Yep. I never used them.I had two emergency slugs in the top pocket of my vest. I carried them religiously, just in case.
For three or four years...
Yep. I never used them.I had two emergency slugs in the top pocket of my vest. I carried them religiously, just in case.
For three or four years...
You must have grown up around Waycross like I did. I spent many a day on the Satilla.My 8th Christmas I got my Stevens 94 20 gauge single barrel.
We had also moved to a new house and it was paradise.
Take a left out the driveway and it was a mile to the Satilla River thru some woods owned by a guy out of state. Probably about 500 acres of freedom...
Take a right, and it was a half mile to a big pecan orchard, and a good sized fish pond...
I made a couple new friends, and we roamed the whole area as if we owned it. We had a campsite at each location, where we ran our operations from.
My Dad got a new lawn mower, and we were given the old one, with the mower deck removed. We towed our gear in a small utility trailer many a mile...
Co-rect!You must have grown up around Waycross like I did. I spent many a day on the Satilla.
I also had the topper jr model. Love that thing!! And I’m familiar with the ‘emergency’ slugs as well! HA!Grew up like that, too. I got a cheap .410 single shot for my 8th birthday, and graduated up to a 20 gauge H&R Topper a couple years later. When I got home from school and got the chores and feeding done, I was out the door, hunting for anything I saw-squirrels, rabbits, grouse, groundhogs, quail, whatever. Always carried a punkinball for a big-game emergency.
I also had the topper jr model. Love that thing!! And I’m familiar with the ‘emergency’ slugs as well! HA!
I felt like I could take down an elephant with my trusty slug! Man what memories
When I think about the problems we face as a nation and as hunters, I think about how few get to experience a childhood like that. That’s a sad tale.
Yep those Savage model 24s are awesome for a woods walk. Mines 22LR/.410 If you miss with the .22 the .410 would knock em out of the tree even on the run. The rifle barrel wasn't near as accurate as Grandaddys Winchester model 74 that Id get to use when visiting. Havent had my old combo gun out of the safe in quite a while. This threads giving me a hankering to take it for a walk.Yes sir. I used to love to get home from school and hit the woods with my dad’s savage 22 over 20ga. Buckshot, #4’s, and CCI Stingers in my vest. Every year when I smell fall in the air for the first time I think about that gun and slipping through the woods in a pair of thick wool socks.
If I remember correctly the Stevens guns were sold by Sears & Roebuck? I think they were bought out by Savage maybe not sure but I knew lots of folks back in the day who had guns that they bought from Sears. And from Montgomery Ward also.
Honestly when I was working in tobacco I couldn't make enough money to buy a gun. I had to buy what I needed not what I wanted. I used to look at the guns in Sears and drool.Mine came from Sears. Paid $29 for it. Tobacco cropping money.
Honestly when I was working in tobacco I couldn't make enough money to buy a gun. I had to buy what I needed not what I wanted. I used to look at the guns in Sears and drool.
At least they paid you. They didn't pay me.I got $6 a day. That weren`t too bad for the times.
First ”new” gun I ever owned, my dad bought for me at Heck’s in Huntington. It was a Winchester 12 gauge pump. I don’t remember the model #number.Hecks sold them too, they unfortunately went out of business in the 90s, was a great store.
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Savage bought out Stevens in the 1920.
I worked many days in tobacco for family members that I never got one red cent for. I only got paid for working in tobacco when I worked for a local farmer outside of the family. If I made 5 bucks per day I was lucky. When I moved to SC in 1965 down there they were still paying 4 bucks a day for tobacco croppers.At least they paid you. They didn't pay me.