Throw Back Thursday !!!

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

A change to flash back in time...post old pictures, storys, Blah Blah...

Not necessarily of Archery topics but maybe what lead to that point!!!

Here is some of my Idol and Mentor...My grandfather

This is in the year of 1937... on the Athabasca River with his pack dogs...



Here is another one earlier also along the Athabasca River



I am looking for some pictrures of my grandparents that built a raft/barge big enough for two wall tents and two big families and sled dogs...they would take the barge from the alberta foothills all the way down to Ft Mc Murray and even fort Chip...

There's a falls named after Him Stratton falls....they used to come to the falls and have to tear down and portage the entire falls and rapids...they would come back up the athabasca on dog sled in the winter!!

They would trap the way back



Neil

[6mm rem]

Awesome pic's Neil!! Tuff ol' boys back then!

[edmhunter]

Awesome Neil!

[Talking moose]

Originally Posted by 6mm rem

Awesome pic's Neil!! Tuff ol' boys back then!

X2. 95% of the population today would fold under the conditions and workload. Love old pics.

[MooseRiverTrapper]

Wild country. Men tougher then nails.

[crownb]

My old mans moose back in the 80's, they didn't care much for pictures back then, I mostly just have antlers and stories to listen to. Thankfully somebody decided to snap this photo.

[benamen]

Picture of my dad from the early 50s. Notice he has all of his fingers on his left hand. That was before I was born as he lost three fingers in a buzz saw cutting up that woodpile. Ended his playing of a fiddle.

A photo of his parents on their homestead near Blaine Lake, SK

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

Originally Posted by benamen

Picture of my dad from the early 50s. Notice he has all of his fingers on his left hand. That was before I was born as he lost three fingers in a buzz saw cutting up that woodpile. Ended his playing of a fiddle.

A photo of his parents on their homestead near Blaine Lake, SK

Outstanding...you can always tell old pictures because everyone posed with a look like they were gonna kill ya...lol...no one smiled until the 1960-70's...lol

Neil

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

Originally Posted by crownb

My old mans moose back in the 80's, they didn't care much for pictures back then, I mostly just have antlers and stories to listen to. Thankfully somebody decided to snap this photo.

Nice...it wasnt so much that we didnt care for pictures so much...a decent camera was expensive...35 mm rolls..lost so many pictures due to them 35MM...then there was the new fangled instant Polaroid Cameras ..it was easy ..but expensive and unfourtunatly the picture quaility deteriorated badly some beyond bringing back or reconnition ...

The worst digital first cell phone pictures are way above these with quaility...

no excuses for excellent pictures nowdays...Love my digital camera...spent some big bucks for high quaility compact digital....now my cell phone has a higher pixel quaility than it....and I can take a pic one second and send it to you the next...

Neil

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

Looking Back to the early 80's I remember taking this buck, and using a $300.00 35 mm camera...compact for its time...only the size of a shoe box,...lol

It even had a new fangle self pic timer....I adapted the camera so it could screw onto an arrow...drive the nock end into the ground and had a singlre pod ...like a tri-pod...lol

very early 80's... and this pic has recently been digitaly mastered...still the quiality sucks...lol



Neil

[L.O.S.T.Arrow]

Years ago I had a Red Tail Hawk...I was its pet I think...didnt teach it anything but to come to food...

Had pics and cant find ...ran across this the other day...and it reminded of my Red tail....

One of my favorite birds of prey the Peregrine Falcon have their very own reality show.

The U of A in Edmonton has a nesting site high on their facility, a program sponsored by Alberta Conservation Association, supported by Hunting and fishing licences in Alberta.

There is a 24 hr live feed of “Radisson” the momma Peregrine, her mate “Chase” and the lil ones to be, there are two other nesting sites in Edmonton such as on the Bell tower.

Last year the pair had four snowball woolly chicks and this year Radisson laid her first egg yesterday April 28th and will lay another egg every other day up to five eggs, so the next couple weeks will be interesting to watch.

I have it on live feed to my cell and it is addicting to watch when things happen… http://www.ab-conservation.com/go/de...egrine-camera/

Update...she laid the second egg this morning...cant wait to see how many she has and when they hatch...it has sound so if your watching and she sqeeeetches...it make make you soil your fancys....lol

Neil

[Redfrog]

Looks like those dogs in the first pics were packing a pretty good load.

Thanks for the pics.

[J55]

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