Oldest Guy

[JayFramer]

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!!

 

[armenius]

My mind is still 23 but it is trapped in my 84 year old body, but I am thankful for every day.

 

[S&WIowegan]

I woke up feeling old this morning, my next to my youngest son turns 51 today.[emoji46]

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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]

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.

 

[ralph7]

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.

 

[Vbk76]

I'm 41...and quickly becoming one of the old guys at work. I hit my 20 year mark august 4th..this place makes me feel young lol

 

[ParadiseRoad]

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!!

...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...

 

[7tenz]

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.

 

[7tenz]

I'm only 62 but my odometer has tripped several times. I'm the perfect example of "if I'd have known I would live this long I would have taken much better care of myself". My motto in the early years was "live hard, die young and be a nice looking corpse". Now that I'm way beyond looking nice, I want to hang around a while longer.

Never too late to turn that around, dude. You'd be amazed as to how easy it actually is.

 

[Step N. Mud]

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.