the very best was Gordon Eastman , ... know one even comes close to what he did....
Blast from the past
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We were duck huinting before class, 1970'S,
Varmintnv
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I got my California hunter safety certificate in class in school as well. 6th grade, would have been age 12 and 1974. Class was called Outdoor Safety, and hunter's ed was the whole first semester. 2nd semester was basically study hall.
I miss the old days!
Once I was 14, I got my Hunter Ed certificate and could buy a small game license. I lived near the edge of a small city surrounded by swamp and farmland. I wasn't part of a hunting family, so it was very unusual for my dad to pick up a shotgun and bird hunt; mostly it was just a woods walk. He did take me out so I could squirrel hunt after I first got my license, but didn't hunt himself. Without a driver's license I was limited in where I could go, so I would take a shotgun for a walk through the last couple blocks in town, then out into swampy farmland to look for rabbits. No one ever said anything to me as I carried that shotgun down the residential streets and into the brush. That was northern NY back in the 1960s when you could go on someone's land to hunt unless they had it posted. Can't imagine doing that now.
bigred1
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I remember the good old days too. Guns in trucks in the parking lot and not being afraid to go to school. I don't remember a school shooting though. Now days kids in city's are afraid to go to school because shootings have become common. I for one don't find fault with officials that are entrusted with other people's children trying to keep guns and potential idiots out.
buck33
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I was sighting in my .30-06 for deer. And the guy next to me was a good friend of Jim Dougherty. Showed me his varmint hunting truck and we talked about coyote hunting and how I was reading Jim's predator hunting book. I was on cloud 9! I still reference my books from 40 years ago.
My eight year old son at the time, walked up to the booth TK and Mike were greeting people and selling videos. They stopped talking to everyone else and focused on my son for15 minutes. Asking all kinds of questions about what he was hunting, what he was shooting, how many deer he'd killed. Ethan, my son was eating it up. They were his heroes. Good guys. Sad ending for Mike. All the people in there videos were fellow firefighters from Opelika Alabama.
1017Adams
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Some of the best farm country in nation. The Tx a&m & Dekalb signs were on every other fence post.
My brother and I picked up our calls in Marblefalls Tx. We hunted in Burnet back then.
Yes sir different times
Every truck at school had a gun and most had a collection of Cajun toothpicks from the rear view mirror
High school principal and coaches went fishing and hunting with us (sometimes during school)
My dad worked for Ithaca Gun from '68 to '72. He negotiated the deal with SKB arms back then to manufacture barrels. We had two over under model 600 field guns and a Model 900, which was the main competition for the Remington 1100 back then. We had a lot of fun with those guns back in the day and my son shoots the 600's in his trap league from time to time to this day. I got my first Turkey last spring with the old 900. I guess the old Featherweights (bottom ejection) were popular among deer hunters in the 70's.
Love my model 37 featherweight
Daggone WELL SAID!
HalfMileKiller
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It's all thanks to the feminization of all our institutions!
