JR’s Gun [Content Contest]

By Dan Zimmerman

We like to describe our guns as tools as implements to complete a job. This is true at face value. However for many of us, shooting runs in the family whether it be competition, hunting or the military. We’ve inherited a gun or two that may have been just another mundane tool to an ancestor, but has become a tangible (and audible) link to our ancestors for us. Most of us can’t help but attach a little emotion to these guns. After 27 long years, I’ve finally gotten that gun, and a little emotional . . .

One evening in 1911, some young guys are gathering behind a local blacksmith shop in Iredell County, North Carolina. The week is over and they have earned their wages at the nearby sawmill. Now they go behind the blacksmith’s, and maybe they’ll double those wages, or maybe lose them all. They are there to play poker. And drink. Tempers flare and two young men have harsh words with one another. One of the men, 21-year-old Jule, picks up a pipe and saunters towards the other, damning his eyes.

In response, 23-year-old JR picks up a wagon tongue and strikes Jule such a forceful blow that …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns