I REMEMBER WHEN

[SPQR70AD]

I remember a time when you could walk into a gun store and grab a pound or two of powder some primers and a box of bullet heads whenever you felt like and never a shortage.. that was before guys used bucket loaders and dump trucks to shop for reloading supplies

 

[MikeT49]

....once was not enough.

 

[Mills]

I remember when I shot my first deer, I was one month shy of 9 yrs old.
My grandfather and I laid down behind a dead fall and watched a trail and soon a spike presented himself at maybe 20 yds, boom and down he went.
I used his new Savage 99 243 with the gold trigger.
That was in 1960, today my grandson hunts with the very rifle.
Here he is at the range yesterday getting ready for the hunt.

 

[hogpatrol]

I remember my first deer. It was on top of a mountain in central PA. I was hunting with my father who was one saddle over. He heard me shoot, came over and being clueless on the gut job, took out his Barlow and did it for me. It was laying in some rocks, he tied a rope around it's neck. I grabbed the rope and started to pull. It didn't move. I said to my dad, "He's stuck". He chuckled and replied "He ain't stuck. He's heavy". It was my first introduction to dragging dead weight. Thankfully, it was mostly all downhill. I think it took me over an hour to get it back to the cabin. I slept good that night. Yeah, it rode home on the fender too.

 

[1kbrxDave]

I can remember coming home on leave in the service ,getting on a plane with a shot gun in a case and asking the stewardess where i could store my gun and she handed it to the pilot and he put it in the front with him. He gave it back to me when i was getting off and saying to me ,thanks for flying northwest airlines. TRY THAT NOW.

 

[Cecil S.]

I can remember gas .25 a gallon walk to the hardware store with a gallon jug purchase gas , candy and BB's with a dollar.

 

[Bc'z]

Walking to school with my Panasonic tape deck rockin out to Boston , stopping in the doughnut shop for a maple bar, chocolate milk, and a pack of Marlboro reds for $.75.

 

[Coonman300]

The post above reminded me of a group of us as kids...11-13 years old...riding our bikes to the local Hardee’s and buying cigarettes from the machine for $1. Took quarters. It was a great day when one of our friends turned 14 and got a motorcycle...made the trip much faster!

 

[mongo chicago]

I remember when parking meters in Chicago took pennies, nickels and dimes.

 

[timeout]

I remember when parking meters in Chicago took pennies, nickels and dimes.

You may be one of the oldest guys on this forum.

 

[MikeT49]

a "rite of passage" for us young nub wanna be deer hunters was when we were deemed old enough to go with the Dads and other nubs to the sight in before deer season in Wisconsin. Paper plates 50 yards, off hand, lever action with iron sights. Then the tire shoot. A piece of cardboard was placed inside a car tire and the tire was rolled down a bouncy hill. Two shots each, closest to center got bragging rights. Best of all, we were now considered to be real deer hunters

 

[CT10ring]

I can remember gas .25 a gallon walk to the hardware store with a gallon jug purchase gas , candy and BB's with a dollar.

ditto.

 

[CT10ring]

I remember when the hardware store - Greensboro, NC - sold Win. Model 290 - 22's. Next to the shovels. Pops bought mine when I was 13. now, HE was a darn good shooter. Aged 15, I used to shoot small pine tree branches - completely off the limbs w open sights- 1 shot. . well once or twice. Of course I have that .22 still. If you can't shoot a .22? well...

 

[snakepit]

In 1963 part of my high school senior English class was everyone had to do a show and tell speech to the entire class. For my project I brought my 30-06 rifle and ammunition to class for my demonstration speech. The teacher gave prior approval for me to do this with the only restriction being that I was not allowed to load a shell into the rifle.

Also in 1964 when I was a young Navy Sailor I flew to my base located in California on a United Airlines aircraft and carried that same 30-06 rifle and my Ithaca 12 gauge shotgun through the airport and onto the aircraft as carry on luggage. At that time on this particular 4 engine reciprocating engine aircraft there was no enclosed overhead bins but just a overhead luggage shelf for your carry on luggage so everyone could see what I had put on the overhead shelf.

 

[GotRDid]

 

[CT10ring]

In 1963 part of my high school senior English class was everyone had to do a show and tell speech to the entire class. For my project I brought my 30-06 rifle and ammunition to class for my demonstration speech. The teacher gave prior approval for me to do this with the only restriction being that I was not allowed to load a shell into the rifle.

Also in 1964 when I was a young Navy Sailor I flew to my base located in California on a United Airlines aircraft and carried that same 30-06 rifle and my Ithaca 12 gauge shotgun through the airport and onto the aircraft as carry on luggage. At that time on this particular 4 engine reciprocating engine aircraft there was no enclosed overhead bins but just a overhead luggage shelf for your carry on luggage so everyone could see what I had put on the overhead shelf.

I remember when the hardware store - Greensboro, NC - sold Win. Model 290 - 22's. Next to the shovels. Pops bought mine when I was 13. now, HE was a darn good shooter. Aged 15, I used to shoot small pine tree branches - completely off the limbs w open sights- 1 shot. . well once or twice. Of course I have that .22 still.

 

[GotRDid]

C rations, mainly the chocolate bar in the bottom of the crackers.

We called them “John Wayne” bars, with a sort of toffee type chips in waxy brown discs.
I always traded them and the cigarettes for the ham & eggs, peaches, and tuna cans.
I still have my P-38 issued in Basic.
GotRDid.

 

[GotRDid]

 

[GotRDid]

 

[Cecil S.]

We called them “John Wayne” bars, with a sort of toffee type chips in waxy brown discs.
I always traded them and the cigarettes for the ham & eggs, peaches, and tuna cans.
I still have my P-38 issued in Basic.
GotRDid.

I have one of those got it it 1972 used many times.