Old Jeep and hunting memories.
hunter1
Jeeper
Morning all..
Just recently joined here, and have a 79 to be delivered in a few days.
I went thru my pics and found my first CJ that I bought used around 1976 or so.
Just can't remember the exact year, maybe 1971? It had the Buick V-6 for sure.
I was in college full time, working full time, and hunting every spare minute 100m away on public land in Concordia parish, La. After working till midnight Fri night, I would jump in my old Nova, drive 60m to moms house where I kept the Jeep loaded up. Swap out, then head to the spots.just in time to get set up for ducks and/or deer in the swamps.
My brother was in high school, and going to votech/trade school too. Every time something broke, (most trips) we'd limp home, and he would fix it during the week. Pretty good deal, lol.
The pic is within minutes of mounting new Unico co-ops (pre buckshot type). Soon we welded up a boat rack for the pirogue, then ran some rebar from rack to the bumper on both sides. This formed a wedge for driving the the woods and parting samplings and blackjack vines.
One of the funniest moments was barreling down a very bad muddy woods trail in the early morn darkness, couldn't stop, or risk get stuck. Low gear, just about hard as u could go. Came around a curve trying to pick the best line, when the steering wheel nut came loose. Just rode straight into the woods few yards where we stopped and tightened it best we could w old pliers. The headlights were dimmed w mud, the extra driving lights in pic were covered and useless.
The ruts were so bad the passenger almost fell out his side more than once. The soft door would open when shoulder hit it and dump you, lol.
Another time we were camping there, big storm came up at midnight and wiped us out, tent flat, everything wet. Threw everything in back, took off, 15m later threw the back joint, shaft like to come thru the bottom, about scared us half to death. Don't u know we had every wrench but the right one to remove the shaft. Cold front comin thru, pouring rain, so we made a quick sling with hay rope all we had, and limped 1st gear low, for about 5m, then at daylight we borrowed a wrench, then hauled it home on the front shaft.
Will try to find a few more pics of this Jeep. In those days it was still ok to put deer on hood, lol.
Sorry for the long post, just great Jeep CJ5 memories that we still laugh about!
My roommate at the time was a nonhunter, but excellent artist, so he handpainted Renegade, lol.
Feel free to post any hardcore stories
Just recently joined here, and have a 79 to be delivered in a few days.
I went thru my pics and found my first CJ that I bought used around 1976 or so.
Just can't remember the exact year, maybe 1971? It had the Buick V-6 for sure.
I was in college full time, working full time, and hunting every spare minute 100m away on public land in Concordia parish, La. After working till midnight Fri night, I would jump in my old Nova, drive 60m to moms house where I kept the Jeep loaded up. Swap out, then head to the spots.just in time to get set up for ducks and/or deer in the swamps.
My brother was in high school, and going to votech/trade school too. Every time something broke, (most trips) we'd limp home, and he would fix it during the week. Pretty good deal, lol.
The pic is within minutes of mounting new Unico co-ops (pre buckshot type). Soon we welded up a boat rack for the pirogue, then ran some rebar from rack to the bumper on both sides. This formed a wedge for driving the the woods and parting samplings and blackjack vines.
One of the funniest moments was barreling down a very bad muddy woods trail in the early morn darkness, couldn't stop, or risk get stuck. Low gear, just about hard as u could go. Came around a curve trying to pick the best line, when the steering wheel nut came loose. Just rode straight into the woods few yards where we stopped and tightened it best we could w old pliers. The headlights were dimmed w mud, the extra driving lights in pic were covered and useless.
The ruts were so bad the passenger almost fell out his side more than once. The soft door would open when shoulder hit it and dump you, lol.
Another time we were camping there, big storm came up at midnight and wiped us out, tent flat, everything wet. Threw everything in back, took off, 15m later threw the back joint, shaft like to come thru the bottom, about scared us half to death. Don't u know we had every wrench but the right one to remove the shaft. Cold front comin thru, pouring rain, so we made a quick sling with hay rope all we had, and limped 1st gear low, for about 5m, then at daylight we borrowed a wrench, then hauled it home on the front shaft.
Will try to find a few more pics of this Jeep. In those days it was still ok to put deer on hood, lol.
Sorry for the long post, just great Jeep CJ5 memories that we still laugh about!
My roommate at the time was a nonhunter, but excellent artist, so he handpainted Renegade, lol.
Feel free to post any hardcore stories
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