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So much of this nostalgia is for a time before most here were born. We don't know the hard realities of using that antiquated gear, just the quaint look of it in old sepia photos.

My nostalgia is for gear we really used in the days when I first hunted waterfowl. It was not long after the Korean War ended, and Uncle Sam was equipping most duck hunters in Minnesota through the war surplus store. No one fancied himself a 'gentleman,' we sure as hell didn't look 'dapper' - but we killed a lot of ducks in those days. It was all O.D. field jackets and flight pants and jeep caps and .50 ammo boxes; everything smelled of mothballs and mildew. In the pre-dawn bustle at the landing, as we loaded the boats, it looked like preparation for D-Day. Even my AlumaCraft Ducker, with Army pontoons in its DNA, harked back to the days of war.

Nothing elegant, nothing expensive, just gear that had worked to save the world. Swords into plowshares, it was.

Wool is the finest mother nature has given us.Wool was still the clothing of choise in Haines Alaska while I lived there.poly longjohns under wool kept you warm and dry and after awhile you learn not to scratch from the wool

KMcMichael,
What is the forecast for quail down your way this year? It's still the same here in Albuquerque - several coveys, but all living in back yards in the neighborhoods and being fed grain from trays in the yard!!


I do not think there will be many quail this year because the rains started too late. I have not seen any young ones, only pairs.

Raimey,

I mostly smell like the second variety of hunter you mentioned. That jacket and cap in the second picture haven't seen the inside of a washing machin anytime in this century or probably the one before it.


Destry

dapper indeed...

Perry, I think the quail forecast here is about the same. Late and heavy rains. Some clutches before the rains but none since.
--Jack

Bummer!! It is beginning to look as though I will have to harvest my quail this year from Keller's farm stores. I went on a hunt once for quail to cook for my wife who dearly loves them on her birthday. Totally skunked!! Not a bird. So on the way home I stopped at Kellers and bought 3 packages of 4 and cooked them for her with out telling her where I got them. Hey! She loved them, and made the comment that she didn't bite into a single pellet!! I have maintained silence on the whereabouts of that "hot spot" to this very day!!!!