Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Things us old guys remember.

Stores that wrapped your purchases in brown paper and string.

I remember when you could do bull in the ring at football practice. I loved that drill, especially when a fat fuuuck was in the middle. He couldn’t get back up very quickly.


I miss dodgeball too, bam, right in the face. I loved high school .

Yep. Dodgeball was awesome!!!

Can you imagine the meltdown some snowflake parents would have if they allowed that today. ? 🤠

My uncle that was 10 years older than me had a Cushman Scooter he used for his paper route. Learned to drive a “motorcycle” on that ole thing. I remember my GrandDad chewing his ass out for letting me ride it. 🤠

Started me on a long journey of dirt bikes and motorcycles when I was a kid. All the way to my final bike, a Kawasaki KZ 1000. That was a fast sob. Finally sold it after losing way to many friends to motorcycle crashes.

Tetherball poles stuck in a concrete filled tire.

Rubber cup darts shot from guns.

Hay bales with wire on them. The plastic strings now hardly last a year in our sunlight when used to lash something down. Bailing wire lasted generations!

I dang sure don’t miss the days of hauling square bales with bailing wire.
Repaired many miles of barbed wire fence with bailing wire when I was a kid. GrandDad had a barn full of spare bailing wire. Never threw anything away, of course, as most farmers and ranchers that survived the Great Depression.

I remember when a handshake was as good as a contract.

I’ve still got some of those old Prince Albert cans that were GrandDad’s. And several of his pipes.
Bought a new bag of it once and tried it out in one of his old pipes that was still new in the box. It’s actually not half bad. 🤠

Baseball cards clipped to your bike so they hit the spokes What a cool sound that made!

Remember dudes putting taps on their shoes? Some guys went all out with horse shoe taps. Lots of schools banned them, for a number of reasons.

How much lighter is a three "wire" bale now that the wire is plastic?

I just get straw/hay by the small bales for chicken yard litter and some for garden mulch.

I don't notice any difference than "the old days"

James Dean, Camels, and match book rolled in t-shirt sleeve.

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, The Shadow Knows" The old radio dramas were fun to listen to as reruns in the 60s.

I have spent years searching for an activity stupider than tetherball. To date I have failed to do so.

The old paratrooper boots with side buckles.

If you had a TV I know what you shot with those darts.