This is great. When I typed the original post I had no idea so many of us read the magazine. Interesting that so many doublegun enthusiasts read the same magazine as boys. So glad I started it. Thanks for all the replies.
I really never had a chance to be anything other than a rough and tumble country boy. Grew up on my grandfather's farm, hunted and fished from the age of five, started in Cub Scouts, progressed to Boy Scouts, went on to the Explorers and stayed active there until the age of 17, when I really started stinking under my armpits and discovered hotrods and girls. Actually I discovered those two earlier but the magnetism of the scouting life held me until 17. Worked summers for a plantation baling and hauling hay, other summers mixing mud and toting bricks and blocks for a brick mason, one summer wielding a bush hook (sling blade) for a surveyor, and another as a maintenance guy for the local GA Welcome Center at the state line. Never an inside job from day one.
I am grateful for a Dad who encouraged me in scouting, and did all he could to enable it.
