Natural Born Gun Guy

[ShootDots]

Well Mr. Grimstod, I would be willing to bet you enjoyed an excellent childhood too!! I am SOOOOO GLAD I grew up then and not now!!

 

[Raythemanroe]

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

I guess now it is my turn to pass the shooting sports on to my kids, hopefully they can reflect back with good memories of there childhood They will have enough pictures to remember

 

[Grimstod]

Well Mr. Grimstod, I would be willing to bet you enjoyed an excellent childhood too!! I am SOOOOO GLAD I grew up then and not now!!

I agree. Just going into the toy isles at wall mart is just discussing now. The things these kids are brought up on. No imagination required. I feel really sorry for the next generation.

 

[cheek9075]

I guess I'm a youngin to most of you all. I grew up in the 80s in a rural area. Still live here thank god. I remember when I was 6yrs old I got my first lever actionable bb gun. Man I was on cloud 9. Then came the co2 pistol and I had to work a week clearing brush to get the co2 for it. It was worth it, I made good on every shot. Now of days it's the worst thing you ever did taking your sons or daughters out shoring or hunting. The world sees if different now that's for sure. I carried a knife to school and still remember mrs brooks using if on a daily basis. But I am blessed to live where I do and for the most part people still have since god gave us.
I take my sons out every chance I get to do the thing I got to do when I was young. They get to enjoy the outdoors doing the same stupid things i got to do, there mother goes in orbit most days. Lord help me I worry every time i think of the things I used to get into. But I'm blessed beyond measure for the life I grew up with and pray my 2 sons have the best they deserve and I can give them.

 

[ShootDots]

Cheek, with the EXCELLENT attitude you are displaying, your children are GUARANTEED to have a VERY enjoyable and good life! Keep it up, you will be richly rewarded for your efforts with your kids!!

 

[dtucker]

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
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I put a million miles on my arm pumping 1 of those things up and shooting it. This brings back so many memories.

 

[snert]

Dtucker

I recall buying a "milk carton" of 550 bb's with a friend. We went into the dump with 2 Daisy 881 powerlines. They maxe'd at 10 pumps and no righteous boy ever pumped less.

We came out at the end of the day with no bb's. And arms that ached for days.

But to this day i credit those days with the 881 with my "uncanny" ability to shoot (so says a friend, not my words). I know I earned top gun in my academy class because of that bb gun

snert

 

[VaniB]

I kind of miss the ole cherry bombs and M-80's of the 1960's when I was a kid. Not sure if the big flash and bang out of my S&W Model 29 or Marlin 45/70 at the range brings back a piece of that cheap thrill. Go figure..... the government has outlawed big noise maker firecrackers as unsafe and illegal to own ......unless they are pushing lead. LOL

 

[letronshootit]

Interesting thread. I am a product of the gun culture born in 1956 small town rural NY, when the TV shows were loaded with westerns and WW2 action. We had the metal revolver cap guns, a Winchester lever cap gun, a Mattel tommy gun cap gun that was real fun! I think the nicest cap gun was a musket and pistol that said "Cadet, Savannah Tenn." Real wood and steel with a percussion style hammer, as close to a Davy Crockett-Daniel Boone flint-lock as a kid could get. A great time to grow up, when a kid could bring in a real Civil War musket with bayonet for show and tell to school. It certainly did plant the seed to a lifelong love of firearms. -Ron