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Hah!

No. By that time I was roaming the woods and pastures with a .22 rifle, 12 gauge shotgun, and rod and reel.
Must be from Pennsylvania where many schools actually made time to teach kids to shoot weapons during the school day. Not a joke. It may still be a thing. We in Indiana were far more civilized....refined, even.
 
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This Citizen Jet Auto Dater Para Water from January 1963, with its highly sought-after peripheral ring rotor movement (also known as the jet rotor) and a beautiful caramel-coloured patina, was an exceptional find in unworn condition. It is a pity, however, that I do not keep radium watches as a matter of principle, so it will have to move on again soon.

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Must be from Pennsylvania where many schools actually made time to teach kids to shoot weapons during the school day. Not a joke. It may still be a thing. We in Indiana were far more civilized....refined, even.
Texas actually. Born and bred.
 
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Must be from Pennsylvania where many schools actually made time to teach kids to shoot weapons during the school day. Not a joke. It may still be a thing. We in Indiana were far more civilized....refined, even.
In England in the 1960s I got training in shooting and maintaining firearms during the school day. Firing .22s in an indoor range at first then the only recently superceded Lee-Enfield .303 and Bren LMG (also using .303 ammunition) on an outdoor 300yd range.

That outdoor range formed the opinion of firearms that I still hold. Receiving fire from fellow school pupils while standing in the butts, the hole in the target appeared before hearing the report. That made me want to have nothing to do with guns. Perhaps providentialy for all fellow humans I couldn't hit an 8 foot target at 300 yards due to my poor eyesight.
 
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This Citizen Jet Auto Dater Para Water from January 1963,…..

Although, I didn’t buy it (it was overpriced and I couldn’t negotiate) I was tempted to buy this Para Water as a souvenir of my recent holiday in Japan but, instead, I bought a King Seiko.

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