Biden will be off to South Korea I think today. Expect the little fella in the North to do some acting up. Nothing he hates more that to be upstaged. North Korea is only one of two countries in the world that wouldn't take the covid vaccine. He held a super spreader military parade for himself and now their number of cases there is through the roof.

I see you are using Canadian "logic" with this one, Art. 

I see you are using Canadian "logic" with this one, Art. 

Well I don't think you should be allowed to walk around down town London with a bow and a hunting arrow at the ready if that's what you mean. Even Robin Hood wasn't allowed to do that.

I was amazed that with this fiberglass bow that even I could shoot an arrow into the air out of sight.

You weren't suppose to notice the wounded on the battlefield Art. I don't know what is worse, noticing it, or pointing it out.

Actually that's a neighbor kid trying out my rolling carboard tank if you look closely.

He'd never make a good tank driver as you can see.

In the poem it mentions finding the arrow in an oak tree. My older cousin set up a paper target on a oak tree at the back of the farm that was over 3 feet across. He hit the target ok but put the hunting arrow tip which it then had on it, probably 6 inches into the tree. So much for that head, he snapped the shaft where it met the tree because there was no way he could get the rest out. It's still in it 63 years later. And yes the tree is still doing fine. The head looked something lie these. Same shape but not quite as fancy.

In a hundred years time archaeologists will find that arrowhead in a rotten tree and think it's an artefact from a long forgotten battle. 

In a hundred years time archaeologists will find that arrowhead in a rotten tree and think it's an artefact from a long forgotten battle. 

So should the older cousin put a plaque on the tree then that reads,The Battle of Cedar Valley. One of the first owners of what the family called the farm which is in Cedar Valley, shot and killed himself. Does that count.

There is a swampy bit down the back of the property at one corner and as a kid I found beside it the frame of a 38 pistol minus the cylinder and both hand grip covers. I use to play with it all the time. Also an old Snider rifle which I use to run around on the property with. It had British marking on it. My father before the war managed to get some ammo for it and shot it a few times. The farm house got broken into once and when an OPP constable came in the farm house to talk to my uncle about it, he seen the rifle behind an arm chair. He said he was a gun collector and would the uncle sell it to him. The uncle said I won't sell it to you but you can have it if you want and that was that, my toy was gone.

But you got to play with real ones later. 

But you got to play with real ones later. 

Not until I was 6 Mark. It was my fathers first gun at 12.  A single shot .22  Here's what the Snider looked like and the bottom picture is my father with the .22 in that swampy area I mentioned where I found the 38 pistol.

But you got to play with real ones later. 

Not until I was 6 Mark. It was my fathers first gun at 12.  A single shot .22  Here's what the Snider looked like and the bottom picture is my father with the .22 in that swampy area I mentioned where I found the 38 pistol.

Well now, dad had a Snider-Enfield eh? A wee bit different from your single shot .22 (except for the single shot) This was a black powder .577 caliber invented way back when by an American. Of course, a gun-crazed Yank. It was a breech-loader used by the British army & Commonwealth forces for years. 

I know he managed to get some ammo for it but I don't know from where because it was well before my time. Just to pull the hammer back for me as a kid was hard but I finally could do it and use to dry fire it. I can remember it was a very heavy toy to play with and after an hour or so of hunting for Indians on the farm I was glad to return to the old farm house.

But you got to play with real ones later. 

Yes and I was good at it, probably because my father taught me how to aim and sqeeze the trigger, not pull it. I was so good I could out shoot most infantry types on the ranges and it wasn't even my personal weapon in the Armoured Corp. I could set the sights for two hundred and knew how much higher to aim to hit targets 600 yds away in the centre without adjusting the sites. I was selected from the Regiment to go on a 6 month IR training and testing course before the Canadian Military even were issued IR sights. It was 6 months of only working nights using different sights in active or passive modes.

But you got to play with real ones later. 

Yes and I was good at it, probably because my father taught me how to aim and sqeeze the trigger, not pull it. I was so good I could out shoot most infantry types on the ranges and it wasn't even my personal weapon in the Armoured Corp. I could set the sights for two hundred and knew how much higher to aim to hit targets 600 yds away in the centre without adjusting the sites. I was selected from the Regiment to go on a 6 month IR training and testing course before the Canadian Military even were issued IR sights. It was 6 months of only working nights using different sights in active or passive modes.

I wonder if Payton Gendron's daddy taught him the fine points of shooting? 

An uncanny likeness to Clyde Barrow. 

The picture was taken in probably in 1927 when he was 13. So maybe Bonnie and Clyde being Americans from the south were a little behind the times with how they dressed because they didn't die until 1934.

An uncanny likeness to Clyde Barrow. 

I can't tell you all the family secrets Tommy, can I.

He was into dogs like I was and first had an Airedale. Next, he had German Shepards and the first one was called King. Here it is at roughly 9 months old. Being in a farming area everyone had dogs and this one when he was ever younger, took a beating from some of the other dogs in the area. By the time it was full grown it would attack anyother dog that came on the property and show it no quarter. My father said he he see another dog first he would try and grab and hold this one but it knew what he was up to and would just go around him. One day he's down the back of the property with the dog and he can hear bugles sounding and a group of Fox hunter from the Town of Newmarket where out hunting a tame fox. The fox runs on to the property with the hounds and horses with drunken riders in their little red coats chasing it. To get on the property they had to jump the cedar rail fences at the front of it and before they all finished getting across it, half of one section has been knocked down. My father realizes that they are all heading his way and tries to grab the dog by it's collar but it will have none of it because it can hear the barking dogs coming. First the fox comes and the dog notices it but does nothing more than turn it's head. Now the hounds show up and it flys into them first grabbing one then another and then another. But the hounds are geared to only go after the fox and nothing else and by the time the riders get there it has injured 3 or 4 of them.The riders start giving my father shit for it and my father saying it's your own fault for not stopping at the no trespassing signs along the fence.The Shepard is still up-set and starts biting at the horses stomach and rear legs causing the one horse to buck and throw the rider off. The conversation ends there because my father is standing with a shotgun and drunk as they are their not going to push the issue when they know they are trespassing. The story had a happy ending, the fox got away.

Those were good days in America when gun safety was first taught in the home.  If father wasn't around, a trusted relative or neighbor filled in.  Hell was paid if the guns weren't cared for and used properly.

Who said the drunk was holding the shoot gun Tommy. No one right. The hunt group were the one pissed and were probably Americans up visiting to do a little hunting American Style.

Just another mass shooting inTexas the world sees. 14 children in elemetary school and a teacher for a total of 15 deaths. America especially the Republicans just don't seem to get it and don't want to try and curb it in anyway. Seems they aren't even willing to ban guns from the crazy's. They would be fast to ban them for gays thought I bet if a vote came up.

American has never been known for getting it priorities right since day one.

Who said the drunk was holding the shoot gun Tommy. No one right. The hunt group were the one pissed and were probably Americans up visiting to do a little hunting American Style.

Oops, I stand corrected. I could blame it on your rambling style of writing.