Posts from William T Brooks in thread „For You Gun Enthusiasts“

Smokey, Stumpy,Viper, Emmanuel and erthomp143;

In this part of the U.S. most people keep their weapons in a save place when the Little Ones are around. I have a Secret Room that only my Three Grown Children know how to get into, that I keep most of the Weapons that I have in my Gun Collection "Over 100 weapons mostly old Movie Guns, Collector Weapons, Hunting Rifles and Shot-Guns", except the ones that I have in my Car and the one that I carry on my person.

I do keep Many of the Non-Shooter Movie guns on the wall of my Den for people to look at. I do have "Duke's Pistol and Rifle" where I can get them out for people to look at. Duke's Guns are the first ones that most people want to look at! :o

All of my Grown Children and the Grandchildren all know how to Shoot and have been Trained in Gun Safety, and the first thing they want to do when they come to Grandpa's house is to go out and Shoot some of the Rifles and Pistols.

My Son Bagged His first Mule Deer when He was 13 years old, and I got my first White Mountain Elk with the help of my Grandfather, when I was in the Eighth Grade I am almost 75 at this time, and it was a little over 1000 LB. Dressed!!! The family had Meat all Year long.

I guess I forget that we were raised at a defferent time here in the Southwest U.S.

Chilibill

Stumpy; What you say about Double O Buck-Shot is true, it does do a Lot of Damage, but in most cases, you only have to pull the Trigger One Time!

In the 50s and 60s when my Stepfather and I were shooting at the Phoenix Police Combat Range, and we would shoot against a Policeman using a Shot-Gun with Double O Buck Shot and we were using Hand- Guns, the man with the Shot-Gun would almost always win!

Chilibill

Alright you young Bucks; You have told your stories about Guns or Weapons in the home, car and packing weapons around on your body so I will tell one also.

Back in the middle of the 1950s after the Korean War was over and I was out of the U.S.A.F. and serving out the rest of my time in the Arizona Air Guard and had gone back to work as a Engineer for the Phone Company.

My Grandmother had been having trouble with Peeping- Toms at Her house in Phoenix. Now Grandmother was in her late 60s at this time, and as I told you before she had come out from West Texas in a Wagon-Train to Arizona in the early 1900s, so she was a tough old Gal. I had loaded Grandfathers 12 Ga. Shot-Gun with Double O Buck-Shot and had it by her bed.

I got a Call from the Chief of Police in Phoenix in the Middle of the Night and he told me that I should come Grandmothers House that there had been some trouble. The Chief had worked for Grandfather when He was The Chief back in the early 1940s, so he knew Grandmother very well.

When I got to Grandmothers house there were police cars all over the place and Grandmother was very upset, and I soon saw why. The window in Her Bed-Room was completely gone.

The way She told the Story was that She saw a man looking in Her Bed-Room Window so She took the Shot-Gun and Fired. The Man Ducked just in time, but the Shot-Gun Blast took all of the Window out!

The Chief told me later that was the End of the Peeping-Toms in that part of Phoenix! :lol:

The Bad Part of the story was that we had to replace a Very Large Bed-Room Window, and Pay to have a bunch of red bricks on the house Next Door replaced!!!

Chilibill

I agree with Stumpy, Viper and Ringo! Here in Arizona, that is in the Southwestern part of the U.S. most of us old timers have always Packed a Weapon of some kind, but until about 10 years ago the weapon had to be in plain view.

Then they past the new Concealed Weapon law and there was a Mad- Rush to get one. Everyone had to go though a 3 day class and then Qualify on the Range. For most of us it was not very hard, but sometimes we had to jump in and help some of the little old Ladys and Men that had not had any training in Fire-Arms. After the law past, Home Break-Ins dropped in half. The bad guys now think at least 2 times before taking on anyone here in Arizona!

Back in the 1930s when I was a Boy and was being raised by my Grandfather and Grandmother, Grandfather who was a U.S. Marshal in Southern Arizona in the early 1900s and then later in the 1930s Chief of Police in Phoenix, always told Grandmother and I if we had to Shoot anyone breaking into the house make they had at least one foot in the house before we pulled The Trigger!!!

I am with Stumpy and have a 12 Gag. Shot-gun with a 18 and 1/2 inch Barrel with Double O Buck-Shot by my bed.

Chilibill