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Jerry Olinger Hunting Traditions
All right, I grew up in northern Indiana around Elkhart, southland area. And I grew up on a small rural cropland. And we had almost zero deer at that time, this would be in around 58, 57 and if we just saw a track and I’m talking about myself and my older brother, we would get all excited. We would get down and look at that track and measure it and it was something to us that was just sacred. Jerry Olinger Hunting Traditions
Because there wasn’t any deer where we lived to speak of. You’d see one once in awhile, but not very often. Then one day I was waiting, I was in the eighth grade and it was 1958 and we lived on a country road, there wasn’t any other houses around, and I’m standing there waiting for the school bus and I see a doe run across a field. And when I saw that doe I threw my books down and away I go. Jerry Olinger Hunting Traditions
I don’t know what I was gonna do but you didn’t see deer and I was gonna track that deer. Well I spent the day tracking that deer and so I never did find it and when I got back home, of course, I caught it from my dad but we were so intrigued by deer because there wasn’t any. Jerry Olinger Hunting Traditions
I believe it was 59, and it was like a one-day season
Then my older brother they opened up the first deer season, I believe it was 59, and it was like a one-day season. You’d shoot one buck, shotgun only and my one brother Mel, and my Uncle Jack, they got all excited about deer hunting. Well, that one-day season they couldn’t find any slugs, there wasn’t any in the stores. So they decided, I don’t know if they heard this somewhere or just come up with it on their own, to take a regular shotgun shell and take a knife and cut around the bottom of the wadding, it was paper then, paper casings. And they’d cut around there and then they’d put tape around there and they went out and I was watching ’em they went out there about 40 yards, 30 yards and they were lucky to hit a pie plate. Jerry Olinger Hunting Traditions
But that’s all they had. So they went hunting that first couple of seasons and I would listen to their stories and got all excited about them tracking deer, what little deer they saw. And from there on that’s when I decided I’m gonna chase these deer.
So I spent the first three years and I didn’t kill a deer
So I bought me a 12 gauge fancy shotgun and it just had a not very accurate at all but it kicked like a mule. So I spent the first three years and I didn’t kill a deer. I hunted hard, didn’t kill a thing but as it went on, I did take one. And then I decided okay, it’s time to try this bowhunting because you can hunt more, they opened up the season a little more and you could hunt with a bow.
So that give me a little extra hunting time, so. At that time there weren’t really any large sporting goods stores and the big box stores I think there was only K-Mart at that time. There wasn’t a Walmart or some of these other big sporting goods stores. There just wasn’t any except K-Mart. And they started marketing a recurve bow called a Shakespeare, made by Shakespeare and I bought a 40-pound Necedah Shakespeare and then my uncle bought one and then my brother bought one. And we started hunting with those bows. And as far since, if I remember right there was only one scent you could buy or on the market and that was Pete Rickard.
we started hunting with those bows
He was a guide out of Canada. And he had a scent on the market and then K-Mart, they come out with a scent called [inaudible 00:04:34] and so we bought these scents we didn’t know anything, how to use them or anything, we just bought ’em. And first time my brother and I went into the woods, it was dark, and we poured this scent on us and I think we both used a bottle apiece, and we put it all over us, we put it on our shoes.
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