Thread 63944875

this thread is only for anons who got the rifle merit badge. badgelets are not allowed.

Never got rifle. Did get shotgun and archery… as well as sailing. Fun times

>>63944880
I got shotgun and archery alongside rifle. Did black powder shooting at Philmont too.
How is scouting in the US going now that it is not only boys? I haven't kept up with any news

>>63944901
I know membership tanked, not because they made it coed, but because they revamped the whole program and nobody liked the changes. That was like 8 years ago though, I haven't been in the loop on it since then, but I doubt it got better
Also the Mormons pulled out of it, which was a big hit to membership, but those guys were assholes anyways. Worked at a Scout Camp for 4 summers and the Mormon Weeks were always the fucking worst since they didn't actually want to be there and they were all social retards

>>63944931
mormon 'week'? lmao. I'm glad I went to T L Storer. no mormons on the east coast. Although it looks like that camp got dumped by BSA in 2019. Now it's a multipurpose camp... checked the calendar and it has crap like Mario Kart nights on it

>>63944952
Yeah, my camp's dead too. It used to be fulltime, then they just did NYLT and shit there, and I don't know if it's still active. They can't really sell it, because it's in the middle of fucking nowhere and there's a lot of endangered plants and shit there. Camp Cooper in Oregon.
It wasn't an official Mormon Week, it just started on Monday instead of Sunday so all of the church troops would show up those weeks so they could spend the Sabbath doing their halfassed Jew larp. They were all super entitled and shitty and they'd trash the campsites.

I was just looking at my shotgun and rifle merit badges today. They somehow never made it on my sash

>>63944875 (OP)
>tfw was a scout in italy so we basically only ever prayed in monasteries and went camping
We couldn't even keep our own knives till 14

>>63944931
I'll second this. The fact that girls were allowed in wasn't an issue, it was the fact the people pushing for the girls to be let in wanted the boy scouts to be an after school babysitting program. Not an outdoor based mentorship program. At least in my area that's what the culture turned into. They're also not doing well financially. They sold one of the largest scout camps in my state recently. Thankfully the state bought it so it's going to still be open to the public and not some rich guys private sanctuary.

>>63945147
I still have my totin' chit

>>63944875 (OP)
It's funny how uneven the level of effort required for the merit badges was.
>rifle shooting
comfy day at the range blasting shit with a .22
>hiking
6x10 mile hikes plus 1x20 mile death march
>>63944931
On one hand, I have good memories of being a Mormon Boy Scout. Treasure Mountain up in Wyoming was where I did SC. Beautiful area, 95% LDS, never any issues with anyone. The BSA also helped out a little during one of the Mormon Jamborees out in the Idaho desert when I lived there.
On the other hand, now that I'm an adult, I have a hard time feeling sympathy for the Mormons, considering they believe blatant retarded nonsense and turn even their "perfect" families into scrupulous perma-anxious nutcases.

>>63945306
My original chit is half eaten by wash cycles and reduced to a half pulp card of lint, but I have ti tucked away somewhere.

>>63944901
No clue, it’s been almost 20 years since I was in it. Never got to philmont, did go canoe camping in Algonquin Canada.

>>63944880
i got sailing ever year

>>63945411
SAR was a fun badge because you got to do FEMA training

I wish my troop wasn’t mostly lazy pieces of shit.

Scoutmaster was a cool dude though, even if he was banging one of the other leaders probably allegedly.

I found out a dude from my old troop was going to the scoutmaster's house on weekends and getting plapped while cosplaying. Not sure what to make of my memories of scouting now.

all of my scouting memories are great. and not like I'm repressing the bad ones great either. sorry for yoall lol

>>63945657
I grew up in Ohio…. Sailing sunfish at seven ranges was the only exposure to sailing I was ever likely to get. It was a blast. Also fun watching idiots take them out after lying about having the merit badge and not knowing what they were doing…. Got to see two kids flip one 180 in the middle of the lake…

>>63946282
we used to jump on other kids boats and steal their daggerboards. it was a complete free for all

>>63946164
two seperate pedo cases at one of the camps we went to

>>63946164
don't think too hard you might bring up a repressed memory

>>63944901
I never got to do anything fun at Philmont, I went a little more than a year after the flash flood in 2015 and only slightly after the big fire that burned down a ton of the area so everyone was terrified of having us out of sight for more than 5 minutes, most of the time we were used to repair trails, like the little free laborers I had always suspected we were

>>63944901
The change came when I was aging out, I don’t know what it’s like for other troops but the rotary club that ran the troop voted not to coed, it died anyway after the second wave of Indian immigrants arrived and none of them had any interest in scouting, just getting something to put on their resumes

>>63946125
>>63946164
>>63946416
...is scouts really that gay?
>I thought about putting my kid in scouts in the future.

>>63944875 (OP)
I think I got more firearm training in Boy Scouts than I did in the military... which is more of a dig on the Air Force than it is me saying I got lots of training in Boy Scouts, but uhh I had fun and stuff.
I also got shotgun shooting. I don't think I ever got archery.

I was like 17 when it got ruined by annoying parents, zoomers, and smartphones. I feel bad for anyone who doesn't know how based it was.

>>63946565
an organization that doesn't actually screen for pedophiles is going to have pedophiles. even when the organization does screen for them, they'll still lie on their applications. since it's a private organization, there's no legal penalties for lying on the aforementioned application.
add in the open acceptance of homosexuals and you've got an environment ripe for predators.

>>63946565
No, 4chan's just full of faggot perverts, so half of these stories were written with one hand, and the other half are origin stories for why these dudes like it up the butt. It doesn't reflect IRL demographics

>>63947862
this is all verifiable and widely publicized. i didnt even go into detail. nice job projecting your own pedophilia and status as a pervert

>>63945208
>>63944931
Girls being in all male spaces fundamentally changes the behavior of the boys and vice versa. This is a simple fact that everyone innately knows.
That was just the death nail for Boy scouts, boomers turned a military prep club into a place they dumped off their freindless autistic kids. No shit it all fell apart.

>>63944875 (OP)
I used to hang out at the archery range at napawon and we'd pull out the big 80lb compound bow someguy had and launch the fufu arrow for Lassie to go fetch. Good times. I wonder if Starfish ever finished that hole he started digging.

>>63944875 (OP)
I joined scouts so I could shoot guns. Rifle, shotgun, archery were some of my favorite badges. I'm still pissed about the archery competition when i got the badge
>be me, taking archery at scout camp
>2 days in qualify for the competition
>score a 284/300, 3 arrows, 10 sets
>stays as the record the whole week, spend the rest of the time shooting a recurve for fun
>last day of scout camp
>some state champion fucker scores a 286 4 hours before the closing ceremony and prize handouts
>he wasn't even doing the merit badge and only showed up in the last couple days of camp
>flags are folded and prizes handed out on stage
>1st prize is a recurve bow and arrows, same poundage and type i was shooting for fun all week
>2nd prize is a fuckin watermelon
>have to stand on stage for photos holding a stupid fucking watermelon next to a kid holding MY bow even though he probably has a room full of them at home
>carve and eat the watermelon with my patrol while we wait for the cars to pick us up
It was damn good on a hot day while we waited and I'll never forget how it tasted. But I haven't shot a bow since and should probably just get over it and buy one.

>>63948813
sore loser

>>63948869
It was a big lesson for me at 14. One of the bigger reasons I appreciate my parents letting me go through boy scouts because it taught me to care more about the self improvement parts of competition and less about winning.
I am still mildly sore about it though, yeah.

>>63946413
lol awesome. At seven ranges along with the rowboats, canoes and sailboats they had a few motorboats, just little rowboats with an outboard.and other than doing motor boating merit badge with them they’d let the lifeguards patrol the lake since their were two bays not visible from the dock, and they generally kept tabs about every 10 minutes.. mostly I think because the lifeguards had fun motoring around the lake…. I did almost sink a sunfish during the merit badge doing the capsize recovery bit… but it was because they didn’t realize they’d left the drain bolts out of the double hull on the one we had… which of course ended up underwater.. still got it back to shore, a lot lower in the water, then drained probably 50 gallons out of it by laying it on its side on the beach.

what even was the grouping needed for the badge? I recall something about all shots in a quarter or something

>>63949886
Something like that, think you had to do it 5 times

RO was a former Arkansas corrections officer from the olden days. When the black kids from Memphis shot my target instead of their own he got pissed, dismissed them from the range, and just gave the merit badge to me to “do me justice”.
Thank God for the ghetto and racist old guys because I wouldn’t have passed otherwise

who here went to the -15 F valley forge campout

>>63946454
>flood
I was there for the flash flood season.

I remember Catalina Island Scout camp being beautiful with leopard sharks in the harbor, and the archery range being stocked with compound bows.

Shame I never went to sea base

I got rifling at Boneparte in Washington and got shotguns at a separate outing at a gun range that had a big event. Got to do shoot black powder there as well and it was a real blast. The other camp (Fife) in my area had a fire and our council which had been limping along since the Mormons left finally went under so now we are basically run by Seattle. Honestly it feels like a dream now. I missed the Japan World Jamboree by a month in terms of requirements and I remember being torn up about that too. Honestly I had a great time and I'm glad my dad forced me into it since I got to do a lot of cool stuff instead of just playing Vidya all day.

>>63946565
There were several high profile court cases and during my time they were taking compliance for safety incredibly seriously. I think that parent involvement is important since if you just drop them off there and don't give a fuck instead of getting a feel for the other parents involved and the scout masters you are practically asking for the worst to happen.