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Originally posted by wacopolumbo:
Man, 1984. I was 10.

Me too.

1984, I was about to start my Senior year in High School in Flagstaff, AZ. Ed

Great photo

Heck, 1984, hadn't bought my own first gun yet. Just had Dad's WWII trophy Mauser HSc.

Wish I had an SA like that then, but truth be told, I've traded in more great guns than I am willing to admit!

In 1984 I was attending University.
In my safe I has a Ruger Security Six, Ruger 10/22 rifle, 3" heavy barrel S&W model 10 and 4" pencil barrel S&W model 10.

I had no money so I couldn't afford much ammo. I had so few 38 Special and 357 mag ammo that I would occasionally clean each one with a cotton towel. I usually had couple boxes of 22lr ammo that I would buy at K-Mart for $0.99/box.

I was 19 and in the Navy.......I bought a M1A like that a short time later, still got her, been upgraded some, and still shooting HP matches with it.

Here's me in 1984 with a different rifle

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I was 9 years old,I was fantasizing about what America was like. Will my family and I ever make it there? What is snow like, Red delicious apples, M&M's? Eventually....thirteen long years later we did make it here, legally. Now comes the hard part...the American Dream...

I was 3 years old. 26 years later I did get my M1A Fully Loaded, and its a blast to shoot.
It should be for $1600

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I was still 3 years out of circulation.... 87

That picture makes me miss my Nikon's.. I have a D70, but it is not the same...

Oh, 1984, I had been out of the Navy for 9 years, out of the National Guard for 4 years, and my oldest child was almost 2 years old.

Pardon me, but I have to go take a nap now...

1984, just back from El Salvador.

Just returned from Izmir Turkey and reported in to Chanute AFB IL.

Nice Springer! When I think of the pieces I let go over the years... I just cried on my keyboard. ha ha!

I commented earlier, but neglected to mention that in 1984 I'd been retired from USAF for 4 years and working for Texas Instruments here in Dallas, Texas for most of that time.

Back to the OT, I borrowed a Nikon Coolscan V slide scanner from a friend and converted a lot of my slides. That unit does a much better job than the cheap one I had bought earlier, and the ability to control the improvements was very good. It was incredible how well it could bring out a usable picture from a slide that had faded to almost transparency.

flashguy

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Originally posted by snakeman48:
I was 36, and bought my first Harley in 1984.
A 1985 FXST. I now ride a 2003 FXST/D Deuce.

Interesting. I bought my first Harley in 1984, also--traded in a Yamaha 650 twin for a 1000cc Sportster. I had it modified to use a belt drive (had the only Sportster in the area with one). In 1989 I was in a bad accident and had to give up riding; the Sportster was fixed, though, and ended up being bought by a dealer from Holland (the Netherlands).

flashguy

This was me in 1981.

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Originally posted by matthew03:
Nice Springer! When I think of the pieces I let go over the years... I just cried on my keyboard. ha ha!

Me too, I sold my academy Beretta 92FS to another deputy for peanuts 12 years ago. He sold it to someone else and it's gone. I still kick myself for that mistake.

Here I am with my older Sister and younger Brother. Our younger Sister was not yet born. Colonial Square in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the late 60's.

Fighting crime in the early days, circa 1980.

In 1984 I was guarding nukes @ RAF Lakenheath, UK.
Great photo! I lived in Lake Charles for years, my wife is from there, there used to be a great place to get po-boys over in Sulphur, Uncle Pie's I believe, dang those were good...