Thanks for starting this thread Stan, which is appropriate for Father's Day and for a gun related forum.
My father left when I was 8, and were it not for the Boy Scouts and reading Ruark's "The Old Man and the Boy" my life could have turned out much differently.
"Boy's Life" had lots of gun related ads, and my first gun (much to my mother's horror) was an Ithaca Saddlegun

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Stan's NRA medal

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I'll post some more after church wink

"A Scout Is Reverent" (which I believe the Scouting/USA is doing away with)

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