TG&Y... Yup, childhood stuff.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Sho nuff!

Thanks for sharing Plowboy, I enjoyed it.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and saying so.

During deer season in my hometown about one half of the guys in highschool had rifles in their pickup trucks. I always had a rifle or shot gun in mine. Most of the time I didn't lock the door or roll up the window. Times are very different know. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I had rifles in the back of my Camaro and Mustangs at school, too.

I remember TG&Y in Las Vegas, NV where I spent part of my time growing up. My Grandmother would not let me go for a walk in northern Arizona without my KT 22 my Dad gave me, she would say “ Son where’s your gun, you know we have them Mohave Rattlers ( neuro and hemotoxin). “ Next I had a Stevens .410 single shot and a Marlin .22LR bolt action eventually getting a S&W .357 Mag which eventually went to Arizona when visiting Grandma too. Thanks, mr. plowboysghost!

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

I sure enjoyed hearing that story, Mr. Plowboy. Yes, life was definitely easier back in the '70s, '80s and even early '90s in the Country Small-Town Life. Kids had guns and didn't even think of shooting each other. Carried knives too. Could play outside and far from home but we knew when we had to be back and we made sure we were there. When you're brought up to respect firearms and use them properly, you don't have problems. And yes, we all loved cars! Mustangs, Camaros, Trans Ams, Roadrunners and a lucky few even drove Corvettes. Lotta trucks and jeeps in the school parking lot too.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Yes sir. The good ole days...

Enjoyed the video Plowboy. You know, we definitely had a good time growing up here in the Alabama country. My neighbor and I definitely done a lot of squirrel hunting in the woods around here when we was young teenagers. And we definitely hit the roads well before we had drivers license’s as well. Good Times. 👍

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Yes, siree!

Those are fun stories to listen to an tell. Especially these days. My dad and my uncles started me shooting when i was big enough to hold the guns up by myself and hunting not long after. When i was 12, dad let me keep my bolt action .22 and my single shot 12g in my room and i could shoot them any time i wanted to as long as i could afford shells and i told him where i was going. At 14 i traded some lawn mowing money, some antler sheds and a western bowie knife for a lyman great plains caplock .54 muzzle loader and an Italian made .22 single action revolver. Didn't tell anyone about the revolver but i was shooting the heak out of it any time i had the chance. One day several months later i was out fishing with my dad and uncle when one of them disturbed a copperhead by swatting it with a fishing pole as it was slithering up onto a rock. It came right at them. They were both scrambling to get up and run when i pulled my revolver out of my pocket and thumbed off 2 quick shots one of which hit that copperhead right through the head. Dad looked at that snake writhing around then looked at me kinda shocked then said " good shooting, where'd you get that? Well, better reload. ". That was south east Kansas in the 90s. Thanks for the video. It reminded me of those good memories.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Awesome

Good video Plowboys Ghost!!!

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

I GREW UP IN THE 70’S.MY FIRST GUN WAS A SAVAGE 28GA.MY SECOND ONE WAS A HARRINGTON AND RICHARDSON 12GA. BOTH ARE SINGLE SHOT THAT MY DAD MY DAD BOUGHT FOR ME.I STILL HAVE THEM AND WILL PASS THEM DOWN WITH MY DADS GUNS THAT HE PASSED DOWN TO ME ALONG WITH WHAT I HAVE.GOOD STUFF PLOWBOY KEEP THEM COMING.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

We grew up in different times it was nothing for a 10 year old kid to get a single shot shot gun or a 22 rifle for christmas or a birthday. Kids back then helped feed the family with those guns.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Yep. Same here.

@johnnottahcal5725

4 ай бұрын

Why has the world and this country changed so much that I don’t recognize it. We took our hunting guns in our vehicle along to the school parking lot so we could get out to the happy hunting grounds as soon as school ended for the day. It was just what we all did. Teachers too. I think it’s when this country started removing God from America.

My childhood was similar brother, i lived what would have been a dream to you in East Texas. At 12 years of age i had two horses. One of them was very fast. And i got cut loose with a Winchester Model 94 and a Smith and Wesson 38 special. I had a saddle scabbard and a western style holster for the revolver. I rode many a mile and shot a lot of critters and camped out like John Wayne. Good story brother, we grew free.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Amen.

Thanks for sharing, up north here in PA. 1st day of buck season schools were closed, and back in the 60s and 70's when I grew up my dad didn't hunt and didn't care much for guns either. But my grandfather was in the newspaper for harvesting a buck the 1st day of the season for 25 years in a row. 1st gun I got was a Winchester 410, age 11, then a few others followed, then a reloading press, and then a lead pot and a few molds for making bullets. I have since acquired quite a collection. I was driving tractors and bailing hay before i was old enough to drive, still have a motorcycle, and a convertible corvette in my garage! Take care!

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Well done ! 👍 Ya know there is something about folks that experienced all this in early adolescence and still carry a single action Ruger pistol today later in life ....😀

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

😁👍

The good ole days.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Yep.

I got a High Standard 22 auto when I was 9 from my grandpa for mowing his giant front lawn for a summer. I also got a 22 single shot Remington for Xmas when I was 14. My first centerfire revolver was when I was 20 (I was married with a son) it was a Smith K38

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank for sharing that.

I’m younger (25) my dad had a gun in our house but he wasn’t really all that into them at the time and I wasn’t all that interested until after he and my mom split up and mom took us back to Kentucky and I started hunting with my uncle and shooting with friends I had made. Even though most people my age are into the polymer wonder 9s and ars and I do like them and appreciate the utilitarian charm they have what really got me into guns were 1911s and 357 mag revolvers. My father ended up developing more interest after I did so now we bond over that and he recently gave me a old Winchester 308 his dad bought new in 1969 or 1970.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that with me/us🍻

I remember to this day the first center fire rifle I ever fired. It was my dads deer rifle, Long Branch SMLE 303 Brit. It was Sporterized with a gorgeous Tiger Maple stock, that will be the family gun that will get handed down. It was not till I was out of the Navy in my 20s that I bought my first gun, Ruger mark 2 4.75” barrel blued. I still have it.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing that.

I started reloading shotgun shells at 14. Got my first 22 at 12. Bought a 1966 mustang in 1979 I was 14…..still have it!!!

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I really wish I'd bought my buddy's '67 fastback Mustang in 1998. It was all stock, and the paint was wax worthy. $1500.....and I didn't go for it🤢

It sounds like you had an amazing childhood, sir. I love your channel, by the way.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Sounds perfectly normal to me. I bought a iver Johnson .22 revolver when I was 11 or 12 years old, probably my 3rd or 4th gun. That couldn't happen now. The country store sold shotgun shells and .22 shorts, longs or LR individually. Shorts were a penny each. I think 16 gauge #5s were 15 cents. Great video.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I miss those days.

Really enjoy someone who story-tells. Thank you for sharing a window into your early life. What was your first revolver, and caliber?

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

First revolver was either a little junky .22 of some flavor, or a Pietta '58 .44 cal cap and ball ...about 1996.

@exothermal.sprocket

4 ай бұрын

@@plowboysghost Haha! I'm glad to have had a Blackhawk .45 as my first, but it was influence through my brother who was already reloading at the time. First handgun I fired, I believe it was a S&W K-frame .38 Special of some model.

Thanks for the shout-out!

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Yes, sir!

Hahahahah life is good wish we all could go back sir I think that's the first time Ive seen you smile that big great vidio sir

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you, sir.

Yep remember them days

i have a frontier 22 colt started shooting it when i was 4 years old by the time i was 10 i could spin it out of the holster and cock the hammer and shoot all in one motion and i could do it fast then spin it back in holster 1,2 or 3 spins left had i could through it over my back and catch it with my right hand and cock the hammer and shoot in one motion as i catch it do all the fancy spinning tricks like shoot it behind my back and hit a target at 15 yards . i got real fast on the draw with a stander western holster. when i got 18 i started drag racing so i ended up not doing competition shooting any more but i do have a few trophies from when i was a kid. now i have my own shooting range and my collection of of classic cars. right now i am building a 68 chevy pu with a stroked 454 started with a 450 hp 454 then give it a little more best part is i only have 2000 in the truck just needs final paint job and interior finished but have all the expensive stuff dun put in heated full electric leather land rover seats in it a 70 blazer center console full factory gauges with tach rebuilt the dash and heater system and stereo system with a 1000 watt amp 2 10 inch woofer with 2 6x9 400 watt speakers. oak wood bed floor with new chrome trim .

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

LOL... I get it. I was driving in Arkansas (grandparents that we visited every summer ) Gramps had a 60 Corvair and I was allowed to drive it on those rural gravel roads The sheriffs pulled me over one time and asked my name and they said " Art your grandpa?" I told em yes and they said be careful or some such. My gramps was a sorta big deal owning the only hardware store in Judsonia Arkansas and was well liked and respected. At one time he had a Winchester collection of over 100 really interesting guns including sequential serial numbers and a few Henrys

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank for sharing that.

Still got some boxes of shells with TG&Y price tags on them myself

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I found a TG&Y bag in the attic of my grandmother's house several years ago. It was cool to see that logo after all these years.

My dad and most of my cousins all hunted. I think every 12 year old had a 22. Out west shotguns weren’t that much of a thing here. Finding a family without guns or a 12 year old who didn’t have a 22 was rare. My first and only handgun for decades was a Colt SAA and we always kept a 30-30 in the truck. And rarely did anyone go to shooting ranges. Shooting ranges were open public lands and targets were coke cans. My first deer, my grandma was the proudest woman in town calling family to tell them I had got a deer. Your first deer was a big deal. Different times

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Easy to miss those good days.

Boys will be boys times were different back then that's for sure#blessed

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Amen.

I grew up in the 60's....yeah I know....I'm an old fart, lol. I grew up around firearms. My Gramps and Dad had guns, and also hunted here in WI. I shot my first gun at 6 years old. It was my Dads 9mm Luger P08 (they were cheap, and easy to find in those days). I sure wish I had that pistol now!

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I bet! Thanks!

My dad gave my brother and I our first 3 guns. Still own/use em ro this very day. I even did my first trade with my dad for a ruger single six convertible...I think he may started something🤔 Good video brother and take care!

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you.

Cool video. Yep we came up a lot the same way.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Heard that.

I got that same gun for my 12th birthday when my son got old enough to shoot a out 12 I let him use it he nicknamed it the MULE because it kicked like one but it is the tightest pattern gun I have ever shot

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I wish I had that one back. It went missing from my room when I was 13. My mother sold it out from under me. 🤬

We brought our guns to school for show and tell in the 70s and 80s. Now you can't take a pocket knife knife to school.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Exactly.

times have changed. 10 year old with a shotgun by himself in the woods, nothing bad happened. go figure. i learned all by myself too, grew up in the UK, no choice, folks didnt want guns in the house so had to get replicas and air soft. once i got my green card in the US, bought a glock 17, gen 1. 400 bucks and still have it, along with about 35 other firearms, i do believe i have lost count.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear you were able to acquire some freedom!

@paulfisher4660

4 ай бұрын

@@plowboysghost yes sir. thank goodness for the south. i know there are some free states north, but we got the trees.

Born in TN all my relatives had guns for hunting, not personnel protection. That wasn't a thing. I was born in 1956 and my dad and uncles were shoving a shotgun in my shoulder at 8 years old. It grew from there. I was racing dirt bikes from 10 years old, drag racing, and driving a truck at 14 years old. My office manager has a grand daughter that is 24 years old does not drive because she is afraid. I don't get it.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Heard that.

Thanks

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank YOU.

Good times back then

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

That they were.

My 10 year old nephew been hunting with me now for a few years. We have been rabbit hunting in the afternoon after school here the last few months on days his dad has him. He been using a mossberg 410 then moved up to a rem 1100 20. I have been getting him to shot 22 handgun for about a month. A heartige / a 22 - 45 conversion and last weekend my old 22 mag single 6 from 73 that my dad brought for my birth. He was good with that ruger. Well we had a big swamp rabbit come out in the edge of the hat field. It was at most 15 yds. I ask him if he wanted to giveit atry with it. He wasa little nervous. But he took his time. Put that 40gr fmj right in the head. His 7th rabbit for this year. He is so happy that Saturday he is going to help cook a meal that he got the meat for. He going to feed me my wife his dad his brother and the old nabor lady. He going to pick the greens and going to learn to make biscuits

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like what we call a cane cutter rabbit.

You sure had a wonderful Mother! What a great memory.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I'll tell her you said so. Thank you.

He he that was an enjoyable. Listen. Sounds like the family that you did have raised you right

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Or they got out of my way😁

I grew up in the 60&70’s, my family never hunted either. Dad flew bombers in WWII, so he’d probably had enough of guns by the time he got home. I bought my first firearm in 1978 (Remington 870 Wingmaster) for duck/pheasant hunting. So I learned all my hunting skills/safety education when hunting with friends. Got my first revolver in 1982 (S&W 19-4, 6inch) and 1985 S&W 66-2 snub (still have that one) Im still old school with my 6 shooters and 30-30. Great story…👍🏻

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

Remember being able to bring our rifles to high school and leaving them in our vehicles. Go hunting right after school. Never had an issue. World we grew up in doesn't exist anymore.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Sickening that it's been screwed up, but you're right.

Good times bother..

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

That they were. 🍻

It's in our genes brother.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Heard that 😁

Firearms have always been a part of life, in my family. When you grow up on Remote Western Ranches, they are always within easy access. My Grandmother was one of the best shots with a rifle, id ever seen growing up. Always had a handgun, in all vehicles and on person, when Horseback. Most often a Single action ta boot.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

I'm your three wheeler huckleberry.

@plowboysghost

13 күн бұрын

😁👍

Getting old as I lived a lot of what you’re talking about. I am a few years older and was on the other side of the sate but it was very similar. We recently moved and where we are now is much like home when I was young and I so love it.

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I miss the 70s and 80s, personally.

Awesome story, I enjoyed it, but, since you know a thing or two about 45 colt, what is a good smokeless load that is powerful?

@jackfrancis4849

4 ай бұрын

Oh and I forgot but, it would be for a uberti cattleman

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

@@jackfrancis4849 I like my std. smokeless load of 8.2- gr of Universal.

You probably already know this, but don’t handle any guns during the livestream tomorrow. That’s against KZread’s rules and you’ll get ‘punished’ for it. Another channel I sub just got a community strike for doing it. Cheers

@plowboysghost

4 ай бұрын

I do, thanks.