"I wish they had toys like that when i was a kids" rofl.
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50 years on and cap guns still cost $3! Although they are crappy Chinese-made plastic ones with f-all powder in them that misfire more than they actually fire.

But we have Nerf

Nerf guns will be the end of me. There are so many bloody nerd bullets flying around my house that i have given up and just ignore them

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jbshack said..

Nerf guns will be the end of me. There are so many bloody nerd bullets flying around my house that i have given up and just ignore them

Are you saying you can actually see them? We can never find ours after we fire them...

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superlizard said..

jbshack said..

Nerf guns will be the end of me. There are so many bloody nerd bullets flying around my house that i have given up and just ignore them

Are you saying you can actually see them? We can never find ours after we fire them...

Yeah my 10 year old runs around shooting them everywhere. Its easier it seems to just reload a new cartridge then pick up the old ones so they end up strewn everywhere

My favourite is still the old fashioned double barrel shot gun

As a kid, I always wanted a Blooper, but Mum crossed that off my 1970 Christmas list. cant imagine why.
Had to settle for a Gecado .22 air rifle instead.
The Gecado has had a long and hard life - rebuilt 3 times, and used for hunting toy soldiers, tin silhouette animal targets, paper punching, dinosaurs and snails in the backyard along with lots of other stuff.

Still gets let out to play with the kids [big and little]



stephen [but I would still like a Blooper for Christmas]

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jbshack said..
Nerf guns will be the end of me. There are so many bloody nerd bullets flying around my house that i have given up and just ignore them

I just sit quietly in the garage working on my latest project, but if they bring the Nerf war too close to me they get a dart that is on the air compressor blowgun.
It tangs a bit, trust me. :)

repost as the video was deleted!
Least you can walk into a bank with a nerf!

One of my school mates had a plastic M16 and a lever action Winchester,

Both had a speaker built into the stock, the M16 giving out pretty loud single and auto gunfire sound depending on how you pulled the trigger,
The lever on the Winchester had to be cranked between each shot. [pretty sure it gave a ricochet sound too]

Both were pretty good copies - the Winchester was almost identical to his dads 30-30.

stephen

Remember spud guns ?

We used to rebuild cap guns, cast ali six shooters to fire spit balls(balls of chewed up paper) but had to muzzle load the spit balls. Shot about 6'.

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Test pilot 1 said...
We used to rebuild cap guns, cast ali six shooters to fire spit balls(balls of chewed up paper) but had to muzzle load the spit balls. Shot about 6'.

Used to do that to good effect with a simple bicycle pump with balled up paper stuck in the end. Pump-action, literally!

Nothing beats a home made jelly rubber slingshot. Dad gave me 1cm ball bearings once to play marbles. I ended up putting holes into the side fence.

My dad made me a wicked slingshot, me and a mate loaded it up with wicked ball bearings/ cant remember the marble term and I said "watch me shoot it over the house". Dumb arse, didn't compensate and my parents show piece window "rain falling down turquoise" had a 10 inch crack in it that until they sold the house was always mentioned, sigh

Had a lot of fun with an "orange gun" last year on Moreton Island for a bucks weekend

150mm PVC, reducer to 50mm, sparker, any aerosol, oranges or tennis balls.....BOOM!

Exit speed 150-200kph & shoot a tennis ball 75-100m in air.

Wicked for cricket, make Lillee look slow

the kids and I built a 1.2m high trebuchet one weekend that had a 4house brick counterweight. the kids could lob a golfball over 180m (first bounce!!!!).

Picture this :- bucks night out the "lake". Hollow tree stump burning away, put a drill core tube into the burning stump. Elevate other end to around 50 degree angle, slide in a half empty pressure pack and wait for the can to go sailing into the night sky. So, what happens? Can blows out the stump and a shower of burning coals goes everywhere and a couple land on the roof of the club house, slide down the roof into the back of the grooms ute and into his swag which he didnt notice at first as he was laughing at how it hadn't gone according to plan. Everyone was laughing trying to tell him, finally making him aware of the result. After errant coals were disposed, of tube was repositioned andanother pressure pack wasinserted followed by previous can full of stone ballast. rupting can blasted stone laden can 100mtrs+ out onto the lake as did sudsequent can loads. Never seen so many hysterically laughing drunks since eh Landyacht

My favorite toy of my youth that is no longer made, too many kids died on them~


We used to ride them inside of large drain pipes as shown in the movie "Riding Giants", too much fun. Most fun in very long drain pipes where you couldn't see the end, just flying down a dark tube, laying on your belly facing forward looking for that little round spot of light off in the distance, signifying the exit of the pipe. Pretty safe actually, in the drain pipes, the kids were getting killed riding them down steep streets, crashing or getting run over while flying thru intersections in the road.

My dad brought me a air riffle and wondered why I shot everything that did't move and tried to hit anything that did move. 500 slugs was never enough and begging for more was a hard task. Train them young they say! But now days it's all computer games controlling battle field robots, who am I kidding how cool to be a kid today.

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Wineman said..

Had a lot of fun with an "orange gun" last year on Moreton Island for a bucks weekend

150mm PVC, reducer to 50mm, sparker, any aerosol, oranges or tennis balls.....BOOM!

Exit speed 150-200kph & shoot a tennis ball 75-100m in air.

Wicked for cricket, make Lillee look slow

I once saw a guy get shot in the face with a taped tennis ball through a lemon cannon at about 25m out. Nearly took his head off.
For me though you cant go passed the good old glove gun. Piece of 25mm pvc pipe with a finger cut off a rubber glove taped over the end. Heaps more accurate than a slingshot.

I have to disagree about the accuracy of the glove gun. I always found that the rubber glove finger would impart spin on the projectile, causing it to curve in flight.

Nearly got suspended at school for glove gun wars with ripe camphor-laurel berries. Hard to deny involvement with purple patches all over your shirt.

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Wineman said..
Had a lot of fun with an "orange gun" last year on Moreton Island for a bucks weekend

150mm PVC, reducer to 50mm, sparker, any aerosol, oranges or tennis balls.....BOOM!

Exit speed 150-200kph & shoot a tennis ball 75-100m in air.

Wicked for cricket, make Lillee look slow

You may want to check the definition of "firearm" before posting that online.

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Mark _australia said..

Wineman said..
Had a lot of fun with an "orange gun" last year on Moreton Island for a bucks weekend

150mm PVC, reducer to 50mm, sparker, any aerosol, oranges or tennis balls.....BOOM!

Exit speed 150-200kph & shoot a tennis ball 75-100m in air.

Wicked for cricket, make Lillee look slow

You may want to check the definition of "firearm" before posting that online.

It's all over the interweb Mark if you put it in a search engine.
Fortunately the group were all safety conscious pilots, doctors & engineers

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Mark _australia said..

Wineman said..
Had a lot of fun with an "orange gun" last year on Moreton Island for a bucks weekend

150mm PVC, reducer to 50mm, sparker, any aerosol, oranges or tennis balls.....BOOM!

Exit speed 150-200kph & shoot a tennis ball 75-100m in air.

Wicked for cricket, make Lillee look slow

You may want to check the definition of "firearm" before posting that online.

Yep don't get caught with one in Vic, definitely firearm, last person I know caught with one was convicted and fined $2,000. Capable of serious injury or death within 20m

my mates used to have one of them spud type guns with the pvc bbq ignition took the bark of a jarrah tree!
reckon this dude be pissing blood! haha


Our generation had tonka trucks (30 years later still in shed )

how about one of these for Macro'





stephen

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Wineman said..

Mark _australia said..

Wineman said..

Had a lot of fun with an "orange gun" last year on Moreton Island for a bucks weekend



150mm PVC, reducer to 50mm, sparker, any aerosol, oranges or tennis balls.....BOOM!



Exit speed 150-200kph & shoot a tennis ball 75-100m in air.



Wicked for cricket, make Lillee look slow

You may want to check the definition of "firearm" before posting that online.

It's all over the interweb Mark if you put it in a search engine.

Fortunately the group were all safety conscious pilots, doctors & engineers

My point was you just spoke of manufacturing (there's one charge), and then possessing and using (second charge), an unlicensed firearm - at least it would be in WA and now we see Vic also.
Hey all those bright people you mentioned are really clever and safe I'm sure. However their respective professional associations and certification bodies they are required to be members of sometimes require a police certificate every few years and possessing unlicensed firearm and manufacturing a firearm may raise eyebrows.....
??

I rebuilt an old tonka for my little guy. Just turned one.

^^ THAT

is bloody awesome!