I REMEMBER WHEN

[sandwarrior]

I remember doing the daily jack-rabbit walk with either a .22LR, a .222 Rem, or a .243 Win. The latter two were all handloads. Later, after I plugged the barrel with a squib load, that .243 Win. became a .257 Roberts. I technically plugged the barrel, but in fairness I took it to a guy who knew how to get the bullet out. That resulted in the bullet being peened into the barrel necessitating a barrel change. My dad wasn't mad. He was glad I didn't kill myself by firing another round in the rifle. AND most importantly, he had an excuse to put a .257 barrel on that rifle.

 

[sandwarrior]

I remember buying my first deer tag at the local Eagle Thrifty (grocery, drug, sporting goods) when I was 12. Then walking out from the house with the model 94 (30-30) alone to hunt where is now subdivisions in NW Reno, NV.

Down on Greenbrae Drive. Added: That's the one I went to when my aunt and uncle (two cousins) lived on Greenbrae drive. The store might've been on one of the bigger parallel roads, like Oddie. K-Mart was on Oddie.

 

[Monte F]

Down on Greenbrae Drive.

West 7th. and Keystone

 

[hogpatrol]

I don't remember this but some old timers might. In Chicago during Prohibition, you needed a permit to buy a handgun but not for a Thompson submachine gun. Long guns didn't need a permit. Gangsters called them "choppers". This was before the NFA.

 

[sandwarrior]

West 7th. and Keystone

Ha ha, you know you're worldly when you can remember the streets of Sparks, NV. (me)

 

[madmixerman]

I remember bringing shotguns to school and hunting pheasants on the slope next to the football field. Shop teacher was making a stock for his double barrel shotgun which was leaning in the corner of his office.

 

[Bill Norris]

I remember taking a break while squirrel hunting as a kid with my .22. Walking in the old country store and standing it in a corner or laying it on a bench while rounding up a drink and cracker with no worry of the many smaller kids bothering it or anybody walking off with it.

 

[Mills]

I remember when my first 22, a Remington Nylon 66 auto cost me $49.00 (6months of saved lunch money) and a box of shells was $0.39 at my local gas station/sporting goods store.

I remember being with my grandfather at the Wetern Auto when he bought a new nylon 66 for $ 49 .
The gun slayed a jillion jack rabbits.
I have the 66 and it still runs flawlessly.
Here is a recent photo.

 

[INShooter]

I almost remember when I could remember.

 

[MikeT49]

School would close for deer season. Most of the men & boys in town went to deer camp. The women filled in for the men in the establishments that stayed open. Bars and restaurants raked in a bundle. It was a 9 day holiday.

 

[Kittitas George]

I remember when you'd put bread bags over your socks to
try and keep your feet dry. And it never got to cold to stay out all day.

Bread sacks also were used to slip into damp hip boots or waders. Just like greased lightning!!

 

[AccelR8]

Oh yeah...I remember when we had no turkeys, then turkeys all over the place, and now we're almost back to no turkeys.

Hey I just now saw about 14 turkeys!

 

[Thud]

I remember when..... What am I supposed to remember

 

[CF2209]

I remember when I could see the front sight. Damn it.

 

[AccelR8]

I remember when I never felt the overwhelming urge for an afternoon nap!

 

[Thud]

I remember when I ever felt the overwhelming urge for an afternoon nap!

Still have that urge now

 

[INShooter]

I remember when I could call a business and speak with someone who spoke understandable English. And not have to deal with a automated answer and then have to wait 15 minutes.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

I remember being with my grandfather at the Wetern Auto when he bought a new nylon 66 for $ 49 .
The gun slayed a jillion jack rabbits.
I have the 66 and it still runs flawlessly.
Here is a recent photo.

Six months of saved lunch money! Man I love to shoot but that’s taking it to a new level!

 

[3Sigma]

I'm younger than many of you (41), but I have a few...

I remember going to football practice on the Sunday of opening weekend of deer season and there were more rifles and deer in trucks than not.

I remember you could buy 22LR and 12 GA shells at the local gas station.

A 300 mag was for elk, a 30-30 was plenty for deer, and everyone had a 30-06.

 

[snert]

I remember when the PA hunting digest was 4"x4" and covered all you needed to know. Now its impossible to understand and fills pages.

I remember when sighting in meant a 55 gallon drum in a gravel pit, and pop cans on top. Lots of hits on the barrel, not so many on the cans!

I too remember that deer were related to tyrranasourus Rex and you needed at LEAST a 180 grain round nose 30 caliber to kill one.

Then I bought a Contender and pretty much all that stuff was history....