Because of my interest in property surveys I tell people I was a rod man for George Washington.
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Jim1392
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I turned 70 in May.
Old&Retired
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70 years young last March.
chaparrito
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66 Here. I work behind a wine bar one day a week and one of my associates is a couple of years younger than me. We are good friends and banter back and forth all the time, giving each other wisecracks. Customers often ask if we're married. I alway say "heck no my mother in law is younger than she is!!" You oughta see the looks on their faces!!
soFlaNative
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I know of at least one here is in his upper 90's, had a story or 3 from his service during WW2.
Can't recall his handle.
57 years old and squat for memory here.
Can't recall his handle.
57 years old and squat for memory here.
Model 19 6"
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Still in diapers at 65.
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soFlaNative
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Just can't recall whom I mentioned a few posts back. May have been a thread the man started within the past few months with quite a few photos from the European campaign of WW2. Pretty sure he was straddling a motorbike.
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Can’t think of his name but the guy from Colorado who was well into his 80’s and riding a Harley, awhile back.
Edit: vrichard will be 94 on Aug 17. Still riding?
Edit: vrichard will be 94 on Aug 17. Still riding?
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I'm 76. When I was younger I did some things my way and pap said I would never live too be old because somebody would kill me. Somebody may still kill me but it can't be before I get old. 
Larry
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Gaffer
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I turn 86 on july 15th. Still vertical most of the time!
RudyN
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I feel somewhat young, only 74 and will be 75 in October.
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artmcl
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I don't post very often but read every day i'm 86 but don't think i will reach 87. grest forum
Toolguy
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I'm not as good as I once was, but as good once as I ever was!
I pray that is not the case.
KalamazooKid
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Turned 76 last month. Still reloading, shooting, buying and selling guns, and working 3.5 days per week. Still bowling, playing golf, and being Grandpa. Next week is our 54th Wedding Anniversary. Ask me again in 20 years!
I knew I was getting older when a Model 18-2 that I bought new achieved Curio and Relic status.
I knew I was getting older when a Model 18-2 that I bought new achieved Curio and Relic status.
Being a young person on this board, it just seems like a fareaway fantasy world to have lived during a time where you could go in a gun shop and have loads of pre-lock, NIB S&Ws ripe and ready to go!! And NIB Pythons and other Colts???
Again, just seems like a fantastic time and I'd of loved to have been there!!
Again, just seems like a fantastic time and I'd of loved to have been there!!
armenius
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My mind is still 23 but it is trapped in my 84 year old body, but I am thankful for every day.
S&WIowegan
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You made me get the calculator and figure out I have a baby brother born when I was in college who turned 57 this year.
ancient-one
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snubbyfan is right. I am 93 and served three plus years in the air arm of the Navy during WWII. The closest I ever got to the ocean was NAS San Diego.
Poster rhmc24 is 94 years old. He is very prolific on the Colt forum, but posts here sometimes. Very knowledgeable guy that has collected, smithed, engraved, and been involved in guns since way back when.
Robert, my hat is off to you, sir!
I am sorry to see that Robert passed away earlier this year.
Robert, my hat is off to you, sir!
I am sorry to see that Robert passed away earlier this year.
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ParadiseRoad
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...I was 15 when the Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed...
...before that I enjoyed going down to the big Montgomery Ward store on south Broadway in Denver and riding the escalator or the elevator up to the Sporting Goods Floor...and seeing all the rifles...shotguns...and handguns in the cases and racks...
...customers put their cash on the counter and walked out with their gun...not even a drivers license was shown...or they had the store mail it to their home and the mailman delivered it to their door...
...those were the days...
65 last Feb and still working. Been too foolish with my money to retire, but I'm healthy and exercise and mountain bike so I think I'll be around for a while. If not, I had a good run anyway. I was 50 when I joined S&W forum.
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Never too late to turn that around, dude. You'd be amazed as to how easy it actually is.
Step N. Mud
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as I was standing in line at a Harbor Freight, earlier this morning with a buggy full of hand tools and 9000 lb. winch to be installed on my 1990 jeep YJ, I had a conversation with a fellow behind me, about why I was was buying tools at my age. He said he was 62 and my response was, " I got you beat" I'm 66. I thought maybe, surely there are no more tools I need to buy. Of course, my son may have a need of these things some day.
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