Just Reminiscing- Remember when we could hunt with the AR ?

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Around the Summer of '84, Before I moved out EAST (bummer), I was working at Hudson Bay in Richmond, BC. I saved some money up and bought an SP1 AR15 from LeverArms for all of $ 600 including PST. They were not restricted back then and I was preparing to hunt Columbia Blacktail deer on Vancouver Island that fall. :p

That was about close to the time a fellow nicnamed "The Doc" introduced me to a biker dude called "Skullboy". :D

After moving up to Northern Alberta, Assumption IR to be exact, I brought out my very first M1A in NM configuration for a few moose hunts. Lots of fun showing my native students the closest thing one could have to an automatic rifle.... yeeeha 20 rd magazines. ha ha ha ha Then I met my wife and moved out east. :eek:

I remember fondly way back in 1989-90... I was hunting outside Newmarket, ON for groundhogs with my AR15A2. I bought it for around $ 800 or so from Ontario Sporting Supplies. ;) Okay, I'm starting to ache from all these memories. :mad:

I recall using handloads with 55 gr PSP bullets and around 25 gr. W748.

Those were the good old days. Hey, at least we can hunt with the Robarm M96 or Blue Specials or HK SL8's.

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All before my Time, I can only Dream of such wonderful things. Don't worry First thing on my list once the CPC get's in is De-restricing Handguns, Rifles, and Some of those Prohib one's. I Derseve a DSA FAL.
 
Ah, the good old days.

Leaving Don Lawsons in Fredericton in 1990 with an unrestricted Colt AR-15 A2 ($900) and some 30 round mags. Pulling over once outside of city limits to try it out.

No ATT required. No 'approved range' required.

Sigh...
 
dangertree said:
Ah, the good old days.

Leaving Don Lawsons in Fredericton in 1990 with an unrestricted Colt AR-15 A2 ($900) and some 30 round mags. Pulling over once outside of city limits to try it out.

No ATT required. No 'approved range' required.

Sigh...
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See, there is no logic to "gun cotrol" laws.... You could hunt with AR's AK's etc. etc. it did not make you a psycho just because you used a "black" rifle for hunting. Even if you don't hunt, you could enjoy shooting full cap mags with the whole family at the local gravel pit or w.h.y. in the great outdoors.

We need to bring back those times. Don't dwell in the past think of todays and tomorrows shooters and gun owners.

Cheers,

Alex
 
When I was a kid we had some native guys hunting to the east of our land the one summer. That was where I handled my first Mini 14. The one guy was using it for moose with the 30 round mag. Keep firing till it drops. Yikes.

Alas I was born too late to fully enjoy the high cap mags and the black rifles.
 
agplant said:
When I was a kid we had some native guys hunting to the east of our land the one summer. That was where I handled my first Mini 14. The one guy was using it for moose with the 30 round mag. Keep firing till it drops. Yikes.

Alas I was born too late to fully enjoy the high cap mags and the black rifles.
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Nothing's changed on the reserve near my mother's... ;)
 
just reminising

Yes the good old days.Hunted coyote and fox with hounds in the late 80's and early 90's.Everyone had scoped 222 and 22.250 but not me I had colt sporter with 30 round mag boy could I make those coyotes dance.When I missed everyone new It was me shooting.Always love spenting weekened shooting ground hogs with my AR-15 on my Uncles farm.Spent whole day shooting never even stopping for lunch.Didn't know how good I really had it back then.Ya the good old days
 
I miss my Steyr AUG. :( Nice ergonomics to it. I wonder what the guy who I sold it to did with it. Yeah, and my friend had the RPK with the big drum mag.....and some kind of bullpup shotgun (can't remember the make). Good ole days.
 
tears in my eyes...just got back into shooting after a long break (stupid school,job, house etc) I remember my Grandfathers thompson sub (among over 100 other nice guns...), father's CAR 15 and many more...things were just different back then...not so messed up and confusing. I have a pic of me in oshkosbigosh overalls (spelling?) with my daddys colt 1991a shooting tin cans with my sisters...man o man I am WAY to young to be remembering the 'good 'ol' days'

Having never owned a prohib. although my Dad has a bunch...I truly feel for you guys. My old man gets super pissed everytime he offers me a present from 'the safe' and I can't have it...yet. It makes me feel like a goul thinking I have to wait until he passes to enjoy my familys guns. Guns I have grown up with , can field strip blindfolded , have shot in comps as a kid but can't touch with a 10 foot pole now.

more tears....
 
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Back in the early 80's my one hunting rifle was an HK-91 with 20 rds of Win 150 gr Silvertips. Right now I have several bolt action hunting rifles but I don't think I have near as much fun as I did back then. I did shoot my first deer with an HK-91 and I took it with one shot and brought the other 19 back home. Yes - the good old days.
 
'84 I was dreaming of enlisting in the Corps....I never hunted animals with the AR....well...depending on what you consider an animal...
 
The big thing to remember is that, nothing has changed, safety related, what has changed is the creation of politics around it.

The 'gun issue' is a created one, paid for with tax dollars, and caused largely by politicians. Criminals had guns back in the day, and they did go to jail when arrested. There are always criminals, and some of them always had guns. How we accept and deal with that has changed.

I had the same background check done on me for my FAC (I don't go back to the real old good days), as I did for my PAL, a criminal record check, I have no record. I don't do nefarious things with firearms, or anything else. No references were ever checked with my 'improved' PAL, so there's been no change in that, and licensed owners, by and large, are still not causing problems with their guns, be they now-restricted, prohibited, or otherwise.

Shooting and firearms have become politicised these days, and it's really too bad. This is what I find most depressing, really, and what I miss most from 'the good old days'.

I gotta say though, that the 'real politik' of the 'good old days' is still alive and well in this country outside a couple of large urban centres, it has just changed and become older, as desired, through bill C68. People are still not causing problems with firearms, and are looking at the places where people are, and wondering who these people are?

To 20 year old airsofters, 30 years ago, there was no airsoft, there was no FAC, and F/A UZIs cost $200. If you want something like those days back, keep your nose clean, get vocal, and get political.

The Canadian RFC holds the moral high ground in the 'gun control issue', and I'm not yet jaded enough to not believe the good guys always win in the end.
 
dangertree said:
To 20 year old airsofters, 30 years ago, there was no airsoft, there was no FAC, and F/A UZIs cost $200. If you want something like those days back, keep your nose clean, get vocal, and get political.

The Canadian RFC holds the moral high ground in the 'gun control issue', and I'm not yet jaded enough to not believe the good guys always win in the end.
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Thank you dangertree for this post.

I first got involved with the "gun control" debate when I was 19 and a POS lawyer from Montreal named Warren Allman (who then happened to be Solicitor General under Trudeau) introduced C51.
There's only been a few small victories, the biggest is the "de-restricting" of the AR15 by Joe Clarks minority gov't (a "red tory" no less).
We CAN make a difference. We WILL make a difference.

We have NOT had a potentially firearms friendly gov't EVER so close to power as we do now, in my lifetime. I bought my first gun, a single shot Cooey 12 gauge, over the counter at a Canadian Tire with nothing but a drivers license to prove I was over 16... just before the FAC law came into effect. I was 17 at that time.

So NOW is the time to act, get involved in politics, talk to friends, neighbours, the media, politicians. Talk, email, phone. It DOES make a difference. TELL them why they should not vote Liberal. Educate, educate, educate. If they're stupid enough that they don't listen to reason, well, at least you tried. Believe it or not, MOST people are reasonable enough that you CAN cut thru the BS that the libs have been spewing for years and they will listen to you. Especially now. When is the last time you saw a majority of the media actually siding with our viewpoint? The infamous "handgun ban" has blown up in PMPM's face.

You can sit at home and gripe to the wife or girlfriend or DO something to change things for the better.

DON'T be a typical Canadian hand-wringer who moans and whines that "the liberals will take all my guns, I can't do anything about it, what a country I live in, ohhhhhhhhh woe is meeeeeeeeee".

ENOUGH!

This is history in the making... be a part of it.
 
One of my favourite memories is sitting in the livingroom loading up 30 round mags for my converted auto Bren gun. 300 rounds all pre-loaded for the next days shootsfest!

I didn't keep the gun, so now I don't have 12 (3) Damn!
 
all the camp guns i had back then are now either prohib or restricted m1 carbine, ak 47, fn fal. Those where my only guns then. Lost those rights 10 years ago , let,s not let that happen again.
 
I remember hunting varmits with my Colt AR15A2 near Moncton when I was a teen. Bought it back in 88 when I was still in high school. Rambo, Terminator, Platoon, FMJ, Hamburger hill, all inspired a love for the black rifle. Not the violence but the unique look and firepower of the AR15 was the catcher for me. I only hunted with a few rds in heer but would take an odd wellarmed 30rd loaded ar15 trip into the woods when I wanted. Was nice.... miss that

Well I still own an AR15. Not the same one but I do remember back then to the teen with his black rifle walking the woods...... sob......

Moe
 
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