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Had to hunt for it Jack O’Conners Rifles & Shotguns I had this book as an adult too, and Ben wore it out. Probably destroyed his future like it did mine!  I’m gonna order another copy to put with the others for my grandchildren! Gotta start them young!  7mm I read that cover to cover about 6 times, I was 12 years old. Great book by Jack O'Conner. Great book for a young kid who’s cutting his or her teeth. Illustrations showing how the different actions work, lots of history and personal anecdotes, and a seven lesson shooting course! Like the first books, this belonged to Dave, who’s 6 years older than me. God only knows how many times I read it cover to cover, not to mention in depth study of the shooting course. I practiced everything with a .22, applying what seemed to work and going over and over it! Dave is a gun nut too, and when I got married I snatched it for my own. Ben was probably 7 or 8 and discovered it. He read it all the way through several times as well. Like I said, it will destroy a youngster for life! I’d love to know what became of it I only hope that my grandkids can grow up with the freedom and the personal responsibility environment I had, and can grow up to be hunters and gun nuts too! Only that stuff about the .270 never rubbed off, thank God. For all Jack’s smarts, he shoulda known that the .30-06 is the top of the heap. Compare the .50 BMG, and the .223 Remington, the top military rounds. A scaled up ought six, and a scaled down 06! 7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
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Chase Olson brought a Playboy to school when we were in the 3rd grade. Sounds like my kind of pal. It was a fairly life changing event. Kids these days will never know, without playboy we would have had suffer with the sears catalogue underwear ads and half naked villagers in national geographic.
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Jim Kjelgaard, Jack London, Zane Grey, The Virginian, Mark Twain and many others. Once got banned from the school library in eighth grade, because I read whatever interested me in there and ta hell with assigned reading and diversions like homework.
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I was prob’ly nine or ten, in the old railway yard with the parked steam engines waiting to be scrapped we had built a club house in the rafters of one of the deserted rail yard buildings. Some kid had bring in girly magazines, no idea what England had in the 60’s, most likely tame compared to today. I’d look at em but really didn’t see the point, but them one day it came over me like a wave, them women were sexy. The first time testosterone kicked in.
"...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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Blaze and the Indian Cave by C.W. Anderson. Amazing illustration done in pencil. Dang! That was the first book I ever took out of the library to read. I was in 1st Grade. Loved it!
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Where the red fern grows
Never cry wolf
and of course, anything by Dr. Seuss!
Bore size is no substitute for shot placement and
Power is no substitute for bullet performance. 458WIN
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Slaves get what they need. Free men get what they want. Rehabilitation is way overrated. Orwell wasn't wrong. GOA member disappointed NRA member 24HCF SEARCH
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Old Yeller
Little Arliss
Dusty
The Incredible Journey
All of Kjelgaard’s books
Where The Red Fern Grows
Later in high school, I read Res Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy. Pretty eye opening.
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John Wyndham - Middlewich Cuckoo
MR James Ghost stories
George Orwell Animal Farm
George Orwell 1984
Neville Shute No Highway
Neville Shute So Disdained
Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
CS Forester Brown on Resolution
Houseman Rogue Male
Jim Corbett any of man eating tiger and leopard books but especially the Rudrarpryag Leopard
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How many of you bookworms did reports for other kids?
Had a pretty good side business going until the english lit teacher lady caught on.
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For today's youth Playboy is the pornhub of yesteryear.
Many seem to be influenced by murderpedia.org too.
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Another book I must have read over 1/2 dozen times, starting in Jr. High was All Quiet On The Western Front. Soon after I read it the first time Remarque died.
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I read this entire thread and I don’t think anyone mentioned Hatchet or the river by Gary Paulson. Two great adventure books for a teen growing up. I really wish I could remember the other book from about the same time that Hatchet came out. About a bush pilot and a boy that crashed in Canada or Alaska and they had to canoe down a river
You've got to hand it to a blind prostitute
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White Fang
Call of the Wild
Pretty heady stuff for an urban Brit kid.
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Hot Rod and Mad magazines.
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I read this entire thread and I don’t think anyone mentioned Hatchet or the river by Gary Paulson. Two great adventure books for a teen growing up. I really wish I could remember the other book from about the same time that Hatchet came out. About a bush pilot and a boy that crashed in Canada or Alaska and they had to canoe down a river This. I was going through and seeing how many folks said My Side of the Mountain, which was a great book and in my top 2 from my childhood. It’s second to Hatchet. I still read both of them to my kids every now and again.
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I have not read Hatchet, I will try and find that one and read it.
Where the Red Fern Grows
My Side of The Mountain
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them chines brothers , one in a oven one in a lake etc....my side of the mt was the 1st think i can remeber reading ...
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