1960s HC/PC

[hawkeye2]

"And a bottle of Wildroot hair cream to use on the head and as patch lube."

Patch lube! Now we are straying off topic. :wink: :haha:

I used that stuff all through high school to keep my DA in place. I wonder if you can still get it, might make a good lube "It's made with soothing lanolin" "Get Wildroot Cream Oil Charlie"

 

[CrackStock]

So how many poor naugas have to die to indulge your self indulgent hobby?

May PETA attack you as early and often as dead people vote in Chicago.

:haha:

CS

 

[MSW]

pop tops first tried in '62, and were pretty much replaced with the current design by the mid seventies. i still use a 'church key,' but then again, i brew my own, and i use a fountain pen, and i shave with a straight razor, and i shoot a flintlock.

Vermont is full of crazies- i probably fit right in, if i care wahat the 'other guys' thought, which, obviously, i do not.

 

[cynthialee]

pop tops first tried in '62, and were pretty much replaced with the current design by the mid seventies. i still use a 'church key,' but then again, i brew my own, and i use a fountain pen, and i shave with a straight razor, and i shoot a flintlock.

Vermont is full of crazies- i probably fit right in, if i care wahat the 'other guys' thought, which, obviously, i do not.

Obviously a time traveler from the past come to spy on the future....
:grin:

(I can get behind the home brewing, I used to make my own. And I totaly can understand the flintlock, but the church key, fountain pen and the straight razor? I am afraid there is no hope for you.) :haha:

 

[sb 54 cal.]

church key now I feel really old :v

 

[Fox.45]

:thumbsup: LOL you guys go way back and im right with ya. Here in Pa. we drank qts of Vally Forge outa a paper bag, and smoked missouri crooks (rum soaked) all for .50 and we had a ball.
LOve the trip.. keep it going.
I had an old sideby side and still have it Percussion of course and that was good huntin, but then there was game around and it was a way of life, to hunt.

 

[Captjoel]

There is an old saying that is "If you remember the 60's you weren't really there"! My home town shooting range is now a sprawling subdivision with no traces of what once was. Folks living there don't even have a clue why the road they drive home on is named "Bunker Hill Road". Back in the day after an evening shoot with my brother, we would walk across the range to a high hilly overlook viewing the back lot of the long gone Traverse Drive IN theater. Sat there and caught a free movie. Didn't need sound for most of the movies back then.....

 

[msuspartan]

I hear you on the no clue bit. People in Indiana (not all but most) are clueless of their roots/heritage.

Great post Randy!!!
I remember those days and the fun they were. I do know it was some hard times too but that grows up a person and gives them direction and purpose.

I am trying to bring up my son with an appreciation of history not video games and texting. atriot:

(ah..... for a bit of wacky tobacky, a fishin pole and listening to Nature on a nice warm spring day.....good memories)

Now I am a respectable :barf: corporate tech dog.

Cheers, DonK

 

The range I shot most of my matches at is pretty safe as the club has a 99 year lease on the ground. A woods that I burned a lot of powder in is still there, but it is now surrounded by homes, and while it might be technically legal to shoot and hunt there, it isn’t ethical.
As a matter of interest, one of the men who organized the local rifle and pistol club, and got his name enshrined on a plaque as a result, is someone we are all familiar with. Ted Cash.
After years of not being a member due to (among other things) the way some members acted when I’d show up with a flintlock, I rejoined this year just to use the above average facilities to sight some rifles in. There is an irony that a club that included quite a few black powder shooters among its founding members now tolerates traditional muzzleloaders at best.
Tomorrow I’ll drive down to Friendship, get some balls for the Tingle, some nipples for the H&A, maybe a non-HC/PC-but right for the sixties shooting bag and a few other small items.
Sadly, barring some unexpected miracle, I won’t be shooting the woods walk. I tossed my back simply walking down the aisle of the local Wal Mart last Monday, and even wearing a brace I can’t hold a rifle up. I will try walking through with everyone else afer I go shopping.

 

[Geraldo]

I checked further and found this:

1962 The pull-ring tab first marketed by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company of Pittsburgh, PA. The pull-ring tab was invented by Alcoa.

1963 The Schlitz Brewing company introduced the "Pop Top" beer can to the nation in March, invented by Ermal Fraze of Kettering, Ohio.

What type of can you got in the mid-late '60s was probably dependent on where you lived.

I also found that Coors and Narragansett have offered retro labeled cans. I think the tops are modern, but at least you'd be drinking out of a can with an HC/PC label.

Cool thread on retro BP shooting. I didn't get my start until later, but I've seen some of the old pics. :wink:

 

[hanshi]

The area we use to hike and camp, and yes, shoot in, were gobbled up for a bypass, subsidized projects (read that "drug havens) and such by the late '60s. Even in the early '70s you could still hunt most anywhere rural. Not so any longer. The population is now three times what it was when I was born in the '40s. And now our government pays unmarried women to pop out babies as fast as they can. Makes me depressed thinking about our future.

 

[bangfxr]

The Nauga (Then indangered now extinct) hide vest and leggings, with the boy scout plastic bear claw neckles.

 

[Mongo40]

Find you one of those old Uncle Mikes light grey colored bags with the wide fringe across the bottom, that all the big chain stores sold back in the 70s, I got one that came with my first rifle, when I was 15, a TC 50cal hawkins, cause every boy needed a Hawkins, according to Jeremia Johnson anyway, I've still got the bag, but when my son took an interest, I cut the fringe off an put a horn button on the flap an he uses it now.

 

[vern faulkner]

I think that I remember seeing those mocs. with the rubber sole sown on with black and red flannel lining sown in, but then again I'm old now and may not recollect so good.

Vern

 

[Denny/Oh]

Geraldo,

I was a diemaker/engraver in the 60's and did some work for Mr. Fraze. I did the pantograph work and made the "masters for numerous types of can lids. He had a number of cool designs and he was quite a designer.

The main problem with early pop tops was that you pulled the out tab upwards. If anything happened to the line that created the "cut " it would leave a burr that could cut your lip. Now you see all those tabs go down away from you.

Mr. Fraze did all the hand work on those dies including a .0015" radius on the score line. He was an artist on this part.

Denny

 

[Carteret Kid]

How about driving up in an International Scout? Werent they the first SUV?

 

[Pigman]

There is an old saying that is "If you remember the 60's you weren't really there"! My home town shooting range is now a sprawling subdivision with no traces of what once was. Folks living there don't even have a clue why the road they drive home on is named "Bunker Hill Road". Back in the day after an evening shoot with my brother, we would walk across the range to a high hilly overlook viewing the back lot of the long gone Traverse Drive IN theater. Sat there and caught a free movie. Didn't need sound for most of the movies back then.....

I remember it. I used to sled off Bunker Hill road. I used to date a girl whose parent’s house overlooked the Traverse Drive Inn. We would send one person to the drive inn with a CB radio and listen in the house to the sound. This was before drive inns put in radio systems.

What was the name of the club that was out there? I remember it but I do not remember the name. I want to say I went out there with my father and some of his drinking buddies in the 60's.


Foster From Flint - Formerly from Traverse City

 

[huntinguy]

Hey, I still use my fringed possibles bag!!!!!