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Re:The 70s 1 Year ago  
Another cool thing we discovered is that you can pack the barrel of a bb gun with spaghetti. Got the same coverage as a scatter gun at 10 feet. I remember a piece of Spaghetti sticking all the way through my older brothers jaw. He still has a little scar from it today.
 
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Dang it, DAVE! Now I gotta ask!: With or without a BB behind the noodle? My Red Rider is in the other room!
 
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you guys talkin alot about cannons and guns that shot whatever...we were in the bush too....we had bows & knives...& pellet guns...I remember my rifle..had a bent barrel...I was the only one who could hit anything with it.. and pretty accurate too...@ 50 yards I could still hit a person with that bent barrel...
 
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Re:The 70s 1 Year ago  
Seeing that Big Wheel at the beginning of the thread reminds me that we used to tie a rope to ours and pull it around with the bicycle. Man, rounding corners as we went from street to street was awesome. No traction on those plastic tires always meant you were gonna slide wide! It was great until it flipped over and you got the road rash. The streets here in florida were made from ground up sea shells mixed in with the asphalt. Pretty rough on the skin.
 
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This whole thread brings back a lot of fond memories. I'm seriously surprised that I'm still alive after all the FUN that I used to have
 
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Re:The 70s 1 Year ago  
Boatmark wrote:
Bottle rocket wars!!!

Bottle rockets stuck in the barrel of our BB guns for better aiming.
 
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This whole thread brings back a lot of fond memories. I'm seriously surprised that I'm still alive after all the FUN that I used to have You're not the only one. I can't see any reason why I've lived as long as I have.
 
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Re:The 70s 1 Year ago  
jd750ace wrote:
Dang it, DAVE! Now I gotta ask!: With or without a BB behind the noodle? My Red Rider is in the other room!

No BB. We had pump up CROSSMAN 66'S I believe was the model #. You just stick as many pieces as will fit without having to jam them in.
 
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Better yet, fire the BB gun to give the bottle rockets a little "boost"!
 
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Re:The 70s 1 Year ago  
txulrich wrote:
I was the best heavy equipment operator in my neighbor's sandbox.

We used to drag the hose over to the hill just off the property and freeze it in the winter for faster sledding. It was especially wicked with a metal saucer.

In later years, we played 6 on 6 tackle football w/o pads. Many a bruise later, it was lucky that no one ever broke anything.


We used to play football before band practice same thing full contact no pads however we played until one of the guys broke a finger (always happened)
luckily he played tuba so finger splints were no problem.

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How many of us had to go search other campsites for bacon stretchers and/or smoke shifters? How about muffler bearings for the trip home? And of course we cannot forget the infamous Snipe Hunts. As Scouting no longer allows these activities (they consider them to be hazing) I fear a whole generation will not be aware of simple pleasures in life.

Don't forget a sky-hook, 50ft. of shoreline and as for smoke-shifters ours always had to be left-handed cause the right-handed ones never worked.
 
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