When my family left Long Beach, Ca. in 1946, we moved to a Northern Ca. town named Oroville. I had never handled a gun, didn't know anyone who had one and most likly couldn't remember ever having seen a real gun.

In Oroville, everyone had guns, they wore gun belts when they came in from surrounding mountain towns. Featherfalls, Forbestown, Quincy, Palermo, Chico, Rocky Honcut, all those little towns converged on Oroville. Eventually the RCBS company opened there and we all went into reloading, I did wad cutters for my S&W.

Joined the Sheriff's search and rescue, got myse'f a deppity badge and all that. We had jeeps and horseback.

Forgot all about Southern Calif.......