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Post by shooteruk on Dec 13, 2015 5:46:10 GMT -6
OK, I did not really go back in time, but it felt like it. Its a pleasant memory and I thought I would tell you about it. It was many years ago, a pleasant summers afternoon on an open pistol range. It was a land navel base, HMS Ganges for anyone who wants to do their homework. I was alone and shooting an old WW1 vintage .455 Webley, Mk5 revolver. As I wondered back and fourth, shooting and patching I heard a buzz from above. It was an old biplane slowly passing overhead. I looked up at the plane, then down at the revolver. It was really as if I had slipped back in time. It was such a moving moment it stayed with me all these years. The base is built over now with houses, the range no longer exsists. Though it always will too me.
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Post by Nighthawk on Dec 13, 2015 18:06:28 GMT -6
Moments like that are not to be forgotten.
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Post by Luckyn'nooga on Dec 13, 2015 18:44:18 GMT -6
Hmmm..... Whose to say that you didn't go back in time? For a few moments, you again stood on the line, felt the weight of the revolver in your hand, heard the drone of a plane above and felt the wind and sun of a day long past.
Thanks for sharing.
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Post by shooteruk on Dec 14, 2015 2:47:22 GMT -6
Exactly Lucky. Everything was just so, for a few moments it may as well have been 1915, which as I remember was the date on the Webley.
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Post by red14 on Dec 15, 2015 6:58:23 GMT -6
Deja Vu, all over again.
Many years ago, my then wife and I were walking in the Everglades and it started getting dark. As it was about eleven in the morning, it was quite strange. We looked up and there was such a huge volume of large white birds that the Sun was greatly dimmed. There must have been hundreds of thousands of birds, maybe a million or so. I felt like I was back in 'the old days' of early America. It was surreal, and very moving.
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