[Joe 6-pack]

In western PA where I grew up, buck season opened the Monday after Thanksgiving. The schools were closed for that express purpose. Additionally, students could get up to two excused absences per year for hunting, merely by presenting a parental note and a copy of your hunting license. Any number of days, I would take my old 7x57 to school in the morning, put it in my locker, and my dad would pick me up at noon and we'd go hunting.

In 8th grade woodshop, I brought in a .22 and custom built a stock for it. The shop teacher had no problem with it whatsoever.

From 9th - 12th grade I was on the rifle team...

Nobody ever got shot.

[wtc911]

I was on the rifle team...Alec Baldwin’s father was the coach.

[LexRex in TN]

I went to a rural school in North Carolina in the 70’s. Pickup trucks had rifle racks on the back glass (full), and I remember showing off my rifle to the principal in the parking lot...and he showing me his!

[gathersnomoss]

I recall as a 1971 graduate at Laurel Highlands gun clubs were abundant. From time to time, a buck was strapped to the trunk of their car. Big Daddy Government was not an issue.