When we were young

[Michael Bane]

Damn, Les! I think I remember that match! I arrived in Tampa late in '79 and within a month had signed up for Clyde Bower and his buds' "combat pistol matches." Wrote my first article for the then-new AMERICAN HANDGUNNER on Accurate Plating & Weaponry in Safety Harbor. Bought a steel Combat Commander and spent a staggering $250 bucks on S&W revolver sights, a weird beavertail, a paddle thumb safety and an aluminum trigger. Bought 10 military surplus magazines for $1 apiece...maybe 5 of them worked. Shot the first Florida Invitational Combat Pistol Match in Orlando. Fell in with bad companions.

Michael B

[kmitch200]

Fell in with bad companions.
Michael B

Some things never change....

[les snyder]

Michael... match today at Ruskin, not too many of the old guys around... I think I'm the last of the original TBCPL still shooting

[DaverZ]

When I was young and in my prime I used to do it all the time,but now I'm old and have more sense I use the hole in the back yard fence.
But seriously,as a youth we could go out in the country where no one was around and blast away,dad and I sent tons of lead into cans,bottle,junk laying around and what not,but then again we spent considerable time at the police pistol range too,Damn I miss those days.

[alfsauve]

So no one else is willing to dig back into family photos and find a picture of them shooting at a young age?

Okay, here's one of my grand-dad, Alfred Dorman.  This is a picture of the Statesboro (GA) Gun Club circa mid-20's as best as I can place it.  Someone who really knows their shotguns might be able to id some of the guns shown.   Daddy D, as I called him, is 5th from the left, standing.  Narrow tie.  Gangsta' looking one without the hat.

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[PegLeg45]

My family wasn't a 'shooting' family......and I never thought to take cameras to the range. 

[Big Frank]

I don't have many pictures of me doing anything at any age. I wish I did. 

[fatbaldguy]

I don't have many pictures of me doing anything at any age. I wish I did. 

I was never one to stand in front of a camera either.  Now, I'm glad I didn't.  I can retain some bit of anonymity.

[justbill]

I have a couple of photos from my early days of shooting in the mid-1980's but no way to digitize them for upload. Not that they're anything great. There's one of me firing my dearly departed Marlin .22 boltgun. It was a present for my 15th birthday and the first firearm in our family. Then there's one of my older brother Jim firing a Ruger Super Blackhawk, the second firearm in our family battery. No ear muffs either, just a wad of cotton visible poking from his near ear. Man did we learn fast about ringing ears with that gun! There's also one of me posing on the firing line of my first local Service Rifle match. I was 19 and had saved for what seemed like forever to buy my first M1 Garand. The huge grin on my mug shows I couldn't have been happier. I really miss those days.

[TAB]

I was never one to stand in front of a camera either.  Now, I'm glad I didn't.  I can retain some bit of anonymity.

yep. I am so glad people did not have cameras with them all the time like they do now.

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