Thread: Another found rifle...

Back in the 60's when meat hunting 2 mates and I cut the track up from Thompsons to the tops and the one that starts at the creek half way up and goes up to the memorial rifle. There had been an old horse track from the old skin hunting days but it was impassable, especially through the leatherwood. We put in a lot of hours doing those tracks.

Then when Thompsons was sold and access got shut up we cut the one that goes up from Scanlon creek and links up with the ridge track. We had a tent camp at the broadleaf tree where the leatherwood starts on the ridge track but after the meat hunting days eventually everything got pinched which soured things a bit.

Good times. Not sure I will ever make it back up there but I have some wonderful memories.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Good times. Not sure I will ever make it back up there but I have some wonderful memories.

Something that you did Bruce, which many didn't (including me), was take celluloid photos.

That's priceless really.

Today, we all take several photos of the same thing with our phones, and end up with thousands of photos every year, which we might chuck on a hard drive and hope we don't lose somehow! Lots of people we all know don't backup and then lose their phones. Not good.

I've been pretty good at archiving hunting photos in the last several years, going back to about 2005 when I first had a decent smart phone. But man how I wish I had done what you've done from way back in the day.

I don't have a single photo of me and my Grandpa hunting fallow in Sussex when I was a kid, which really hurts. Nothing from the rough shooting days with my mates in the 80s, and only two photos of all the hunting over several years in NW Transvaal in South Africa. That really grates.

Look after the celluloid and make sure they have a "forever" home.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Something that you did Bruce, which many didn't (including me), was take celluloid photos.

That's priceless really.

Today, we all take several photos of the same thing with our phones, and end up with thousands of photos every year, which we might chuck on a hard drive and hope we don't lose somehow! Lots of people we all know don't backup and then lose their phones. Not good.

I've been pretty good at archiving hunting photos in the last several years, going back to about 2005 when I first had a decent smart phone. But man how I wish I had done what you've done from way back in the day.

I don't have a single photo of me and my Grandpa hunting fallow in Sussex when I was a kid, which really hurts. Nothing from the rough shooting days with my mates in the 80s, and only two photos of all the hunting over several years in NW Transvaal in South Africa. That really grates.

Look after the celluloid and make sure they have a "forever" home.

Off topic, but this is my all time favourite 'photo that my wife took. 1974. Me and the 2 lads.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Off topic, but this is my all time favourite 'photo that my wife took. 1974. Me and the 2 lads.

One lad looks impressed, the other... not so much.

Great photo.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Back in the 60's when meat hunting 2 mates and I cut the track up from Thompsons to the tops and the one that starts at the creek half way up and goes up to the memorial rifle. There had been an old horse track from the old skin hunting days but it was impassable, especially through the leatherwood. We put in a lot of hours doing those tracks.

Then when Thompsons was sold and access got shut up we cut the one that goes up from Scanlon creek and links up with the ridge track. We had a tent camp at the broadleaf tree where the leatherwood starts on the ridge track but after the meat hunting days eventually everything got pinched which soured things a bit.

Good times. Not sure I will ever make it back up there but I have some wonderful memories.

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There was a tarp like this at the top of Wild Sheep Spur in the Ruas. Like you said sadly many things that were left for other hunters to enjoy got flogged.