bannockburn
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My Mom didn't want any guns in the house and my Dad didn't care about anything gun related after he got back from WWII. So that just left me and my older brother to our own devices and we kept everything on the Q.T. We had guns hidden throughout the house and would go shooting down in the basement whenever they went out of town (still, shooting a .380 down there, without a really good backstop, was one of the dumbest things we ever did!).
I was still in my teens when I use to go out shooting and hunting with a buddy of mine from work. His Dad was a big city cop who liked to frequent the various pawn shops in his district. He had quite the collection of old Remington and Winchester rifles (I seem to recall he had a Winchester lever action in something like .218 Bee), and would let us take some of the various "beater".22s and 12 and 20 gauge shotguns out to their "farm". I appreciated their generosity of letting us use their guns but this actually made me want to go shooting and hunting with my own guns so I got a Remington Model 870 12 gauge with a 28" Vent Rib Modified Choke barrel and a 20" slug barrel with rifle sights for deer hunting and a Ruger 10/22 for small game hunting and plinking. So that's how I got started with long guns.
My interest in handguns came mainly though my brother and he was pretty much hooked on semi-autos. I on the other hand preferred revolvers and one of my first ones was a Charter Arms Undercover which in turn got me interested in reloading for the .38 Special. It was some years before I began to see the advantages of semi-autos and started to switch over to them, selling or trading in most of my revolvers for new self-loader acquisitions. No regrets but I sure wouldn't mind getting some of those Colt, S&W, and Ruger revolvers back!
By definition I have never been a gun collector; more like I see something new or used, check it out, and if I like the overall feel of it I will eventually get it. For some time now my interest in CCW guns have steered me in that direction. Definitely have more semi-autos still but for awhile now I have been on a bit of a wheelgun spree, primarily single actions to have fun with and maybe reminisce with about the "Good Ol' Days"!
I was still in my teens when I use to go out shooting and hunting with a buddy of mine from work. His Dad was a big city cop who liked to frequent the various pawn shops in his district. He had quite the collection of old Remington and Winchester rifles (I seem to recall he had a Winchester lever action in something like .218 Bee), and would let us take some of the various "beater".22s and 12 and 20 gauge shotguns out to their "farm". I appreciated their generosity of letting us use their guns but this actually made me want to go shooting and hunting with my own guns so I got a Remington Model 870 12 gauge with a 28" Vent Rib Modified Choke barrel and a 20" slug barrel with rifle sights for deer hunting and a Ruger 10/22 for small game hunting and plinking. So that's how I got started with long guns.
My interest in handguns came mainly though my brother and he was pretty much hooked on semi-autos. I on the other hand preferred revolvers and one of my first ones was a Charter Arms Undercover which in turn got me interested in reloading for the .38 Special. It was some years before I began to see the advantages of semi-autos and started to switch over to them, selling or trading in most of my revolvers for new self-loader acquisitions. No regrets but I sure wouldn't mind getting some of those Colt, S&W, and Ruger revolvers back!
By definition I have never been a gun collector; more like I see something new or used, check it out, and if I like the overall feel of it I will eventually get it. For some time now my interest in CCW guns have steered me in that direction. Definitely have more semi-autos still but for awhile now I have been on a bit of a wheelgun spree, primarily single actions to have fun with and maybe reminisce with about the "Good Ol' Days"!
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