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Post by doninnh on Feb 14, 2024 23:05:05 GMT -5
My fathers office was over the Dakins sporting goods store on Central street in downtown Bangor Maine he had complained the one way street was lined with cars, no open spots to park and the allyway to the back parking lot has been blocked with a truck unloading at the freight elevator for several days in a row. I was 5 and Half years old when this all happened and even then it seem like the old west bad guys that were displayed in their box were not much different than these guys. There is photo on line if you goggle Brady gang 1937 Banger Maine. Reportedly there was a tripod mounted 30 cal in a second story window on the other side of the street facing the door to Dakins sporting goods. The cops & the FBI sure were not fooling around with these people. Have a nice day Don K
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Post by iwsbull on Feb 15, 2024 8:22:59 GMT -5
Very interesting, and something of note to have lived.
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Post by bula on Feb 15, 2024 9:50:19 GMT -5
Pretty neat piece of history, thanks for sharing.
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Post by shphntr on Feb 15, 2024 18:50:10 GMT -5
Justice on the spot.
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Post by doninnh on Feb 15, 2024 22:10:01 GMT -5
Well:: Re:: The three screw missed on this trip back to NH, I don't think the owner got the offer for several day, I had a lose time constraint but I could not wait days, I think it is the fourth 3 screw I have missed in the last few years, I hope is not set in stone.. I'M not looking for any cal just something interesting at the time. Oh well better luck next time..
I was five years old when I started shooting.
Have a nice day Don K
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Post by edk on Feb 15, 2024 22:15:15 GMT -5
Well:: Re:: The three screw missed on this trip back to NH, I don't think the owner got the offer for several day, I had a lose time constraint but I could not wait days, I think it is the fourth 3 screw I have missed in the last few years, I hope is not set in stone.. I'M not looking for any cal just something interesting at the time. Oh well better luck next time.. I was five years old when I started shooting. Have a nice day Don K I had not quite started shooting by five. What I was doing was smashing a full roll of caps with a hammer to get a head start on the tinnitus! |
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Post by drycreek on Feb 16, 2024 22:45:05 GMT -5
Well:: Re:: The three screw missed on this trip back to NH, I don't think the owner got the offer for several day, I had a lose time constraint but I could not wait days, I think it is the fourth 3 screw I have missed in the last few years, I hope is not set in stone.. I'M not looking for any cal just something interesting at the time. Oh well better luck next time.. I was five years old when I started shooting. Have a nice day Don K I had not quite started shooting by five. What I was doing was smashing a full roll of caps with a hammer to get a head start on the tinnitus! I shot my first pistol at five or six. A guy my aunt was dating had a .32 or .380 auto I’m thinking. Could have been a .25 auto. He let me hold it right up to my eye as I didn’t know any better, but he should have. I guess the slide hit me in the eye area and I dropped the pistol. My Daddy stopped the festivities pretty quick then. I can barely remember the gun or the guy. He didn’t make the cut. I burned a couple thousand rolls of caps on my Hubley cap gun though. It was a long time before I got to shoot a real handgun. I begged my Daddy to buy a surplus Webley that was advertised in the Farmer Stockman for what would now be a ridiculously low price but was real money back then for poor folks, but he had no use for a handgun. I can’t recall what I had for dinner last night but some of those old memories are crystal clear. |
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Post by junkbug on Feb 18, 2024 14:55:57 GMT -5
Pretty interesting Read about Walter Walsh, one of the FBI agents involved in that shoot-out.
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Post by 1horseman on Feb 18, 2024 17:50:02 GMT -5
I started "playing" (more like holding in awe and aiming at my family pictures on the wall) with guns when I was about four. It was my mom's war trophy (Artillery P08) and it was unloaded. I shot it for the first time sometime between the age of six and seven, and by that time I knew how to fieldstrip it. I had my own (Iver Johnson) revolver by the age of 13.
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Post by wheelyfun45 on Mar 2, 2024 8:24:04 GMT -5
Thanks for posting about the Bangor shoot-out! I had never heard of it but sure went down the rabbit hole of internet info and got up to speed on this incident.
I'm fascinated by the time period from the 1920's to the late 1940's
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