When 5 yr. old , dear old Dad put the latest tube fed BB rifle in my hands. This was a Daisy lever cocking rifle that the end of the muzzle unscrewed , the BB's were loaded in a tubular magazine attached to the side of the gun barrel , and BB's were fed one at a time , when the cocking lever was activated. Neighbor kid and I shot so much , this mechanism lasted through half of a summer. Dad was working three jobs then to save our house , and I was on my own to fix the BB gun. I couldn't make it feed , but figured out , that by loading the rifle at the muzzle w/one BB , and cocking the lever , the gun would work very well. Problem solved , and I unknowingly had my first muzzle loader. Back to the forum entry.........We shot so much , thousands of rounds , the natural progression of learning to aim , was to sight down the side of the barrel. We never did "sight our guns in" from a bench. Dad's NRA Magazine , had an article about the Army training troopers the art of "point and shoot". Read the article , and told myself , we were doing that all along , with our air rifles, just not with a high powered rifle.
. But they lived there. They were always there. I went twice a month
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