I grew up in a bowhunting family and my Dad liked to take photos with his Argos viewfinder 35mm. He has hundreds of great photos from hunting trips with his bowhunting buddies from the Mudjaw Archery Club in Toledo. Here's one of the earliest ones, from the mid 1950's at a hunting camp near Alpena, Michigan.

Let's see some more. Love those old photos. You're lucky to have grown up in a bow hunting family. Luckily, I had an older cousin that introduced my brother and I to archery hunting in our teens. He's dead now but those first archery hunts are very cherished memories. Thanks for sharing.

Great!...4finger

Here's my Mom in 1964 with a 175lb doe shot near Hillman, Michigan with her 35# Gus Loy custom bow , a MicroFLite 2 shaft with a Hilbre broadhead cut down by my Dad to 85 gr.

Mangonboat - you mentioned the Mudjaw Bowmen. Unusual name. I recently came across this name while doing some historical research on a vintage broadhead for an article. The broadhead was made in the 1960s for a very short time and was named the Harold VanderHorst broadhead. In my research I learned that VanderHorst was the first VP of this club and then later served as President a number of different times. Also, apparently the Mudjaw Bowmen club was one of the more active and respected clubs in the area and is still going strong. There is info on the Mudjaw Bowmen on-line, some history there.

Very cool, keep them coming.

Very cool, keep them coming.

Cool! Thanks for sharing the pictures with us.

More pics please..got to love 'em.

cool stuff.....

Great pics....more!

Deno

I spent a lot of time at Mudjaw in the 80's when I lived in Southern Michigan. It's a great club.

Nice buddy. That is a great doe. Everyone says that women just started hunting but many did back in the day.

casekiska, Harold Vanderhorst and his son Chuck were very active in the Mudjaw Club and great guys. They went on Fred Bear-like bowhunting trips to British Columbia, Alaska, etc. As I go through my Dad's pics I'll try to find one or two of Harold and Chuck. Mudjaw is still an active archery club.

More pictures please.

mangonboat - PM sent your way, thanks.

Not enough pics so I'll throw this one in. This is the bunch I grew up huntin with around '69 in the camp community center. My Dad kneeling in the center.

My wife Nancy's first deer in 1963. Shot with a Bear Ladies Polar, 25#@ 24" Cedar arrow with a Bear Razorhead without the insert.

Very Cool...

We were the CMAA (Central Michigan Archery Association) champion team. It was the early 60's, that's me on the right with my Bear Tamerlane the year Bear came out with it.

A good day of hunting for me and my first beagle, Trump in 1962

My first rabbit with a bow in 1959. Trump liked to have his picture taken :>)

My first deer with a bow in 1961

My first deer with a bow in 1961

I'll toss this one in, from around 20 yrs ago. Does that qualify as 'old'? :^) I am, so it is...

Great pics guys.

I'm a member of Mudjaw Bowmen and live very close to the club. I shoot the Traditional Winter Indoor league every year. Great time.

I made a lucky shot

My 1st deer Is 38 years ago old?

A big late season doe in 1966

Your mom was a cutie, and you married well. - lbg

Your mom was a cutie, and you married well. - lbg

i love these old pics. keep'em coming.

First deer camp in northern Michigan 1959

We all remember vividly our very first whitetail.

My dad in 1971..

Harold VanderHorst in the late 50's New Foundland

Mangonboat, Here are a couple of pics for you:

Bottom picture is Chris and Harold VanderHorst 1974(I think you meant Chris not Chuck, Chuckie is what everyone at Mudjaw would have known Harold's wife by. Also my grandmother.) Top picture is Chris VanderHorst, Kurt Lynne, Rudy Laderach, Jack Kreiner, and Harold. They are in British Columbia hunting with Bill Love who also guided Fred Bear on a British Columbia hunt. In this trip Harold had taken a caribou and Chris had taken a moose, mountain goat and and caribou in three days with a #108 Howard Hill Big Five longbow and Harold with a #60-1959 Kodiak. Both of which I still have.

Chris, "Chuckie" and Harold VanderHorst 1968 in the U.P. most likely Daggett area which was one of their favorite deer spots back then.

Old photo of some pretty good archers take during an exhibition they put on.Samuelson, my dad , my uncle Cliff McGrane and Bob Bitner.

Three were sight shooters, my dad was instictive.

Sorry,I did read the heading,"hunting" photo's. Here is one of dad and a deer on the trunk of his chevy. And one of me and dad at my hunting camp.

The photo's

Love those old photos. There were no bowhunters in my family, and dad wasn't a deer hunter. He was a terror on small game with the old single barrel, so I guess this is my first hunting? photo. Richard Greene's Robin Hood got me into archery back then and it stuck until I was old enough to buy a real bow and start hunting. I've only ever taken three photos of deer taken, maybe four, but I should have taken more. Keep them coming.

Me and my Dad with my first archery buck back in 1973.

Great pictures, thank you.

That's a great picture George.

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