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At the end of a Christmas story that line is hidden in there...
For me it was my Dad’s model 39A golden 22 Lever Action, and I shot that thing for years and am blessed enough to still have it.
What was yours ?
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crosman 160 when i was about 8. terrorized the critter population for many years with that accurate little gun.
My diploma is a DD214
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Campfire Kahuna
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"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Rebel Armored Snow Speeder. A Star Wars toy. Still have it. My Dad said he went to every toy store in Lansing Michigan looking for it. I must have been 7.
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At the end of a Christmas story that line is hidden in there...
For me it was my Dad’s model 39A golden 22 Lever Action, and I shot that thing for years and am blessed enough to still have it.
What was yours ?
I didn't get a .22 till I was sixteen (Remington Fieldmaster, now owned by my brother). Got a Crosman Powermaster .177 cal pellet rifle with scope when I was fourteen. Got the lever action Daisy BB gun for Christmas when I was eight. Had loads of fun with it in the way back, behind our backyard, which was left mostly wild. It was our land, but we didn't do anything with it. Behind that was five or six acres of woods that provided lots of fun, too (don't know who owned it). I used to shoot back there all the time with everything from the BB gun on up to the .22. We had a hill to shoot against at the back end of our property on which I built a little range for tin cans and such.
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Binolux 7x35 Japanese porro binoculars, Christmas 1970 😎
First birds I looked at with them was a flock of yellow-rumped warblers in a small tree by the railroad tracks.
Over the next 17 years they got used on three Continents, I finally accidentally bent em out of collimation by throwing them in a backpack with some books in Grad School. Of course they wouldn’t hold a candle to the optics we take for granted today.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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I’ve been blessed with a lot of good things in my life.....but, at age 7, I got a Benjamin .177. The beginnings of my attraction to shooting rifles. Killed a lot of birds, snakes, turtles with that little rifle. Memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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Never cared for the Red Ryder. Got a Daisy Win 94, then a Crossman 760 the next year. I was hell on birds and windows!
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
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How many here got four lumps on the backs of their fingers from wanting to see what would happen if you shot your Daisy BB lever action with the lever open? I did. Four nice lumps, one on each finger. I must have been eight or nine.
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had a 77 model but not for xmas
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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Winchester 190, when I was 11 or so, still squirrell hunt with it at 52, also my Dad snuck in a yamaha 125 dirt bike when I was 15, I was floored and mom about died. He and I had been keeping my old bike I inherited from a cousin going for years with homemade parts and tlc. I miss him.
Location Western NC,
after alot of other places
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Never cared for the Red Ryder. Got a Daisy Win 94, then a Crossman 760 the next year. I was hell on birds and windows! I got a Red Ryder for Christmas when I was 5. When we were 8, my cousin got the Winchester 94 and I got the Crossman Pump. Mine was more accurate than his, and of course, much more powerful 🤠
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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"All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee
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Never cared for the Red Ryder. Got a Daisy Win 94, then a Crossman 760 the next year. I was hell on birds and windows! I got a Red Ryder for Christmas when I was 5. When we were 8, my cousin got the Winchester 94 and I got the Crossman Pump. Mine was more accurate than his, and of course, much more powerful 🤠 Magnum 20 pumps!
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
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Never cared for the Red Ryder. Got a Daisy Win 94, then a Crossman 760 the next year. I was hell on birds and windows! I got a Red Ryder for Christmas when I was 5. When we were 8, my cousin got the Winchester 94 and I got the Crossman Pump. Mine was more accurate than his, and of course, much more powerful 🤠 Magnum 20 pumps! LOL
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Merry Christmas A, got the exact same one, Daisy Red Rider, tore into Mom and Dads room jumped up and down on the bed screaming it's a BB it's a BB. Like they didn't know. Kids A. Some great Christmases when I was young, easier when there's no phone, no Hydro, no car payments........ I think when I grow up I want ta be a kid. Bill out 🐾👣🐾👣🇨🇦
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It was fun being an armed boy! I had my dog, my bb guns and a bunch of woods... No bills.
"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022
Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?
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