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October 11, 2009
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Some shooting buddies and I were talking about how Christmas has changed so much since we were kids. Those of us born in the 40's 50's and 60's. How Christmas trees went from a live tree with those huge screw in colored light bulbs to aluminum trees with the spotlight that had a rotating colored wheel to today's built in lighted artificial trees. How you could give a firearm as a Christmas gift to someone without having them file paperwork. At least in my state you have to. I remember getting a single shot 12 gauge H and R shotgun one year. A Ruger standard model .22 pistol when I turned 21. What joy I had with those. I remember in the 80's seeing an ad in Guns & Ammo magazine of a beautiful Christmas morning where a husband opens his gift and it's a Cobray Mac-10 9mm semi auto pistol. You don't see ads like that anymore. And probably never will again. I remember my Grandfather telling me how he bought a rifle for my uncle and had it delivered via mail order to him one Christmas. I remember buying stuff out of a catalog and mailing cash money. Remember when Dan Wesson made revolver's? Ah memories, they are the Ghost's of Christmas past.
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January 24, 2009
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Those were the days, certainly. In my state, we don't have to file paperwork if we give a gun as a gift...don't know how much longer that will last, hopefully forever! I keep asking my kids for a gun for Christmas, but they always pick lesser expensive items on my list...dang cheapskates!
February 20, 2008
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I agree. I received my first gun, or so designated for me, but locked up, when I was five. It was when I was twelve that I received my first gun. Savage O/U 20 ga wit .22 mag on top. Later that year I got a 6x scope for the gun. I learned real fast to make sure the toggle on the trigger was on for the .220 mag, not the 20 ga when my eye was looking in that scope.
I took my first pheasant that year with the gun...and many smaller varmints using the magnum. I kept that gun for over thirty years.
If you're going to drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
October 11, 2009
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I remember those old .22 / 20 gauge over under guns. They were so cool. A cool gun I received one Christmas was a Charter Arms AR-7 survival rifle. I lit up brighter than our Christmas tree. My cousin got a Remington nylon 66. The small bore targets, soda pop cans and dirt clots we dispatched , what fun that Christmas was.
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