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During these times of stay at home recommendations, I am re-visiting an old beloved pass time.
Love to throw darts. Used to throw competitively. Lots of fun. Can enjoy practicing alone, ( kinda like shooting ), OR throw competitively, on my screen porch. Fresh air ( Covid unlikely ).
Any dart people here ?

We need some pictures. Ive throw a few in my day.

Cannot get my pics to load lately.

My first duty station was Bermuda. Darts is a big deal to the Brits lots of teams and leagues there. I never joined a team but threw for fun in the base club. The command even had a board in the ward room.
Took it up again years later in Spain bought a really good quality board there. It is still in great condition 35 years later. Occasionally I get around to throwing darts and can still come close to where I am aiming. Sometimes I can manage to make a game of cricket go pretty quick.

Back in the day when I didn’t have much I had a dart board. Had a couple of buddies come over a few times a week and between the three of us we could scrape together enough for a case of beer. Then we would play cricket for hours, two competitors and the third keeping score. Winner carried over to the next match of course. Lots of cheap fun and of course we had lots of mock arguments and plenty of harassment. Good times.

Got one pic anyway. ( new dart board )

Wow! Suddenly got the other!
Old board was over 40 years old.

RR darts leavin bigger holes Mark

I thought maybe a high top table in that pic with a bottle Makers 46 on it and a shot glass would look pretty cool.

BigAl52 wrote: ↑

Thu May 14, 2020 4:36 pm

I thought maybe a high top table in that pic with a bottle Makers 46 on it and a shot glass would look pretty cool.

Now, there' a good thought Al!
Good shootn' RR...thought about using the old board for just that!

Yard Darts as a kid.... does that count?

RP

I hated darts as a kid, they always made me play goal.

Vaquero wrote: ↑

Thu May 14, 2020 9:57 pm

Yard Darts as a kid.... does that count?

RP

Nope...not even close Randy...sorry...

RanchRoper wrote: ↑

Thu May 14, 2020 9:59 pm

I hated darts as a kid, they always made me play goal.

They knew how tough you were

Watched some of a pro dart tournament finals on TV a while back and those guys were incredible. Both started the games with 3 triple 20's.

dave77 wrote: ↑

Fri May 15, 2020 1:38 am

Watched some of a pro dart tournament finals on TV a while back and those guys were incredible. Both started the games with 3 triple 20's.

Yes, it is amazing how precise one can get with enough practice.
The patch you see at the bottom right on my backboard, represents a 'Hat Trick'. Which is all three darts in the center bull. Very difficult, but have done it twice in my life.
The patch was given to me after a tornament win. It's the highest you can score on a dart board. Will probably never happen, by me, again.

Hatchdog wrote: ↑

Thu May 14, 2020 9:20 am

Back in the day when I didn’t have much I had a dart board. Had a couple of buddies come over a few times a week and between the three of us we could scrape together enough for a case of beer. Then we would play cricket for hours, two competitors and the third keeping score. Winner carried over to the next match of course. Lots of cheap fun and of course we had lots of mock arguments and plenty of harassment. Good times.

Loved playing darts! Like Hatchdog, a couple of friends, some beer and off we'd go! Friendly bantering back and forth, fun.
I have my old darts around here somewhere(I think!?). I'll have to look for 'em. Haven't thought of those in some time.

I got 3 darts on the board once.