Hunting before school

NCST8GUY

Frozen H20 Guy
The GLARING comment to me is in parenthesis.

I was in high school in the 19 hundred and nineties. We had dogs on campus. My buddy got pulled out of class because a dog alerted to his truck. He had his empty soft long gun bag still in the back seat, which he used for duck hunting the previous weekend. His dad was called, showed up, and mentioned to everybody present, "Shoot, at my high school we had TWO gun racks, one for the rifle, one for the shotgun."

I do think though that all of society is not completely ok with the old school strapping them to your hood technique though. Some traditions are cool for about 1 or 2 generations.
 

para4514

Eight Pointer
Contributor
Mid November 1988 or 1989 Assistant Principal walked into Ag. Class and stated "The sheriff is going to be here this afternoon checking cars as you leave the parking lot. I know some of y'all hunted this morning, or are planning on hunting this afternoon. If you have a gun in your car I am going to sign you out to take it home." At least half the class got up and left. On another occasion he came into the same class with a bucket to collect pocket knives. Someone cut the rope in the auditorium and he did not want anyone in that class to get blamed. Different world back then. The Assistant Principal is a raging liberal these days.
 

catfishrus

Twelve Pointer
There is a picture in my high school album of a fellow student standing on school property with a .22 rifle getting ready to shoot a pig for the FFA convention. Shot the pig, cleaned him during school hours, and put him on the grill. Class of 1988. Wasn't unusually to see a gun hanging in the back glass of a truck with a dog box in the back at school.

Good friend of mine in school knew we had some rabbit dogs. I got out at 12 to go to work with my dad my senior year of high school. My friend told me to call him out of school when I got home and meet him at his house. He said the place was loaded with rabbits. I got home and told dad...he said call him out and I did. We killed 21 rabbits that evening. We were jumping them faster than the dogs could run them. When my friend's dad got home, he was a NC highway patrol, and we were standing there with a tailgate full of rabbits. Good memories.
 

sky hawk

Old Mossy Horns
Contributor
My dad showed up to check me out of school early to go deer hunting in the '90's with two scoped rifles in the back window. As others have pointed out, the '90's was well past the time when you could do that and get away with it. Thankfully, he was checking me out early and no one was standing outside to see it. I guess he didn't get the school shooter memo.

In his defense, it was a single cab Ford Ranger, and there really wasn't any room behind the seat, or much room in the cab for that matter.

On a side note, I don't believe they're selling too many of those window gun racks anymore...
 

Woods and water

Twelve Pointer
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Around 1990 it was very common for me to have a few hounds in the dog box at school. Several guns always in the truck. The principal made me park out by the ball field so the dogs couldn't be heard inside. It wasn't uncommon for a couple of us to leave around lunch time and go deer hunting. We had a very short bear season back then and someone found a track before school word was sent to the shop teacher and we got a counted present. None of us boys made it to college but turned out to be pretty good at hound hunting 😂. Whole different world by the time my son got in school.
 

DBCooper

Old Mossy Horns
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I graduated high school in 1982. It wasn't unusual AT ALL for us to rabbit hunt before school or dove hunt after school. That meant a LOT of us had shotguns in our cars at any given time. If anyone got a new gun....we'd go out to their car at lunch and check it out (pass it around).

No one ever even considered anything nefarious.
 

Hunterreed

Twelve Pointer
Pocket knives were never a concern when I was in school. It was no different than anywhere else as long as you wasn't threatening anyone just keep it in your pocket while the teachers were around. Same with guns in a vehicle, stay out of trouble and nobody cared. I believe it was 6th grade class that had some kind of show and tell day that allowed me to arrange for my mother to bring my guns to class for my part around the early 80s. I'll never forget having a 410 single barrel with a really stiff extractor and I wasn't strong enough to close it up without putting it against my leg and pressing the breech shut. Right in front of class I shut it and the gap between the receiver and the forearm pinched a big blood blister on my leg through my jeans. I played tough but it just about made me wet my pants it hurt so bad
 

DRS

Old Mossy Horns
Theschool officials didn't look for guns and there were a lot of them in those trucks. I would either be going hunting or work right after school.

I have thought many a time what would happen if somebody 12 or 13 was riding a bike or walking down the road with a shotgun or rifle, now days. Lock downs and blues lights everywhere! That's what I did every day heading to my favorite squirrel haunts.

Class of '86
 

QBD2

Old Mossy Horns
Class of 99, and I had a shotgun in the car a time or 2. Although I did always break it down and leave it in the trunk because I wasn’t completely stupid.

I do remember arguing with the drivers ed instructor because he wasn’t comfortable with dropping me off at the dove field…like dude that’s my dad and my brother out there banging on em I’m getting out whether you like it or not🤣
 

Eric Revo

Old Mossy Horns
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When I was in school even during the race riots and all that conflict BS we had rifles and shotguns in the back window of our trucks and yet no-one ever was shot by a student by one of those weapons. It was very unusual that anyone ever got in trouble for anything gun related back then, except maybe shooting squirrels out of a neighbors pecan tree without permission. :cool:
 

Hunterreed

Twelve Pointer
My last year in high school I kept an H&R 22lr revolver in my car all the time never even thought about taking it out to drive to school every day. Didn't know any better and obviously was never told by anyone but even back then a person probably needed to be at least 18 or 21 to possess a handgun
 

Castle Oak 2

Six Pointer
I took my shotgun into my senior year English class to do a speech about gun safety. The teacher approved this ahead of time and no one ran out of the classroom screaming.
 

Vannoyboy

Eight Pointer
Class of 69, I drove a bus and carried my shotgun in the compartment above the drivers seat all through squirrel season. I drove the bus to school, my buddy picked me up in the parking lot and we went squirrel hunting. When trout season came in, same thing. Trusty ole Zebco 33 and 2 piece rod, off to the creek. Never got in trouble for hunting but once. School had been out for snow for a couple of days, I didn't have my own transportation so I took the bus up the mountain road above my house. I got off in the ditch and got it stuck, had to get a chicken farmer bring his tractor and pull me out. Someone ratted me out. When school would be out for a few days I would gather up several other kids and take them to the store about 2 miles down the road. I had plenty of seat, plenty of gas, plenty of friends. I guess you could say in my neighborhood I was "King of the Road"
 

CJF

Old Mossy Horns
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My 9th grade Earth Science teacher use to organize a man drive in the woods behind the football field after school every year. This was in the 70s to early 80s. We all had guns and knives in our trucks or muscle cars. He is the reason I am a teacher today.
 

Vannoyboy

Eight Pointer
Oh Lord, this triggered a question me and my wife talked about just the other day. I was 16 years old in 67, had no car, and was raised "free range". Can you believe as quick as I got my drivers license they put me in a school bus as driver? How educated could they have been to use teenagers to drive school busses? Would you put your child on a bus today if the driver was only 16? Scares me to think of it, my wife asked me if that wasn't an awful lot of responsibility. Best I an remember it would have made no difference to me if it was a load of wood or a load of children. Makes me want to sing "Amazing Grace" every Sunday now.
 

DBCooper

Old Mossy Horns
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I graduated from college (the first time) in 1987. In 1985, we had a turkey shoot ON CAMPUS. We knew about it for a couple months, and everyone stored their shotguns in their dorm rooms.
 
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Uwharrieman

Ten Pointer
My closest hunting buddy and me once we got our drivers license would go right after school at 3:30
to his uncles farm, or my uncles farm and sometimes his grandfather's farm for dove hunting.

We did same when squirrel season came in October.

During exams we kept our hunting thigs in the trunk. Our biology teacher asked how many of us were going hunting
after the exam? Several of us raised our hands, he smiled and said he was also.

Told us to be safe and careful, and wished us luck.

That was in 1967-68 era.
Since this is a hunting before school post, yes several of us did that when exams were given anytime after eleven.
 
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JONOV

Old Mossy Horns
Oh Lord, this triggered a question me and my wife talked about just the other day. I was 16 years old in 67, had no car, and was raised "free range". Can you believe as quick as I got my drivers license they put me in a school bus as driver? How educated could they have been to use teenagers to drive school busses? Would you put your child on a bus today if the driver was only 16? Scares me to think of it, my wife asked me if that wasn't an awful lot of responsibility. Best I an remember it would have made no difference to me if it was a load of wood or a load of children. Makes me want to sing "Amazing Grace" every Sunday now.
The dang things are so slow I wouldn't have a huge problem with it. Honestly, the structure of the bus makes your kids way safer than they'd be in Mommy's Tahoe. Especially in a rural area, it seems like something they should bring back.
The GLARING comment to me is in parenthesis.

I was in high school in the 19 hundred and nineties. We had dogs on campus. My buddy got pulled out of class because a dog alerted to his truck. He had his empty soft long gun bag still in the back seat, which he used for duck hunting the previous weekend. His dad was called, showed up, and mentioned to everybody present, "Shoot, at my high school we had TWO gun racks, one for the rifle, one for the shotgun."
My aunt was the assistant principal at a rural high school. They did it once and she said "No More. you can run them in the school over the lockers but its an absurd amount of paperwork for me because billy was shooting crows before school."
I do think though that all of society is not completely ok with the old school strapping them to your hood technique though. Some traditions are cool for about 1 or 2 generations.
I'll be honest, I don't totally get the "strap to the hood" thing. A school bus maybe but otherwise, what's wrong with the massive trunk those cars had, or the trunk lid, or the roof. People aren't shy about hauling deer on hitch haulers or on top of cars in parts of the country.
I graduated from college (the first time) in 1987. In 1985, we had a turkey shoot ON CAMPUS. We knew about it for a couple months, and everyone stored their shotguns in their dorm rooms.
I graduated in 2010 and we had a trap shooting club, the school subsidized our ammo/range fees. There were actually the cement pads for the range still more or less outside the back of student housing. I'm not sure when the club could no longer shoot on campus. It may have been environmental, as it was over a lake, or may have been a safety thing when a road came through. The club owned a shotgun, kept in Campus safety Students were supposed to keep their guns in the Campus safety lockup. And during the fall at 0-Dark-30 the officer knew to stay close to the office. Those that were less serious about being rule followers would keep them locked in the trunk or whatever.
 

Blackwing

Button Buck
Pocket knives were never a concern when I was in school. It was no different than anywhere else as long as you wasn't threatening anyone just keep it in your pocket while the teachers were around. Same with guns in a vehicle, stay out of trouble and nobody cared. I believe it was 6th grade class that had some kind of show and tell day that allowed me to arrange for my mother to bring my guns to class for my part around the early 80s. I'll never forget having a 410 single barrel with a really stiff extractor and I wasn't strong enough to close it up without putting it against my leg and pressing the breech shut. Right in front of class I shut it and the gap between the receiver and the forearm pinched a big blood blister on my leg through my jeans. I played tough but it just about made me wet my pants it hurt so bad
Are pocket knives not allowed in schools these days? Good Lord...
 

Ol Copper

Twelve Pointer
Can you believe as quick as I got my drivers license they put me in a school bus as driver? How educated could they have been to use teenagers to drive school busses? Would you put your child on a bus today if the driver was only 16?

Started driving a school bus as soon as I turned 16 also.
Got a check every month from the county and the state. Made decent money for a 16 yr old.
I also worked during the summers at the county bus garage prepping school buses for new paint jobs. Killer money.
I never once heard of a school aged bus driver having an accident, never understood why they stopped, because now all districts are very under-staffed on drivers, and it seems like you hear about a bus wreck every day.

Traded a nice Ruger 77 in .270 to my senior year PE Coach for a Browning shotgun, and got an awesome deal on a like new Leupold scope from my Junior year Science teacher.
Had a gun in my truck every day during all 4 years of high school

Class of '86
 

DRS

Old Mossy Horns
A lot of you guys were rich. I didn't have a car or truck. I had to take the bus to school.
Sometimes I had to walk to school, couple miles. It really was up hill both ways, just down hill too. Could beat the bus by walking.
 
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