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Hangfire
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This is the year and month I started working in a gunshop.. I was 14 yrs. old, in Junior High..I wanted to buy a car when I got my learners permit at 15..During Christmas break,my Dad and I drove around and happened to see this newly opened gunshop/second hand store..The owner hired me for Saturdays at first, and within a month it was every day, after school, and full time Saturdays ,Holidays, and vacations..I was the only employee for the next 8 years.. I transferred to a new college, and the owner moved to Jackson Hole.. California was a free State then.. Tons of fun..
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I love the .358 Norma Magnum ad...and Elmer Keith complaining in one paragraph a 300 grain .338 bullet doesn't exist and bragging in the next that his SWC design is the best of all time [:D].
Sadly, these times be long gone. [V]
My first .22 rifle was a Remington M510 Target Master bought used for $8. My first shotgun was an exposed hammer SXS I bought for $5 when I was 11 years old. (sold it for $10 later that year)
Military surplus guns from $10 to $30 were wide spread. 1917's, 1903's, Enfield's, Arisaka , Remington Rolling blocks for $8.95 out of comic book ads. And on and on.
My first revolver was a S&W M&P purchased out of a cardboard box full of them and Colts from a local police department who had upgraded. $15 and that's about what age I was at the time.
I also had to work hard for 50 cents an hour so you also have to look at that side of the good old days. Still , there are many days I would return in a heart beat.
A dollar in your pocket on a Saturday morning would get you good day in town, hitchhike the 8 miles, hang around outside Woolworths, if you met a girl, you had enough to treat her to a movie, and an ice cream, and... maybe get lucky enough walk her home! (town girls were the bestest, if she lived up a holler, you usually had to fight your way back out![V]
How's your daughter Bob?
quote:Originally posted by He Dog
How's your daughter Bob?
Dale-Talked to Sam this morning, and she sends ya a big 'HI[:D]'..