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Ditto to the OP.
Firearms and their handling and use is as natural as breathing for me.
Firearms and their handling and use is as natural as breathing for me.
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Used to hunt deer up in Winthrop/Twisp....I used to work in Issaquah, too. What was the name of that tavern? the one with the giant moose head on the wall? The Union Tavern?...something like that....something about a shooting range out that way rings a familiar bell, too.Yep, grew up in Bellevue (Medina). Pheasants in yakima/moses lake, deer in the methow valley, geese in the skagit...and shooting at a small range by issaquah high school.
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Those are made by Keystone now. Same people that make the similar "Crickett" rifle.I purchased a Chipmunk rifle for my 6 year old son back in '81 at a gunshop in Portland
all the kids started on this rifle - as they outgrew it, moved them up to a Remington Nylon bolt
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I also liked the pull-cock safety for beginning shooters
Was given my first .22 single shot by my grandfather when I was 5 years old and taught gun safety. Started shooting trap and skeet with him when I was around 10. He is now 95 years old.
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If no one has mentioned it yet, welcome to the forum Mills.Gun's have always been in my life, I grew up on a little 200 acre dairy farm in South Jersey, got my first gun at 6, a 12ga. Stevens 30in. single barrel, had to grow into it, cleaned and rubbed that thing so much I think I wore the bluing off, took shotgun hunting test at 10 & bow at 11. Memories of hunting with Pop-Pop & uncles priceless, my renegade dad, rest his soul run guns & cigarettes back then, worked on ton's of gun's for pop, guy's from town come over on weekends to shoot, safety was always my top priority, gun discipline followed by gun cleaning regiment when finished, when farm got sold my love for N.J. went with it, been here 6yrs. love it, but here like back east I know some people that should never touch a gun.
I was born and raised on a small horse outfit outside of Moscow, ID. My biological dad was a writer for Field & Stream, owned a chain of gun shops in the region, and was a Marine sniper. Stepdad was a rancher, then a cop, then FBI, then Chief of Police.
I got my first .22 at age 10 and was let loose in the Idaho woods alone with my trusty firearm. By age 13, I was riding horseback 50 miles a day in the mountains with a .22 Ruger Single-Six on my hip, alone, and would camp out in the woods occasionally.
I don't remember ever not knowing about guns or having one handy.
Seems a lot of folks these days grew up without firearms and got into them later in life.
I admit to sometimes not understanding their perspectives or issues with firearms and being a bit insensitive about certain subjects with folks like that.
Just wondering who else here had a proper upbringing like me.
I think the big problem these days is that weve left rural america behind us for the urban areas which of course means more and more people growing up with only tv as their firearms teacher as here in san jose if u didnt go to a range u have to drive a hundred miles to shoot in the sticks and in this democrat bubblegum state thats probably not far enough still. As.a a teen in LA we had to drive about 60 miles to shoot outdoors without having law problems or just worryin about the jerks a lane.down shooting crossrange.with so few getting exposure to hunting and shooting from competant older folk lime myself(66) the non gun folk are winning the battle by the numbers but they are not deep thinkers. As thd bumper sticker so aptly puts it.....when guns ard outlawed only outlaws will have guns......so they think banning guns is going to make them safe. Its the old genies out of the bottle conundrum. The number of guns in civilion hands now is almost as many as there are people in usa.Not to mention the laws make no sense that they do make which means people have little respect for nonesense lawz.ie: the fact that (in calif) any 18 yr old can buy or order on line younger, a black powder non gun as the atf classifys them. Cant buy a switchblade own nunchukus , a swordcane, a blowgun, but u can have a Walker Colt . blackpowder guns have taken more lives than we lost in ww1 and 2 combinez(civil war). I could go on all day with the contidictory bullbubblegum lawz but u know them as well as i. Here in cali we have to go thru a background check each and every time we buy ammo and of course theres a fee. RichierichI was born and raised on a small horse outfit outside of Moscow, ID. My biological dad was a writer for Field & Stream, owned a chain of gun shops in the region, and was a Marine sniper. Stepdad was a rancher, then a cop, then FBI, then Chief of Police.
I got my first .22 at age 10 and was let loose in the Idaho woods alone with my trusty firearm. By age 13, I was riding horseback 50 miles a day in the mountains with a .22 Ruger Single-Six on my hip, alone, and would camp out in the woods occasionally.
I don't remember ever not knowing about guns or having one handy.
Seems a lot of folks these days grew up without firearms and got into them later in life.
I admit to sometimes not understanding their perspectives or issues with firearms and being a bit insensitive about certain subjects with folks like that.
Just wondering who else here had a proper upbringing like me.