I can just hear folks from an earlier time reading this thread with all the cautionary notes having a real chuckle. They might call us an unkind feminine name, and laugh saying, when was the last time I used all ten fingers all at the same time anyway, as they rocked in their rocking chairs whittling away on a piece of pine, on the porch of a log cabin they built by hand by a river.
I tend to think safety first, but our nation was built with a spirit of get er done. Vast projects where men paid the price of lives and limbs.
I tell my students no reloads in class, the classes I take usualy tell me the same thing. In years past, I thought nothing of buying reloads at a garage sale, or gun show.
Times have changed, and they have changed us as a nation. Could we build a Hover Dam or Panama Canal today? Will our grandkids be able to build such structures and pay the price for such feats of architecture?
Seatbelts, child seats, no smoking and no child left behind that cant balance a checkbook.
We have gone from 15 round boxing matches where both men almost kill one another to WWE matches where winners are picked months in advance and the audience knows it, and does not care.
I grew up across the street from Katelman Foundry. A hard industry run by hard men. Long hard days, and if they did not have sun dried leather skin, they had cooked leather skin from pouring molten steel.
The foundry is gone now, along with hundreds of jobs and a good way of life. Times have changed, but I miss the old days where boys were boys and girls were girls and maybe a girl had a purple dress, but she darn sure did not have purple hair.
I would like to say, bring a bucket of ammo over and we will have a good time, but I reckon the foundry is gone in most all of us.
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