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Cold out this morning so I spent a little time going through some old online books and ran accost this. https://archive.org/stream/rifleshootin ... 0/mode/2up
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Pretty sad situation nowadays.
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Tomorrow's soldiers will need to sit in a safe place and wait to "feel better" as soon as the firing starts.
OH WAIT. Those people won't take the oath as we did back then.>>>
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In 88, I was stationed in Metro Boston. One of the teachers at a local High School JROTC asked me to give a talk about the evolution of the American military rifle. I was scheduled to teach for two class periods only. I showed up with approximately 15 longarms. The first class went so well, that the history classes asked if they could bring their students in. I ended spending the entire day. I was invited back the next year, but was transferred to Denver in 89.

I can't imagine that happening today. Wish I was wrong.

After I retired and became a Deputy in Colorado, I would teach a four hour class on the History of Firearms for the local Hunters Ed class sponsored by the Div of Wildlife. I would usually bring 20 to 30 long arms and pistols into the local college for the class. Humm.

Yes times they be a changing.

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Woody I went to a one room School house till junior high and a lot of times I took my .22 single shot rifle over the handle bars of my bike and made the 4 mile trip and when I got to school the rifle went into the coat closet. No body bothered it. After School we went to the city dump and shot rats or if squirrel season was open we walked across the field to the and went hunting.
How things can go to hell in less than 70 years is beyond me.
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15 long arms.
In a school.
In Boston.

These days Woody you'd be buried so deep no one would even be able to see the shovel marks.

Last year the JROTC program in Nashua NH wanted to have an Air Rifle program for the students, at the school.
They eventually got it, but not on campus.

I'll try to find a link to one of the articals in the local paper where the superintendent was on record shooting the idea down because ----
"Guns are scary"

And NH is still a relatively free state.

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Yep Craig. I also got my first M1 via the DCM delivered at the Quincy Post Office. The Post Master brought it out to the lobby and asked me to open the box so he could see it! The SWAT team would have arrived today!!!! Back then, it only took me one day to get my carry license as non-resident military. Dropped off the completed paperwork at 1010 Commonwealth Ave., got fingerprinted and on the way out, picked up my license. I doubt it works that way now. Although here in Indiana, it took a couple of weeks to receive my lifetime permit. I'm also credentialed as a LEOSA and so can carry that way too.

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Yep Craig. I also got my first M1 via the DCM delivered at the Quincy Post Office. The Post Master brought it out to the lobby and asked me to open the box so he could see it! The SWAT team would have arrived today!!!! Back then, it only took me one day to get my carry license as non-resident military. Dropped off the completed paperwork at 1010 Commonwealth Ave., got fingerprinted and on the way out, picked up my license. I doubt it works that way now. Although here in Indiana, it took a couple of weeks to receive my lifetime permit. I'm also credentialed as a LEOSA and so can carry that way too.

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But on the bright side - the Wickenburg High School Rifle Team pulls targets for us during the USIMLT 1000 yard match at Ben Avery in March. Last time about half were girls - they shoot long range regular competition rifles not .22s or air rifles. They pull for us to fund- raise for their team. Amazing.
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hey woody,
bet it did,nt take you long to get the heck out of taxachussets !!!
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Spent my off-duty time in NH, and Maine fishing and hunting. Also shot service rifle matches in Middletown, R.I. Loved the history, museums, seafood, but yes the best view of Boston was the one in my rear view mirror. I do want to go back to run the Maine coast, but at least this time, I can come and go as I please.

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decades back, I was also invited to talk about Civil War guns in my daughters Catholic school 7th grade class.
I brought in Colt navies, Remington, a rifle, etc.

The teacher was a pain, interrupting me constantly saying"can you spell revolver boys and girls"
BUT< I passed around the guns to the class, and saw the boys faces Light UP!.

wonder how many I started on 'our road" that day?

Today? I'd do 20 years, and the boys would be pussies. It's OK to use that word now because the latest TIME Rag, started off a
review of a Broadway play saying.."In the era of a Pussy Grabbing President" yup,,,go read it...

Times sure HAVE changed. Ken
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My first 22 was delivered by the mailman to our house, but there is an up side to today's gun owners...There are a LOT of women shooting and hunting.

My young female buds think hunting is cool and if mom hunts, kids will likely hunt also.

There are more hoops to jump through now, but if the numbers are up with more women then that's good thing.

The Oklahoma dept of Wildlife stared archery in schools...and it's very popular here.

When I was a young officer NO civilian could carry a gun here...now we have constitutional carry and everyone seems to carry now.

When Bush signed the Law Enforcement Officer Safety Act That was a very good thing for us active and retired Folks who travel.

If the clowns in Washington will allow national reciprocity for CCW holders, these may just be the good ole days of firearm ownership.
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Glen Ring wrote: Wed Dec 11, 2019 8:58 am My first 22 was delivered by the mailman to our house, but there is an up side to today's gun owners...There are a LOT of women shooting and hunting.

My young female buds think hunting is cool and if mom hunts, kids will likely hunt also.

There are more hoops to jump through now, but if the numbers are up with more women then that's good thing.

"There are a LOT of women shooting and hunting." yes and that's good, why? Well that's because a lot of those women have more testosterone than their touchy /feely, PC gender compromised boyfriends have. bobw
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I was looking at some old shooting results and found results from a 60 shot match in McDonald PA in June 2003. There were 54 shooters and only one was listed as shooting a scope. He finished 4th from last. Now there are more scope shooters than iron sight shooters. That's quite a change.
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