Cloudy 30's. Washed in am. Boys all home to deer hunt. LaVerne, Roberta, Sharon, Coleen, Diane and John here for dinner. David took Doug to Kingston at night.
Comment: Deer hunting was a big deal. On the first day, we usually stayed home from school and were out at dawn somewhere either driving a section of our woods or driving around in cars to hunt from the road. There were always a lot of "city" hunters out even earlier than we were so the deer were on the run. I shot my first deer when I was fourteen. Schoharie County was shotgun country so we did not use rifles. I had a sweet 16 gauge, clip loading Mossberg bolt action with a variable choke barrel. Can't remember where I got it...we were always swapping and borrowing shotguns from Uncles and other relatives. I think we used Grandpa Elmer's shotgun often, an old, double barrel 12 gauge that would kick like a mule when fired. The tighter you held it, the easier it was to take the jolt but if you fired often, you would still have a sore shoulder at the end of the day......
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