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Among many other things, that you couldn't miss shooting at a snake if you aim at his head because it would see the bullet coming and strike at it, and get kilt....Grandpas could come up with the damdust stuff. Also said all you needed for rabbit hunting was a salt shaker. How many you old geezers know how that works? :lol:
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I heard the salt shaker was for birds.
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My mom used to say, if you put salt on their tails you could just pick 'em up.... :?
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all new to me.
No grand folks left by the time I was learning to shoot and hunt, so I read outdoor mags and taught myself. My dad was an avid fly fisherman and so he approved of my hunting as long as I also learned to fish and tie my own flies - which I did.
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BlaineG wrote: Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:24 pm Among many other things, that you couldn't miss shooting at a snake if you aim at his head because it would see the bullet coming and strike at it, and get kilt....Grandpas could come up with the damdust stuff. Also said all you needed for rabbit hunting was a salt shaker. How many you old geezers know how that works? :lol:

there may well be some truth to the part about snakes - IF - you are shooting a low velocity load.

years ago I saw some footage where ammo such as 45 Colt was shot near a rattler - and the snake could see it coming, thus struck at it thereby committing suicide.

they were not fast enough to strike at a 357 mag
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This could turn into a great thread!

Grandpa B. always said there was never a problem that couldn't be solved if you have .38!
Grandpa S. said; " give that boy a 20 gage" and "stop shooting at my barn! ".


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I never met either of my grandpa's but my dad had a few weird sayings, one was "if ya' can't fight, wear a big hat" I never did know quite what he meant.. :?
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Only knew 1 grandpa. The other one was killed in a car accident about 7 years before I was born.

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Grandpa T played a 5 string banjo.
The songs he played would be called bluegrass today. Back then it was just "music" everyone knew.

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Wuz yer Gran Pa from Texas? Mine was and he had some real hair raising true stories... :roll:

I remember he told some stories about a town he lived in for a while; Cut-N-Shoot Texas...
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My favorite was "wish in one hand and pelosi in the other and see which one fills up first"........................................................ :cry: .
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Grandpa was entirely FOS. His legs were dark blue from the knees down (phlebitis). As a little kid I asked him why his legs were black. He asked me did I know who Robert Fulton was, and told me he invented the paddle wheel, and while Grandpa was swimming in the Mississippi, Fulton ran him over, and HE was the *** that caused his legs to turn. A year later my teacher asked if anyone knew who Robert Fulton was, and I told her the whole true story 8)
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My Grandpa S could barely read or write however he was a welder in the shipyard and could fix anything.
My Grandfather H was the son of a newspaper editor and a librarian. You did not play scrabble with him. But truly I am not sure he knew which end Of a hammer to grab. It was interesting to watch them.
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......kill the head, the butt will die.
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.45colt wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 4:36 pm My favorite was "wish in one hand and pelosi in the other and see which one fills up first"........................................................ :cry: .
That was one of my mom's favorite sayings.

The other was "If wishes were horses then beggars would ride."


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