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Watching live aid on tv tonight, 40th anniversary tomorrow the 13th , wondering what you were all up to back then , I had never heard of the 16ga and was shooting Pheasants, Woodcock and snipe with my Beretta S56e 12ga and I think I had an A5 12ga around then , I had a 1982 Yamaha RD350LC And was riping up the back roads on it , music was definitely better than now , let's hear what you were up to .
WJ.
We have our Pheasants arriving next Saturday here to a good season ahead.

Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 1486 Location: Mpls, MN.

Shooting a Remington model 17 at grouse, woodcock and pheasants in central MN, my dad had started hunting geese in western MN, and I was using moms Irish Setter (a show dog that would hunt) along with a few of my good friends who were all dogless.
I had a 1979 Chevrolet Z28, 4 speed car with a 1970 LT1 out of a Corvette replacing the original engine, a 1973 Chevy Impala winter beater, and a 1981 Honda 900F, that should have killed me, but, didn’t.
I was palling around with a woman who was a lot older than me, and we had a lot of fun together. I cooked the first ruffed grouse she ever got to eat, and she gave to me my first……..
Good memories!

Best,
Ted

I watched the whole thing. Recorded as much as I could on the VHS. I could have smacked Casey Casem for talking incessantly while Led Zeppelin was playing in the background.

I had no thoughts of hunting back then, it was all fly-fishing, guitar and girls. Priorities. Laughing

Member Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 3509 Location: Illinois

Had a Sweet 16-I/C---rabbits Pheasants and squirrels----those were the days Cool

Lots of Pheas back then - was still shooting my 1912 M12 - any shells but Feds worked great .... needed the DR16 then - wwhhhooo wwwhhhooo !

Member Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 1285 Location: Nebraska

No 16ga, had 2 12s and 2 20s, only shot clays with them though. I got my German hunting license in 1985 and wound up shooting a pig, a chamois and a roe deer, Chernobyl the following year cut pretty hard into hunting.

My only shotgun at that point was an H&R topper in 20 gauge, seemed like it weighed about 4 pounds and would knock your fillings out-especially with slugs. Also had access to a handful of family shotguns and rifles, no 16 gauges back then. Rabbit hunting was Dad's old Sears / JC Higgins model 20 12 gauge. Good times in the farm country of northeast Ohio back then. Quite a few deer around (more now) a plenty of rabbits and pheasant (not so much these days). I was still a couple of years away from my license but had the muscle car bug pretty badly...I tried to talk dad into a used '68
Camaro that a kid a few miles down the street had for sale at $3000...396 with a four speed - and he was having precisely none of it. Spent a lot of time on the old '79 Yamaha YZ250 tearing up trails and generally raising cain.

Gentlemen,

Still on assignment in 1985 for the US Army CID, was getting ready to become a full civilian as President Reagan left office. Was into Quail hunting at Ft Hood when I could get there, Sam my big Weimar dog won the Shoot to retrieve contest on the Fort that year. Had a few of my good L.C. Smith guns with me, did a lot of Trap Shooting at the time, was pretty good at it. It was the year after my father moved up to heaven and I was still pretty lost as a person, have never fully recovered form it, even today. He was my hunting partner for so many years, I would take leave in the military and meet him where ever we wanted to Grouse hunt.

all the best,

Pine Creek/Dave
L.C. Smith/Westley Richards Man

Gentlemen,

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Only owned one shotgun - my dad's Savage 775a in 16ga. It was the first shotgun I ever shot and have been shooting 16's ever since. Chasing pheasants in western Kansas with my two brothers-in-law, both gone now.

Joined: 07 Jun 2020 Posts: 260

I was hunting a 16ga Fox Sterlingworth and hunting interior Alaska. Life was good.

Joined: 17 Jan 2014 Posts: 1642 Location: Denver, Colorado

Interesting...I had just gotten married two-weeks before that date. IIRC we were on our way to SW Wyoming to look for work at that time (I was hoping to get back on as a geologist at my old job at the USGS/BLM in lovely Rock Springs).

Wyoming didn't work out but Denver did and we're still here.

Forty years did seem to go by fairly quickly (from this perspective).

Joined: 08 Feb 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Western WA

Working tirelessly in 1985, but absorbed in it, to support our burgeoning family of 5 in Missouri. Spare minutes were too scarce for viewing epic events like Live Aid. Summer weekends spent canoeing the delightful cool spring fed streams of the Ozarks, fall days afield with an Ithaca SKB 20 ga and bow & arrow, seeking quail or stocking the larder with venison, winters sitting in waterfowl blinds or tramping the snowy woodlands for cottontails, and then savoring the greening springtime woods for turkey. Scorned by some, but as I was kindly counseled before hesitatingly moving there, Missouri truly had it all, including warm wonderful people who fondly bid us a sad farewell after two decades when we relocated westward. Can anyone here affirm that it’s all still there 25 years later?

B.

Member Joined: 06 Oct 2007 Posts: 2527 Location: West MI

Probably working in a machine and or print shop earning enough for the next bunch of Grateful Dead shows.

Joined: 12 Sep 2010 Posts: 2007 Location: Maine

I was about 2 months into my first real post-Army job, working in construction in New Jersey. Soils engineer. An on-site inspector, really, but we weren't allowed to use the word "inspector". Insurance. I had just moved into an apartment, was still dragging stuff down from storage at my parents' place.
The fall hunting season was on the horizon. That was the year my dad told me there was no point in trying to hunt pheasants in PA because they were gone.
He was right.
I think I listened to Live Aid on the Philly station, WMMR, IIRC. Still a real rock station then.

40 years goes by quickly.