If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
“The reliability of the 30-06 on most of the world’s non-dangerous game is so well established as to be beyond intelligent dispute.” Finn Aagaard
"Don't fuck with it" seems to prevent the vast majority of reported issues." BehindBlueI's
Even at a young age, I had a strong work ethic, or maybe perhaps I was just materialistic, or greedy, but never mind all that shit, early on I started taking jobs.
There were these weekly shopping coupon tabloids that I would trudge along and deliver like one hundred and fifteen of, for like maybe $3.15. This was when I was young enough to be dumb enough to deliver a newspaper, that I had to carry when walking, for less than three cents. Pretty sure this would be illegal for several good reasons now, and I hated it every week, but was still sad when I decided to quit, I felt like I was a quitter.
But then I was old enough (there were standards, even back then...) to deliver the DAILY newspapers. Probably still only made three cents but with it 7/365 we made up for it in volume. Trouble is, it had to be done everyday at the same time (except Sunday, ya got to get up before dawn on Sunday...), and I hated that hanging over me 7/365.
But my delivery route was on the main street of our suburb, the older part of town where older people lived, and in the spring when I turned fifteen (when sixteen I would be able to get a job doing things official, like busing tables...) I quit the newspaper business after I had lined up all of my elderly newspaper customers who needed their grass cut. That was probably the first time I ever had a job I liked, making a buttload more money than I did covering the same street seven days a week. Though part of Dad's deal was that I maintain the mower, and dragging it 1.5mi to where the mowing started, backwards riding my bicycle with my left hand and pulling the mower backwards with my right hand (probably now illegal for a lotta good reasons...) wore out the tires I had to buy, but I was still way ahead and didn't have to work in the rain, like with the newspapers.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776