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Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by PhillipM on Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:51 pm

Check out 6:17 in the video, a big honkin gold fringed Mississippi flag!! I wonder how they did?


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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by captain-03 on Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:57 pm

Classic ARMY music!!

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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by SubGunFan on Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:14 pm

That was probably Doug Bowser's group...... Smile

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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by 22lrfan on Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:20 pm

That was great. Doug may have still been a yankee in 1959. lol

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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by DevilDog on Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:55 am

SubGunFan wrote:That was probably Doug Bowser's group...... Smile.

Good one.

Great video. 50 years later and still chasing that little black circle.

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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by M1GarandFan on Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:36 am

Kinda makes you wonder how many of those guys were in WWII that were in the video. I hope to make it up there someday. Great video.

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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by inthe10ring on Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:23 pm

Great video! I would love to have one of those Garands...and cars... !

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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by SubGunFan on Fri Jan 13, 2012 4:58 pm

inthe10ring wrote:Great video! I would love to have one of those Garands...and cars... !




Yeah..... Two year old '57 Chevys all over the place....... Smile

They were all shipped to Cuba that year............. Smile

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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by Brutus on Wed Jan 25, 2012 3:57 pm

That's pretty neat.

Can you imagine all the absolutely CHERRY Garands and 03's there were on display back in those days?

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Re: Vintage video 1959 at Camp Perry

Post by Doug Bowser on Wed Jan 25, 2012 4:44 pm

SubGunFan wrote:That was probably Doug Bowser's group...... Smile

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I am no that old. I shot my first EIC match at Ft Smith, NY in 1962, with a 1903-a3

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