(From 'Memories 3')
Still, she might have raised an eyebrow the time she found half a dozen rolls of caps, a spent .410 shotgun shell, a 5-cent pack of BBs, some Black Cats, Double Bubble and a baby horny toad in my pocket after we’d been hunting. She knew that I was fascinated by the Lee Loader my brother-in-law, Bill, was using to reload his spent .357 Magnum brass. And that he could load “hot” rounds that had a whole lot more BANG for the buck.
If her Mother’s Intuition indicated that her brilliant son planned to remove gunpowder from the caps and firecrackers and pour it into the empty .410 shotgun shell, along with the BBs —and I cannot confirm or deny this hypothesis because of Homeland Security—it might have given her a moment’s pause... #humor #oklahomastories #gunpowderstories #boyspockets #Memoriesofanokieboomer3