Old pics

[FlSwampRat]

While looking for a completely different picture on a storage hard drive I came across this picture. I think it's the only one I have from the old (at that time it was called The New) Fort Myers Gun Club.

Me, circa 1975 shooting my Python at the rifle range which was always much less crowded than the pistol range back then.

Dig the mutton chops.....

Anybody else have some old pics of themselves from days gone by?

 

[Ed4032]

There is one of me but it is hanging in the post office...

 

[Tommygunn]

Love those sideburns ... straight out of 1975. You didn't even have to tell me the year.

Somewhere there's a picture of me from the mid 1960s holding a Mattel "Fanner 45" I think it was called, dooded up like a cowboy.....but it's in a picture book and right now unscannable. It isn't a real gun anyway ......

 

[FlSwampRat]

Somewhere there's a picture of me from the mid 1960s holding a Mattel "Fanner 45" I think it was called, dooded up like a cowboy.....but it's in a picture book and right now unscannable. It isn't a real gun anyway ......

Had one of those too. That was my favorite toy gun!

With a nod to your nick.... This is a picture of my Dad on the police range, late 60's. Yeah, he was left handed.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

I wish I had old pics of going to the range or general shooting from my past. All I have are a smattering of photos from Army--days and while those are cool and all, some civilian ones would be appreciated now more than I ever would have guessed back then.

I marvel at the notion of the degree to which modern youth are photographically and video documenting their lives now and the ease of *processing* and storage of those memories.

Todd.

 

[bannockburn]

No photos of myself because I was always the photographer!

 

[FlSwampRat]

No photos of myself because I was always the photographer!

I can relate!

 

[FlSwampRat]

I wish I had old pics of going to the range or general shooting from my past. All I have are a smattering of photos from Army--days and while those are cool and all, some civilian ones would be appreciated now more than I ever would have guessed back then.

I marvel at the notion of the degree to which modern youth are photographically and video documenting their lives now and the ease of *processing* and storage of those memories.

Todd.

It's amazing the number of pictures I've accumulated in the recent (digital age) past as opposed to the Kodak age of awhile back. Actually there were two ages back then for me, the Kodak age when all the pictures were sent out for processing and then later when I got into photography instead of snapshootery and set up my own darkroom. I do wish more pictures were taken by my parents as I have no pictures of me with the aforementioned Fanner 50.

As Bannockburn noted, I too was always the photographer so pictures of me are scarce even into the darkroom age, and today I'm not into the selfie thing.

My parents tell me that back in my single digit age I had different outfits for various tv shows I liked. My coonskin cap for watching Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, my Fanner 50 for Have Gun Will Travel. Always wanted one of those HGWT rigs with the knight piece on the holster.

My Dad would always make me "clear" whatever toy gun I picked up, learned a lot handling those toys, wish I had more pics of me with them.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

We had one fella taking all our Team photos for this amazing school back in the 80's. Problem was, he was toting most of the undeveloped stock when a portion of the training called for an impromptu dropping of us on a submerged sand-bar.

These days, he'd have been dumping anything not classified immediately to *the cloud*. Sad to not have more than the dozen or so that survived.

They'd NEVER let you clear an obstacle with a cocked&locked 1911 these days.... More's the pity!

Todd.

 

[Armybrat]

Old Infantry Post, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas - 1947. Me on the left with the bad trigger discipline.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Old Infantry Post, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas - 1947. Me on the left with the bad trigger discipline.

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It's not bad discipline if you were about pop the scallywag pointing that pikshur-box at you and your pardners!

Todd.

 

[jmr40]

No pics at the range, a few hunting photos from 25-30 years ago.

 

[theotherwaldo]

This is a picture of my Dad on the police range, late 60's. Yeah, he was left handed.

It's always nice to have a left-handed wingman... with a Thompson... .

 

[Aim1]

Had one of those too. That was my favorite toy gun!

With a nod to your nick.... This is a picture of my Dad on the police range, late 60's. Yeah, he was left handed.

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No earplugs back then!

 

[FlSwampRat]

No earplugs back then!

Sorry, repeat that.... Didn't hear you.

 

[chicharrones]

I only have one photo of me with a firearm and it's from 2004 when I was at the ripe old age of 39.

Does having a pager on my belt (under right elbow) make this photo old enough?

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[Trey Veston]

Me, back in `91, on home on leave and going for a horseback ride in the Idaho mountains with my Ruger Single-Six on my hip...

 

[Trey Veston]

And back in the barracks after a patrol exercise in the rain...

 

[Flintshooter]

It's amazing the number of pictures I've accumulated in the recent (digital age) past as opposed to the Kodak age of awhile back. Actually there were two ages back then for me, the Kodak age when all the pictures were sent out for processing and then later when I got into photography instead of snapshootery and set up my own darkroom. I do wish more pictures were taken by my parents as I have no pictures of me with the aforementioned Fanner 50.

As Bannockburn noted, I too was always the photographer so pictures of me are scarce even into the darkroom age, and today I'm not into the selfie thing.

My parents tell me that back in my single digit age I had different outfits for various tv shows I liked. My coonskin cap for watching Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, my Fanner 50 for Have Gun Will Travel. Always wanted one of those HGWT rigs with the knight piece on the holster.

My Dad would always make me "clear" whatever toy gun I picked up, learned a lot handling those toys, wish I had more pics of me with them.

I had one of those HGWT rigs, black outfit included. The picture is among thousands of 35mm slides but my OCD father has everything filed and labeled so it should be easy to find. I will try to get it scanned later today.

 

[bikerdoc]

I had a bunch but only this one survived, found it in my mom's stuff when she passed.
All the one I had I took out the fire pit along with a bunch of other stuff and burned them in April of 75 - on the day Saigon fell.
Yes a quart of Jack was involved.

 

[Speedo66]

Had one of those too. That was my favorite toy gun!

With a nod to your nick.... This is a picture of my Dad on the police range, late 60's. Yeah, he was left handed.

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It's amazing how chewed up the buttstock on your Dad's Thompson looks.

What PD was he working for? Almost looks like NYPD hat device, shooting at Rodman's Neck.

Great pics!

 

[whughett]

It's amazing how chewed up the buttstock on your Dad's Thompson looks.

What PD was he working for? Almost looks like NYPD hat device, shooting at Rodman's Neck.

Great pics!

And no visible hearing protection or eye protection. An early life of no ear protection shooting and working Have left deaf today.

 

[Flintshooter]

Along with the comments about hearing loss.....
For decades of my life, THE place to be on Friday nights between 7:00 and 9:00 was the back room of Knights Custom Gun Shop. It was in business for over fifty years and I have never heard of or seen another gun shop that even came close to it. When Roy passed away at 95 there were bidders from as far away as New York and one of the Southwest states, Arizona I think, that traveled to southeast Indiana to bid on some of the contents.
The back room on Friday nights could include attorneys, doctors, factory workers, and farmers. And as a general rule they all had something in common beyond an interest in fine firearms. They all answered any statement directed to them with “huh?” or “what?”.

 

[FROGO207]

Sorry to say I have no firearm pictures from long ago. We as a family spent our money on guns and ammo instead of silly cameras and film processing. It was recently noted that I was probably in the witness protection program due to lack of a photo history. The last 15 or so years have revolutionized saving your memories for sure.

 

[Speedo66]

And no visible hearing protection or eye protection. An early life of no ear protection shooting and working Have left deaf today.

Both in basic training and early LE training, we were told to put cigarette filters in our ears. My hearing's great (kidding), but I have lung cancer in my ears.