Posted on 12/25/2008 8:59:35 AM PST by Soliton
Whne my son was an early teen, I started him in gun lessons, and a couple of his friends were allowed by their parent sot join in. One guy in particular spend lots of jours with us, shooting zootards and such at strip pits and the range. He became very proficient with a handgun, particularly. Not too many years ago, he was in on the job training for the Alabama HP and in an astonishing incident where a Sheriff's deputy was shot by thugs in a car stop, this young man drew his sidearm and killed one or two of the thugs in the car who were attempting to kill the guy training Tony and Tony. That's gun control. He is a fine AL HP officer now. Practice saves lives.
every boy should have a .410!.
Of course that was in the late 1950’s before the nuts took over the Country.
All of you are right. Back then it was fun to be a kid.
Those where the days when all of trash can lid where not safe. My brother, myself and friends would make wooden swords (with sharp points), grab a trash can lid and play knights through out the night, or until mom called us in.
Thank you.
JP
Yes, I had dolls, but I also used to play with cars and toy horses. I got a toy gas station one year. I think some of the toy choices me and my sister got were things my Dad chose because he didn't have any sons.
The preacher's son showed us kids how to start a fire with a magnifying glass one summer in the field the church owned that would be used eventually for dead people.
One of the many times he got grounded during his childhood.
I may have to bid on that.
> I had a water fueled rocket that I lit off in the house on Christmas day.
I had one too. On a nice hot day in mid-summer I wanted to see how high it could go, so I pumped it up two or three times the recommended number of pumps. It blew up and I wound up with a dozen or so cuts from the broken pieces of flying plastic. It was still fun though.
L0L! Those things were great!
Thay photo is the real deal. I remember mine being red and yellow, Fill it half way up with water, twist it onto the pump head and start pumping air in.
Lots of fun. They should have rubber tipped them so that when they came down they didn’t whack the road and develop tiny crack in the nose.
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