Under 65...

[69LM1]

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My brother an I would walk with shot guns about 1/2 mile to the big farm fields and hunt phesant. On the way back sometimes people would stop in cars and ask "Did ya get anything" or "hows the hunting today" it was not out of place at all. I had a friend I worked with that grew up in Wisconsin who told me when he was a kid they would take their shotguns to school and put them in their lockers for the day so after school they could go hunting. I have no reason not to believe the story.

Can you imagine today.



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Yep, we would do the same thing. I still have the stevens/savage (now two different companies) 410 that my gradnfather bought new. I inherited it when I was 14 (graduated from the sheridan pellet gun I got at 12). We would go and shoot marsh hens after school. We would shoot robins by the bag full and my grandmother would make stew!

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

Rich,

How was the robin stew? Ive had squirrel and squab but and all kinds of stuff but never Robin

[69LM1]

Actually, about the same as Dove.
Marsh Chickens are different, they eat fish, and are not too good. About the only thing you can mix with them is kildeer, as are a fish diet bird as well.

We grew up in a cajun neighborhood, they are EVERYTHING back then.

[sYc]

One of the biggest changes I see is in sports, at least around here. Year round we were outside playing some sort of sport, with friends or if all else failed, alone. Now it is rare to see one youngster, much less a group, playing ball.

I can remember shooting baskets with gloves on because it was so cold. And how about playing "burnout" with a baseball, ouch.

[Mr70]

Same here.
We used to play Softball,Football and Hockey on the street.
Everytime a car came,we all yelled "CAR"..and stopped the game momentarily,only to resume play the minute the cussing driver was out of the vicinity.
We carried over onto the local fields as we grew older & more serious.
Today,there are no fewer then 6 public fields I drive by daily,and not one time Jan.-Dec. have I seen any gathering of kids playing anything on them.Just dog walkers.
Why were they constructed?

[firstgenaddict]

Yep... Everything was played in the street when I was a kid...

[69LM1]

It is actually against the law here to play street ball!