harvest was less also. Our neighbor in Baldwin tells of when he first started hunting in the Baldwin area he would pass spikes and fork horns because you would always see a "shooter". I'm guessing this was late 60's early 70's.

There is just too many people in the woods today, and with bowhunting as popular as it is there are more people in the woods for a longer amount of time thus educating deer to come out at night. Lack of habitat today is also a big cause, I bet my home town of Holland was VERY small in those days. Now it is rare to see a square mile without a couple of subdivisions cut into the woods.

Brian

[MI newguy]

Here's a neat site click on your home town and see old pics.
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[Shiawassee_Kid]

i have 700 acres just outside gaylord.....its funny because its like half wooded and half fields, pretty good habitat for deer and yet it still crappy deer hunting. Don't even bother goin up there for hunting season anymore. Now i know what happened to them all. :lol:

[Whit1]

i have 700 acres just outside gaylord.....its funny because its like half wooded and half fields, pretty good habitat for deer and yet it still crappy deer hunting.:lol:

Are the wooded areas mainly large, older growth timber?

[codybear]

i have 700 acres just outside gaylord.....its funny because its like half wooded and half fields, pretty good habitat for deer and yet it still crappy deer hunting. Don't even bother goin up there for hunting season anymore. Now i know what happened to them all. :lol:

What once was up here is no more. Fields were hundreds of deer use to browse for as many years as people can remember are now completly empty. I lived on Whitmarsh road (halfway between Gaylord and Vanderbilt) and that road was a big attraction for people to come and see fields full of deer just before dark. Now your lucky to see a sinlge deer in all the fields combined..

What gets me is that the old picture of that Gaylord pole was takin back in the days when our deer herd was suppose to be even lower than it is today.

[Shiawassee_Kid]

Are the wooded areas mainly large, older growth timber?

negative. It has been selectively logged and actually has many clearcuts that were seeded for clover and other supported deer foods...that have grown into nice thickets and such. Don't get me wrong, you still see deer, but if you can shoot a deer over 1.5yrs you might as well buy a lottery ticket the next day cuz your one lucky sob...My family has hunted it since the 60's and its worse today than it ever was. One year we let an uncle hunt and use bait (we have a no baiting rule) and they shot 3 bucks but all were scrubs.....but we had more deer on the property that year but I didn't agree with how it was done.

cool story (lil off topic): about 10 years ago my dad shot a small 8pt on an evening hunt there. We let it go til morning then resumed tracking...finally found what looked like a deers underside showing from under a tree uprooting....walked over to it and see the deers head sorta in the hole under the stump. Dad and I start tugging on it and pull it out of the hole to have a black bear come bursting out from the hole and just about run us over. lol. funny stuff....scared the living crap outa both of us. The bear had dragged the deer 50yrds into its den/hole after i died...could see the drag marks from where the deer had died.

and btw the land is for sale if anyone is interested in about 550 acres + nice stone house w/ frontage on gingel and sparr. :)

[codybear]

and btw the land is for sale if anyone is interested in about 550 acres + nice stone house w/ frontage on gingel and sparr. :)

I know that area very well!
You are near the gateway to the Pigeon river forest (Tin Shanty Rd.) and located just north of one of the largest swamps in the Pigeon River. That area was also well known for shinning at night and your right, they are now gone! Your parcel of land is one of the largest in that entire area and its ashame we no longer have what once was.. I just sold my house on 20 acres about 10 miles from there, which adjoined 1000's of acres of public land because there isnt any wildlife to enjoy anymore. I'm moving in about 60 days :sad:

[Whit1]

cool story (lil off topic): about 10 years ago my dad shot a small 8pt on an evening hunt there. We let it go til morning then resumed tracking...finally found what looked like a deers underside showing from under a tree uprooting....walked over to it and see the deers head sorta in the hole under the stump. Dad and I start tugging on it and pull it out of the hole to have a black bear come bursting out from the hole and just about run us over. lol. funny stuff....scared the living crap outa both of us. The bear had dragged the deer 50yrds into its den/hole after i died...could see the drag marks from where the deer had died.
:)

That's a great story!

That's too bad about the demise of the deer herd over there. The area between Newaygo-Baldwin Cadillac-Grayling-Mio-Gaylord and Kalkaska at one time was the very heart of deer hunting in Michigan. I used to love to watch Mort Neff's show "Michigan Outdoors" just after Opening Day (firearms) and see the reports from those towns and the deer camps in the area. It's all gone now!.........:sad:
(okay, I know! Not "all gone", but certainly not what that tradition and culture once was)........Can we go back? I'm afraid not and for a wide variety of reasons.

[Shiawassee_Kid]

ya its one of the few big tracts left that isnt a farmer. Pigeon river state land across the road...nice swampy stuff starts. The sad thing is, I probably have a better chance of seeing a monster elk than i do a monster deer. lol.