I REMEMBER WHEN

[Murray Brook]

I remember not having to put your hand down a woman's pants to find out if she was female or not.

 

[jds holler]

Oh, how I remember---
Same dude, bout fifty years between pics. That young man at top is holding his new Christmas rifle, a Western Auto Revelation single shot tack driver. That rifle started it all for me, the seasoned dude at the bottom. jd

 

[grovey]

I remember remembering...

 

[johnfred1965]

I remember leaving the day before and driving 3 hours with my brotherto get to our cousin's. Singing country songs all the way. Then the soup and chili cookoff at the local church the evening before opening day. And going out after supper with a cooler full of beer and spotlighting deer before it was harrassment. Then I remember sitting in a tree stand hung over but still as alert as could be cause I just heard leaves russle. And finally, putting a fresh backstrap on the BBQ so everyone could taste the success of the hunt.

PS:The BBQ evolved into an opening day cookout with ribs, chicken, and my Aunt's German potato salad! I miss the food more than the hunt!

 

[AccelR8]

Still have that urge now

I edited my post. I meant to say I remember when I NEVER had the urge...
By the way I just now woke up!

 

[jds holler]

I remember when the Cabela's Catalogue was a little 6"x8" booklet with maybe forty pages of merchandise, shipping rates, and order forms. Many of the pics were hand illustrations, if memory serves. I bought my first Pflueger Medalist fly reel from them. (for probably $12.95) jd

 

[gambleone]

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. Right on here snert. They don't want you to understand it.
We know why. Wonder why the license sales are declining.

 

[snert]

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Oh, how I remember---
Same dude, bout fifty years between pics. That young man at top is holding his new Christmas rifle, a Western Auto Revelation single shot tack driver. That rifle started it all for me, the seasoned dude at the bottom. jd

I had that same sweater!!!!!!!! I bet I can find a photo of it and a gun.

 

[Knotwild]

I can remember when I could remember, but just barely.

 

[jds holler]

I had that same sweater!!!!!!!! I bet I can find a photo of it and a gun.

Parker, that sweater was a commercial job, probably from JC Penny's. Possibly Sears or Wards. I'm pretty sure that pic was 1967, and I was 11 years old. I've always been somewhat of a fashion plate. jd

 

[muleman69]

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That looks like MIKEY on the Christmas story, COOL
Oh, how I remember---
Same dude, bout fifty years between pics. That young man at top is holding his new Christmas rifle, a Western Auto Revelation single shot tack driver. That rifle started it all for me, the seasoned dude at the bottom. jd

 

[whatsupdoc]

I remember when you could get charcoal roasted chestnuts in a paper bag from street vendors in
Central Park In NYC.

I remember taking the NYC subway home with my father holding my new Remington 1100 in a regular soft gun case and nobody blinked an eye.

 

[hogpatrol]

I remember when a bunch of us high school seniors would jump in to the cab and bed of an old '54 stepside Chevy pickup, head to Philadelphia international airport, after dark, enter a mile or so off the end of runway 9 into the swamps and shoot rats with .22s. The security patrol would stop us, ask us what we were doing and after being told shooting rats, they'd say good luck, be careful and kill 'em all. The landing jetliners couldn't have been a hundred or so feet over our heads. Fast forward a few years later, head to work early at the Westinghouse plant southwest of the airport, load the shotguns and hunt pheasants and rabbits in the same swamps. I remember taking a pheasant into the plant in my lunchbox, gutting it in the washroom basin and then getting dry ice from another department and making a mini cooler out of a cardboard box and packing paper. By the end of the shift, that bird or rabbit was like a block of ice. Stuff we did then would now land you in jail and on the nightly news.

 

[dave@aDave]

I remember when, as a small kid, if you got sick, your parents hoped the Dr had some of that new super drug called penicillin. Sulfa drugs were still commonly used. We lived in a small community in KY. Most of the county roads were dirt and the majority of the state highways were gravel.
(In the USA, penicillin wasn't released to civilians until after the war, and supplies were limited), [That's WW II]

 

[dave@aDave]

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.

My first gun was from Western Auto. A single shot .410 that you had to cock for each shot. I didn't like the full choke but it was all they had. It was good for squirrels, not so much for quail. I worked all summer mowing yards for the $29 it cost. This was around 1954.

 

[Mills]

I remember 1.00 worth of gas could actually take you somewhere

Gas was .19 cents when I got my driver’s license at 14 .

 

[varmintshooter]

When i was in high school the school supplied the guns, I was on the rifle team.

 

[mills braswell]

I remember using a .22 short hp to harvest the bullfrogs that were hard to get with a gig. Now there aren't enough bullfogs around to even bother. Probably be on the endangered species list before long.

 

[AccelR8]

I remember when a nickel candy bar was only twenty five cents!

 

[cheek9075]

I remember carrying an AK 47 in a soft case to school in my ROTC uniform, I was going to the rifle range after school with a buddy who's dad was qualifying for law enforcement. I also remember taking firearms to school for hunter safety classes.
Coming in late to school on opening day of deer season and the principle meeting you at the door asking if you done good on your hunt.
I remember growing up learning to respect fire arms and being instructed how to use them and what they where to be used for (hunting and self protection). I also remember when you broke the law you where held accountable for your actions.

I also remember being taught to be a good loser and you dont get a trophy for participating. Doing what my parents ask, and not understanding why, but didn't question what I was ask to do because if I did, I knew I be visiting the wood shed. I remember when going to church knowing that I better behave when there and show respect. I also remember being taught that saying yes Sir and yes Mam when how I answer my elders out if respect. We started every day at school saying the Pledge and saying the lords prayer. If we missed behave in school we got the paddle, no one want to have the PE teacher being called to bring his paddle!

This was 22 years ago.... how times have changed.