Fine old pieces you "can't talk about"...

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Kentucky Rifle

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People of my vintage:
Remember when you "saved up" for those that were really special? Those you didn't have to jump through hoops to get. The ones that you knew you'd keep forever...and, have done that very thing. But, you're afraid to talk about them now. Even though these old blue fellas are your best, you never say anything because this is the 'Net. And privacy doesn't exist and you feel that somebody, somewhere is making a list. 'Tis a sad thing. Anybody ever feel like that?

KR
 
sigh...

Yeah like remembering when watching a stamp go on a postcard taken from a magazine, then a few weeks later the postman bringing a package to the door, COD to boot. Uncle hands me the package and I unwrap a firearm. Sigh...Ruger's $24 semi auto in 22 lr,or a K frame,maybe a box of S&W ammo in the blue box...Shotguns and rifles too...Maybe the postman had a cup of coffee and let me use his knife to cut the postal string...it...it...it's just what you did. The postman asks if he can use the other postcard to order one via mail for himself...vintage...I'm getting old...I need a nickel coke and bag of peanuts...I'm feeling sad...

What guns?
Memories perhaps...
 
I am a little young to remember those "salad days;" on the other hand I have sold and liquidated all firearms I have ever owned for any of y'all who are making a list! :evil: :neener:
 
I'm only 42.

I remember when my favorite present from my Pop-pop was a lever action rifle (a toy) that you cocked with the lever, and it made a loud bang and smoke came from the barrel. It looked like a real gun. we played cops n robbers army cowboys and indians, and we were encouraged to play these games they were normal Boy games.

My son who is 5 will never buy a new toy gun that looks like a real one his will always be garrish flourescent colors, and have a red plastic piece on the muzzle.

I gave my son the one toy that survived my youth its a muzzle loading toy flintlock, that came from Colonial Williamsburg, no oragne muzzle guard, its made from wood and steel. Its his favorite toy gun.

The other day he told me that he wanted Santa Claus to bring him a rifle a toy one NOT a real one that he could play with . He wants it to look like the bolt action .22lr that I just bought for him and his sister to shoot at the range. He does not want it to have an orange thing on the muzzle.

I am afraid that there is no such toy availible, I will have to tell him that Santa is not allowed to make toys like he wants.

He will ask why daddy??????


How can I explain it to him?????

Maybe he will understand, because already he and his boy friends make toy guns at daycare, and they have to tell the teacher that they are cosmic ray projectors, not guns. we share a knowing look, even 5 year olds have to deal with the reality of political correctness.
 
It was nineteen and sixty uh um four or five....somewhere in there.....If you were a LEO, for $35.00 you got a year's membership in NRA and a brand spankin' new M1 Carbine, WWII vintage. Mine came in a box wrapped in waxed paper and cosmoline. Had a lot of fun with that rifle.
I traded it and a well used Ithica Featherweight .12 ga pump that I bought in 1959 or so, (my first shotgun of my own) in 1969 for a new Ithica Mod 900 (?) semi auto .20 ga with a deerslayer barrel and a full choke shot barrel (that I put a poly choke on). The sides of the reciever are buffed up and a field scene with pheasants is inscribed on both sides.

Then...there was this other piece...I met her in Flori....ooops, never mind.
:D :D
grampster
 
Methinks thou be a bit paranoid?! if they do do confiscation they'll just goto the basements of gunshops first. Ya know, where they by law have to keep all the firearms reciepts (with serial #'s and names) by federal law!? if anything thats where they will start off!:fire:
 
My son who is 5 will never buy a new toy gun that looks like a real one his will always be garrish flourescent colors, and have a red plastic piece on the muzzle.
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Five years old? Hmmm . . . at that age I probably would've looked at the garish colors, looked at a magic marker, put two and two together, and . . . :evil:
 
T-Stox...

Yeah. I am a bit paranoid. One of my lessor wounds.
You didn't give your age on your profile. However, there WAS a time when you went in and purchased what you wanted without any names, numbers, or any other damn thing. You just pulled out your wallet, laid down the "up front whip out" and walked out with your prize. Maybe you're too young to remember those days? There were days like that. I remember them well.

KR
 
MasterBlaster:
Sometimes you gotta break the rules. IMO
For a "real" toy gun...
Check Flea markets, garage sales, gun shows. Have also gunsmithed the orange dealie to bluing, new string and and cork from the hardware store.
I believe in 4 Rules, I also believe a kid should be allowed to be a kid. A Kid mind you not a "Kadet of the State".

Actually removed the string later, bought extra corks, and let a kid ,using / practicing/re-enforcing the 4 rules, shoot in a basement into a cardboard box with target. Yep I'd do it again.

Training, teaching firearms is what we responsible adults do...don't need "indoctrination with a silly you know what orange dealie as per State orders".

Yep Big Brother I said sometimes you gotta break the rules, my code of law is superior to yours...Molon Labe!!
 
t-stox

Methinks thou be a bit paranoid?! if they do do confiscation they'll just goto the basements of gunshops first. Ya know, where they by law have to keep all the firearms reciepts (with serial #'s and names) by federal law!? if anything thats where they will start off!
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I have a feeling that there will be a rash of accidental fires in those basements (purely by coincidence just at the time when the BATF#$%ers start doing door-to-door searches). I know of one who keeps all of those papers "near the old, out-of-repair furnace," and who constantly "worries" that it might cause a fire (yet who won't move the papers).

Of course, the JBTs have been going around to a bunch of gun shops with the portable scanners in the last couple of years, and we all KNOW that they've been copying all of the records despite the fact that the law forbids it.

Yet, it doesn't matter for me. I sold all of my guns years ago to someone at a gunshow. What did he tell me his name was . . . oh yeah, John Smith, that the feller. White guy, about 5'10", 175, brown hair and eyes, no distinctive features or accent.
 
TimH....where you at????
I live in Schodack(East greenbush)just outside Albany.......I shoot at Watervliet R&G club and do IDPA in Rotterdam(Capital Region Defensive Pistol Legue).........PM me if you want....:cool:
 
well BTW kentucky rifle.................I used to live in kentucky! first near Lexington then later in a small town called Tompkinsville. It was in KY where I rekindeled my love of Guns! they have very few gun laws, as you know, and well at least try to keep FED GOVT out of your life ! come back! As to my age, well i'm only 33 and did'nt really get back into guns until 1996 as far as buying them for myself etc. so all I know is NICS checks ID photocopying and POST-BAN stuff :mad:
 
Guns? I don have no steenkin guns.

Molon Labe!

Other than that, I do miss the old days when you bought guns, and had no stupid questions asked. Sitting in a gunshop, smelling the Hoppes, and telling stories.:(
 
T-Stox...

I thought that might be the case. In Kentucky, there used to be many, MANY small general stores with good gun and pocket knife display cases. You could find us "Gents" looking through those cases a lot. Rifles & shotguns were common too. It was wonderful! When you found the right firearm, you haggled a bit, bought it and went out back to shoot. No "MAN with a GUN" calls. Just guys going out back to fire the new gun. No names, no records...no NOTHING. An example: It's the same way with piloting an airplane. I remember the days when I could fly coast to coast with NO radios. (Except the one I kept tuned to a country/western music station to keep me company.) Now, I gotta talk to everybody and his dog. Have TWO radios in the plane just to keep up. CR Sam will tell you the same thing. The people we've elected to "represent us" have made so many unnecessary laws...well I can't think of a way to say it that won't get my thread locked. (Ah hell, the politicians have turned everything into a "goat-screw" and that's all there is to it.) As Jimmy Durante once said, "Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone"? I'm not talkin' anarchy here, but we've got intrusive laws out the ying yang. You can't even burn a pile of leaves anymore. :mad:
Well--I've had my say and it felt good.

Kentucky Rifle
 
You said it good.

I read somewhere the other day that the only people enjoying the 2nd Amendment the way it was written and intended are the criminals.
 
You older folk are making me mighty jealous...

As much as I love technology, I'd trade it all in a second for the freedom of the days past.

Often I think I was born in the wrong decade....
 
Well--I've had my say and it felt good.
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Kentucky...felt good to read it.
I suspect some of you are older than I, me being a mid fifties model and all. I do remember going out back with my uncle and shooting a new gun, owner might just hand you over a handfull of ammo and let you see what the difference was, or what the gun liked...no charge, customer service, and treated a kid (me) with a Grapette. Oh and give me the loose rds of 22lr ammo that had "accumulated" around the shop. I really like that part.

Heck,I was part of this and I still think I shoulda been born sooner...Pirate Looks At Forty yeah...Buffett pegged me on that one...
 
its a muzzle loading toy flintlock, that came from Colonial Williamsburg,
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I had one of those but it was a cap gun. Mine didn't survive, however. My brother used it as a club during one of our better fights. I wish I could find another one.
 
Kentucky Rifle;

You bring back many memories. I do remember all the things
you mentioned. In fact, I just posted on another thread a few
minutes ago about gasoline being 12 cents a gallon but I
didn't have 12 cents or a car to put it in. My first shotgun was
a Model 20 Winchester 410 that my Dad bought for 6.00 and
then a few years later he bought me a used Model 12 Win. for
another 6.00. For me, those were the good old days but I hope
we never see the like of them again. Worked on an Uncle's
farm 12 to 16 hours a day depending on the season and got
paid 75 cents. Not per hour---per day!
 
Thank Guys...ESPECIALLY Mods..

I said some things there that "walked a fine line". Thanks for letting my post stay open.

Thank you,
Will (KR)
 
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