05-16-2019, 01:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-16-2019, 02:50 AM by Bayouhunter1960.)
Grew up and still live in a small seafood and boat building town in south Alabama. My father started me on daisy pump BB gun at age 7 in 1967 moved up to a Benjamin 22 cal all brass pellet rifle in at age 11. From then on I hunted just about everything you could shoot and eat with that rifle. I still have it to this day. Started working on the smaller bay shrimp boats during summer school breaks at age 14 then moved to oil field and tested for my first 100 ton captain’s license in 1979 after 41 yrs I’m still in the Gulf of Mexico oil fields supplying the drill ships and platforms. Taught my two sons and daughter to shoot and hunt as I was taught. And the tradition continues now with grandchildren. I wish I could retire but I’m now helping support 3 young grandsons and starting them on the shooting and hunting journey. It’s changing though as I have to keep it more interesting than the “expletive” video games. They love the deer camp we have in mid Alabama and camp fires roasting hot dogs and sausage over the fire. Getting to be an older dog now but I’ll keep working and keep it going as long as I can. The Grendel has started me on a new journey with the AR. I’ve been mostly a Marlin lever action guy with Ruger #1 single shots guy for the last 20 yrs. couple of mini 30’s in there also. I’m enjoying the Grendel more than I have any other caliber for awhile now. Thanks guys for all the info here on this site. My 12 yr old shooting one of the mini 30’s

