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I'm a Cheezehead and my hunting buddy is in CO and from SD. We talk every week sometimes twice. He brought up the penetration test, arrow vs bullet in a bucket of sand.

We both had stories. Mine was doing it in front of about 40 people and using the lightest bow I had (42 pounds) and NOT filling the bucket myself. Whoever filled it used gravel. Some stones were 2 inches in diameter. The 42 pounder hit one and bent over a MA3. I had to use my 65 pound bow to get through.

My buddy told me that his father did the demonstration in 1959 or '60 or '61. Invited the Dept of Fish and Game to promote archery. The demonstration was done in the GYMNASIUM OF THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL. He fired a .3006 in the gym!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#32 ·
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.
 
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#39 ·
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 !
 
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#40 ·
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.
 
#43 ·
Never took an actual weapon to school , however in my senior year in high school I had a substitute young lady teacher who I volunteered being the outstanding young man that I was and always wanting too help to go by her house for a season and cut her lawn , etc . I would always refuse money from her .

So I guess after a while to try to pay me back somehow she started on occasion inviting me on fri and sat early evenings for a home cooked dinner , my first taste of BoonesFarm and Ripple wines . Then afterwards would " tutor " me scholastically being a Teacher to prepare me for life in general . What a nice young lady . 💃 Great Golly Ms Molly as Little Richard used too say ! ........
 
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#47 ·
Your absolutely correct about how the LIL Richard saying went . I stand corrected, now you just made me realize for years I have been saying the phrase incorrectly . LOL

As far as Charlie Harper , never heard of him .
 
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#46 ·
In high school we had rifle club in the basement of the gym. .22 single shots.

We had early dismissal on Fridays - 1:40. Several of us would bring bows, shotguns or rifles to school in our cars, depending on the season, and go hunting as soon as we got out. Interestingly, I was a little runt in high school and was constantly bullied by upperclassmen. I never had a thought in my mind to go our to the car, get a gun and teach the bullies a lesson.
 
#49 ·
When I was in high school, virtually every guy in our school carried a pocket knife, and a lot were rather large lockblade knives. A lot of us liked to play "chicken" in the school yard between the cafeteria and the band room, under a mimosa tree. This was also the smoking area, for both teachers and students. We'd try to stick our knife as close as we could to the other guy's foot without sticking them, and the object was to let the other guy stick their knife directly against the sole of your shoe/boot and not move your foot. No one ever drew blood that I'm aware of, although, I did have a hole in one of my boots.
 
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