Reminiscence

War Surplus Bolt Action Rifles

We're sitting around the table after dinner reminiscing and my brother Andy tells us about the time our father took him along to visit a friend of his. It was duplex or something similar. They went down into the basement and the guy had a bunch of olive drab crates full of weapons packed in cosmoline. I hear this and it reminds me a something similar. It was a guy in duplex type housing and we went into the basement. There was a small opening high up in the wall that gave onto a crawl space. The guy picked up a rifle, aimed through this opening and fired a single round. The same guy, no doubt. This was in Seattle before Kennedy was shot, so early 60s. I was probably only about ten years old which means Andy must have only been about six.