With Much regret NO..Did you ever meet Christopher Columbus?
How old are ya?
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About five yrs. ago I went to get a hunting liscense. In NY if you have'nt had one for 10 yrs. or more you have to take the safety course all over. So I asked if my old hunter safety card would do. 'Answer..., yes. So I whipped out my card from 1967 and the clerks jaw dropped. "You still got this ??? Me; Yup! I'm 72, got the card when I was 14 as I recall. 'Still have it.
Like the song says, "I was born 100,000 years ago and there ain't nothin' in this world that I don't know". Well, at times I feel that way and "The War Department" is always reminding me that the last part is completely incorrect also. My dad said that my first 2 words were, "GUN!" and "MINE!". My first firearm was an old fowler from my grandfather's farm. It was/is still, frozen solid but in my imagination has defended our property from Redcoats and a host of marauding bad guys. I started shooting real bullets at age 7 in what are known here as unmentionables. Age 11 saw me shooting an uncle's, gifted to me, toy BP brass cannon (deadly to massed plastic soldiers). I got into cap and ball pistol shooting about 6 years ago and more recently flintlocks, long and short.
Yes we now are not what is known in the UK has Spring Chickens just grumpy old cockerels' but still shooting
Feltwad
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Were you part of the British forces that marched into Lexington at the beginning of the American Revolution? LOL. I just had to ask. I remember my niece that was 7 or 8 years old, after finding out how old my mother (her grandmother) was, asking her if she knew Ben Franklin.
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71 as well. Been playing with black powder toys for about 15 years.
Banjoman
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I’m 115 years old. I don’t remember which day I was born, even though I was there.
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Had a friend who was told he was older than dirt. He replied that he had checked with the geology department at the local university and they told him that was not older than dirt. I’m older now than he was at the time.
81 Years old. Bought a bunch of parts from Dixie and cobbled together a full stock cap lock rifle in 1964.
74 been shooting BP 62 years
63
Been shooting black powder since 1980.
Been shooting black powder since 1980.
airborne505
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I'm 41 and have never shot black powder. I'm working on my first kit - a Kibler Woodsrunner. I've been shooting since 2001when I joined the US Army at age 18.
Clearly, you come from a fine family!
85, and things are getting harder to do. I've shot muzzle loaders for 34 years.
First time I dropped a hammer on a percussion cap was a wow moment...1980 in the hills above Bullhead City Arizona
Hi Feltwad,
Fortunately the Cock is sill able to Crow. I only lie down to shoot these days with tool that have little or No recoil. Still able to cast a fly. don't ever enter the water now as I'm frightened I might Wash away. O.D. 21-3 34
I am 66 and started with a TC flint hawken around 14-15yrs old. Saved up my summer lawn cutting and paper rout money. Had to have my dad sign for it.
Still going strong building a TRS British 1756 artillery carbine currently.
Still going strong building a TRS British 1756 artillery carbine currently.
According to my Woman, I died in front of the TV 3 years ago.
gray fox
32 Cal
I will turn 81 next month and have been target shooting since about age 11 and am still at it .
