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Old December 13, 2001, 05:01 PM   #4
444
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I have a Winchester Model 12 that my Grandfather bought who knows when. I imagine around the time he returned from WW I. I asked my mother about it just a couple months ago, she was born in 1918 and says she always remembers him having it. When he died in 1968 it was given to my father (his son-in law). When I was a kid I always begged to shoot it but was told it "kicked too much". About the age of 12, I finally got to fire it. It has been mine ever since. I don't have a lot of stories about it because my Grandfather died when I was six. My dad wasn't a hunter so all the hunting I did with it was kind of feeling my way along on my own. I did pretty well with it and will treasure it till the day I die.
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You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
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