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Message: <blockquote data-quote="svnmag" data-source="post: 106613" data-attributes="member: 330"><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><p style="margin-left: 20px">Granddad was a gunner in the Navy during WWII and became a coal miner upon his return to the World.</p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E">We always left him at the truck at "his" point while we dispersed. He commanded a view of several thousand yards and used it with great skilll. We used road surveying flags to find his deer and a rope a couple times to lower it off the "highwall" (He lived just below a spent strip mine). I had the honor of posting beside the carcass with the "sporterized" 1918 Danzig 8mm Mauser as Dad retrieved the truck and Granddad. You'd never "know" if another would come by. I remember wondering how the hell how I would find it in the Williams site hole when it got too dark. </p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E">I later graduated to a single bbl 16ga and whacked my first deer with a slug. I still have that gun and the recovered slug. </p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E">Granddad, Dad and my uncle (the source of Granddad's ammo for his Remington 742) were all present at the first report of the "Elephant 7" when I was fourteen. They were amused. I was determined. </p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E">As I've said before; Uncle Dave was very displeased by my lawn mowing money expenditure: " I could have kept you supplied with .257 (Roberts) or at least you should have bought a .30/06!" (profanity excluded). As recently before mentioned; he supplied Granddad with home-rolled 180's and was rightly pissed.</p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E">Anyways: " I don't know if I shot any of them down but I sure as hell shot at them! There was so much gd fire it looked like daylight out there!!" He also had an 1873 hanging on a huge WT rack in the basement. </p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E">In the basement...across from the stove where Dad used to throw in squirrel skins...in the effing basement.</p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E">Drag on cigarette, spit in can and back to talking about the mines with the adults. </p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E"></p></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="color: #3E3E3E">Firefights and coal mines:  Here I am on a computer.</p><p></span></p><p><span style="color: #3E3E3E"><a href="http://nodakangler.com/forums/picturecomment.php?do=message&albumid=618&attachmentid=10184&commentid=4371" target="_blank">Edit</a> <a href="http://nodakangler.com/forums/picturecomment.php?do=report&albumid=618&attachmentid=10184&commentid=4371" target="_blank">Report</a></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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