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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OTASCO1" data-source="post: 4064789" data-attributes="member: 53835">thanks … it was young guns that took over the organization ‘Oklahoma Tire And Supply’ they began bleeding the company of $ and toss in the advent of Wal Mart and many of our stories franchises organizations were sent up in a cloud of smoke … you can run a list of who’s who a mile long of your long standing traditional and beloved places known brands that existed prior to the mid ‘80’s that nosedived subsequent to Sam Walton’s world assualt on small towns across this country it’s a sad commentary isn’t it … for me I’ll take that double stacked cheese burger steak fries and chocolate malt form Woolworths any day of any week all day long … I guess my age is showing itself being 65 puts a whole new perspective on things for sure it’s been said ‘although we’ve advanced technologically speaking… we lack in the humanities…’ I believe this to be true thanks for your indulgence of my musings and rumblingsrespectfully with warmest regardsthis is a fantastic story… my dad loved to quail hunt he grew up out in the sticks just SW of Bristow Oklahoma … when we were youngsters my Dad and Grandad and my uncle they’d all go quail hunting on Thanksgiving morning … post oaks black jack’s didn’t slow them down much and they’d hunt sometimes until dark and they’d tell of the fire out of the shotgun’s muzzle just as the sun was setting … and I have my Dad’s favorite quail gun in my gun cabinet a 20 gauge Ithaca Featherweight my Dad learned at a young age how to handle a firearm and could knock down 3 birds on a covey rise … those were the good ol’ days … when my Dad was transferred from El Reno OTASCO to Ottawa Ks OTASCO his quail hunting became a paradise & a dream you see we don’t have post oaks and black Jack trees here but we do have lots of great cover by way of draws which are lined with briars and cedar trees and lots of thickets whether berries or just other types of cover … tall grasses ravines covered with thickets briars brambles and such you can post up on either side and let your bird dog typically Brittany or Pointer’s for this area of the country … we also have hedge rows … Osage Orange trees and the understory is covered with thickets the quail love this type of cover and we have plenty of bean fields corn fields expanses of crop fields creeks springs so everything quail need … food shelter & water … we used to have more quail but for some reason the population has dropped over the last 30 years or so … it once wasn’t uncommon to hit your limit go home with your game bag full of birds … I’ll digress for now I’m getting a bit weary trying to use this small keypad on my cell phone but yeah I was born an Okie in Sapulpa then moved to El Reno and then to Kansas thanks for sharing your experience with your shotgun and how it stood up to hardship dunked in the creek or was it pond and it still shot holy smokes and you never went anywhere without it … OTASCO had a good assortment of firearms I’d my memory serves me right and ammo as well … have yourself a very safe and pleasant night wherever you might be</blockquote>

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