Remember when?

[OIF/OEF]

I had to post this story if its in the wrong place please delete and I apologize.

I went to an older gentleman's house today to borrow some stock finishing tools as he was an old school stock maker. We were in pretty good conversation and he was showing me all his brass and bullets he's piled up over the years from rifles gone from memory.

I noticed a gold colored pistol sitting on his work bench and had to ask about it. You could tell the pistol had some age to it and corrosion that took place without the paint really being effected. Im sure yall remember lead paint the good stuff lol. He told me the City Workers were out in front of his house and dug this pistol up last week. The guys that dug it up came and asked the older gentleman about it.

This was a pistol that the slide would cycle back then....A Savage pistol that he said didn't work anymore so he removed the firing pin and such so they could use it as a toy. I asked why was it painted gold....He said do you remember the James Bond Movie Gold Finger....Well his boys loved that movie at the time and always talked about that gold pistol so he did one up for them.

Can you even begin to imagine if a kid now days were running through the neighborhood with that? The BATFE and FBI would be doing flyovers within 10 minutes with drones for backup. He told me...Son when I was a kid I carried a rifle to school and would set it in the corner so I could go deer hunting as soon as school was out because it got dark early....You could see the story in his eyes and in his smile, looking down and shaking his head...almost like he was back there for a minute or two

It was nice to sit and listen to someone with so much history and so much knowledge of a better time....

Very Respectfully Submitted

 

[jonbearman]

Great story and I know guys who brought shotguns to school on the school bus to go pheasant hunting. Times have changed due to what these kids see and experience. My generation wasn't exposed to the violence on tv like today which I firmly believe they emulate. The parents don't teach gun safety like when I was a kid. Guns were like a hoe in the garage or a lawn rake. Today is filled with news the minute it happens.

 

[ShootDots]

I know exactly how that gentleman felt.. When I was a kid in school, we had "Show and Tell" day. I brought in my Crossman "Spittin' Image" of a .22 BB-Gun! It was "Oohhed and Aahhed" and I was elated that everyone loved it. I also remember a kid bringing in his "First Deer Rifle" for Show and Tell.. There was never a thought that this should not be! Oh and by-the-way, that was in West Seneca, New York, a state now known for it's abhorrence of any firearm whatsoever! But NOT back then!!

I love stories like yours OIF / OEF! Great story!!

 

[STS]

I graduated (barely) from high school in 1972. My last year we had a split schedule with the upper classes starting at 6:15 AM and the punks starting at 12:30 PM. I kept a shotgun in my vehicle and quail hunted every afternoon. They would have a stroke if some kid did that today.

 

[ShootDots]

I graduated (barely) from high school in 1972. My last year we had a split schedule with the upper classes starting at 6:15 AM and the punks starting at 12:30 PM. I kept a shotgun in my vehicle and quail hunted every afternoon. They would have a stroke if some kid did that today.

I graduated in '72 also! Good to see some "Old Heads" on here!

 

[outasite`08]

When I went to high school,in central PA,everyday during deer season I took my .308 to school and hunted with it at lunch time and right after school.I kept it in my locker during school and never once thought about shooting a classmate,that`s why GOD gave you fists.Folks say you can`t go back,but sometimes I sure wish we could.Enjoy your Sunday guys,it`s spring and I`m glad.

 

[fx77]

Remember When???it is even worse..Forget guns...
In kindergarden I walked 1.5 miles to school
First grade 1.5 miles to school, home for lunch, and back to school to finish the day...alone!

 

[Ringostar]

Remember When???it is even worse..Forget guns...
In kindergarden I walked 1.5 miles to school
First grade 1.5 miles to school, home for lunch, and back to school to finish the day...alone!

Up hill both ways, through knee deep snow!

 

[PDS]

I graduated in 64,back then we brought rifles and shotguns to wood shop class. Tried hard to make em look better with lots of sanding,cold blue,and heavy coats of Deft wood finish. The anti-gunners would have liked this because we kinda destroyed them. Thank God I never signed any of my work.

 

[jimcasey01]

Now days if a young child is more than a few hundred yards from the house and unsupervised, some government agency is after the parents, go figure!

 

[Ringostar]

We took guns to school for demonstration speeches. And that was late 70's. I don't believe TV is the problem with society. We watched westerns, James Bond and Dirty Harry. None of which made people go shooting up schools, malls or theaters. Lack of discipline and respect for others is a bigger blame. When I was old enough to hunt without an adult, we would ride our bikes with gun or bow in hand.

 

[ShootDots]

We took guns to school for demonstration speeches. And that was late 70's. I don't believe TV is the problem with society. We watched westerns, James Bond and Dirty Harry. None of which made people go shooting up schools, malls or theaters. Lack of discipline and respect for others is a bigger blame. When I was old enough to hunt without an adult, we would ride our bikes with gun or bow in hand.

You are correct in your assertion that TV is not to blame. A Godless, humanistic, liberal agenda for our school system is primarily to blame, in my "not so humble" opinion.. Woe unto the nation that calls good evil and evil good! We have reached that place..

 

[joshb]

Remember When???it is even worse..Forget guns...
In kindergarden I walked 1.5 miles to school
First grade 1.5 miles to school, home for lunch, and back to school to finish the day...alone!

Up hill both ways, through knee deep snow!

. In bare feet, cause we couldn't afford shoes! 😄😄My brother, sister and I used to walk miles from home, through feilds and down back roads till dinner time and nobody worried about us getting" bothered". We did have to worry about the guy who had the junk yard, across the road. He didn't like us chasing his pigs. When we were old enough(10) we carried our guns all over the place without a problem. There was a lot more game back then, too. If we misbehaved, Dad's belt would be our reward. Strap a kid these days and you go to jail.

 

[Lapua40X]

I graduated (barely) from high school in 1972. My last year we had a split schedule with the upper classes starting at 6:15 AM and the punks starting at 12:30 PM. I kept a shotgun in my vehicle and quail hunted every afternoon. They would have a stroke if some kid did that today.

I graduated in '72 also! Good to see some "Old Heads" on here!

I graduated in '55. Nice to read how "Old Heads" are appreciated
In 1954 at I was 15 and we carried our .22s around the local fields and orchards "hunting". Most of our targets were limited to apples on the trees of a neighboring farm. The guy who owned the orchard didn't appreciate that ... juvenile delinquents we were. But the sheriff's threat to take our rifles away was enough to cure that problem.
You can get pretty good at reading the wind trying to shoot an apple swinging on a tree limb in the breeze.

 

[Caleb85]

All depends on what kind of town your in ..I graduated in 2004 and I had a high standard in my locker for checking traps before and after school..but by my junior year my principal said he dont think it was a good idea anymore.

 

[Chappy]

I graduated a couple years ago. All I have to say is if they'd done any searches in my outfit, I might of been in the pen for a while. ;D Few pounds of powder here and there, a rifle ready to hit the hills as soon as the lunch bell rang.

 

[Outrider27]

I can remember bringing my Crosman pump 22 pellet rifle to school in the spring of 1961 for a physics class experiment. We calculated MV and ME by weighing the pellets and centering a wooden block of known weight on the muzzle of the rifle, which was aligned so that it was vertical. We put a masking tape strip with feet and inches graduated on it on the wall behind the rifle, and when the rifle was shot, a person standing in the back of the room noted how high the block of wood went. Can you imagine your physics instructor routinely asking for a volunteer to bring in a pellet rifle today? And the students not thinking it was the least bit odd?

Of course, high schools had rifle teams back then, too.

Today we have high school ROTC and they have shooting competitions here in the York, PA area, and some participants come up from the People's Republic of Maryland so they can compete. One of them, a very talented young lady, complained that when she was at school down there and one of her friends asked her to hang out on Saturday, she could only say that she was busy, but not what she was doing, as she would be subject to suspension or even expulsion just for talking about a firearm or a firearm related activity in school. At least things aren't quite that bad yet here in PA.

 

[Chappy]

Today we have high school ROTC and they have shooting competitions here in the York, PA area, and some participants come up from the People's Republic of Maryland so they can compete. One of them, a very talented young lady, complained that when she was at school down there and one of her friends asked her to hang out on Saturday, she could only say that she was busy, but not what she was doing, as she would be subject to suspension or even expulsion just for talking about a firearm or a firearm related activity in school. At least things aren't quite that bad yet here in PA.

This right here is down right stupid. Talk about a violation of the 1st amendment. Glad my high school experience was nothing like that.

 

[snert]

I graduated in 82. I was in 11th grade and friends with my bus driver. Skipped school one day to go...shooting,,,of course. walking home with THREE, rifles along the road. (I never could settle for one) Guess who stopped? Not the cops...my bus driver, in Big yellow. He dropped me off at home. He did not have to point his finger to tell me to cross,,,all the traffic stopped. Not sure why.

 

[wmdron]

Class of 1973 and a lifelong resident of the people's republic of Md. Here in the western part of the state or "almost Maryland" as we like to call it because our views are ignored by the rest of the state, the 2nd amendment attitudes are polar opposite of what the urban centers of Md. are. Just wanted to point that out, don't want people to think everyone in MD. is an anti gun anti hunting nut.