Originally Posted By: J.R.B.
Originally Posted By: L. Brown


No need to mince words, Stan. After all, you told us that you started out with Daddy buying your shells for you. How come you weren't carrying newspapers or cutting grass to buy them YOURSELF? Kinda gave you a leg up learning the game, didn't it?


Rather a difficult situation for a farm boy to have a newspaper route or mow lawns when he had FARM work to do for his Dad.


And typically not paid for doing chores. That being said, when I grew up as a city kid in Iowa (50's, early 60's), it was fairly common for farm kids to earn spending money by running a trap line. Fur prices generally pretty good back then. And hunting was certainly cheap: walk out the door. Getting to a shooting range for practice might not have been convenient, although a hand trap and a box of clays behind the barn would have been possible and relatively inexpensive.