Dad's buck from 1953

Ohiosam said:

Yes J that's the buck from the story. Not sure why he's not in the picture, maybe I just haven't found the picture with him in it yet.

As to why it's in the house I don't have a real good answer but I know the weather was bad, it had snowed a bunch and the creeks were frozen over. I would have thought he would have at least skinned it outside. One of my dad's older cousins told me a story of when she was a little girl visiting our house in the winter. There are 2 outside doors in the kitchen,my grandpa used a horse to drag a big log into the kitchen for the fire. He brought the horse in the one door and out the other. Maybe after seeing a horse in the kitchen my dad didn't think anything about bringing a deer in. :smiley_clap:

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Jackalope said:

I can;t help but wonder.. It's posed as if showing a dog on the bench.. Hand holding the head up, other hand holding the tail.. But why the chair.. Perhaps because this allowed the animal to be positioned in a likewise a manner. Did your dad have any experience showing dogs, have hunting dogs etc. I can see where with deer hunting being so new the typical poses of today we're unknown.. No doubt such a trophy required a pic.. But how.. We'll the same way you would show a dog on the bench, put this chair under him to prop him up and hold up his head and tail.

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