“he”/“him” A Canadian Prairie Mennonite from the '70s & '80s, a Preacher’s Kid, slowly recovering from a hemorrhagic stroke. I am not — yet — in a 12-Step Program.
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Sunday, August 27, 2023
Daisy air rifles
I used to spend many nights perusing the Daisy catalogue.
"With this thing in the stock
that tells time!"
This is the current Daisy catalogue, online, natch.
Much requesting got me a Daisy b.b. gun on my 11th birthday. I recall staying up all night in the basement with the couple of buddies who came over and finally going outside at 5am, down the street to the woods to shoot beer bottles (easily found). Used to wander around the neighborhood by myself in the afternoons shooting at songbirds and squirrels. We took the damn thing along to Germany next year, and at some point during our stint there, one of the Turkish kids in the neighborhood who would come over to play with my brother shot out the window of the unfinished third floor of the place the DOD paid for for us in a little town off base, apparently in the direction of somebody in the street. That got my family a visit from a couple of very sober but deferential young Bundesrepublik cops a day or two later. What times …
Much requesting got me a Daisy b.b. gun on my 11th birthday. I recall staying up all night in the basement with the couple of buddies who came over and finally going outside at 5am, down the street to the woods to shoot beer bottles (easily found). Used to wander around the neighborhood by myself in the afternoons shooting at songbirds and squirrels. We took the damn thing along to Germany next year, and at some point during our stint there, one of the Turkish kids in the neighborhood who would come over to play with my brother shot out the window of the unfinished third floor of the place the DOD paid for for us in a little town off base, apparently in the direction of somebody in the street. That got my family a visit from a couple of very sober but deferential young Bundesrepublik cops a day or two later. What times …
ReplyDeleteWhat times, indeed -- don't get me started on BB rifles, or "pellet guns" as the boys in the 'Bach preferred. Have I got stories!
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