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[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!

[69LM1]

Ahhh, what about bikes and bike ramps? I still remember the day I bought my mongoose, "Chrome Molly" with "mags". It's a wonder we survived all of the crappy jump ramps we made out of anything handy.......
Jumping hills and canals (streams). Building clubhouses, and "stealing" playboys from someone's dad.

[jeff morocco]

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I only have one thought....what ever happened to Lincoln Logs???


wilma

yeah and what about girder and panel sets. they were plastic girders that hooked together and the panels looked like windows that had holes in them to put on the girders.you could build any building that you could dream of. we also used to play war with the green army men in the dirt and blow them up with fire crackers. ahhh to be a kid again !!!






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[Ngtflyr]

At my high school we had our deer rifles in the gun racks in plain sight in the parking lot, didn't lock the doors then either. Carried a buck knife on my belt to school too. Teachers would sometimes ask to check out your rifle and would sometimes go hunting or Salmon fishing after school with us. Our football coach was 24 years old and even went camping with us one time during deer season. We went straight from the football game to the campsite and went hunting the next morning. One time I went hunting in my Chevelle and threw the buck I shot in the trunk. If we got into a fight it was settled with your fists and nobody pulled a knife or ran and got their gun. Imagine pulling into a school parking lot now with a high powered rifle and scope and trying to walk into class with a knife....

[firstgenaddict]

Hell if you were a guy you didn't want to get caught with-out a pocket knife... what self respecting guy wouldn't have a knife on him?

And those girder and panel sets were cool... forgot about those... how about Erector sets... motorized?
And who could forget the sterno fueled steam boilers?
That ran the steam engine? Oh the lawyers would have a field day with them now... and Jarts... Lawn Darts... it's a wonder I didn't get one through the skull!



I used to love to just mount a cox .049 on a piece of wood and just make her scream!!!

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

remenber that cox car with the propeller on the back, hard sharp platic spinning at who knows how many rpm, no guard which you had to spin start with your finger!!!!!!!!!!

[Xplantdad]

Okay...showing my age here....how about Tinkertoys?

[COPO 70 RS/Z28]

I can imagine the tinker toys after the lawyers got to um. rubber tips, splinter free plastic sticks which are bendable in case you were running with them and fell......

What did Dick the Buther say in the Shakepreare play

"first we kill all the lawyers"

Sorry if anyone is a laywer but you got to agree they really have screwed things up!

[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.