Thread: rule of 3

Originally Posted by Ranger 888

Slightly off thread, but we boomers had it easy..I recall going into my local police station in school uniform in about 1963 and telling the cop at the desk I wanted a permit to buy a .22 rifle ( no FAL required in those days!). He grunted "whaddya want it for, sonny?" "Shooting rabbits" says I, a quaver in my voice..and he wrote out and handed me the permit!

Yep, a permit to procure. Then once bought you had to take the rifle back to the cop shop to get registered. Shotguns didn't need to be registered from memory.

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

Yep, a permit to procure. Then once bought you had to take the rifle back to the cop shop to get registered. Shotguns didn't need to be registered from memory.

And a ‘permit to procure’ lasted for a month ( from memory) and you needed one to borrow a rifle (also from memory)

I remember going and getting a permit to purcure shotgun with Dad...Ive still got the shottie some 40ish years later....

I got a permit to procure once and went into register rifle and was told I was over the month.
But the lazy bugger let me go when I said please give me another permit to procure and he couldn't be bothered writing another.
Tokoroa it was.

I use a similar system with my bush rifle 200 yard zero, aim for the shoulder if i cant see the deer properly on 3.5 power i get closer.