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I thought the same thing about receiving a call in 3...2...1. HK will keep 'em scratching their heads until they Google it, HK Porn galore!

Back in the late 70s our high school shop teacher encouraged us students to bring in their rifles for woodworking class if they wanted to make gun racks. So, I did. Brought in my Colt AR-15 SP1 and Armalite AR-180 (Sterling), but I removed the bolt carriers because I just knew better. I remember the SP1 was a hit with the gals in the class and they even took pictures that were projected up on a big screen during graduation; the entire audience wooted whistled and clapped loudly each time they showed one of those little hotties holding my AR-15. Crap, I owned two AR-15 SP1s and an AR-180 when I was 16... Sold or traded off those three guns years ago, but still have the custom gun rack I made buried in the basement somewhere...

Back in the 70s, guns were seen hanging in the back of about every truck window in the school parking lot; this up in Northern Wisconsin. Nowadays, an HK lunch box might get a school lockdown with SWAT response... SMH
 
Tailflash said:
I thought the same thing about receiving a call in 3...2...1. HK will keep 'em scratching their heads until they Google it, HK Porn galore!

Back in the late 70s our high school shop teacher encouraged us students to bring in their rifles for woodworking class if they wanted to make gun racks. So, I did. Brought in my Colt AR-15 SP1 and Armalite AR-180 (Sterling), but I removed the bolt carriers because I just knew better. I remember the SP1 was a hit with the gals in the class and they even took pictures that were projected up on a big screen during graduation; the entire audience wooted whistled and clapped loudly each time they showed one of those little hotties holding my AR-15. Crap, I owned two AR-15 SP1s and an AR-180 when I was 16... Sold or traded off those three guns years ago, but still have the custom gun rack I made buried in the basement somewhere...

Back in the 70s, guns were seen hanging in the back of about every truck window in the school parking lot; this up in Northern Wisconsin. Nowadays, an HK lunch box might get a school lockdown with SWAT response... SMH
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Ya’know, you’re not really from Northern Wisconsin unless you were born north of Highway 29 . . . when it was a 2-lane!
Signed
Bloomer Kid 🧑🏻‍🌾🐄
 
Born in Ashland & grew up just 40 miles south of there just off US 63. Old enough to remember half of your money would be in Canadian dollars & coins as they were accepted 1 to 1 back in the mid '70s (there).
Massive whitetail deer up there. They now have a huge population of elk that were transplanted many years ago up in the Chequamegon Natl Forest. When I was young, I remember seeing a moose wander down main street in my little hometown, population 294. I think Bayfield County still doesn't have any traffic lights today. Yes, we had flush toilets, but my grandparents' house you had to use the outhouse in winter because the septic system would freeze up.
Bigtime Boomer.
 
I went to Michigan Tech in the latter 80's and remember students heading to Hurley just over the border because the legal drinking age was still under 21. Me? I just paid the $2 door charge at frat parties and drank cheap PBR out of solo cups.

And I also remember taking my .22 rifle to middle school (on the bus) to do a demonstration speech on how to clean it. My mommy probably called and gave the principle a heads up though - not sure.
 
My grade school in my hometown had a complete set of bullet traps set up under the stage in the gym; that's where I got training for hunters' safety course so I could legally carry guns, purchase ammo and hunt under the age of 16. Nothing like live shooting in the gym; after school hours of course...
Yeah, Wisconsin was one of the last holdouts to keep the legal age of drinking at 18 up to at least 1980 when I left in June for the Air Force which had an 18-year-old drinking age on all their bases around the world. First time I ever saw a beer vending machine in the dorms at Sheppard AFB TX. 'Gotta keep young aircraft mechanics happy you know...
Hurley...just went through there before Memorial Day on the way up to see my older Brother who lives just outside of Houghton (Huron Township). My wife fell in love with the Keweenaw Peninsula, so she's been house hunting since we got back. "The property is so cheap back there...let's move." She's up for the shock of her life when winter rolls around and sees what REAL lake effect snow is like...
Doubt Michigan will allow me to have my MM23e/21e and MP5-N; suppressors & SBRs also out of the question I take it (?)
 
@Tailflash you’re good to go with MG’s, SBR’s and Suppressors in Michigan. I enjoy getting back to the Keweenaw Peninsula every now and then - but only to visit. 8am Chem labs on that campus cured me of ever wanting to live up there.
 
@Tailflash;

When the folks moved to Milwaukee, I’d go up to my grandparents in Cornell in the summertime. My best pal down the block had a Stevens 22-410 O/U and I’d borrow it, stop by the Sears catalog store and buy a box of .22s and if I was flush, some .410s. Rode my bike to the town dump and learned how to shoot with moving targets: rats. Would also take a bottle and toss it in the air. If I was good, the .22 got it, if not .410! Same for rats. Grandpa and the folks never knew.
 
I took the hunters safety coarse at age 15, 9th grader in the basement range at our middle school in the mid 80's during school hours, 22lr rifles. Thomas Junior High in Hillsboro Oregon. Same setup under the auditorium stage right next to the Fallout Shelter. You wont find that in Oregon these days , but it would be a good thing to teach these kids again.
 
The only thing I didn't like when we had to shoot during the Hunter's Safety course is that I couldn't use my Ruger 10-22 with Bushnell 3x9 scope; told we needed to bring a bolt action w/o a scope. A semiautomatic .22 in the hands of a 15 yr old, oh, we can't have such nonsense. Arrrrrgh!
Crap, I had that 10-22 optic sighted dead nuts on and easily capped annoying Striped Gophers & Grackles at 50 yds, and now we have to 'qualify' with a pokey bolt action .22LR from what, 30 feet? So, I had to dig out the old beat up clunky 1920's Wards Western Field tubular-fed bolt action .22 that was a family pass-me-down gun that hadn't seen the sun in well over three years since I got my 10-22. Oh well.
By age 16, I owned my first Colt AR-15 SP1... Use to ride with it slung onto my back on my bicycle headed down main street, off to the town dump to shoot rats & crows. Nobody freaked out back then.
Times sure have changed...
 
My first was an Ithaca Model 49 single shot 22. I was 9 and it was a step up from my Daisy 881

Took down many a bullfrog with that thing. Don’t laugh - we had some the size of bowling balls

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