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After reading thru my post about "who was there?" I came to realize that all bowhunters owe a huge thank you to those who came before us... I started bowhunting in 1990, not exactly a trail blazer ...but the guys that did it in the 1930's-70's and even the 80's had it really hard compared to today...I have seen much improvement since 1990 myself with equipment, stands, scents, knowledge, and especially herd sizes...some of the younger or newer guys may not even fathom how hard it was just to even see a deer back in those days....we all have been spoiled by a growing deer population, accept for guys in Maine and then you have Shclutzy up there in MN with few deer, but yet still gets it done...sorry had to ride his sac a moment...but let's give thanks to those who learned through trial and error when mistakes were the learning curve!!!!!!!!!Thank you gents!!!

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you are right... i know that i am spoiled.. :D But yes u r right we do need to give thanks..

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Ask me about aquiring hunting permission back then. Back then bow hunters were really viewed a lot differently.

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With exception to the herd #'s explosion.....we can still "take it back" to where it was "then" by our choice of equipment. If you're willing to hold out for a certain criteria of animalin your pursuits.....I suppose you could make it as "old school" as you wanted.

As far as technology....shared knowledge....etc....Yeah....we owe them a lot. When/where I gre up.....I'm not sure I could have kept the flame buring, not seeing a single deer in a season, though. When I was growing up....that would have been a very distict possibility/probable likelihood.

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Bob, the access was easier??? right? Either way, hunting then and now are much different...and yes Jeff, we can take it back to a certain extent...going trad, or hunting for particular deer and only one, but it would a far stretch today with as many deer and the amount of info on deer hunting...I agree, it would have been hard to hunt and stay enthusiastic all season without seeing a deer...

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The clothing choices we had were very special. Army surplus. or ..................

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Most definetely. The nice part was that you could do more spotting in fields, ask permission, and then go hunt a particular deer. Usually when the landowner found out that you planned on Bowhunting there was not a problem. A lot of hunters nowadays see a lot of deer that they can not go after unfortunately. Patterning was a bit less complicated.

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There are few deer in MN???

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just where schultzy hunts...:D:D:Dthey only get one tag!!

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Thestate doesn't allowmore than one buck tag in any zone but some areas also allow up to 5 doe tags (like where I hunt). Overall there is a pretty healthy deer poplation in MN...although I did seefewer deer this season than in previous years.

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Wow you brought back some memories for me with this post!! To start with I have been bow hunting since 1975 the first year I could legally carry a bow here in Michigan which I had to be 12 at that time. You couldn't hunt from tree stands ground only we all carried recuves and we did seeour share of deer because they actully went out and broused all day all becuase there were no bait piles. Now as for getting permission to hunt here in michigan it was not very easy back then because everyone gun hunted and the gunners had thelandowners conviced that us bowhunters would only wound deer with our little arrows.. I was lucky my uncle back then owned 180 acres and stateland was all over the place and when you went out eat and we were in our camo back then you should have seen looks when they asked what we were doing and we told them we were bowhunting they would just look at us and go what!!!!!Walt