I REMEMBER WHEN

[AccelR8]

I remember when driving a pickup truck meant you were a hick, a hillbilly. A "dumb farmer."

Today, you drive around the new developments where the homes cost half a million and there's a pickup truck in every driveway. A 60k dollar pick up truck...to haul golf clubs with.

 

[jackson1]

Lot of great memories. Remember thinking about the up coming deer season, all year long. Went from making blinds to tree stands, walking to 3 wheelers, and a tent to a motor home. Was never happier than in the beginning.

 

[6ShotsOr5?]

I remember being real excited when I was expecting to get my first BB gun for Christmas, and then how cool it was to be able to dial in on the target because you could see the shiny golden BBs flying.

 

[pirate ammo]

And a lot of things, you have to think like your life depended on it to remember.

you really want to remember your one and only dose of the clap???

 

[wang243]

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.

 

[ALK]

I remember when you bought a deer license it came with a bear tag

I remember when a small game license included bobcat & FOX

 

[john 800]

Ill go more recent:
I remember when obama was elected amd we had a hard time finding primers ammo and especially 22 shells.

 

[tsyarnall]

I remember going in to the local Tasco store at 11 years old and buying my first deer rifle. No paperwork, no hassle and no parents...

 

[tac284]

I remember pulling into the high school parking lot and a dozen or so pickups having rifles or shotguns hanging from the back windows. I'm not even 40 yet....

 

[Kermit in Va.]

I also remember when we hunted deer and if you even seen a track, you stepped on it so you could keep it a secref. Lol
that's been 45 years ago. Now we have plenty. And we had no
turkeys.

 

[Monte F]

My girlfriend used to remember where she left the remote to the tv. Lost it last night and is still trying to find it this morning!
She found it when she sat down on the couch and the channel changed, was under a heating pad next to her!

 

[muleman69]

I remember when every pickup truck in the county had either a shotgun or a rifle on the rack inside the rear window during hunting season.....and a few boxes of shells in the cab.

In front of the school ,windows down. Skipping out to go hunting. WHAT HAPPENED?

 

[Cecil S.]

I remember school being closed on the first day of deer season. I grew up in a shotgun only county in NY the new slug guns are amazing.

 

[Monte F]

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.

 

[muleman69]

I remember school being closed on the first day of deer season. I grew up in a shotgun only county in NY the new slug guns are amazing.

Yes ,you got Friday off then skipped Monday to get back out of the mountains, then had my cousin make a note that I was sick Monday then she would sign my MOM's name to it.

 

[Nick Caprinolo]

I remember gas was 14.9 cents a gallon and they checked you oil and washed your windows.

 

[Cecil S.]

Yes ,you got Friday off then skipped Monday to get back out of the mountains, then had my cousin make a note that I was sick Monday then she would sign my MOM's name to it.

LOL........oh yeah been there done that. Walked into the local dinner after the morning hunt and at the first seat at the counter was the principle , my friends still jab me about that......LOL

 

[AccelR8]

I remember the first time I saw a wild deer. I was horseback riding on the trails, I was 12 years old or so. It was really a rare event because deer were almost non existent around here. Now some 50 years later we have deer everywhere, you see them every day. In people's yards eating their landscaping!

I remember when a nearby farmer was having lambs killed by wild animals and DNR came out and concluded it was coyotes and everyone said "Those guys are idiots, everybody knows there's no coyotes around here!" Now some 30 years later we have coyotes everywhere.

I remember pheasants, which we never see now. I remember big coveys of bobwhite quail, which we never see now. I remember hearing bobwhites in the evenings.

I remember, when I was about 14-15 years old, camping at the edge of the woods in an old canvas pup tent. My head at the open end with the flaps tied back. Waking up at about 6 am, hearing some noise around me. A bunch of bobwhites were foraging around on the ground all around me. I remained motionless. They were within inches, literally, and I watched them for 15 minutes or so before they moved on.

 

[Willie]

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I can remember my first gun, a 410 Stevens single shot. In those days bobwhite and blue quail were everywhere.

 

[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.

I remember seemingly endless numbers of woodchucks. Now, they are few and far between.

I think coyotes are the main cause in both cases.

I remember watching a coyote stalk and catch a woodchuck about 40 yards away from my window.