Some huntin pitchers

[Ron LaClair]

The Moose was taken with a .62 Jaeger flintlock in 1979, the deer was taken with a .54 Kentucky flinter in 1978

 

[musketman]

Nice, what a thrilling experience it must be to take a moose, the size of them alone would be intimidating...

 

[Rebel]

Great pics. Is that your house in the background behind ya in the deer photo? Real nice place ya got there if it is. Would love to have a place like it with some land where i can hunt and shoot again. We lived on 300 acres bordering thousands more of BLM land unti, recently when we had to move because of business. Now we live in town and i hate it. Maybe someday again we will make it back out of town.

 

[Ron LaClair]

Rebel, "Been to a town Del"

No, the log house isn't mine, it is where my gun maker Judson Brennan lived when he was in Michigan. He moved bag and baggage to Alaska in 1985. He still makes guns but they're priced way out of my price range now.

Fortunatly I have 5 guns that Jud made for me before he got popular. :haha:

 

[Ron LaClair]

Musketman,

I shot him runnin straight away, at fifty yards the ball hit him in the south end and stopped just under the hide in the north end. The 610 round ball was pushed by 200gr's of 2FF. A fast reload form the loading block and the 2nd shot(that wasn't really needed) put him down.

 

Rebel, "Been to a town Del"

No, the log house isn't mine, it is where my gun maker Judson Brennan lived when he was in Michigan. He moved bag and baggage to Alaska in 1985. He still makes guns but they're priced way out of my price range now.

Fortunatly I have 5 guns that Jud made for me before he got popular. :haha:

You are very forunate to have 5 of his guns!!

Jud showed me one of his "plain jane long rifles" at a gun show in Fairbanks several years ago,.... "ask'n price" $8000.00 (liddle "rich" fer my blood :haha.
I didn't git to see or hold the one thet Jud made thet had more'n 1/4 "POUND" of gold'n siver inlays. :cry: :cry:

Jud is an "true artist" when it comes to make'n rifles and etc., thet's fer sure .

YMHS
rollingb

 

[musketman]

Musketman,

I shot him runnin straight away,

Now just think how much more exciting that would have been if'n the moose was runnin straight at you... :haha:

 

[Ron LaClair]

"Now just think how much more exciting that would have been if'n the moose was runnin straight at you"

It was pretty exciting as it was Musketman :haha: but if he had run at me instead of away, ole "Mellon Buster" would'a made that ugly head even uglier when that big ball hit him between the eyes. ::

As it was when he jumped up from his bed and took off it was like puttin a bead on the back of a Volkswagon, hard to miss a critter that big.

 

[Ron LaClair]

Rollingb,

Ya, I know. Jud's customers now are mostly Dr's n Lawyer's n such. Folks that make the big bucks. Jud's work is worth every penny he gets, he's a real artist.

The last two guns I got from him was my Jaeger and an English Fowler. I traded him an old Ford 4x4 crew cab truck for both guns that he drove to Alaska. His rig looked like the Beverly Hillbillys when he left. He was haulin a trailer with his forge,his tools, a horse, canoe, plus all of their belongin's tied on. It was quite a spectacle. :crackup:

 

[Stumpkiller]

If you looked like that ( : in 1978, then you must be THE Ron LaClair. :master: My mental connections are fewer and farther between than they used to be. I've been watchin you since Traditional Bowhunting magazine (the original, not the current) tested one of your Shrews. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Anyone who can get a 54" longbow to shoot without bitin is both a madman and a genius.

Got any broadheads yer interested in tradin? ::

My bowhuntin mentor was Gary Hall, an old field archer 'bout yer age. :winking:

Nice moose & buck, too!

 

[Ron LaClair]

Hey Charlie, yep, that's me. I'm still in the business of selling Shrew bows. Gregg Coffey, (Java Man on this forum) is one of my bowyers that make the Shrews for me. Gregg also has a love for traditional muzzleloaders. I'm the one that loaned him the smoothbore to hunt with a couple weeks ago. Get him to tell you what happened when he got a chance for a shot. :redface:

Gary Hall, the name sounds familiar. Where's he from? I used to shoot a lot of field archery back in the late 50's and 60's.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Gary was from Binghamton, NY. He was as good a shot with a traditional bow as I am with a pistol, and I can hold 1-1/2" at 25 yards. The old field archery course he used to frequent was in Coventry, NY and is now state game lands, and only a few remember it was ever there. A later one was nearby in Castle Creek, NY.

He tore a rotator cuff and then had a zipper (multiple bypass) and had a much reduced poundage and range in recent years.

I believe he was NY State Champion several times back in the 60's. He ran "Burnt Arrow Archery" and was a Damon-Howatt/Martin dealer around the 70's sometime.

He had a massive heart attack just after his 60th birthday while riding a 1960-something Moto-Guzzi he had just restored, back in May of '02, and did a true number to himself on a wire guardrail. Bent three of the support rails flush to the ground. At least he never sufferred.

 

[Huntinfool]

Stumpy said, "If you looked like that in 1978, then you must be THE Ron LaClair."

Hi Ron,

Welcome to the forum.

I'm another traditional bowhunter. You might know the guy who built my longbow down here in WV. Maker of Talon Longbows Dave Paxton. Seems to me he mentioned your name a time or two maybe you bought a couple of his bows or something.

I sure love my Talon Classic. I took 2nd place in the State with it on the 3rd day of taking possesion of it. A sweet shooter for sure.

YMH&OS, :master:
Chuck

 

[Ron LaClair]

Charlie, I may have shot with Gary at one of the Nationals in the 60's Sorry to here of his untimely passing. :sorry:

Chuck, Ya I know Dave, he's a craftsman and makes a fine bow. I sold some of his bows in my Archery Shoppe before I developed my line of Shrew bows.

Traditional bows are to archery what traditional muzzleloaders are to guns. They're both steeped in history and tradition :thumbsup:

 

[Ron LaClair]

Another huntin pitcher, this'n was taken near my huntin camp in Northern Michigan a few years ago.

 

[KyFlintlock]

Great pic! I have always enjoyed the canoe pics, I've seen many from Maine... Thanks for posting it.

 

[Ron LaClair]

KyFlintlock, if you like canoe pictures here's another one. This is a print called "Longhunter" and was done by Marian Anderson for the National Wild Turkey Federation in 1995. She did it from a photograph. I'm the one in the picture.

I met Marian at an art show in my area about a year before she did the painting. She was doing a series of "Mountainman" prints for the NWTF at the time and was looking for subjects to paint. When she found out I owned a real Birchbark canoe and had all the other necessary equiptment that was all she needed. The frock I'm wearing is elkskin, the bow is an osage selfbow, beaded otterskin quiver, my flintlock smoothbore lays in the bow of the canoe. In the original picture I was putting my pack in the canoe but Marian need a turkey in the painting so the pack became a bird.

 

[Liver eatin’ Johnson]

Very nice indeed! Are there prints available?

 

[ela]

I've had that print "Longhunter" hanging in my living room. Number 42 0f 62 artist proofs. They've been sold out for a long time.

 

[Protrucker]

Stumpkiller,
I just read your post about Gary Hall. I knew him since back in the mid 1970's. We were both members of Mountain Trail Bowhunters & shot together many times. He was one of a very small handfull of guys, at the club, who still shot bows that were not "new fangled contraptions". What a shame, that his life came to such an unfortunate end. I was saddened when the news of his accident hit the local news.:cry: