Only the stock was wood.
Lock and barrel were steel.
They shot cork balls with stick-em caps, at least until I “upgraded” mine…
Any other crazy kids out there?
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Lock and barrel were steel.
They shot cork balls with stick-em caps, at least until I “upgraded” mine…
By the time I was 13 my dad kinda regretted teaching me how to build things 
Found the cut off piece of 12g barrel from his sawed off. With a pipe tap and plug i had a cannon that i strapped to a wooden toy crossbow. Lit the fuse, it went boom. Heard a scream, looked around the corner to see the mailman falling down 12 stairs.
Grabbed some pipe fired up the welder to make a mortar that shot empty 20g hulls with aa batteries inside.
Pushed 22lr into the ground, stood back and shot the rim with a pellet gun.
My dad told me about putting a potato in tailpipe's. You wouldn't believe the concussion from a muffler blowing from five spuds in the tube.
Grandpa taught me two coke bottles filled with "stuff" one 6 inch fuse one 12 inch fuse. Light at the same time 12 inch fuse right in front of you, 6 inch as far as you could throw it. The 6 inch would scare the fish towards you then the 12 would go off. Grab a net. Thank god my grandpa was drinkin buddies with the fish and game officer.
I better quit talking before I incriminate myself
Found the cut off piece of 12g barrel from his sawed off. With a pipe tap and plug i had a cannon that i strapped to a wooden toy crossbow. Lit the fuse, it went boom. Heard a scream, looked around the corner to see the mailman falling down 12 stairs.
Grabbed some pipe fired up the welder to make a mortar that shot empty 20g hulls with aa batteries inside.
Pushed 22lr into the ground, stood back and shot the rim with a pellet gun.
My dad told me about putting a potato in tailpipe's. You wouldn't believe the concussion from a muffler blowing from five spuds in the tube.
Grandpa taught me two coke bottles filled with "stuff" one 6 inch fuse one 12 inch fuse. Light at the same time 12 inch fuse right in front of you, 6 inch as far as you could throw it. The 6 inch would scare the fish towards you then the 12 would go off. Grab a net. Thank god my grandpa was drinkin buddies with the fish and game officer.
I better quit talking before I incriminate myself
Found an old surplus field phone in my Grandpa's garage. Always thought "That's an odd thing to have". Didn't realize until years later what it was forBy the time I was 13 my dad kinda regretted teaching me how to build things
Found the cut off piece of 12g barrel from his sawed off. With a pipe tap and plug i had a cannon that i strapped to a wooden toy crossbow. Lit the fuse, it went boom. Heard a scream, looked around the corner to see the mailman falling down 12 stairs.
Grabbed some pipe fired up the welder to make a mortar that shot empty 20g hulls with aa batteries inside.
Pushed 22lr into the ground, stood back and shot the rim with a pellet gun.
My dad told me about putting a potato in tailpipe's. You wouldn't believe the concussion from a muffler blowing from five spuds in the tube.
Grandpa taught me two coke bottles filled with "stuff" one 6 inch fuse one 12 inch fuse. Light at the same time 12 inch fuse right in front of you, 6 inch as far as you could throw it. The 6 inch would scare the fish towards you then the 12 would go off. Grab a net. Thank god my grandpa was drinkin buddies with the fish and game officer.
I better quit talking before I incriminate myself
those were my pre-corrupt years.
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Did some of the same things as a kid, guess we all did, it was a different time. A good friend of mine lost an eye to a toy cannon he loaded with something. Thank God I wasn't a party to it, I got enough to feel guilt about.
I had the Rifle also. I can still picture my father giving them to me on my birthday 60 of years ago.Ever seen one of these?
I got my first one at Disneyland in 1965 when I was ten.
Turns out the breech design is exactly like a real percussion gun, so I dumped the powder from a firecracker down the barrel, rammed down a lead sinker in a cloth patch, and promptly shot a hole in a wooden fence.
Kids had so much more fun back then…
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OK, I give. What was it for ? I ask because there was one of those in my uncles old room at 'Gram's house when I was little. He was a WWII combat vet.Found an old surplus field phone in my Grandpa's garage. Always thought "That's an odd thing to have". Didn't realize until years later what it was for
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Calling up fish!
Yep. They used to call it "cranking": You put the bare end of the phone wire in the pond and crank the phone end. It created a small charge and......
It's an old outlaw trick. I'm pretty sure it's illegal everywhere now except North Carolina I believe.
My best friend and I made a lot of B/P and any bomb you could think of when we were 13. We made a pistol with a copper barrel; we didn't know better. We tied it to a tree, lit the fuse and ran off behind another tree before it went off, it shot OK.
On day when I was not around, he loaded the pistol with too much powder, held it in his hand a touched it off, it blew up and killed him.
End of story, at 76 I still think about this accident often.
On day when I was not around, he loaded the pistol with too much powder, held it in his hand a touched it off, it blew up and killed him.
End of story, at 76 I still think about this accident often.
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That's right up there with gluing field corn to the pan on a muskrat trap and setting it in shallow water for ducks. Back in the eighties I worked with an old Marine who knew every dirty trick in the book.
That's tough to read. I guess most of us if we think back, shouldn't be here, or not in one piece. I know for me anyway,cin those quiet times in my own thoughts I'm glad I slowed was down on my shenanigans.
Yep
. In their defense, most guys did the outlaw stuff to put food on the table. Not saying it's right, just the way it was.
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poor kid !
An old 4 legged washer towed behind a pickup on a long rope works cool until you try to stop.... also relates to trying to figure out the trajectory of a mailbox which has been airlifted by an M-80
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I recall them!Ever seen one of these?
I got my first one at Disneyland in 1965 when I was ten.
Turns out the breech design is exactly like a real percussion gun, so I dumped the powder from a firecracker down the barrel, rammed down a lead sinker in a cloth patch, and promptly shot a hole in a wooden fence.
Kids had so much more fun back then…
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I tried a bb gun fight with a friend once, about 12 years old. I stopped that when I had a bb bounce off my upper cheek below my eye. Decided at that point, it was pretty stupid.
