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Does anybody remember .......
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I have some of these memories too, fun and different times for sure...but you guys never did the stuff that a kid could do growing up out west on a small ranch like I did.
My first guns were Remington and H&R 22s and a Winchester 12 guage shotgun. I remember that used to walk out the back door and hunt rabbits and dove before school in the mornings. In the summer I would sometimes walk a bit to a catchment pond and skip 22 rounds across the water to see how many frogs I could take out at a time.
Bikes...we used tractors, farm trucks, and dirt bikes as for back as I can remember. I crashed a more than few of them too. My old man made me fix whatever I crashed or broke no matter how badly it was broken or mangled. When I was in 7th grade I was hanging off the back bumper of my friends family station wagon while holding onto the roof rack while he did dougnuts and tried to eject me off the back while fishtailing around corners.
Caps...I rember playing with black powder and primers from the reloading supplies we had on hand. That didnt work out so well one day after I lit up a powder trail that ended up in a pile of primers. One had a delayed reaction an exploded and embedded itself in my leg above my ankle after I came out from cover to see the why they all didnt detonate. It went through my jeans, sock, and hightop boot, I squeezed it out like a bloody pimple and stuffed it with tissue and put a bandaid on it. I never told my folks and still have the scar all these years later.
Man looking back its hard to believe I survived much less the things we did as kids that kids today would never get to do.
My first guns were Remington and H&R 22s and a Winchester 12 guage shotgun. I remember that used to walk out the back door and hunt rabbits and dove before school in the mornings. In the summer I would sometimes walk a bit to a catchment pond and skip 22 rounds across the water to see how many frogs I could take out at a time.
Bikes...we used tractors, farm trucks, and dirt bikes as for back as I can remember. I crashed a more than few of them too. My old man made me fix whatever I crashed or broke no matter how badly it was broken or mangled. When I was in 7th grade I was hanging off the back bumper of my friends family station wagon while holding onto the roof rack while he did dougnuts and tried to eject me off the back while fishtailing around corners.
Caps...I rember playing with black powder and primers from the reloading supplies we had on hand. That didnt work out so well one day after I lit up a powder trail that ended up in a pile of primers. One had a delayed reaction an exploded and embedded itself in my leg above my ankle after I came out from cover to see the why they all didnt detonate. It went through my jeans, sock, and hightop boot, I squeezed it out like a bloody pimple and stuffed it with tissue and put a bandaid on it. I never told my folks and still have the scar all these years later.
Man looking back its hard to believe I survived much less the things we did as kids that kids today would never get to do.
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Sure....I was 10 when i shot a hole in my roof one day when cleaning SA my 22 rifle. Yeah I had to fix the roof and my old man was pissed. I learned and appreciated gun saftey a lot more after that.
Or the time my neighbor peppered me with a 12 guage while swinging through on a dove. It wasnt the first time he did it so I shot back at him....he never did that again.
Or the time while I was in 4th grade and were building a new ranch house and my uncle came by with a totally illegal sawed off shotgun with a pistol like grip. I shot it ONE TIME which was enough as it almost flew outta my hands.
Was that gun related enough to pass the thread test
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UltraFudd
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I had one of those too! Top load about 23 BBs on the foregrip. Cock by cranking the barrel in and out. Wish I still had it, but the local cops took it away. I had nothing to do with those windows, either!
That thing was accurate as heck and you could crank em’ out with the cocker. I was the king of the BB gun wars. Took one in the cheek one time, so went into the house and popped it out like a hard zit. Bled like shmitt, too! That just added to that Sgt Rock feeling! We had some epic wars, sometimes with 6-8 guys. That shit’d hit the papers now and we’d all be in juvvie!
Sure....I was 10 when i shot a hole in my roof one day when cleaning SA my 22 rifle. Yeah I had to fix the roof and my old man was pissed. I learned and appreciated gun saftey a lot more after that.
Or the time my neighbor peppered me with a 12 gauge while swinging through on a dove. It wasn't the first time he did it so I shot back at him....he never did that again.
Or the time while I was in 4th grade and were building a new ranch house and my uncle came by with a totally illegal sawed off shotgun with a pistol like grip. I shot it ONE TIME which was enough as it almost flew outta my hands.
Was that gun related enough to pass the thread test
Frontier justice.
Tony
AWESOME!!!! We went thru a bunch of these. My neighbor put one thru his parents skylight.Remember when .................. these were legal to buy? A big hit with 50 somethings on a golf trip during cocktail hour
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IMHO a much better game than cornhole ever thought about being!Remember when .................. these were legal to buy? A big hit with 50 somethings on a golf trip during cocktail hour
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For that added element of danger, we used to get back to back in a group throw those straight up in the air and run in every direction, we had a few close calls
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jorayr97
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Stompers were awesome. I used to take the tires off of 1 and superglue them to another to make them super wide. We would have Stomer pulls in elementary school hooking them up to each other or making a sled to see whose could pull the most weight. My favorite was a white Bronco, it was a miniature monster truck that would out pull everyone else's.
You can see it's open bolt, full auto only. Pull back, push forward. Not hard to get one rd or 2 rd burst. 15 rd muzzle loader.
I lost a couple of rounds.
I wish the rubber ring on front was something standard. it still works but I would not use it much. It's been treated with Pecards but is pretty old. It works as a burst valve.
Rubber ring held up better than Hensoldt scope caps. Can you 3d print rubber?
