Here's to US !!!!

Good thing you didn't have to factor windage that day. Holdover is easy, but the windage can be a bich:p



Great storey:thumbup::thumbup:...and shot:D
 
1971 here. Great post Skunk, I have many of the same or similar stories as everyone else here does. I do believe things were better back then. I find it very ironic that so many of us with similar pasts and up-bringings have found each other here. We are all from different parts of the world but have a passion for the outdoors and bomb proof knives. Deep down that really is the spririt that is Hog. :thumbup:
 
excellent post skunk, good seeing ya at the show, yup born in 59, good stuff man, remember the challenge of the day, after chores was throwing a ball on top of the house and the first one to catch it was the winner. anyone remember playing "kick the can", learned to swim getting pushed off the bow of a shrimp boat in the harkers island channel.
used to crawl through scrub oaks to watch the military funerals in the cemetery, we lived close to three military bases in eastern, nc.
i remember mowing good sized yards for 3.00 each and a good meal for lunch or dinner, got my first public job at 14 working in a local grocery store and at the end of the week i would get mom and dad half of my weeks pay in groceries, that is the only way i could get them to take money from me and they did not have to ask me to do it.

yep things have changed, it makes you wonder, did we let it get that way or did it just happen...

again good post, i brought a friend to blade for his first time this year and he enjoyed meeting everyone and hanging out with good people.
 
stricknine said:
yep things have changed, it makes you wonder, did we let it get that way or did it just happen...
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Reality TV, facebook, myspace, lawsuits, and everything that is known to the state of California to cause cancer is what happened.

Most of my generation is skrewed if/when our technology goes down the pooper.

Man, wish times were simpler.
 
Thanks for the memories Skunk. Since 1959 the world sure has changed, some for the better some for the worse. It is a wonder we've made it this far without all of the "protection" from Big Brother.
 
1947 !!! Remember all these and experienced most--bicycles w/coaster brakes and putting a baseball card in the spokes to make noise;eating 5 Mc D's 20cent burgers and 3 orders of fries--10 cents each;gas wars--30 centa/gal; no--my football helmet wasn't leather;wood baseball bats in LL and HS;Howdy Doody.Mickey Mouse Club;black and white TV;listening to the Iowa Hawkeyes play every Sat. during the fall;shooting cans floating down the river w/ my .22 rifle;playing baseball all day,every day in a vacant lot and then going out after dinner to play home run derby with a Wiffle ball;hiding in the closet because Mom said when Dad got home I was going to get spanked....... Lots of great memories Thanks Skunk !!
 
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Excellent!, Excellent! thread! I too was a product of a bygone era. At 46, I appreciate those earlier decades before things started to get screwy.
 
1976 here and yes I remember those days .........I was just telling my wife the other day that I never see kids outside playing anymore, sad.
 
Nuns who would pull you out of your desk the hard way and beat you bloody.
 
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