eaglesnester
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Ya and U got a good one. It never ever failed to fire, extract, eject and never ever jammed no matter what ammunition you fed it .
Lets play: I remember when.
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duncansuds
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Weyburn, SK
When dad/uncle could send you to the store with a note and ten bucks to get snuff/smokes and a couple boxes of 22 shells and you came back with everything and had some change.
- Location
- West Quebec
Great thread thanks all for remebering..
wayupnorth
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Northern Alberta
on a Friday i remember riding the bus to school from our farm, going in and telling the teacher that i had a shotgun in my locker as i was going to another friends farm directly after school on his bus.
teacher insisted that i show him my shotgun, and not because he was worried but because he wanted to SEE my shotgun, and while showing him it in the hallways (full of kids) other teachers stop by and have a look and admire my gun.
i cant help but think if that happened today id be in jail!
teacher insisted that i show him my shotgun, and not because he was worried but because he wanted to SEE my shotgun, and while showing him it in the hallways (full of kids) other teachers stop by and have a look and admire my gun.
i cant help but think if that happened today id be in jail!
You could take your rifle a city bus, and the bus driver would say "nice Model 70, is it a .270?"......(which it was)....
City High Schools had rifle ranges in thier basements....
Some buddies joined the Calgary Rifle and Pistol Club, met girls there who wore too much makeup, miniskirts and were almost hot....
Kmart had a gun counter 75 feet long.....
Local newspapers had guns for sale in the Classifieds section....(under 'Sporting Goods, Guns' no less)
City High Schools had rifle ranges in thier basements....
Some buddies joined the Calgary Rifle and Pistol Club, met girls there who wore too much makeup, miniskirts and were almost hot....
Kmart had a gun counter 75 feet long.....
Local newspapers had guns for sale in the Classifieds section....(under 'Sporting Goods, Guns' no less)
We all had a bottle opener in the kitchen...
Good old pull tabs...
Pop cans had push button tops...
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Miller had the BBO bottles...
The VHS vs Betamax battle...
You loved looking through the toy section of the Consumers Distributing catalog...
Shopping at Simpsons...
Ordering stuff from SIR Mail Order before it became Cabela's
Good old pull tabs...
Pop cans had push button tops...
http://3.bp.########.com/-O0lAkokgLnw/TknMVwqi8kI/AAAAAAAAAwk/I1xrV9aFGXM/s1600/2011+08-15+press+button.jpg
Miller had the BBO bottles...
The VHS vs Betamax battle...
You loved looking through the toy section of the Consumers Distributing catalog...
Shopping at Simpsons...
Ordering stuff from SIR Mail Order before it became Cabela's
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I used to print the Bargain Finder... I miss that paper.
Going through the Home Hardware catalog to find the gun section.
22 ammo was 12$ a brick.
Of course not that long ago. I bought my 1st 22 for 100$ new at Lebarons in 94. Still have the catalog, lots of milsurp stuff in there they used to sell. Had i known..
Grandpa used to buy dynamite to get rid of stumps at the Co-op. He says they wont even sell him rat poison anymore now.
22 ammo was 12$ a brick.
Of course not that long ago. I bought my 1st 22 for 100$ new at Lebarons in 94. Still have the catalog, lots of milsurp stuff in there they used to sell. Had i known..
Grandpa used to buy dynamite to get rid of stumps at the Co-op. He says they wont even sell him rat poison anymore now.
that looks like my dad's 72 plymouth fury wagon, learned to drive that for my first set of wheels. For nostalgia sake ,anybody have an airaid siren in town they used to test once a summer? oh yeah polyester slacks
Started driving the farm tractor alone when I was 11, and no one thought it was dangerous.
Us kids often rode in the back of the half ton, standing up if the front board was in place to hang on to.
There were no seat belts, let alone shoulder straps.
Bought my first PH 303 when I was 17, carried it down the street from the shop and put it in the back seat of the car, and no one cared.
No one I knew owned a gun case.
All dad's guns hung on 2 nails over the doorways in the kitchen.
All boys carried a pocket knife to school, starting in grade one.
You used the bottle opener blade of the knife to open your pop at school, or the knife blade to peel an apple at lunch time.
You used the knife blade at school recess for making stuff from bushes, like a wooden whistle.
You used the knife at home for cutting the strings off the hay bales.
You used the 2 cent refund from the pop bottle to buy a stick of licorice.
Potato chips came in 5 cent bags for those who couldn't afford the larger 10 cent bags.
For 50 cents, they would fill a brown paper shopping bag with warm potato chips at the chip factory in Hartland.
Us kids often rode in the back of the half ton, standing up if the front board was in place to hang on to.
There were no seat belts, let alone shoulder straps.
Bought my first PH 303 when I was 17, carried it down the street from the shop and put it in the back seat of the car, and no one cared.
No one I knew owned a gun case.
All dad's guns hung on 2 nails over the doorways in the kitchen.
All boys carried a pocket knife to school, starting in grade one.
You used the bottle opener blade of the knife to open your pop at school, or the knife blade to peel an apple at lunch time.
You used the knife blade at school recess for making stuff from bushes, like a wooden whistle.
You used the knife at home for cutting the strings off the hay bales.
You used the 2 cent refund from the pop bottle to buy a stick of licorice.
Potato chips came in 5 cent bags for those who couldn't afford the larger 10 cent bags.
For 50 cents, they would fill a brown paper shopping bag with warm potato chips at the chip factory in Hartland.
