I miss...

[G192127]

The America that I grew up in...I miss going to the 2nd floor at Emroe's Sporting Goods store downtown on Indianapolis with my Grandfather. The "Old Dutchman" worked up there. He and my Grandfather were great old friends...they spoke of 30-40Krags and 45-70's...Darn are all the good days gone?

 

[TJ Kackowski]

Hokey smokes ... what are you talking about? The good days are just beginning ... if you care to venture out and take advantage of them.

If all you want to do is live in the past, then, yeah, sure they're gone because nothing can compare to a memory ... especially the memory of a child. EVERYTHING is wonderful as a child ... spending time with their Grandpa.

Time to stop living in the past. Get out there and take life by the balls! Live for today and make those same memories with your grandchildren as your grandfather made with you.

Or not ... your choice.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Hokey smokes ... what are you talking about? The good days are just beginning ... if you care to venture out and take advantage of them.

If all you want to do is live in the past, then, yeah, sure they're gone because nothing can compare to a memory ... especially the memory of a child. EVERYTHING is wonderful as a child ... spending time with their Grandpa.

Time to stop living in the past. Get out there and take life by the balls! Live for today and make those same memories with your grandchildren as your grandfather made with you.

Or not ... your choice.

 

[92FSTech]

I take my Krag out and shoot it with my kids. I load cast for it with Unique loads, so it's fun for them and easy on the gun. The .45-70 is a bit much for the littler ones, even with Trailboss, but the oldest enjoys it. Today I spent some time behind an Eddystone 1917.

To agree with TJ above...life's what you make of it. The classics are still out there to be enjoyed, appreciated, and passed on. It's probably even more important to do so now than it was back then.

 

[Mgderf]

When I miss, I practice more...
I'm just sayin'

 

[MindfulMan]

"Life is available only in the present moment."

---Thich Nhat Hanh

 

[Mgderf]

Change is inevitable, growth is optional - some smart dude

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Change is inevitable, growth is optional - some smart dude

I thought the saying was, "Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional."

 

[42253]

I loved time with my Grandparents. Now its time for me to show them how I appreciated it by doing the same for my grandkids. Planning a trip to Tennessee to show them the bears.

 

[Cameramonkey]

I miss GC Murphy's carmel corn.

But I endeavor to find better stuff today.

 

[Usmccookie]

The good one days of tomorrow are now…
Making sure my kids have the good ole days each and every day is adding to my good times. I hope to hear my kids tell stories about today someday..

 

[Brian's Surplus]

I have a feeling that in 20 or 30 years, many people will refer to the times we are living in now as "The good old days". I know what you mean though. I have fond memories of gun stores, surplus stores and gun shows from 30 years ago.

 

[ChrisK]

The old Fetla’s in Valparaiso was fun to go to. Long gone but there are other great places to go now.

 

[42253]

The old Fetla’s in Valparaiso was fun to go to. Long gone but there are other great places to go now.

I loved that place. Guns everywhere. Every aisle had guns on the shelves, above the shelves in cases just all over.

 

[Gabriel]

...are all the good days gone?

Yes.

 

[TheJoker]

The America that I grew up in...I miss going to the 2nd floor at Emroe's Sporting Goods store downtown on Indianapolis with my Grandfather. The "Old Dutchman" worked up there. He and my Grandfather were great old friends...they spoke of 30-40Krags and 45-70's...Darn are all the good days gone?

I remember him well. I was a youngster; but, I had already been bitten by the bug. I'd go back and ask him questions relentlessly. I'll never forget the time I was asking him about getting an extra magazine for my Dad's Walther PPK. He asked me how old I was. I told him that I was 12. He looked at me and said in that heavy Dutch accent: "You are 12 years old und shou carry und shoot zee gun?"

 

[Hookeye]

Aint found a gun store yet thats even close to what Lengels was.

 

[Bstarkey_46947]

I have frequented Lengels and Fetla's, they were cool. I miss 525 packs of .22 for $20.

 

[Denny347]

 

[woodsie57]

The America that I grew up in...I miss going to the 2nd floor at Emroe's Sporting Goods store downtown on Indianapolis with my Grandfather. The "Old Dutchman" worked up there. He and my Grandfather were great old friends...they spoke of 30-40Krags and 45-70's...Darn are all the good days gone?

"Are we rollin' downhill like a snowball headed for hell?"