{"id":8487,"date":"2024-09-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2024-08-26T14:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T18:30:17","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past-my-past-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-blast-from-the-past-my-past-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"A BLAST FROM THE PAST (MY PAST, ANYWAY)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Firearms Blog is one of the most interesting and instructive firearms sites on the Internet. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thefirearmblog.com\/blog\/the-rimfire-report-the-gill-gun-springfield-model-87a-22-rifle-44815354\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s one<\/a> that brought me back\u2026<em>way <\/em>back.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Springfield 87-A was the first firearm I ever shot. My dad told me I was four years old. I remember him balancing the gun on his palm while I sort of climbed over the too-long-for-a-child-to-shoulder stock to aim and press its heavy trigger.&nbsp; It was my older sister\u2019s rifle. It was passed down to me and this humble gun holds an important spot in my gun safe and in my memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guy in the video got stuck with a jam-a-matic sample. Ours always worked fine with .22 Long Rifle High Velocity ammo.&nbsp; My dad sent me to the Western Auto store diagonally across the street from his jewelry store to buy ammo.&nbsp; .22 LR was 75 cents for a box of fifty rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memories\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Firearms Blog is one of the most interesting and instructive firearms sites on the Internet. Here\u2019s one that brought me back\u2026way back.\u00a0 A Springfield 87-A was the first firearm I ever shot. My dad told me I was four years old. I remember him balancing the gun on his palm while I sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}