A long time ago

November 09, 2008, 08:02 PM

cmace

WOW... that was a nice PICTURE!! Not to mention that I live right outside of Sulphur, Louisiana. Do you live somewhere near by Para? If so then we need to hook up and go release some energy at the range.

November 10, 2008, 11:00 PM

parabellum

I lived in Lake Charles but I left there in early 1986.

November 17, 2008, 09:49 PM

nsagnell

I was just a twinkle in my parents' eyes. Fine picture, fine rifle.

November 19, 2008, 09:07 AM

11bDad

I bought my Browning bda .380 NIB, moved into my new house, my wife was pregnant with my 2nd son, and I sold my CR250 Elsinore.

December 12, 2008, 03:55 PM

horse

quote:
That's about six months after my parents got engaged. I don't think I was even a concept.

Oh you were a concept allright,just not a reality

December 15, 2008, 05:15 PM

armkev

1984 was a bad year for me. I was carjacked on Jan 4th and got shot in the back. It left me paralyzed from the chest down. I was 19 at the time. I spent most of 84 in the hospital and rehab unit. It was pretty difficult time for my family. This was what first got me interested in guns. I was always into sports and target shooting was something I could do to compete with friends. I had never been interested in guns until then. Just about everyone I knew at the time bought guns because of what happened to me.

December 27, 2008, 10:38 AM

SigCat

Hmmm..... 1984. Doing alot of shooting with my Ruger Redhawk .357 Magnum, and deer hunting alot with my hand-me-down lever action 300 Savage. Those were the days!

Smoke'm if you got'm...
SigCat

Sig P229R DAK .357 and Sig P229 SAS .40

I want Bourbon, I want Scotch, I want Beer; One Bourbon... One Scotch... One Beer.....

January 19, 2009, 02:45 AM

motor

I do so regret handing my 300 Savage over to my cousin. I havent been in contact with them since and dont want to ask for it back.

January 19, 2009, 11:47 PM

sphill

leesville has grown up a good bit since ya'll were around...do ya'll know the perkins family?

January 23, 2009, 10:50 PM

P220forever

I was a year and a half away from buying my first SIG when that picture was taken. Tyson's Corner P226.

January 29, 2009, 07:42 AM

AnimalMother88

I wasn't even concieved.

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This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem. -Powerful Joe Rogan

January 30, 2009, 05:15 AM

Milliron

I shot my first M1A in 1984. Couldn't hit a damn thing, but it sure was fun. I was 16.

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"Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit. It's only advantage, so far as I have been able to see, is that it spans change. A young person sees the world as a still picture, immutable. An old person has had his nose rubbed in changes and more changes and still more changes so many times that that he knows it is a moving picture, forever changing. He may not like it--probably doesn't; I don't--but he knows it's so, and knowing is the first step in coping with it."

Robert Heinlein

February 16, 2009, 01:25 PM

Seattleman1969

1984, spent the summer fishing the Trinity River (Big Muddy) in East Texas, week long campouts, listening to Van Halen's newest.... mom was never concerned, unlike today!

I was 14 at the time and lost my virginity a couple of months later... Of course these days she would have gone to jail, she was 18.

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Brandon McHenry
Austin, TX
USN Rescue Swimmers - "So Others May Live"
"Say goodbye to the sun gentlemen"

March 02, 2009, 11:51 AM

rsbolo

Van Halen deteriorated after the David Lee Roth split. Remember the "Jump" video? DLR is the showman Van Halen needed.

Oh, and she only does the time if YOU drop the dime.

March 07, 2009, 03:42 PM

LeMat

quote:
Originally posted by lunde:
I spent nearly all of 1984 at DLI-FLC (Defense Langiage Institute, Foreign Language Center) in Monterey, California studying Russian in the intensive forty-seven week course.

Good Lord! I spent almost all of 1989 doing the same exact thing in the same exact place!

"Those who know how to build their own homes, grow their own food, hunt and slaughter animals for meat, and have a healthy balance of hope and cynicism for humanity will be the ones left at the end, not some 350 pound fatass with a cache of AR's."

March 07, 2009, 07:28 PM

lyman

quote:
Originally posted by LeMat:
quote:
Originally posted by lunde:
I spent nearly all of 1984 at DLI-FLC (Defense Langiage Institute, Foreign Language Center) in Monterey, California studying Russian in the intensive forty-seven week course.

Good Lord! I spent almost all of 1989 doing the same exact thing in the same exact place!

in 1984 I was at VCU,
had an AR and a M1A, just got my first handgun, and sent off my form 4 at the end of the year for my first NFA (M-11 in 9mm)

also got to see Elvis Costello back to back nights , once in Hampton, next night in DC,

overall not a bad year,

March 27, 2009, 12:21 PM

codemaster

quote:
Originally posted by frankinaug:
In 1984 I turned 1.

Me too.

Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world -- "No, YOU move."

April 10, 2009, 10:47 PM

toastycoasty

nice pic para...1984...wow i was born early that feb. i think the better half of my gene pool ended up as a brown stain on the mattress...
ive gotten into photography a little bit, and ive got some nice action stills. been trying to get one with the cartridge ejecting from the reciever like that, but never comes out right. i suck. u rock. theres not even any blur.

April 15, 2009, 11:27 PM

bohica60

I was in the real Army and was very much in the middle of the Cold War. I wore a very issue 1911A1 and commanded a platoon of m60A1 tanks. I did border duty on the Czech border and watched them dudes with some very large 14.7 mm machineguns watch me. I actually ended up wtih am NCO that got lost and had a truck shot out from under him. he still has the scars if he is still around.