Eutycus
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A .410 at a yard sale for $16.00 or was it I bought a .410 when I was 16 ?
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Sorry. It's getting that way for us too - not the loss of hunt-able ground, but physical limitations are starting to limit my wife's and my abilities to hunt.Lack of time 20 years ago and now, physical limitations and loss of hunt-able ground, have terminated my ability to hunt.
Ouch! Do you wish now that you hadn't done that?I ended up selling it in a pawn shop in Clearwater Florida.
Sometimes but I would have lost it anyway. I joined the Army a few years later and got sent to Germany.Ouch! Do you wish now that you hadn't done that?
Sorry, that's too bad. I have a buddy that's almost as old as I am (76), and he's quite proud of the Nylon 66 he's had since his youth.Sometimes but I would have lost it anyway. I joined the Army a few years later and got sent to Germany.
I grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin at the age of 12 I got a BB gun then at 14 I was allowed to use my dad’s Remington Nylon 22 I thought this is a breeze and asked dad if I could shoot his 12 gauge JC Higgins double barrel which he agreed to we go down to the gravel pit he hands it to me I ask him if I should pull one or both triggers so me thinking I am tuff pull both how I managed that I am not sure. My dad just stood there laughing as I got up off the ground I never shot a gun again until I was 39 when my father in law got me to go to a range with him and we all know how that goes now I can’t put them down.when i was a little kid i had those toy plastic guns that shot plastic bullets. when i got older it was metal cap guns. older still as a teen bb/pellet gun/rifle. my granddad used to take me out to the country and shoot his old .22 pistol. it kind of went from there.
I had that, and the metal revolvers we played cowboys and indians with as kids, and also had plastic machine guns that made a "rat-a-tat-tat" noise....but that's all it was for me was kid games, as neither of or our families were into hunting or were military or cops, etc. It's only in the last few years or so, despite a military career, that I've been interested in owning any guns, because without trying to get too political or going off in some "new world order" tangent, I see a country that seems to be just begging for an excuse to come apart at the seams, and if it does, I prefer to be able to defend my home against violence/nut balls.when i was a little kid i had those toy plastic guns that shot plastic bullets. when i got older it was metal cap guns.
I loved that rifle in the Sears catalog. My mom hated guns so that's as close as I ever got. She's 90 now and I still hear about it.Sorry, that's too bad. I have a buddy that's almost as old as I am (76), and he's quite proud of the Nylon 66 he's had since his youth.
I never had a Nylon 66 myself. I still remember the advertisements for them in the magazines though - they showed someone with a Nylon 66 sitting on top of a whole pile of wooden blocks with holes in them.
Sorry, that's too bad. I have a buddy that's almost as old as I am (76), and he's quite proud of the Nylon 66 he's had since his youth.
I never had a Nylon 66 myself. I still remember the advertisements for them in the magazines though - they showed someone with a Nylon 66 sitting on top of a whole pile of wooden blocks with holes in them.
I don't remember where I read this but Sergeant Saunders camouflage helmet cover was in theory fashioned from a camouflage parachute.Watching these guys. For the young people, the tv series Combat; age 7 or 8 iirc. Episodes on Youtube seem to be free.
We only had three tv channels in the 60's. "Social media" was going outside to play with neighbors. Nobody we knew hid inside..
Why did I lose or break my plastic full-scale Garand or perfect duplicate black metal Luger (maybe a cap gun) ? These days brandishing that toy Luger it could get you killed.