Quote Originally Posted by Gman View Post
I knew someone that took his rifle to grade school and put it in his locker when he got there. He would take the rifle out at the end of the school day and shoot small game on the walk home. That was called "supper".
That was pretty common in rural America. A much larger part of the population relied on farming and subsistence hunting-gathering. My grandmother took her 1903 Winchester .22 auto to school to shoot rabbits on the way home. Iowa, circa 1910.

I wish I knew how she came by such a nice rifle, a well made take-down .22 auto when much cheaper single shot rifles were commonplace in most homes. I still have that Winchester ~130 years later.

Growing up in the 1950's & 60's, I didn't carry my rifle to school until I started driving in high school. Two days a week I packed my .22 target rifle in my vehicle to go to range practice after school.