The tradition is passed on...

We just got back from a trip up north to see family, and on the way back I stopped to see my son's family.

In the truck was a Glenfield Model 60 .22 semiautomatic rifle my father got for me when I was 15.

I gave this same rifle to my granddaughter. She is 12, but even so is a much better shot that I was at that age. Her main rifle was a small single shot cricket, but now she has a rifle she can carry on with into adulthood. The non-detachable tube magazine holds 18 rounds, and the Bushnell Banner scope I mounted on it is wonderful.

She told me she loves it after going out to the shooting area and spending two hours out there with her dad (my son). She could hit targets at unknown ranges all the way out to 100 yards with it. Her grandpa could not be prouder. :mrgreen:

So our family shooting tradition is passed on with this gift to her. I also included 555 rounds of ammo.

All over free America family traditions are being passed on in this very same manner.

Kids are being given their first .22 rifles after PROVING they could safely and accurately handle a BB gun or a pellet rifle.

Be it Nebraska, as in this case, or Tennessee, KY, AK, TX, or any other FREE state you choose to mention, this is how it is done, and this is how family pride and the tradition of free American gun ownership is passed on.

Smell the freedom.

PS...I got her old BB gun to take home with me and plink with.

RetiredNSmilin said:

We just got back from a trip up north to see family, and on the way back I stopped to see my son's family.

In the truck was a Glenfield Model 60 .22 semiautomatic rifle my father got for me when I was 15.

I gave this same rifle to my granddaughter. She is 12, but even so is a much better shot that I was at that age. Her main rifle was a small single shot cricket, but now she has a rifle she can carry on with into adulthood. The non-detachable tube magazine holds 18 rounds, and the Bushnell Banner scope I mounted on it is wonderful.

She told me she loves it after going out to the shooting area and spending two hours out there with her dad (my son). She could hit targets at unknown ranges all the way out to 100 yards with it. Her grandpa could not be prouder. :mrgreen:

So our family shooting tradition is passed on with this gift to her. I also included 555 rounds of ammo.

All over free America family traditions are being passed on in this very same manner.

Kids are being given their first .22 rifles after PROVING they could safely and accurately handle a BB gun or a pellet rifle.

Be it Nebraska, as in this case, or Tennessee, KY, AK, TX, or any other FREE state you choose to mention, this is how it is done, and this is how family pride and the tradition of free American gun ownership is passed on.

Smell the freedom.

PS...I got her old BB gun to take home with me and plink with.

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My daughter originally showed no interest in firearms...

Until recently.

She took to my .22 rimfire lever-action like a duck to water. The guys shooting with her ended up being a bit intimidated...

Always nice hear.

Fledermaus said:

My daughter originally showed no interest in firearms...

Until recently.

She took to my .22 rimfire lever-action like a duck to water. The guys shooting with her ended up being a bit intimidated...

Always nice hear.

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May I beg you to put up with a Walter Mitty daydream briefly........

It is my firm belief in a post Apocalyptic scenario it will be the young girls and boys (10 - 17) with their .22s, who will be the biggest game getters for their group.

Their sharp eyes and keen stealth will keep many an older person fed with what they can bring home for the group.

It is all good fun for now, but we are establishing some important and necessary skills in encouraging their marksmanship in the present.

This is also a reason bannerites target the .22 market with artificial shortages to prevent this vital training.

Everyone reading this post can remember a 50 round box going for 50 cents, and also that same box attempting to be sold for $10.

When I was there, my son sadly showed me a brick (500 rounds) of Thunderbolt .22 ammo he had to pay $80 for simply because there was none to be had. We all remember that too, and that is why I gave her 555 rounds when I was there. That is also why I get a brick every couple months even though I do not need it.

I remember gun dealers keeping back .22 ammo and offering it to go along with the sale of a .22 gun simply because at that time, if a guy bought a .22 gun you could not find any ammo to shoot in it.

Get your bricks now while you can, our kids will need them later.....probably to feed us.

RetiredNSmilin said:

PS...I got her old BB gun to take home with me and plink with.

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A straight up trade?

I hope you got a thank you kiss too to go with that.

Hawkeye10 said:

A straight up trade?

I hope you got a thank you kiss too to go with that.

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No trade. It was time to give her my Glenfield as part of a family tradition that I expressed in the OP posting.

I got that BB gun for all three of my kids when they were little to have fun with. It wound up at my oldest son's house.

Now that they are all grown up, I had expressed an interest in getting it back for nostalgia reasons.

To this day I LOVE...LOVE plinking with a BB gun in my backyard. Talk about fun stress relief.

So... How does your prophecy of surviving an apocalypse end?
Does everyone praise Jesus while shooting guns?

... The first thing we need after the end of the world, isn't food or water, it's guns!!

ScrewPokemonGo said:

So... How does your prophecy of surviving an apocalypse end?
Does everyone praise Jesus while shooting guns?

... The first thing we need after the end of the world, isn't food or water, it's guns!!

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Well, you've got to admit that guns are a handy tool when it comes to gathering meat.

Lutherf said:

Well, you've got to admit that guns are a handy tool when it comes to gathering meat.

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Funny, I thought that after the apocalypse Jesus took us to heaven... Is it a god gun we will be needing...?

ScrewPokemonGo said:

So... How does your prophecy of surviving an apocalypse end?
Does everyone praise Jesus while shooting guns?

... The first thing we need after the end of the world, isn't food or water, it's guns!!

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ScrewPokemonGo said:

Funny, I thought that after the apocalypse Jesus took us to heaven... Is it a god gun we will be needing...?

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With posts like these, and all of the unfounded ASSumptions you make, you can see why no one takes you very seriously, can't you?

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I have been a survivalist since about 1975, and I can tell you have no clue about the subject.

However, the charitable Christian in me, commands I pass this little bit of info to you to prevent you and yours from possibly starving to death.

OK, here it is...

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In the event you find canned goods and no can opener, just swirl the top of the can over some smooth concrete for about 90 seconds, then upright the can, wipe the goo from around the lid, and then punch the can lid on the edge and it will open up for you.

The goo is caused from the contents of the can seeping out ever so slowly and the fine powder from the concrete mixing together. Just wipe it off, it is harmless but is gritty and tastes like crap.

Fine concrete works better than the larger chunkier type. After a bit you will be able to know the type on sight.

This method is better than smashing the can to bits or dulling a good knife cutting the lid open.

OK, I have done my good deed for the day.

Continue on with your foolishness about the "end of days". I am not as religious as you, so those finer points you seem to know about, I will have to trust you on.

I just know the nuts and bolts of real world urban survival.

This is how you open a can of food if you do not happen to have a can opener.

Also remember most canned veggies have about 4 ounces of good clean drinking water in them too.

ScrewPokemonGo said:

So... How does your prophecy of surviving an apocalypse end?
Does everyone praise Jesus while shooting guns?

... The first thing we need after the end of the world, isn't food or water, it's guns!!

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ScrewPokemonGo said:

Funny, I thought that after the apocalypse Jesus took us to heaven... Is it a god gun we will be needing...?

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Please note....you are the only one making this some kind of religious thing, and I only mentioned an apocalypse as an aside to my main point.

Plenty of apocalypses have already happened to people all over the world. I define an " apocalypse " as a total upheaval of one's normal society and way of life. Using my definition anyone can see these catastrophic events have happened to people all over the globe. I have also seen a few of them with my own eyes. There was nothing religious about them. They were all caused by economic, military, environmental, or political upheavals. No one is immune. Several have already happened here in the US already. Ask the good folks in Baton Rogue or Ferguson and Baltimore.

You can reference the book of Revelations all you want to, but I see things a bit more locally.

ScrewPokemonGo said:

Funny, I thought that after the apocalypse Jesus took us to heaven... Is it a god gun we will be needing...?

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Yep, you are one not to take seriously. There are people that just jump up and down trying to get noticed so they do stupid ****. This is one of those posts.

ScrewPokemonGo said:

So... How does your prophecy of surviving an apocalypse end?
Does everyone praise Jesus while shooting guns?

... The first thing we need after the end of the world, isn't food or water, it's guns!!

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Better to have it and not need it.

RetiredNSmilin said:

We just got back from a trip up north to see family, and on the way back I stopped to see my son's family.

In the truck was a Glenfield Model 60 .22 semiautomatic rifle my father got for me when I was 15.

I gave this same rifle to my granddaughter. She is 12, but even so is a much better shot that I was at that age. Her main rifle was a small single shot cricket, but now she has a rifle she can carry on with into adulthood. The non-detachable tube magazine holds 18 rounds, and the Bushnell Banner scope I mounted on it is wonderful.

She told me she loves it after going out to the shooting area and spending two hours out there with her dad (my son). She could hit targets at unknown ranges all the way out to 100 yards with it. Her grandpa could not be prouder. :mrgreen:

So our family shooting tradition is passed on with this gift to her. I also included 555 rounds of ammo.

All over free America family traditions are being passed on in this very same manner.

Kids are being given their first .22 rifles after PROVING they could safely and accurately handle a BB gun or a pellet rifle.

Be it Nebraska, as in this case, or Tennessee, KY, AK, TX, or any other FREE state you choose to mention, this is how it is done, and this is how family pride and the tradition of free American gun ownership is passed on.

Smell the freedom.

PS...I got her old BB gun to take home with me and plink with.

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I very much admire your attitude and willingness to pass on good traditions that will serve your family well in the future.

What disappoints me the most is that nobody passes on the tradition of protecting our rights. It is almost like government has convinced us it will do this job for us. The disappointment comes for hearing supposedly sound sane people say SCOTUS is our protector and we must abide by those decisions. It is absolutely astounding that such nonsense is peoples answer for abdication of their duty to protect the right they would enjoy.

Sure government will protect your rights and safety...... I mean the founders must have been crazy giving this job to citizens and not making sure they understood what part they played in a REPUBLIC.

The most important is the the 2A as it is the key, the protector of all others and here we are giving it away bit by bit, law by law, gun by gun and specially worthy and selected citizens only. The question is why do we not teach our children the value of our rights and the fact it is citizens duty to protect our rights?

If we did that where would gun control be now?

My sister back in Maine was a your typical Boston College bleeding heart indoctrinated gun hating liberal. She wouldn't allow her husband to hunt, or guns to be on their property until 5 years ago....(married 33 years)


She came up to camp for a family reunion that summer and we went back and forth on the issue of my Ruger .357 magnum, and six boxes of target rounds in the camp house. My brothers also had brought some of their weapons along. She was actually going to leave until her husband finally grew some balls and told her that she could leave.........alone. She pouted for a good 2-3 hours, and then really lost it when her husband joined me and my brothers with a little bowling pin shooting. Some of the wives got into the fun and took turns shooting and kept hollering for my sister to join in. I was totally shocked when she did........floored even.

Now.....the crazy wench owns her own Glock 40 & G17, a couple hunting rifles, and she now goes out hunting with her husband. Her husband set up a range behind their farm house and he can't keep enough ammo on hand.

RetiredUSN said:

My sister back in Maine was a your typical Boston College bleeding heart indoctrinated gun hating liberal. She wouldn't allow her husband to hunt, or guns to be on their property until 5 years ago....(married 33 years)


She came up to camp for a family reunion that summer and we went back and forth on the issue of my Ruger .357 magnum, and six boxes of target rounds in the camp house. My brothers also had brought some of their weapons along. She was actually going to leave until her husband finally grew some balls and told her that she could leave.........alone. She pouted for a good 2-3 hours, and then really lost it when her husband joined me and my brothers with a little bowling pin shooting. Some of the wives got into the fun and took turns shooting and kept hollering for my sister to join in. I was totally shocked when she did........floored even.

Now.....the crazy wench owns her own Glock 40 & G17, a couple hunting rifles, and she now goes out hunting with her husband. Her husband set up a range behind their farm house and he can't keep enough ammo on hand.

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I love these stories really I do they do show the of singular success of one on one persuasion or most think it is. Fact is this happened because of peer pressure and not because she was at a range.

What we as firearm owners need to do is learn and the first thing to learn is we are no experts at persuasion. Thinking we can do this with our own ideas has been the down fall of every single countries firearm owners. If we do what they did we can expect no different a result. It really is that simple. So pick a country and see what firearm organisation did to stem the tide of gun control and lost. First you will find the did virtually nothing, their organisation having convinced members to sit back relax and let the experts handle it. Much like most US organisations today. The experts believe they can win in the courts. They cannot, have not and never will. The experts think having range days and gun shows will do it, it will not.

If gun control succeeded in all those countries what did gun control do right? Anyone know? And this will show what the problem is. We do not know what we are fighting or how to fight it. We are not alone in that as there is no real success to draw from.

RetiredUSN said:

My sister back in Maine was a your typical Boston College bleeding heart indoctrinated gun hating liberal. She wouldn't allow her husband to hunt, or guns to be on their property until 5 years ago....(married 33 years)


She came up to camp for a family reunion that summer and we went back and forth on the issue of my Ruger .357 magnum, and six boxes of target rounds in the camp house. My brothers also had brought some of their weapons along. She was actually going to leave until her husband finally grew some balls and told her that she could leave.........alone. She pouted for a good 2-3 hours, and then really lost it when her husband joined me and my brothers with a little bowling pin shooting. Some of the wives got into the fun and took turns shooting and kept hollering for my sister to join in. I was totally shocked when she did........floored even.

Now.....the crazy wench owns her own Glock 40 & G17, a couple hunting rifles, and she now goes out hunting with her husband. Her husband set up a range behind their farm house and he can't keep enough ammo on hand.

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There is always that one down side to introducing someone to shooting, next thing you know you have spent thousands on more guns and ammo ain't free. Glad she saw the light, seen it happen time and time again.

Back in 1969, I purchased a new Marlin Glenfield Model 60, with a scope attached, for $49.50. I wish I had a crystal ball to see what a great deal that was....I would have bought several. Yes, .22 ammo was about 50 to 75 cents a box.
That rifle was a sweet shooting one and I passed it on to my oldest son when he graduated high school. He still has it.

Tinker Bell liberals, who think food and water are all that matters, will have a tough time retaining those commodities, when a bad hombre wants to take them. They don't realize that they will be on their own and have no cops to call. That's where the gun comes in handy.

RetiredUSN said:

My sister back in Maine was a your typical Boston College bleeding heart indoctrinated gun hating liberal. She wouldn't allow her husband to hunt, or guns to be on their property until 5 years ago....(married 33 years)


She came up to camp for a family reunion that summer and we went back and forth on the issue of my Ruger .357 magnum, and six boxes of target rounds in the camp house. My brothers also had brought some of their weapons along. She was actually going to leave until her husband finally grew some balls and told her that she could leave.........alone. She pouted for a good 2-3 hours, and then really lost it when her husband joined me and my brothers with a little bowling pin shooting. Some of the wives got into the fun and took turns shooting and kept hollering for my sister to join in. I was totally shocked when she did........floored even.

Now.....the crazy wench owns her own Glock 40 & G17, a couple hunting rifles, and she now goes out hunting with her husband. Her husband set up a range behind their farm house and he can't keep enough ammo on hand.

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I love a happy ending.

Casper said:

There is always that one down side to introducing someone to shooting, next thing you know you have spent thousands on more guns and ammo ain't free. Glad she saw the light, seen it happen time and time again.

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Me too. Anti-gun libs have all these phobias because they all subscribe to Bad Living Magazine. Once we show em the other side of the coin, they love it.

ScrewPokemonGo said:

So... How does your prophecy of surviving an apocalypse end?
Does everyone praise Jesus while shooting guns?

... The first thing we need after the end of the world, isn't food or water, it's guns!!

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Well don't forget most of us are going to hell, so a gun might come in handy.

Do you think demons and devils can be shot?

ScrewPokemonGo said:

So... How does your prophecy of surviving an apocalypse end?
Does everyone praise Jesus while shooting guns?

... The first thing we need after the end of the world, isn't food or water, it's guns!!

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If someone has a gun and you don't, guess who has your food and water.....