Your 70s Preparedness Battery?

[Diamondback]

For back up / fire support in the 1970's...
I'd take :
Tom Laughlin ( Billy Jack )..
Bruce Lee...
And Chuck Norris...
Oh...and fast car...like a black 1977 Pontiac Trans Am....
Andy

Why bother with all the rest? If you got Norris that's Game Over right there. Over 80 now and STILL not to be trifled with... in retrospect it's awkward watching Walker Texas Ranger reruns because he's old enough to be Sheree J Wilson's father.

As for me, not even conceived until late '79...

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Why bother with all the rest? If you got Norris that's Game Over right there. Over 80 now and STILL not to be trifled with... in retrospect it's awkward watching Walker Texas Ranger reruns because he's old enough to be Sheree J Wilson's father.

As for me, not even conceived until late '79...

Well truth be told....
While Chuck Norris is a pretty cool guy....there is a reason why I listed him last....
Andy

 

[Ben B.]

10/22
M1 Carbine
1911 AKA "a .45"

 

[oremike]

If you go one year latter to 1980 I was out of the Navy and by the end of the year I had a Ruger Black hawk in 45 Colt, Marlin Glenfield 22 rifle, a H&R 12 gauge, and a Marlin 336 in 375 Winchester. That's were this all started for me.

 

[orygun]

I graduated high school in 1980. In the 70's I had access to four guns. A Marlin 81DL 22LR, Ruger Standard 22LR, Remington Wingmaster 20G and an old Winchester 1894 in 30WCF.
The four of them are in my safe right now. One could accomplish a lot with those four guns.

 

[Stomper]

For back up / fire support in the 1970's...
I'd take :
Tom Laughlin ( Billy Jack )..
Bruce Lee...
And Chuck Norris...
Oh...and fast car...like a black 1977 Pontiac Trans Am....
Andy

I'd take these two guys… you'd feel no pain, but die laughing.

 

[Ben B.]

As a child of the 70s, every adult male I knew loaded "clips" into an "automatic", and no one had a 1911. If they had anything like that, it was just "a .45" or "an Army pistol". And that sort of thing "Will just get you in trouble and is good for nothing, can't hit nothing with it" anyway. Shotguns and .22s and "deer rifles" were considered fine. Uncle Rick shot coyotes with a "deer rifle", Grandpa had what looked like a lever action but was actually a single shot .22, Papa had a few 20 gauges for pheasant, Uncle David had an AR7 that always jammed but looked cool. An M1 Carbine was considered borderline sketchy/trashy.

But when there was a rash of break ins around that area, a number of .45s and .38s were suddenly around. I never knew where those came from or to where they later disappeared, but I sure didn't inherit them.

40 years later when I took my dad to an IDPA match and I used a 1911, he was in awe of what could be done with a .45.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

As a child of the 70s, every adult male I knew loaded "clips" into an "automatic", and no one had a 1911. If they had anything like that, it was just "a .45" or "an Army pistol". And that sort of thing "Will just get you in trouble and is good for nothing, can't hit nothing with it" anyway. Shotguns and .22s and "deer rifles" were considered fine. Uncle Rick shot coyotes with a "deer rifle", Grandpa had what looked like a lever action but was actually a single shot .22, Papa had a few 20 gauges for pheasant, Uncle David had an AR7 that always jammed but looked cool. An M1 Carbine was considered borderline sketchy/trashy.

But when there was a rash of break ins around that area, a number of .45s and .38s were suddenly around. I never knew where those came from or to where they later disappeared, but I sure didn't inherit them.

40 years later when I took my dad to an IDPA match and I used a 1911, he was in awe of what could be done with a .45.

I remember something similar. Seems like only after glocks came out that people started to believe that semi-autos could be reliable (I mean kind of nation-wide acceptance, accepted by police, etc).

 

[gmerkt]

In the 1970's, I had mostly German or German occupation firearms pre-1945. Mauser rifles and lots of pistols. In 1972, you could walk into half the pawn shops in America and buy a Polish VIS/Radom 9mm pistol for $65. It might be a crude, late war version, or a 1936-39 Polish Eagle, most gun people didn't yet know the difference. I probably had 10 or 12 of them at any one time. P.38's were $100 guns, common but VG Lugers were $140. Most people hadn't stumbled into the wide world of Walther smaller pistols, like PP's and PPk's, so you could find real nice and sometimes rare variations of those for $75 to $125, depending. A pre-1945 PP in .380 with a bottom latch magazine might cost you $150. Prices started to climb throughout the 70's due to the publication of Whittington's book on the subject.

Always the contrarian, then as now, I was driving two cars that were 20 years old, and one that was 10 years old. Just like now.

Survivalist goods. A consecutive serial number pair of AMT Hardballer .45 autos that another survivalist wanted to bail out of. I kept one for a while, and gave the other one to my cousin. Silver and gold coins. Number ten cans of shelf stable food supplies, including TVP, Textured Vegetable Protein (soybean) that allegedly tasted like meat. A Kel-Lite flashlight that was essentially a combination light and policeman's club, which a cop who lived across the street turned me on to.

Contrary to some accounts, I never had any functional issues with the AMT Hardballer that I had.

The word "battery" is not archaic when referring to arms. Without looking in a dictionary, my impression is it means, "a supply of." A battery of arms means a collective group of them. A battery that supplies electric current, well, that's a another form of storage.

In the US Army, the basic organizational unit of the artillery is a battery, whereas in the infantry (for example), it's a company. Which is another term that confuses people who are unfamiliar with the military. "You work for a company? I thought you were in the army." The artillery battery is a group of sections (gun, ammo, supply), making up an aggregation which is the definition of the word. The guy in charge is the battery commander, not the company commander.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Although the soldier manning the artillery battery was familiar with the 1911 battery of arms his weapon had an out of battery malfunction. He went to check it with a flashlight but the battery was dead. It made him so mad he wanted to commit assault and battery, and all other sorts of baddery.

 

[DunRanull]

I remember when a .45 could knock a man clean off his feet just by hitting him anywhere on the body, including an arm... yeah, that's what they told me back then...

 

[monks]

I remember when a .45 could knock a man clean off his feet just by hitting him anywhere on the body, including an arm... yeah, that's what they told me back then...

It's true! Hard ball kills 'em all!!

 

[gmerkt]

It made him so mad he wanted to commit assault and battery,

In that legal meaning, battery is derived from the verb, "to batter." But that might go back to earlier definitions in relation to weapons, as in more than one language, it stems from "to beat or strike." French "baterie: action of beating, relating to a group of cannons in battle." Then there is another potential origin, in Middle English, "bateri" meant "forged metal ware."

There may be a connection between an electrical storage battery and the weapons definition. Since the electrical battery produces discharges of electricity, as a cannon might discharge projectiles.

In baseball, the combination of a pitcher and catcher.

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