Air rifles and gardens

Our son was graced with a CO2 operated air rifle when he was nine or ten, can't remember the brand but it was .22 caliber and was a humdinger. He brought back lots of wild Rock pigeons and squirrels from his hunting jaunts and also a pheasant once. What the heck a pheasant was doing running around in a cow pasture in SE Texas I don't know. He moved up to a regular .22 rifle when he was fourteen and got his first deer rifle, at fifteen. I think it was a 6mm Remington, daughter's first deer rifle was a .250 Roberts built on a Mauser frame with a store bought barrel. I built both the deer rifles for them in my gun shop. Alas, after they grew up they've never hunted again and I sold their rifles for them. Seems they liked the money more than the rifles.

I got my first .22 rifle at age 5. A Winchester 1906 pump gun, could use shorts, longs, and long rifles in it. Gave it to son when he went off to college and sure as shooting, someone hit the trailer he was renting and took that rifle and his Remington pump shotgun, not to mention his TV, stereo and even a good bit of his clothing. That .22 was a really nice gun. When I came home from the Navy in 1960 I finally plugged the barrel at the back end, poured it full of mercury, then plugged the muzzle. Let it sit a week and then poured out the mercury and all the lead that had stayed in there for years and years. Sure did shoot better after that.

George

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George Shirley
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Hi George,

GUN SHOP !!?!?! Why! Why! You! You! You!

Okay, second greatest profession. (First would be fishing guide.)

I work for 1-1/2 gun manufacturers. (1/2 as I think the recession got him.) Love to go visit them guys.

I own two very nice weapons, but never shoot them as when I have any free time on my hands, I go fishing.

And yes, fishing is a form of hunting.

Play this for SWMBO (from a safe distance):

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-T

My SWMBO just laughs.

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T

It was something I enjoyed and was good at. I also worked an eight to sixteen hour swing shift so had plenty of time to do it. Both my kids worked in the shop when they were young, daughter cleaned the shop each afternoon, son did whatever needed, mostly casting lead minie balls. This was during the sixties when the Civil War reenactments were going on heavily and lead balls sold well. Still have all the molds and the small lead furnace, nowadays I make lead sinkers for fishing. Have about

30 lbs of lead in a cabinet in the garage. All the grands and great grands that like to fish come over and Granpa gets to indoctrinate them into outdoor sports instead of computer games.

Did that occasionally too, we had a camp on the beach of the Gulf of Mexico. Fished there from a young age until a hurricane ate not only the camp but the land it was on.

Then you should know that all men know everything about guns and women, at least they think they know it.

I won't say how many or what they are but there's a lot more than that in the gun vault. I did get rid of my original Civil War weapons and one from the American Revolution. Guy came by with the right amount of money and we were both happy.

Mine did too, she used to go fishing with me but she's a fine artist and sat around doing sketches or watercolors. I don't remember how many portraits of me fishing she has. She even went out with me once when she was six months pregnant. I had built a plywood fourteen foot long, four feet wide boat and put a gasoline lawn mower engine in it. Would kick along at about three miles an hour and was just right for small creeks, could run in less than a foot of water.

Life is a lot of fun if you let yourself go. Get out and have fun, leave the environment clean, don't trespass (at least in Texas), be innovative, live well, die well.

George

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George Shirley

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