Best Childhood Toy?

[Big Wall]

I'm the oldest of six kids and we didn't have much money growing up. I had a couple after school paper routes and got to spend some of the money. When I was 11, I saw a guy make a bow string at a boy scout camp. I went home and made my own bow string jig out of 2X4s and some long nails that were in the garage. A bow string jig needs a slot down the middle of the bottom board so that one of the top pieces can slide to adjust for different length strings. I cut about a 1 ft slot in the 2X4 using a drill and a drill bit. When my parents saw what I had made they must have thought I was serious about archery. My Mom had an old Bear recurve bow and 4 or 5 arrows. We went to the local archery store and found out how long of a string it needed and bought the materials to make a bow string. With the help of the boy scout archery merit badge book, I made my own bow strings and could shoot arrows in the back yard after finishing my paper routes.

[bogie]

Black cat bottle rockets

no safety glasses, helmet, kneepads

[USAFGopherMike]

Black cat bottle rockets

no safety glasses, helmet, kneepads

I bet you drank out of the hose too

[bogie]

I bet you drank out of the hose too

Hold on!! I said I didn't wear knee pads.......

[missionxo]

2XL, and Big Trakand the RC-10

[n8tive97]

2XL, and Big Trakand the RC-10

There it is, I was trying to think of the name of it and here is a picture of it. This thing was the best toy ever!!! I loved mine.....

[USAFGopherMike]

and the RC-10

HaHa! I had an RC-10 too! Great fun and it was way ahead of the competition.

[Jefe's AR]

We must be the same age.

2XL, and Big Trakand the RC-10

[asmo]

2XL, and Big Trakand the RC-10

Gawd damn I LOVED my Big Trak.. I tortured my grandparents for hours and hours with that thing.

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

Seems like most here were the same as me. Growing up in Louisiana my favorite toy was a Benjamin .17 cal pellet rifle me and my chums killed many squirrels, rabbits, turtles, bullfrogs, cotton mouths, and skunks, we would be out behind our houses in the woods every day just seeing what we could get, good times and those squirrels and rabbits were good eating lol I just wish I knew how good turtle was at that time. Now I'm only 24 so what do you think kids would say they're favorite toy is today, Xbox , ps3.