Any Boy Scouts in the crowd?

[gabossie]

OK, say what you want, but I've just been thinking lately how many great things boy scouts did for me when I was younger. I did soooo many things and went so many places that I never would have had a chance to, had I not been in my scout troop. I stuck it out and got my Eagle Scout, and could not be happier that I did. Anyone else go through scouts as a kid?

(f)Lame suit on

[MinisterofDOOM]

Yup, I'm an Eagle scout. I barely got it before it was too late, but I got it.

[The Mic]

nope, i was deprived as a child. but hey im going to london for a study abroad thing in the spring so =P

[krazy skwerel]

I dropped out when the scout leader left and a douche ook over.

[Jesda]

My parents said it was weird and told me not to. I probably would have hated it anyway.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I hated most of it. I really just did it for my parents. But hey, I did it, and now I've got something to show for it that can help get respect.

[gabossie]

I did it cause I had a great time. I was in a great troop though, I know alot of troops that were just lame, might as well have been a GS troop. I went camping at least once a month for years, I went to Hawaii for two weeks, the grand canyon (where myself and two other guys hiked all the way down and back up in one day), canoed/kayaked down the Sacramento river for a week like 4 times as well as many times down the Russian, spent a week hiking in desolation, went snow camping every year (a week in snow caves), as well as countless other places. I only hope that one day when I have a son, I can find a troop like mine for him.

I got my Eagle, but I never really tell anyone. I've never used it to get respect of any kind. hm.

[HashiriyaS14]

I was a very decorated Cub Scout, but Boy Scouts didn't go so well. I do recall something about having been kicked out actually. Apparently Goshen Scout Camp does not approve of the use of homemade napalm to get a campfire going, even if it's really wet outside. I of course think this makes no sense, if you want dutch oven cobbler, you need to be able to do what you have to do to make your damned cobbler.

Not that I ever got to do much of anything cool in Scouts anyway. I was doing much more serious camping on my own than I ever was with them, still do.

[AZhitman]

I was.

Order of the Arrow, survivor of 3 "Survival Camps" at Kickapoo, and fell short of Eagle Scout (didn't do my Eagle project because we moved 3x in one year)...

Scouting's not what it used to be, but it was a great start for me - I learned a ton. Wish it was still "cool", I think it's a great institution for young men.

[Altiman94]

i agree with hitman. It's just not as hip as it used to be. When my father was growing up most young men were in scouts. now, hardly anyone is.

[stray]

Apparently Goshen Scout Camp does not approve of the use of homemade napalm to get a campfire going, even if it's really wet outside.

lol...

i was in scouts for a while, never got my eagle, got out when I was 12 or so.

However, an old friend of mine called me up before last summer, asking if I wanted to be a shooting instructor with him at a camp in Hawaii...

I said yes, and spent a month in Maui teaching little kids to shoot.

thats the best thing I got out of Scouts.

[gabossie]

I said yes, and spent a month in Maui teaching little kids to shoot.

thats the best thing I got out of Scouts.

Hell yeah. I never would have had the chance to learn to shoot had it not been for scouts. I've shot a number of different rifles and shotguns, but never a handgun. The best though was shooting black powder guns. Nothing like forging, then packing a .50 lead ball into a 3 foot barrrel and trying to shoot it accuratly. I never taught shooting, but I did teach archery, swimming, canoeing, rowing, motorboting, and was a lifegaurd for years.

Ladies and gentlemen, I was also a band geek

[DAEDALUS]

lol...

i was in scouts for a while, never got my eagle, got out when I was 12 or so.

However, an old friend of mine called me up before last summer, asking if I wanted to be a shooting instructor with him at a camp in Hawaii...

I said yes, and spent a month in Maui teaching little kids to shoot.

thats the best thing I got out of Scouts.

Camp Maluhia by any chance? I went there probably 5 or 6 summers. I didn't get my Eagle. Short by 1 merit badge and the service project.

[JDMaholic]

I never did it and never really wanted to. My father did though and he liked it. I think I never wanted to because I already did all of that stuff anyway, For instance my father taught my brother and I how to shoot and all of the intracacies involved along with safety when we were very young(5-6) and we got 22 rifles for christmas shortly after. It kinda seemed to me like it took the fun out of those things by putting badges and awards with them and trying to make it exclusive, plus it seemed like half the people teaching it didn't really know what they were doing, like maybe they just read about it in a book or something. This might have just been the area were I lived though. It also seemed like the kids that were in it were in a cult or something, one kid even tried to tell me that being an Eagle scout made him more qualified to be an engineer than someone that had a masters degree, it was probably just the kids that were in it around me, but I always thought "I don't want to be a part of that". I think the idea of it is good though and if I had kids I would put them in it if they wanted to be.

[willswimforfood]

Life Scout now, working on my Eagle Project. I give scouts so much credit for the way I live my life and the things I know.

[BadMojo]

I learned all about knives, pornography, punji sticks (without human feces), chewing tobacco, guns, Dungeons and Dragons, fun with sterno, and the amazing reaction of magnesium to an open flame. Oh, I guess we hiked and went swimming and boring **** like that.

Was my Boy Scout experienec atypical?

[gabossie]

haha, the other side of scouts I never played D&D (nerd), or chewed tobacco, but the rest are for sure. We used to spray a thick layer of bug spray on our arms and light ourselves on fire... good times. White gas is the water of the gods.

[stray]

Camp Maluhia by any chance? I went there probably 5 or 6 summers. I didn't get my Eagle. Short by 1 merit badge and the service project.

Matter of fact, it was!

small world, man.

We didnt have handgun or blackpowder there, unfortunately. S'ok though... when I got back I headed to the local shootign range and got all the handgun experience that I missed when I was there.

Still havent shot blackpowder

But I think I hold the camp record for skeet. i had a 13 clay run. thats 13/ 13. matter of fact, I think that I only missed two clays the whole trip.

I was teaching .22 though. so I obviously spent a lot more time and ammunition on that range... so much fun .

[natsoundup]

I am....became more proud of it as the years went on.

My son is now doing his Eagle project....about 3 merit badges short... I see him getting it sometime next spring.

Tought me character and integrity...and how to cook.

[Mr1der]

I bailed for the same reason Skwerel did...

we rolled in the same troop.

I'm still prepared though. unh!@