[Coodster]

Steve that’s very cool I have my dad’s doughboy soldiers handbook with his m1 grand dope in it.
One of these days I’ll get an m1 grand and see how far off his dope is from mine.
Chad

Great thread

 

[Grizz67]

Steve that’s very cool I have my dad’s doughboy soldiers handbook with his m1 grand dope in it.
One of these days I’ll get an m1 grand and see how far off his dope is from mine.
Chad

Great thread

Ol thumb smasher

 

[Rick Harrelson]

I was told by one of my teachers that our school had a 22lr target shooting club that had competitions after school, she said kids would bring their rifles to school and keep them in their lockers. This a city about 45 miles west of Chicago. Different mentality back then.

 

[pavan]

High School in the late 60s, I requested a second floor locker, they were taller. In my locker was a target bow in the spring and in the fall a shotgun, my pearson Root recurve, my fly rod, my hunting clothes and a can of Balkan Sobrainie pipe tobacco. My locker was right next to the biology room and the biology teachers office. I always had a last period study hall in case it was a good hunting or fishing day and the the study hall teacher was always the biology teacher. At the beginning of study hall he would stand up and ask, "Brandes, are staying or going?" If I was staying, he would say 'you've got it', point at the desk for me to sit behind, get up and go down from the third floor straight to my locker, load his pipe with my Balkan Sobrainie tobacco and a couple of Field and Streams and head down town, one block, to Docs, for a beer.

 

[stevelong]

CHAD, yeh my Dad loved the Garands. said they were great rifles, and they made some amazing shots with them. HEAVY things to think of packing everywhere.

 

[Rick Henry]

When I was in the 8th grade my middle school sponsored a hunters safety class that was instructed by an indiana conservation officer. Me and my friends signed up and and at the end of the class we got an orange Indiana hunters safety program patch. We handled guns and ammo right in the classroom. I can’t imagine that any of that would ever fly today but of course that was 1979.

 

[stevelong]

someone mentioned the Ithaca 37 and bottom-eject.
around 1959 I was 7 and Dad and I both got Winchester 55s, a single-shot semi-auto. yeh load from top, eject from slot in wood stock in bottom.
I was little and short arms, so my left hand held rifle at the ejection port, so when fired, the hot little brass burned my hand. fun memories. I did not let it stop me.

 

[Rick Henry]

I went to a rural HS but it was pretty good size. During hunting season you could always see trucks in the parking lot with shot guns on gun racks. All the boys carried a pocket knife of some kind a lot had Skoal cans in their pockets. Nbd at all just common stuff back then. Heck I had a buddy that always carried a Buck folder in a leather belt sheath. Never had a shooting or stabbing. Different times for sure.

 

[Rick Harrelson]

Of course that did not stop you Steve, or us, because we are men.

 

[stevelong]

"manly men"

 

[Grizz67]

Get me a beer ,woman!

 

[Gladesdaze]

We used to catch gators and bring them in for pet day, traditional archery was part of the P.E. Program, every high schoolers truck had a gun rack and most with a shotgun ready to go. By the mid 90’s when I got to HS, guns were banned from the property, but everyone carried a pocket or belt knife. I forgot to take my pocket knife out the other day dropping my kids off late to school. Instead of just running back to my truck to put it away, security made me leave the property completely. I parked at the gas station across the street and walked em in.

 

[Creature]

Portlylawman, my Ithaca model 37 20 gauge has it's sixtieth birthday along with me today for my 72. It still works great though I dont anymore, great gun.

 

[Sam Dunham]

friend of mine told me they used to take grill tanks and smaller propane bottles and bury them with a little bit exposed, crack it open some and shoot them, watch dirt fly.
we used to take cheap FULL carbonated soda cans and shoot them with .22s, there's a cheap explosion.

Add tanne-----rite

 

[Grizz67]

Portlylawman, my Ithaca model 37 20 gauge has it's sixtieth birthday along with me today for my 72. It still works great though I dont anymore, great gun.

Well,happy birthday

 

[portlylawman]

Get me a beer ,woman!

That post reminds me of a John Prine song. I can’t remember the name of the song but there is a line in it that goes, put another log on the fire… last time I asked my wife to make me a tuna salad sandwich she gave me the stink eye and said make it yourself Archie Bunker.

 

[Grizz67]

That post reminds me of a John Prine song. I can’t remember the name of the song but there is a line in it that goes, put another log on the fire… last time I asked my wife to make me a tuna salad sandwich she gave me the stink eye and said make it yourself Archie Bunker.

Lol ..and tell me why o why you're leaving me..

 

[Rick Henry]

Happy birthday buddy. Hope it was a great day.

 

[Steelhorse814]

I graduated in 1981 and rode the bus to school and the bus driver stopped in front of a house and the student came out of the house with a rifle slung over his shoulder and the driver never said a word to the student and got to school and teachers in the hallway never said a word about the rifle over the students shoulder. The student did a presentation on the 03A3 Smith Corona 30-06 in the Rod & Gun Club . That was back when there was Bible Reading & Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag and Corporal Punishment still in school !
And still have that Gun till this Day !

 

[Rick Henry]

I just thought of something else that would never float today. I graduated in 1984 so it was probably my freshman or sophomore year. A buddy of mine brought a crossbow kit to shop class and we built the crossbow in class. We took our time and it ended up looking really sharp. We ended up shooting it into straw bales in the back of the classroom before he took it home. And I’m sure he took it home on the bus. Lol.