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Remember?
- CT_Shooter
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Re: Remember?
We had a variety of six shooters with double holster rigs, rubber Bowie knives, bows and arrows with suction cup tips, and Indian Headdresses. We were four brothers, so Cowboys and Indians was always a part of our regular play day... along with backyard baseball.
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- BrokenolMarine
- Ranch Foreman
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Re: Remember?
I had an anemic old Daisey, my stepdad found at a yard sale. It still shot, but the bb's wouldn't even leave a mark on a can at ten feet. Still a great gun for cowboys and indians. Then he handed me an old eyedrops bottle with baby powder in it. A squirt of baby powder down the bore, and the next shot had a muzzle blast like Jed Clampetts black powder rifle or all those lever guns in the westerns we were watching. That single squirt would last four or five shots.
It was a fad that faded among our group, but it lasted about as long as the summer... And the one container of baby powder we used to fill the pocket sized bottles all summer.
It was a fad that faded among our group, but it lasted about as long as the summer... And the one container of baby powder we used to fill the pocket sized bottles all summer.
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- Vaquero
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Re: Remember?
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Monte Walsh "You have No idea how little I care".
Ain't No Apologies for My Temperament
Si vis pacem, para bellum
H001, H006, H012
Ain't No Apologies for My Temperament
Si vis pacem, para bellum
H001, H006, H012
Re: Remember?
My go-to shootin' toy was a slingshot I made. Picked up a nicely v-shaped, thick tree branch in the front yard one time. Used my Kamp-King blade and peeled off the bark, cut a couple of notches, and the best "shot" I could find to fire were small stones from the driveway. I used rubber bands to send out the shot. I think I got slapped by breaking bands more than I hit anything, but lots of fun!
P.S. My Dad made sure that before I mowed grass in the yard, I had to go pick up those stones I piled up everywhere!
P.S. My Dad made sure that before I mowed grass in the yard, I had to go pick up those stones I piled up everywhere!
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