Hunt Chat  

Go Back   Hunt Chat > All Things HC > Free Classifieds

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #9  
Old 10-24-2003, 05:52 PM
Lilred's Avatar
Lilred Lilred is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Central VA
Posts: 1,674
While i reckon i'm technically still a "youngster", i've given it alot of thought.
Ya know, I remember when I was a youngun, lookin at my pop cleanin them guns with care and pride, thinkin, one day I might be cleanin them guns..i can kill big bucks with em! I would watch him fer hours on end. Sometimes he'd tell a story, er sing a blugrass song.

And there has been so many times while i'm cleanin them same guns to git my 10 yr old so sit down with me, learn a lil somethin, or just enjoy huntin stories my pop told me. Yeah right..caint take his eyes offa the simpsons long enough, er play that dammed ole xbox his grandma bought him. ( i flatly refused to spend nary a penny on games and such) And i've sat there with a half hurt/half confused look and wondered...when he gits these guns..is he really gonna appreciatte em? He gonna wind up git hard up fer money and sell to the first redneck that comes along? What's gonna become of "my pop" when i'm gone?

I thinkin that I might give him one, maybe 2. But.. I'm thinkin I might just sell em when I git older..to a kid who's been gittin up hay fer a yr to save up fer his first gun ta hunt with. Even iffin a 2000$ gun goes fer 40$, I dont care. The way I see it, its times like that, when you truly appreciatte whatcha got. I know i did.
There's approximatley 39 lines carved in a stock of that ole fox double..and iffin the good lord is willin, I'll kill more bucks to add to them scratchins. They started in 1935, when my pop was a youngun, and I hope, somebody after me...will keep on scratchin..till the year 2035 or more. That would mean more to me...than my son, flesh and blood er not, would sell it, and them scratches would fade away.
__________________
"I'm a comin back and I aint comin back ta play marbles!"- Yosemite Sam
Reply With Quote
 

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:37 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version
Copyright ©2000 - 2013, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.