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TSP Rewind – Gun and Hunting Wisdom of our Fathers – Epi-234

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Today is an episode of TSP Rewind, commercial free versions of past podcast episodes.  Today’s episode was originally Episode-1577- Gun and Hunting Wisdom of our Fathers and was originally fist published on May, 19th, 2015.

The notes below are the original notes from that episode.

I want to talk about guns today, but a bit differently then you might expect from a “survival podcast” to do.  No ARs, no concealed carry and no ninja like accessories.

No today I want to tell you about the gun wisdom I learned at the hands of my grandfather and father as a young man.  The stories, lessons and realities that made me love guns as the tools they truly are.

You may be shocked to learn I didn’t grow up hearing much about the 2nd amendment or gun rights.  Where I grew up boys hunted squirrels with pellet guns for the table until they hit 12, at that time they could get a hunting license and were handed a 22 or a old single shot Sears brand 20 gauge and told to bring back more now that they had a better gun.

The concept that anyone would ever seek to take a gun away from a man who had never harmed a person with it, was so foreign as to not even be discussed.  While there is a lesson in that alone, we shall save it for another day.  Today I want to take you back to the 1980s in a small town with only two main roads, called RD1 and you guessed it RD2.  The town is Jonestown, the boy is still called John, the squirrels are fat, the deer are plentiful and the year is 1986.

Thirty Years, Three Thousand Miles, Three Hundred Thousand Rounds, Still Knocks a Dime out at 30 Yards.

75 Bucks when it was Brand New – 30 Years, 3,000 Miles, 300,000 Rounds, Still Knocks a Dime out at 30 Yards, What Else Could You Ask For?

 

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TSP Rewind – Gun and Hunting Wisdom of our Fathers – Epi-234 — 1 Comment

  1. My stepfather grew up in Little Rock in the 1950s-60s. He told me once that when he was 12, he went to the local drug store and bought a .22 for plinking and small game. He then slung the rifle over his should and rode the bus home. No cops called, no tactical swat deployment, no safe spacing. Just a country boy riding the bus home with his new gun.

    People say times change, and that’s true enough to be plainly apparent. What doesn’t is fundamentals. The drug store didn’t change, neither did the bus or the rifle. Only the people.

    For my part my grandfather taught me to shoot at 6yrs old with his trusty 5 shot Taurus. I still have that gun to this day. At 6yrs old children of today aren’t taught anything about guns, except maybe to be afraid of them and run and tell an adult if they see someone with one. Education and experience are being replaced by ignorance and fear. Again, the people are the fundamental component… the only thing that truly changes.

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