Old Farts-when Blaster Bob is your leader !!! All Hail Blaster Bob. [Coffee]
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Old Farts-when Blaster Bob is your leader !!! All Hail Blaster Bob. [Coffee]
HAIL FREEDONIAQuote:
Originally Posted by StagLefty
Coolest toy I ever had was a mid-60s vintage metal DC-7 that had about a 28" wingspan with lights, motorized props, retractable gear and a cabin door that opened. I'd still play with that thing if I had it. Probably worth a fortune today.
I had me a brace of Fanner 50's before the Tommy Burst, cap rolls were like $ .25 for a 10 pack of 100 shot rolls. The same rolls also fit the Tommy and a lever action Winchester replica. I was not born before 50 but I have been around a while now, been riding motorcycles for nearly 50 years, shooting guns longer than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pistol Packing Preacher
Yep, I do believe that I fit the title "old fart" but am probably referred to as an "old bastard" by some (under their breath). Was born in 1936 and toy guns were the THING when I was little fart. I still have a couple of the "bullets" where a paper cap would be placed on the rear of the cartridge. Probably shouldn't even mention having that item or I may have a black helo hovering over my place. [blaster]Quote:
Originally Posted by StagLefty
I am old enough that none of the toy guns I ever had were equipped with a orange muzzle and they actually went "BANG" and there was smoke and they had metal parts, no batteries and they looked like real guns, even the squirt guns. We ran all over the neighborhood shooting each other, dying screaming and twisting in agony and one was considered brave if you died on pavement. We used to shoot grass and dirt wads at each other with our Daisy air rifles. We stabbed each other with out rubber knives and bayonets and no one called the cops. We drank from the garden hose if we were thirsty. The worst that happened was we stepped on the lawn that we all knew you were not supposed to step on, "Get off my god damned lawn you punks!".
Great days indeed.
I had a six gun from Mattel, I think. It had cartridges that you could reload with a little plastic spring loaded bullet. The you could put a greenie stick em cap on the base. When you pulled the trigger it was like a real gun. Bang, projectile the whole nine yards. The bullets didn't like to stay in the brass part when you were trying to load them and they almost worked once or twice. But it was so freakin' cool when it did. I think I had a lever action that used the same cartridges but it's been a long time ago. Wish I'd kept hold of that stuff.
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Originally Posted by brutal
Hell, even when we were old enough, we had to hunt with sticks................ And I am sure Blaster Bob can remember back to when there wasn't even sticks yet......[blaster]
Hell yeah! If there were no sticks handy, we would just throw rocks at each other until someone got not in the head and went home crying. Then we all ran home before a parent could catch us and kick our asses. That and BB gun fights down at the cemetery where I got shot in the forehead by a Red Ryder once and still have the bump it produced - NO it did not knock any more sense in me.[blaster]Quote:
Originally Posted by SideShow Bob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2aT...e_gdata_player
This always disturbed me as a kid, in the old fun house at lakeside.