Natural Born Gun Guy

[timeout]

My wife has been going through photos/photoalbums the last couple of days. Today she made the comment, "in every picture of you have a gun". Those pictures go back to when I was like 4 years old and in many I do have a toy gun or gun and holster. It might be neat for some of you "older" gents like myself to dig out the old photo albums and see if you find the same to be true. On a related subject I have carried a pocket knife every day of my life since I was 4 or 5. When I was about 5 years old I lost a yellow Davy Crockett pocket knife while playing with my cousin behind my maternal grandparents home. Been looking for one of those for a long time. I just bought one on Ebay recently. What a shame the libs have taken all of this away from our kids.

 

[ShootDots]

Hey Timeout! I have a story for you.. I don't have the picture now but I remember my mother took a picture of me on Christmas Day with my new "outfit".. It was a Roy Rogers hat, vest and boots! But the most "fun" part of the get-up was my 2 pistol holsters (one on each side) with "twin" Mattell "Fanner 50's" using "Greenie Stick'em Caps" and gray "push in" bullets that actually "fired" out of the guns! I was in hog-heaven!! Hehehehhe I must have been a sight!

 

[Raythemanroe]

Hey Timeout! I have a story for you.. I don't have the picture now but I remember my mother took a picture of me on Christmas Day with my new "outfit".. It was a Roy Rogers hat, vest and boots! But the most "fun" part of the get-up was my 2 pistol holsters (one on each side) with "twin" Mattell "Fanner 50's" using "Greenie Stick'em Caps" and gray "push in" bullets that actually "fired" out of the guns! I was in hog-heaven!! Hehehehhe I must have been a sight!

I'm betting that was before the Red safety tip days..lol

 

[MrMajestic]

Next step up from the "cap guns" Dad bought my Brother and I each a Crossman 76o Pellet Gun. We shot everything that was stationary or moved! The poor red mailbox flag was hammered! Not that I advocate this now but we had plenty of battles also! Actually stuck a BB in the neighbors arm! :-[ It's a wonder any of us survived looking back at what we did! The kids today wear the "No Fear" shirts, we lived it! ;D

 

[ShootDots]

Hey Timeout! I have a story for you.. I don't have the picture now but I remember my mother took a picture of me on Christmas Day with my new "outfit".. It was a Roy Rogers hat, vest and boots! But the most "fun" part of the get-up was my 2 pistol holsters (one on each side) with "twin" Mattell "Fanner 50's" using "Greenie Stick'em Caps" and gray "push in" bullets that actually "fired" out of the guns! I was in hog-heaven!! Hehehehhe I must have been a sight!

I'm betting that was before the Red safety tip days..lol

Never heard of "Red Safety Tips" Ray!! I must be older than I figured!! LOL!!

Mr. Majestic, I know the Crossman 760 "PumP" well... I did not have one but my friend did! I had a Crossman (Can't remember the Model) but it was a .22 cal "PumP" with a "recommended" 8 pumps for hunting and 3 pumps for practice! Well me being me, I put 20 pumps in ALL the time!! LOL!! That .22 cal would blow thru 1" pine board almost the entire length of my basement! If only I had a chronograph back then!! Hehehehe...

 

[Shynloco]

Hey Timeout! I have a story for you.. I don't have the picture now but I remember my mother took a picture of me on Christmas Day with my new "outfit".. It was a Roy Rogers hat, vest and boots! But the most "fun" part of the get-up was my 2 pistol holsters (one on each side) with "twin" Mattell "Fanner 50's" using "Greenie Stick'em Caps" and gray "push in" bullets that actually "fired" out of the guns! I was in hog-heaven!! Hehehehhe I must have been a sight!

Believe it or not, I've still got one of my Mattel Fanner in a box with some other things. And I now live just 3 miles from Roy Rogers old house and his ranch is 6 miles in the other direction. Those were the days back then.

Alex

 

[ShootDots]

Hey Timeout! I have a story for you.. I don't have the picture now but I remember my mother took a picture of me on Christmas Day with my new "outfit".. It was a Roy Rogers hat, vest and boots! But the most "fun" part of the get-up was my 2 pistol holsters (one on each side) with "twin" Mattell "Fanner 50's" using "Greenie Stick'em Caps" and gray "push in" bullets that actually "fired" out of the guns! I was in hog-heaven!! Hehehehhe I must have been a sight!

Believe it or not, I've still got one of my Mattel Fanner in a box with some other things. And I now live just 3 miles from Roy Rogers old house and his ranch is 6 miles in the other direction. Those were the days back then.

Alex

YOU, my friend, are a VERY fortunate man!!

 

[Immike]

Next step up from the "cap guns" Dad bought my Brother and I each a Crossman 76o Pellet Gun. We shot everything that was stationary or moved! The poor red mailbox flag was hammered! Not that I advocate this now but we had plenty of battles also! Actually stuck a BB in the neighbors arm! :-[ It's a wonder any of us survived looking back at what we did! The kids today wear the "No Fear" shirts, we lived it! ;D

I remember calling my grandfather out of the house to watch how well I could shoot my Crossman 760. A crow landed with bad timing in the tree top over the driveway and I nailed it. That thing came down on his new motor home like a sack of cement. Uh oh, lol

 

[MrMajestic]

When we could afford them we would buy Darts! They were real killers on Tree Rats!

 

[KMart]

Ben
Would you be kind enough to post that "Roy Rogers" picture for all of us. It is rodeo time, you know. Time to dust those duds off and head down to Kirby Drive.

 

[ShootDots]

I wish I could... I don't have it anymore... Somehow, somewhere, in some move, I lost A LOT of photos... It was a 4 x 4 black and white picture... I do remember it had a lot of red color in it!! I also remember I had both pistols out and pointing them from my hips! LOL!!! There is a SLIM possibility that my ex-wife still has it>>> she loved that picture! I just don't know.. I know, I know>>how do you get red in a black and white>>>you could somehow tell there was red in it..

You know, the more I think about that pic>>>it may have been color>>>but it was terrible color! It seemed to me like it was a black and white, yet I remember color.. Maybe it was the "newness" of color back then?? I don't know..

 

[jonbearman]

Probably kodachrome,they changed color overtime,the newer stuff didnt do it so much.I still have my original 760 powermaster and 3 of the model 160 .22 cal pellet rifles that were fairly powerful,I have a saa45 model,I have a model 600 semi and a few model150 single shot target pistols. and 761xl in the crossman case in the box gold plated,never fired.

 

[snert]

I have one o myself, seated in my footed pajamas, age 2, with a double barrel break-open pop-gun across my lap, smile a mile wide. My first 760 came from the back seat of a junk car in a junkyard (ask how I knew to look??) and one photo at age 12 with my Diana/Winchester 450 177. i still have that one. I did not join the boyscouts because they actually went on camping trips without guns! What blaspheme!

Made my living as a cop, and have seldom gone a day without a gun either for pleasure or labor.

I think it is born-in

 

[ShootDots]

Probably kodachrome,they changed color overtime,the newer stuff didnt do it so much.I still have my original 760 powermaster and 3 of the model 160 .22 cal pellet rifles that were fairly powerful,I have a saa45 model,I have a model 600 semi and a few model150 single shot target pistols. and 761xl in the crossman case in the box gold plated,never fired.

Hey Jon... I bet you are right on the film... I am not a camera man BUT I remember it did have red in it but it looked like black and white>>>My guess is that the "earlier" Kodachrome version simply "turned" to something like black and white even though it was color... YES the Crossman 160! That was it! Believe it or not, I shot, mind you as a kid (12 yrs old or so in there) I shot Mallard Ducks, Pheasants, Squirrels, Rabbits and Pigeons! I actually considered "that game as BIG GAME"!!! LOL!!!

 

[tuck2]

I would go along with my older brother when he was hunting. He showed me how to load and shoots ,my dads Remington 22 pump rifle . Later when about 12 years old I d stay home and go hunting with dads 22 pump rifle when my parents went into town. Dad gave me a new Remington 22 RF pump rifle the spring of 1949. There were plenty of prairie dogs, jack and cotton tail rabbits out in the country where I grew up. The high school was in town, most days there was a 22 RF rifle , semi auto hand gun , or shot gun in the pickup when I drove to high school. I d road hunt on the way home from high school. I purchased a Winchester Mdl 70 270 1952 and my first varmint rifle a Sako 222 Rem rifles in 1956. Started reloading ammo in 1953 and since then the varmints , pronghorn, mule deer, and elk shot with the 270 and other rifles have ben with reloaded ammo. I m an old timer now and have enjoyed collecting firearms, reloading , hunting with RF, CF, rifles , hand guns, and shot guns. I don't know if I was a natural born gun guy but I v spent a life time enjoying having them.

 

[dkhunt14]

After the cap guns they got me a bow with rubber tipped arrows. Got rid of the rubber tips quick. Just wanted to kill something. Pocket knives to school and the teacher would even borrow them at times. Took the deer rifle to school so I could hunt after school. Now they would suspend you for a few days or forever. Times have changed and most of it isn't for the better. Matt

 

[Raythemanroe]

I was a 80's kid (79-current) we used to run around on horses with home made stick bows and golden rod arrows pretending to be cowboys and Native Americans. lol I use to shoot so many B B's that I could go around and find a pound of them when I was running low

Pic of me in the Reagan yrs

 

[ShootDots]

Ray, you look like you had it made in the shade! What a GREAT way to grow up!!

 

[Raythemanroe]

Ya, I still live in NY though.

 

[Grimstod]

Hey Timeout! I have a story for you.. I don't have the picture now but I remember my mother took a picture of me on Christmas Day with my new "outfit".. It was a Roy Rogers hat, vest and boots! But the most "fun" part of the get-up was my 2 pistol holsters (one on each side) with "twin" Mattell "Fanner 50's" using "Greenie Stick'em Caps" and gray "push in" bullets that actually "fired" out of the guns! I was in hog-heaven!! Hehehehhe I must have been a sight!

I'm betting that was before the Red safety tip days..lol

I had the same outfit but with the red safety caps. We would take them off with pliers or paint them to match.

These posts do take me back to the good old days.