M14s in high school

[mousegunner]

Passed by my old HS today. Looks like they have replaced every building there. I think liberals would have a stroke to know we had a .22 range below the ROTC building and 120-150 M-14 rifles in the armory! No firing pin but every other part was there. Then one day they swapped them for 1903s. Nice guns but we were used to tossing the M-14 on the drill team we had. Win 52s later became match air rifles. Just something about going down stairs and getting that first whiff of gun powder on range days. Good times!

 

[Ringostar]

Off of the gym was a wrestling room. Along one wall was bullet traps for the small bore team. Then in 77 they started a major remodel. The wrestling room and rifle team were eliminated.

 

[Jim G]

I graduated from High School in 1975. We had 100 M14's in our Armory. The selector switch was removed and not on sight. The bolts were removed and locked in a safe. But we had all the other class 3 parts to play with. Some rifles had wood stocks and some had fiberglass. We also had a selection of .22 target rifles. Our Instructor would let us bring a 22 rifle from home and shoot it on the range. We just could not bring any ammo and just had to use the school ammo. I was the captain of our high school rifle team. We had a tournament at another high school and I had a car. Our Instructor had me load up 6 rifles, coats, mats, and spotting scopes to drive them over to the neighboring high school. Ammo was already at the neighboring high school. Here I was, 17 years old, driving my old 65 Chevy, with a trunk load of US marked rifles, Driving across town to a high school. Good memories.

 

[Louisiana Shooter]

ROTC.......very fond memories.

We also used M14's without firing pins. Everything else was there. Drill team used fancy ones for drill. I was also captain of the A rifle team squad. We had 20 members (large school in Texas). Our target guns were Remington 40X rimfires for the A team and 513T's for the B team. Sarge would allow use to bring our own rifles to shoot at times....even provide the ammo if we didn't have enough. Sent us home with several boxes to squirrel hunt with.

I missed out on the war games they used to have before I got in. They would run a 24 hour game of capture the flag using M14's with blanks. Our ROTC unit had several hundred cadets in it. 3 companies.

Very fond memories of those days.

 

[mousegunner]

I'm still good friends with old drill team members. We practiced in the morning, afternoon, weekends. Partied together, chased girls, we had a very tight unit and won many awards. I still remember our drill routine exactly, had it pounded into our heads and bodies, literally! You miss a catch on a flying M14 and it hurt! Did it once shame on you did it twice you were benched.

 

[Kurz]

Northwestern University Women's rifle team:



Yes, the same NU in Evanston, IL. famous for Women's Christian Temperance Union.

 

[Bottom Fodder]

Yep our range was under the gym in 1970

 

[Monte F]

We went to the range in the basement at Reno High to do our hunter safety and marksmanship merit badges in the boy scouts. I don't remember the exact year, around '74. I think we used their rifles and ones we brought with us. I believe they only have air rifles now.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

1972 On a Friday rode the bus to school with my shotgun, paper bag with cheap camo and shells for duck opener the next day. Stayed over night with my "snow" family. Kids from outside of town needed a snow family for days when the bus couldn't run you home. Next Friday the principal told me to keep the shotgun in my locker, because the office(where I left it the week before, had a note from mom) didn't want to be responsible for it. Bus driver wanted any "extra" ducks. Seemed so much simpler than.