I wonder with these types of photographs whether or not the subjects were just a bunch of 'city slickers' who dressed up in the clothing hired from the photographer and also hired the prop guns too. I suppose they could then take the pictures back to their wives as 'proof' that they really did go on a hunting trip and not some boozy do with the rest of the lads. Reminds me of the old Laurel & Hardy film where they went off to a meeting of the Sons of the Desert after giving their wives a false story. Lagopus.....