My first was a H&R topper 20 guage. For deer it used remington hp slugs when they came out originally all we could get was peters solid slugs and yes I mean peters not remington peters. The stores in east Texas at that time had LOTS of old ammo. We used to buy ammo predominantly at The Brookshire brothers grocery store in Crockett, Texas. Or at the Fina gas station or Ag Coop in Grapeland Texas. Although I do seem to remember buying a few boxes at one of the gas stations that sold bait, ammo, and guns off the rack out close to houston county lake way back then. You could walk into the store and the guns were on a rack buy the ice machine. Rifles standing up and pistols hanging by the trigger guards on the walls above them. Man that was the day. Heck I can't count the number of times I coulda bought a garand or a 30 caliber carbine for less than $75 bucks back then. Course back then we thought they were nuts asking that much for them when you could get 303 brit rifles at the surplus store for $25 out of a barrel on the sidewalk.
What the heck every happened to those days you know now that I think about it we didn't have school shootings back then and I ain't all the freakin' old.
GoodOlBoy
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