Best childhood memories

[02ducky]

Trying to change the mood, tired of the doom and gloom and negative vibe.

So what's you best childhood memory?

Mine always has been either hunting related with my pops (RIP). We went on a Montana guided deer hunt a couple years before he passed and I can honestly say that has been my best memory as a kid with him. Family vacations were nice and fun, but I think that my best childhood memories have been the time that I spent hunting or fishing with my dad.

[DD977GM2]

Fishing for trout with a #1 Mepps spinner with the red tab cut off from the body of the hook
and either a gold or silver spinner up and down the Big Thompson river from the Estes Park damn all the way about 3 miles east of Drake give or take.
The best fishing was behind Loveland Heights cottages and about 1/2 mile
down river from there at what we called "The Bend". I caught more fish in Big Thompson then anywhere else in this state.

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Mepps_1_Spinner_02_sm.jpg http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb116/DD977GM2/Mepps_1_Spinner_01_sm.jpg

[speedysst]

Hitting the tree with a hammer (for no reason as far as I can remember) running from my father who was trying to whoop me. I remember looking back and seeing how red his face was!!

[GilpinGuy]

Camping and fishing with the family every summer on the beach in Montauk, Long Island. Beat days of my childhood. [Flower]

[Mazin]

Football and Wrestling, I look back and miss that sooo bad.

[jerrymrc]

Best would be the time spent at the race track. Most vivid would be the Columbus day storm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_Storm_of_1962

I grew up in Portland.

[islandermyk]

My first moped/motorized scooter ride...




... I've been hooked ever since which got me to move on to bigger bikes as the years went by...

[2008f450]

Spending time at Riverside and Willow Springs race tracks with Grandpa, Grandma, and Dad. Grandpa raced SCCA Calclub for many years. I remember waking up really early and jumping in the station wagon yelling at everyone "lets go". Miss Grandpa, and Riverside.

[hatidua]

Pre-breakfast walk in the jungle with my dad (a biologist) watching monkeys jump from limb to limb with the rays of sunlight streaking between trees. I had a good childhood.

[Great-Kazoo]

Camping and fishing with the family every summer on the beach in Montauk, Long Island. Beat days of my childhood. [Flower]


Another Lawn Gylander??

[DSB OUTDOORS]

Mine, huntin and fishing with my Grandpa, Dad and my self. Those Mepps bring back some memories!! [Beer]

[GilpinGuy]

Another Lawn Gylander??

Haha! No, we drove down from "Upstate".

[xring]

The woods-the wind- catching frogs.

[zteknik]

Haha! No, we drove down from "Upstate".
Funny-We did the opposite :)
I remember living out in Brooklyn as a kid and driving Upstate to Kent Cliffs to the summer get away and fishing the summer away plus exploring the woods around.

That was when there were still dirt roads and no condo's around.
One of my main reasons to move to Colorado is theres a whole great state of outdoors to enjoy.[Alrigh]

[GilpinGuy]

Funny-We did the opposite :)
I remember living out in Brooklyn as a kid and driving Upstate to Kent Cliffs to the summer get away and fishing the summer away plus exploring the woods around.

That was when there were still dirt roads and no condo's around.
One of my main reasons to move to Colorado is theres a whole great state of outdoors to enjoy.[Alrigh]

Hey, I never did say WELCOME! [Beer]

[zteknik]

Hey, I never did say WELCOME! [Beer]

Thanks Bro! [Beer]
I'm sure glad I made it.

[Bailey Guns]

Bottle rocket fights, jumping off the roof with my own, homemade parachute, watching "Adam 12" and "Emergency", driving my dad's brand new Sears tractor straight into the lake after unloading it from the truck, snorkeling off the coast of Algiers amid Roman ruins, shooting turtles in the lake with dad's old .30-30, discovering how to make my own black powder out of saltpeter, crushed charcoal and sulphur.

I was an eggspurt at making mini sticks of dynamite: 1 cardboard pants-hanger tube, candle wax, homemade blackpowder, 6" of model rocket fuse. I could take down a 6" or 8" diameter tree faster than Paul Bunyan ever dreamed off! I can't imagine what would happen to a kid now for doing something like that.

[Bailey Guns]

...oh, and my first love, Julie White!

[DD977GM2]

...oh, and my first love, Julie White!


My first love was Elle McPherson [Love1][Love4][Love2]

[Skully]

This is a good thread Ducky in lime light of all the other negative out there!

I had a lot of bad memories when I was a kid up until my Dad got custody of me when I was almost 10. It was a life changing event.

We did everything together from shooting, watching star wars over and over again, camping, traveling, Jeeps, and even playing video games together. (yes he was good at shooters and side scrolling action games, he was a big kid at heart)

Some of my fav memories was when we built my first BMX together, and the first gun he bought me. I saved up some money and he paid the rest and bought it for me. It was a Ruger P 9mm, then we got a family membership at Firing line and started shooting together every week.


I miss my Dad but have all the memories to keep him in my heart and hope to do the same with my two boys. [Beer]