Author Topic: BB gun (Read 1359 times)

midnight Target · « **Reply #15 on:** October 26, 2005, 08:27:13 AM »

I'm with lazs on this one. Except I was 9. I can remember the Red Rider BB gun sitting on the shelf in the garage and my Dad saying I had to wait till my 9th b-day to use it.

lazs2 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 26, 2005, 08:42:31 AM »

yep... xmass and opening that package with the bb gun... best xmas of my life for many years to come.

I shot thousands of bb's a week through that thing.... later, we had 22 rifles and the farmes let us shoot ground squirrles and jacks. Gave us each a flat of strawberries one time for killing like 30 rodents. Mom seemed pleased.

ride to places to shoot on unlicenced mini bikes or bikes with the guns across the bars... cops just drive on by... all the kids had guns and no one shot anyone... not on purpose anyhow.

lazs

Hangtime · « **Reply #17 on:** October 26, 2005, 08:57:27 AM »

^^

Visions of my youth...

I want MY America BACK! The PC pinheads have robbed us all of our legacy!

FiLtH · « **Reply #18 on:** October 26, 2005, 09:07:32 AM »

I loved my old Daisy rifle. Also had 2 pellet pistols that looked like .357s. Shot alot of frogs. But one day I nailed a pidgeon while she was sitting in her nest under a bridge up in the girders. She fell out and landed in a pool of water below and drowned. I felt so bad I never used it again. All I could picture was three warm pidgeon eggs, getting cold on that autumn day, never to be born...because of me.

Larry · « **Reply #19 on:** October 26, 2005, 10:32:20 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
I'm with lazs on this one. Except I was 9. I can remember the Red Rider BB gun sitting on the shelf in the garage and my Dad saying I had to wait till my 9th b-day to use it.

Yes but things have changed alot since the 1920s.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 26, 2005, 10:37:35 AM »

Those were different times Lazs and Golfer.

Nirvana, I believe most people wouldn't bother asking for ID if you look near 18. However, everyonce in a while you'd get that ******* who'd ask for it and you'd be humped.

Golfer · « **Reply #21 on:** October 26, 2005, 10:45:09 AM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Those were different times Lazs and Golfer.

Nirvana, I believe most people wouldn't bother asking for ID if you look near 18. However, everyonce in a while you'd get that ******* who'd ask for it and you'd be humped.

These times didn't go away that long ago...I had a normal childhood filled with guns, ammo, baseball, killing cute fuzzy critters and having them for dinner. I'm 22 and even back in high school I could only shake my head at what the hell was happening to the kids in the classes below.

It's all gravy though...I had a 5 year old the other day out at my parents place who was with his father sighting in his rifle. He had his BB gun (albeit his father was larry the cable guy if I ever saw em) and was pretty up to snuff on safety for his age. I had my pistol on and he asked if I was going to shoot it. Sure! I put a mag through it from about 15 yards into our patented paper-plate targets and then offered him a go. I'd load one round at a time and drop out the mag and finally on his last (15th) shot he hit paper. We ripped it off the frame and he took it home to put on the fridge LOL! Ahh...the good days aren't gone you just have to be considered a redneck to live them

traps · « **Reply #22 on:** October 26, 2005, 10:47:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Hangtime
^^

Visions of my youth...

I want MY America BACK! The PC pinheads have robbed us all of our legacy!

amen brother, amen

Nilsen · « **Reply #23 on:** October 26, 2005, 10:49:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Westy
I remember this one time in militia camp....

LOL!

Golfer · « **Reply #24 on:** October 26, 2005, 10:49:13 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
all the kids had guns and no one shot anyone... not on purpose anyhow.

You're on to something there. Now that guns are a 'novelty' everybody's itching to use them and that itch leads to a breakdown in common sense fueled by no education on the subject. How the f&#% did that happen?

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #25 on:** October 26, 2005, 11:30:37 AM »

Maybe it's the area that had an affect too. I grew up in a booming suburbia.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #26 on:** October 26, 2005, 11:40:13 AM »

got my first BB gun at 9 or 10.

I used to take plastic sheeting, and add it to the inside of my 1/35 scale plastic tank models then see how many pumps it would take to penatrate the armor.

You can shoot spit balls out of some BB guns. (singleshot ones)

was great fun for me an my buddies, and no one ever called the cops.

I got the cops called on me for a compound bow once, but thats cause my sisters idiot BF shot the neighbors house with it.

I also got my first .22 at 12 I think. But had shot guns before that.

nirvana · « **Reply #27 on:** October 26, 2005, 01:13:16 PM »

There are a lot od bastards around here who will check your ID for pretty much anything. Spray paint, you have to be of age to buy now. Apparently only people under 18 sniff paint.

Maverick · « **Reply #28 on:** October 26, 2005, 01:27:15 PM »

I believe a simple phone call to the store sporting goods area will answer the question definitively about age to purchase bb's. If they say you are old enough then go get them.

lazs2 · « **Reply #29 on:** October 26, 2005, 02:37:41 PM »

so things have changed..... ok... what "things"? people? did we genetically mutate in a couple of decades?

The NRA gave firearms safety classes in the schools.... now they are banned from schools and the kids get "safe sex" lectures...

Now we got school shootings and aides..... Maybe something is wrong with the legal process or the schools instead of some evolutionary change?

lazs