Ahh the good old days

[ageingstudent]

PB&J and a banana, if you're thirsty hit the water fountain.

Right? For a treat I got a tuna fish sandwich and my mom would send three potato chips that I could put on the sandwich because we are klassy .

 

[RVTECH]

You have to be old to remember the good old days...they were a fantastic time to live.

Yes they were - on a lot of levels - however I DO remember $1.99 Mini-Mags!

 

[ageingstudent]

Yes they were - on a lot of levels - however I DO remember $1.99 Mini-Mags!

The Mini Mags were always the high dollar stuff. Top shelf. CCI did make about the most Dependable ammo I've ever seen I think they still do for a 22

 

[Longwalkhome]

My friend at the time had a Remington bolt gun and me my Winchester. We would pull the bolts out of the guns and walk about two miles on city streets with our guns in hand....in a college town called Corvallis Oregon.

Not once we're we ever stopped by the police and never did the neighbors say anything about sixth graders carrying guns.

 

[ageingstudent]

My friend at the time had a Remington bolt gun and me my Winchester. We would pull the bolts out of the guns and walk about two miles on city streets with our guns in hand....in a college town called Corvallis Oregon.

Not once we're we ever stopped by the police and never did the neighbors say anything about sixth graders carrying guns.

Oh hell no they didn't care. Different world brother. You could be screaming alongside the highway on a dirt bike in a full wheelie with a gun strapped across your back and they would just give you the thumbs up.

 

[Longwalkhome]

I think I have been very lucky to have lived in America, growing up in the 50s and 60s.

 

[ageingstudent]

My friend at the time had a Remington bolt gun and me my Winchester. We would pull the bolts out of the guns and walk about two miles on city streets with our guns in hand....in a college town called Corvallis Oregon.

Not once we're we ever stopped by the police and never did the neighbors say anything about sixth graders carrying guns.

Gosh my best friend from high school still has a Remington pump .22. I remember I really liked that gun it would fire anything short, long, long rifle... didn't matter. That thing would eat anything you fed it. I am glad he has held on to it.

 

[Cavedweller]

I can remember buying 50 rd boxes for less than $1. Doesn't seem like it was that long ago. Around 2000 or so.

 

[ageingstudent]

I can remember buying 50 rd boxes for less than $1. Doesn't seem like it was that long ago. Around 2000 or so.

Indeed. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago.

 

[HighlandLofts]

Back in 69 the 22s were 49 cents for a box of fifty.
I always got the Winchester wildcats.
We lived at the edge of town and I went hunting every day after school for gray squirrels.
I've shot thousands of them over the years.
Great memories.

 

[titsonritz]

Ahh the good old days

So what, like five years ago?

 

[ageingstudent]

Back in 69 the 22s were 49 cents for a box of fifty.
I always got the Winchester wildcats.
We lived at the edge of town and I went hunting every day after school for gray squirrels.
I've shot thousands of them over the years.
Great memories.

In 69 I was 3

 

[Longwalkhome]

In 69 I was 3

I was 17 and dating my soon to be wife.

 

[Cavedweller]

Indeed. It doesn't seem like it was that long ago.

PS. It was nice of you to let the kid use your carbine. Your post brings back memories. My Dad taught me to shoot with a Remington single shot bolt action .22 he gave me for Xmas when I was 12. I wanted a magazine fed bolt action or a semi-auto. His response was something like, "If you know you only have 1 shot you'll learn to make it count."

 

[ageingstudent]

I was 17 and dating my soon to be wife.

aha so you were my dad's age. The old Marine is still kicking even if he is a little Dotty. Life was still pretty good at my age. Beaverton and Hillsboro were nothing nothing like they are now. I check in on my dad everyday.

 

[ageingstudent]

PS. It was nice of you to let the kid use your carbine. Your post brings back memories. My Dad taught me to shoot with a Remington single shot bolt action .22 he gave me for Xmas when I was 12. I wanted a magazine fed bolt action or a semi-auto. His response was something like, "If you know you only have 1 shot you'll learn to make it count."

Well I thought he might like it he looked like he could handle it. He handled it quite well. I don't think I ever got a repeating rifle or shotgun other than a double barrel until I was like 20 haha

 

[titsonritz]

I was 17 and dating my soon to be wife.

 

[Longwalkhome]

aha so you were my dad's age. The old Marine is still kicking even if he is a little Dotty. Life was still pretty good at my age. Beaverton and Hillsboro were nothing nothing like they are now. I check in on my dad everyday.

Ya i am an old fossil but I have had an excellent run at life. It's been good.

 

[ageingstudent]

Ya i am an old fossil but I have had an excellent run at life. It's been good.

As it should be. I'm right behind you

 

[Longwalkhome]

Hunting and fishing in my day was fantastic. You had a limit of 3 silver salmon so when you went out it was worth the trip.

Special deer tags were issued for areas newly planted with trees and you could harvest 2 deer.

Lots of Elk and bear hunting was a riot.

Lakes full of fish and the bays full of crabs.

Population was a lot smaller and most didn't want to hunt and fish.