I REMEMBER WHEN

[Monte F]

I remember when you went into the bank with a mask on and asked for money, you would have the FBI after you!

 

[Monte F]

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I remember this when I was a wee lad at Mount Rose on the Northwest chair mid 60's. Except I was holding my younger sister in the chair while our mom was looking back from the next chair up. Yelling not to fall out over the chutes!

 

[hogpatrol]

 

[AccelR8]

The guys at work listen to a gawd-awful classic rock radio station all day long. Got me thinking today;

I remember when I was a high school senior and this one girl invited me over on a Saturday evening. Said she'll cook dinner. I went over there, no one home but her. She says, I'm just finishing in the kitchen, make yourself comfortable. She puts on the new (1975) Bruce Springsteen album and I thought...Yeah...this is going nowhere.

 

[justpassinthru]

I remember Sheriff Roy Coffee.

I remember Sherrif Micah too.

 

[justpassinthru]

I remember not being concerned about being a felon because of a rifle I might own.

 

[6xcshooter]

I don’t want to remember when. It makes me cry

 

[Mark W]

Snipe hunting, now that's a classic. We used to take newbies up to our deer camp for archery and small game when the leaves were still on the trees. On a night you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, we'd walk them 100 or so yards up the mountain to see if they could catch a snipe, burlap bag but no light. They'd sit down on a stump or rock, we'd take the flashlight and walk back to the cabin. After about twenty minutes, we would sneak up real close. One guy would let out a blast on those plastic horns they banned at football games while I would light off a string of firecrackers. Some took the joke and some didn't. The former got invited back. Not so much for the latter.

We would use something that we called a “go devil” that was made using a 5 gal metal bucket with a hole drilled in the bottom and a pine rosin coated string would be tied into the bucket from the inside. Wearing a leather glove you could reach into the bucket and pull on the string letting slip through the glove while gripping it tightly. It would make the most awful sound you’ve ever heard. Unsuspecting snipe hunters were almost guaranteed to crap their pants.

 

[Cecil S.]

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LMFAO!

 

[Twicepop]

They have it now on orders over $49.00.

I did one of those once for an order that was over $100.00. I entered everything as it should have been, put in the proper code and it still came back that I was being charged shipping. I called MIDWAY to see why I wasn't getting the free shipping, the girl on the phone said none of the items I had qualified for the free shipping. I canceled the order and it was about a year and a half before I ordered anything from them again.

 

[GotRDid]

Someone else may have mentioned it, but I remember listening to Paul Harvey tell stories on the radio while at work. Often while on break. What a unique story teller voice.

I had the whole collection of books on tape by Louis Grizzard; wonderful man.
Remember listening to Jerry Clower on Dad’s reel-to-reel; “Sittin’ up with the Dead” was a favorite.
GotRDid.

 

[outasite`08]

Good morning gang, What we remember are fond memories, of a better time in each of our lives. But the last few months of events make me wonder what our children and grandchildren will have to remember. I`m glad to be blessed with the time I have occupied space here. No matter what happens in the future, my memories can`t be taken away by anyone. Jeff

 

[rjtfroggy]

No matter what happens in the future, my memories can`t be taken away by anyone. Jeff

The memories our children and grand children will cherish are those that we give them, hopefully all pleasant.
As for the part of your post that I am really replying to all I can say is Not True.
There is a terrible disease out there that wipes all memories be it short or long term from you, but leaves you for the most part healthy until you forget how to swallow or in some cases breathe.
Alzheimer's disease is the culprit it robs you and unfortunately your family .It can and does strike almost all ages of people, so far I have lived through this with 3 members of my family.
So I urge all members here and else where to donate to the Alzheimer's foundation for as much research as needed to find a cure.

 

[justpassinthru]

Riding down a dirt road on the open tailgate of a pickup truck.

 

[luckeeshot]

I wonder how long it will take the commicrats to erase all memory of Donald J Trump ? will we be saying in 4 or 5 years "remember when Don J Trump beat them so bad that they resorted to cheating ? " and we did nothing ??,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[LoganDon]

I wonder how long it will take the commicrats to erase all memory of Donald J Trump ? will we be saying in 4 or 5 years "remember when Don J Trump beat them so bad that they resorted to cheating ? " and we did nothing ??,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Do you ever have that right. I am so angry at the "self identified" republican congress - they sold us out again for personal power and financial gain. Now the CCP controls both the RNC and DNC. Sad, really sad.

 

[Old Navy]

I remember buying my first centerfire hand gun. It was a Dan Wesson .357 with a six inch barrel. I took it to our local coffee shop to show the guys. I took it out of the box and passed it around. At least 9 or ten guys got to fondle it.

 

[hoz53]

I remember when back in the day if you could hit a beer can at 100 yds you were good to go.
You didn't shoot reloads as they were unreliable,so we thought.
You didn't shoot bolt actions because they didn't shoot fast enough.
You didn't go to the deer woods unless you had a pocket full of shells and you could barely keep your pants up from all the weight.
You didn't shoot anything less than a 270 because those big deer were hard to take down with anything less.Bigger was better.
You didn't talk to your buddies about missing a deer because you didn't get enough beer can practice.
You did ,however, talk if you got lucky and killed a deer with that beer can killer. Tack driver.

Fast forward 60 years

Now if you don't have a gun that shoots .25" at 100 yds ,you can't hit a deer or to some it seems.
Now we don't even bother with 100 yds and go to at least 300 yds.
Now we all shoot or own hand made custom reloads that we don't have primers and powder for.
Now all I shoot are bolt actions with the majority of others.
Now I shoot 6mm's for deer hunting and not fire breathers that belch out flames 2 ft.
Don't care who you are,sometimes you just miss. Lots of scopes and guns take the blame for that. You still don't tell your buddies.

Things have changed for sure in the last 60+ years.
Some things that have not changed. Still like to shoot beer cans,empty not full anymore,still like to deer hunt but it is getting less.
Paper shooting is getting more popular with me these days.Now if all the targets shot are not in the 0's or 1's,something is wrong with scope or gun. This don't happen with me too much, the 0's and 1's.

Things do change.Seems like the more they change the more they stay the same.

I remember when i got my 1st handgun in 1973-- - new GM colt 1911 for 165.00. i bought cast bullets for 3 cents each - primers for about a penny and powder was less than a penny per rnd so for less than 2.50 i loaded a box of 50 and i shot of alot of them

 

[D Coots]

I remember when, in high school, I could send a money order for a Russian semi-auto Tokarev to a gun store advertised in a shooting magazine and get it delivered to my door.

And take it to school and open the box with the gun packed with cosmoline in front of the lockers. No big deal.

 

[D Coots]

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 when my nylon 66 misfired shooting at an albino red squirrel.