Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How many city kids know what this is?

According to CNN it's an assault hatchet

My wife, raised on a dairy farm in Wi., sure does. I worked on lots of them as a kid..didn`t lick the salt blocks, but sure did get a good line of woodchuck info.Killed them after haying.

I’ve heard of city kids, who after visiting a farm, were appalled that milk came out of a cow and refused to drink milk thereafter.
Good thing they didn’t see where eggs come from.🙄

Yeccchhhh!!!
When I was a kid, we always had salt licks around for the horse and ponies. Never, ever crossed my mind to lick one.

Got de-wormed too.

I remember one year at the fair a company gave out mini-blocks that were about 1" cubes. I thought that they were the neatest thing. I kept mine on the dresser and would give it a lick once in awhile.

City kids don't know what a maul is. I like the assault modifier.

As a kid it was hard to pass a salt block without breaking a chunk of of it for licking later. A lot of kids carried the rabbits salt-sized ones in their pocket

"Brother Dave" Gardner used to have a line on one of his comedy albums about how to tell a city kid from a country kid- - - -"Walk 'em across the cow pasture and look at their shoes when they get to the other side!"

LOL!
Jerry

I will sheepishly admit to spending some time on my knees for a quick lick on occasion. Always looked for what looked to be either not licked or the least licked spot.lol Dad put out the brown mineral blocks in the winter, KayDee was the brand name. They were good also, had some molasses in them. yuuummm He never did buy/put out any of the other colors so don't know what kind of table fare they were. Blue was iodine but not sure on yellow or rust colored.Think there was a magnesium and the yellow may have been sulfur????

Then there was sneaking up and getting your hand under the hen in the nest to catch the nice warm egg that was coming. Shooting nice warm milk fresh from the cow teat into your mouth would probably be considered unhealthy to most by todays standards. Peeing on the electric fence made your balls hurt if they had already dropped down. Many unpleasant 'kid' experiences that made you think things through beforehand which the city kids didn't have or discover.LOL

Was never that poor or ignorant. I once launched 22 LR slug at a block across a drainage, it struck the block near the bottom of one of the licked in depressions, skidded across the bowl, and returned in my direction to strike the bank somewhere over my head. Notice I used the term "once."

A chunk of salt block in one pocket. A handful of horse's oats, with molasses from the barrel, and we were good to go! Roll the oats and molasses, together and you had a sweet treat! Mom would get pissed, if you left the oat ball in your pocket, and it got washed!

I feed the loose TM salt.

That looks like a 3-gallon Fortex pan to me.

Never peed on an electric fence although some of my buddies and I used to grab the wire to see who could hang on the longest. Bloody wonder it never stopped someone’s heart. We all survived.
Warm milk straight from the cow was great on a cold winter morning. We all survived that also.
Kids nowadays have no idea what they’re missing.

Warm milk straight from the cow is a wonderful thing to be missing!

I think when that photo was taken, the word assault wasn't in the dictionary yet.

Make sure that mineral block does not have selenium in it if you are giving it to Llamas.

"The 1-l lama, he's a priest.
The 2-l llama, he's a beast.
But I will bet my silk pajama
There isn't any 2-l lllama."

Thank you, Mr. Nash

Although some fire chief pointed out that he had been to many a 3-l lllama.

When I was little, some of my favorite things were salt licks, dry dog food, and drinking from the horses water tank.


These kids drinking chlorinated water, soy milk, and getting wiped down with disinfectant every second (before corona') have to have a compromised immune system.