Island Of Misfits

[ROSTERMAN]

@Unca Walt I remember them worms they sucked
As kids we would let them bite us and see whos worm would swell with blood the fastest.
When kids were kids we played real games ................................ I remember

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Oh that and Dart Wars Remember the wooden hunting darts ? They stuck when you got hit.

 

[1sickpuppy]

Howdy folks. We used to have yard darts, was fun till one of my brothers got one stuck in his leg. That is when dad found out we sharpened them to a really nice sharp point. That was the end of them.

 

[Unca Walt]

Wooden darts were way too expensive -- so we played tag with really nifty wooden match darts. Bunches of them.

We'd sit around with a box of matches and a bunch of sewing needles. You split an "X" in one end of the match, and install two small pieces of magazine (shiny) paper in to make fins.

Then push the blunt end of the needle into the other end. DING! A Winnah Dart.

They would actually stick in concrete blocks. And there was no denying you got tagged. It was visible as you ran.

 

[Unca Walt]

Just had another "Times Wuz Different" memory:

I was about 8 or 9 years old when something new came out: a ten-cent slingshot. Plastic, and shaped like a spur. They were rubber-band powered.

Amazingly, you could shoot a bluestone about 100' with them. So natch, my bud and I had to have combats.

My Daddy didn't say a thing when I came in with a red ding on my forehead after play. But the next day, he came home with two clear plastic face shields.

After that we could stand there and go at it like crazy. Mucho funz.

 

[WeedHopper]

Those bloodworms look nasty. Like something from a Scifi movie.

 

[user 60606]

big, I had some of those blue capsules, . we also got hold of the blue tablets .. lab refined pure mesc ..

I have friends and family on a rez in Oklahoma that have it .. abit sacred to them even today,

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Howdy folks. We used to have yard darts, was fun till one of my brothers got one stuck in his leg. That is when dad found out we sharpened them to a really nice sharp point. That was the end of them.

My buddies and I would get drunk and shoot target arrows (tipped) straight up into the air and watch for them to return
Had a few close calls but no one died LOL

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Just had another "Times Wuz Different" memory:

I was about 8 or 9 years old when something new came out: a ten-cent slingshot. Plastic, and shaped like a spur. They were rubber-band powered.

Amazingly, you could shoot a bluestone about 100' with them. So natch, my bud and I had to have combats.

My Daddy didn't say a thing when I came in with a red ding on my forehead after play. But the next day, he came home with two clear plastic face shields.

After that we could stand there and go at it like crazy. Mucho funz.

Walt we used the big rubber bands the postman dropped all over and would hook it between the thumb and 1st finger so like a finger slingshot
then would use fence nails and shoot them, those things would sometimes hit just right and go in. Painful, I know.

Like this but with nail

 

[Unca Walt]

Oh, yeah. But the best way was to rubber band about six hoop nails together, swing one around to be your shooter, and let fly. But we used the traditional "Y" shaped stick and rubber bands (several).

Those... we never shot at each other. They would spin, and guaranteed would have a sharp point facing whatever you hit.

 

[Unca Walt]

Oh, Lordy. Now ya got me started. My Daddy taught me how to make a sling-spear.

Take a 3' piece of lath wood, put a point on one end with a small notch cut in it near the point. Get a nice, limber whippy-stick and tie a 3' cord on the end. Put a loop in the other end of the cord.

Hook the loop in the notch, bend your whippy-stick arm way back, and swing it forward as fast as you can. Sorta like an atlatl, but better, IMO. A kid could throw a stick from home plate to deep outfield easily. As luck would have it, they usually stayed sticking up when they hit.

Ya oughta try making one.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Oh, Lordy. Now ya got me started. My Daddy taught me how to make a sling-spear.

Take a 3' piece of lath wood, put a point on one end with a small notch cut in it near the point. Get a nice, limber whippy-stick and tie a 3' cord on the end. Put a loop in the other end of the cord.

Hook the loop in the notch, bend your whippy-stick arm way back, and swing it forward as fast as you can. Sorta like an atlatl, but better, IMO. A kid could throw a stick from home plate to deep outfield easily. As luck would have it, they usually stayed sticking up when they hit.

Ya oughta try making one.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Well got to finish the Rat Gobbler trap baited with some peanut butter and stuck some tasty dog food bits in there too
Wait and see

 

[Hippie420]

Sometimes we'd get a lull in work on the job and we'd flare the end on a wire nut, hammer a lath nail through the end from the flare end so that it poked out a quarter inch or so, and stick 'em in a 3' piece of half inch conduit. Great blowgun. Hurt like a sombitch when ya got hit.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Dont get me started on home made pyrotechnics
I never got to mine any materials but I sure would have had a blast playin with the cool toys they use

 

[Unca Walt]

potassium permanganate (water filter stuff available in supermarkets) and glycerine hand lotion.

Hypergolic.

 

[Unca Walt]

Well got to finish the Rat Gobbler trap baited with some peanut butter and stuck some tasty dog food bits in there too
Wait and see

Oh boy!! Nuffin like a freshly-fried rat for snacking.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

Sometimes we'd get a lull in work on the job and we'd flare the end on a wire nut, hammer a lath nail through the end from the flare end so that it poked out a quarter inch or so, and stick 'em in a 3' piece of half inch conduit. Great blowgun. Hurt like a sombitch when ya got hit.

The Boilermakers used to shoot pigeons in the shop rafters with weld wire darts fletched with masking tape and fired from 1/4" pipe using compressed air.

Oh boy!! Nuffin like a freshly-fried rat for snacking.

44F @ 82% RH, rain, and predicted to reach 54F.

26 shots fired at a vehicle without anyone being hit, though a number of cars and houses hit.

Morrison bridge access blocked by a climate protest group using a pink boat.

My Drierite didn't arrive again. I just can't believe those rascals at Amazon would shuck me about a delivery date.............

 

[Unca Walt]

 

[Unca Walt]