Oldest photo of yourself with a firearm

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For the last few weeks I’ve been cleaning out the store room and have found many a faded memory.

These 2 bought back a few memories. Both photos were taken in the early 70’s in Mackay. No licensing of long arms back then 👍

One shows me holding my first Omark (single shot target rifle in 7.62 NATO) photo taken in my parents front yard when I was almost 14. I’d have been waiting in the front yard for a lift to the range. IIRC $2 for my range and ammo fees and 20 cents for a can of coke.

Other shows my mate and I heading out for a wallaby hunt. I’m armed with my 12th birthday present a Stirling model 20 . A 15 shot semiauto .22 and my mate with a single shot 12 gauge.
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What’s your oldest photo?

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They days when we were slim good looking guys.

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mchughcb wrote: Fri Oct 30, 2020 6:40 pm They days when we were slim good looking guys.
:lol: :lol:

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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :handgestures-thumbup:

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Technology required, lol. Converted from 8mm movie to DVD to snappin' a foto with the newfangled phone. Quality has been degraded, oldest foto I know of me, circa 1965. There was not a bird within miles safe from me, I was dangerous to their life, ha.

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Here is a photo of me with my Winchester 101 .410 over/under and some grouse near Fairbanks Alaska. The year was 1978 so 42 years ago. I have many other older ones but not accessible at the moment.
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Not the oldest, but an oldie non the less. Full head of hair, I’m the fella in the check shirt 2nd from the left.
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9.3M03 wrote: Mon Nov 02, 2020 1:28 am ED782E73-8758-41CB-86D8-2D9B4E5BA401.jpeg

Not the oldest, but an oldie non the less. Full head of hair, I’m the fella in the check shirt 2nd from the left.
That was a pretty fair haul! Only good cat is a dead cat......
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Some great photos of young fellas. :clap:

I think these are the oldest photos I’ve got of me with game.
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A pig taken with a model 94 in 44 magnum about 1976.
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And a brumby taken on my second ever brumby hunt (IIRC) pretty sure the rifle is a REM 700 BDL in 243 with a 1 to 4 burris. Ammunition would have been 85 grain Sierra HPBT. Probably late ‘77. Or early ‘78.

Are the memories 👍
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This was me when I was a kid...
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9.3x64 wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:13 pm This was me when I was a kid...
Ahaaaa, now we know your name is Billy 8-)
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Dom wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:29 pm
9.3x64 wrote: Tue Nov 03, 2020 8:13 pm This was me when I was a kid...
Ahaaaa, now we know your name is Billy 8-)
Ha, well done Dom... :clap:
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I might have all of you beat. I have loved guns ever since I can remember. This is one of the few baby photos I have of myself. The "firearm" was a pump rifle that shot ping-pong balls and it was given to my older brother Phil for his birthday or Christmas. According to family legend, I immediately appropriated it and would not let go of it. As you can see, I was not more than 2 years old. I believe this is what the great zoologist Konrad Lorenz famously described as "imprinting". And 65 years later, I am still a gun nut!
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That’s a great photo.
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Yep, great photo 👍

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