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By chance did anyone know Everett Manor and have family contact information. I really want a picture of him. He was a government hunter/trapper that lived near Fall City Oregon when I knew him in the early 80's

Also, does anyone have a full collection of Full Cry that would go back to the late 70's early 80's? He had a photo that he took on one of the covers. It was a huge tree with a small hollow/hole in it probably 20 feet high. Two bear heads protruding out of that hole looking around, and heaven knows how you could even get one bear head out that little hole, let alone get their whole body in there.
It is a distinctive photo in this way, and if you have it please contact me on here.

Thanks.

David, I do have a bunch of full cry's from the early 50's on but they are in Utah , my wife is coming out this weekend I will have her bring them out and I will go thru them and see if I can find what you are looking for.
Devin

Wow, that sounds like a lot of trouble for everyone, but if I can find that picture I will be a happy camper, and would pay you for your trouble. If you dont want to part with the magazine, just finding out the year and month might make it possible for me to find it, or maybe I could get a color copy of it from you or something.

It had to be some time befor 1985 and that is about all I know.

I remember the photo and I am sure I have it but will have to do some digging. I have kept Full Cry since 1973 but I have lost some of the boxes, but I will do some looking when I can. Over the past four or five years I have looked at Full Cry read the Majestic History , and an occasional big game article when one was worth looking at, and pitched them in the trash. Not sure why I even keep getting them but I do hoping that maybe some of the good old days and atricles will pop up again.

I was down in Texas with a great freind of mine a few weeks back and we were remenicing over the old days and old coon hunters, breeders and icons in the hound world. He showed me old phtotos he had taken years ago with guys like Elbert Vaughn, Hoy Biscamp, Warren Haslour and others. He said man 20 years ago or so I would head home out by Clevelend, Texas and I would see dog boxes passing and guys headed for hunts or out to train all the time and I hardly ever see a box these days. Still some great hunting out in them woods what has happened to the hound guys and why is Full Cry magazine pretty much a cur dog and fiest publication these days? He said DEER HUNTING. What I asked? Yes the deer hunting has become such big business in so many areas, and the price for leased land for deer hunting areas has skyrocketed. All over the south whitetails have multiplied like crazy and guys like Jackie Bushman and others keep the public pumped up and ready to lay the hammer down on a big buck so they lease the land. A whole lot of these guys have no idea about hound hunting so they just say no coon or cat hunting on this loand and loose running hounds will be shot. So there you go..
Don't get me wrong I love to deer hunt as much as the next guy but my hounds come first.
Sure glad I still live out where there is plenty of public land and national forest to access for hounds. We sure need to be aware of this priveledge and protect it or hound hunting will be a thing of the past all over.

Mike, about two years ago I got kicked off a deer lease just outside of Cleveland, Texas for running my hounds.
It was a nice lease about 2000 acers that borderd the National Forest. I got on the deer least to hunt my hounds after deer season. My freind had train his dogs with four wheelers. Someone came by with a four wheeler and his dogs chase him and they shot his dog.
My freind caught him and the guy who shot his dog paid a terrible price.
So they kick me off by assocation and I did not mind.
JTG

Thanks Devin and Mike,

Mike I have been doing an awful lot of thinking about the past here lately also. Mostly because I am hunting out of an 18 wheeler now, and the only hounds and houndmen I get to see are those in my memory.

I do actually see dog boxes going down the freeway once in a while, and that is nice. I have been met with so many frustrations in the most recent years of my hunting, it is easy to see why people would quit doing it. I thought the gas prices might hold people back, but the bear hunters I have talked to in Michigan etc., say they have been out in force, so that is good.

Some one else told me that this generation of young people are the E-generation, that they know more about virtual reality than reality, and have learned to manipulate that virtual reality with their fingertips and are unable to stick with anything difficult. There may be some truth to that, I dont know, but I know there are some young people who have showed up on here and want badly to know how to do this thing we have done. We need to rally around these young guys and gals and give them everything we can, or we are going to see it die right befor our aging eyes.

I know how hard it was for me to break into the world of bobcat hunting. I would not wish that on any kid. Lets give em all the help and encouragement we can.