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About country stores and guns, 1965 I was reading meters for Duke Power Co. on a country route. There was a small store in a little community I usually got to about midday. An elderly man (I was 20 at the time so he was probably 50 or so) named Tom Smith owned it and I enjoyed very much spending some time there. He lived next door to his store, and between the two was a nice dog lot, where a couple of beautiful Irish Setters lived. He had an employee that lived across the road and worked half a day most of the time. During bird hunting season Mr. Smith hunted mornings with his Setters, during warmer weather, he fished in the evenings. We talked a lot about hunting and fishing, and he would show me his Browning Sweet 16 and tell me about shots he made. His little store was a gathering place in the community and usually there were some drifting in and out, talking about crops, farming and hunting and fishing. It was hard to leave and get back to work.
I will never forget Mr. Smith, he was a fine gentleman. And I envied him so much, he seemed to have the perfect life.
I have a couple of boxes of slugs in my collection when they came 25 in a box like shot shells. I used to save the .25 a day my mother gave me for lunch and go with the neighbor on Friday evening and buy all the .22 ammo I could afford and spend Sat. afternoon after the local dump closed to the public shooting rats. It smelled real bad but we didn't mind.
the 1940's and early 50's was a great time for a kid to grow up, we had the greatest amount of freedom any kid could enjoy, after JFK was killed, we all started losing our freedoms faster than any time in American history, conservatives started caving in to the constant demands of the fricken liberfools.., which has given us what we see today.
sorry folks, but libs have destroyed everything we once enjoyed as kids..., i absolutely HATE demorats/liberfools.
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I will never forget Mr. Smith, he was a fine gentleman. And I envied him so much, he seemed to have the perfect life.
You guys undoubtedly got the the better end of the deal.
sorry folks, but libs have destroyed everything we once enjoyed as kids..., i absolutely HATE demorats/liberfools.