When you where young

[pavman]

Gents,

 

They say confession is good for the sole so now’s your chance to come clean and give us a few laughs to boot. We have all done stupid things when we where young that we now regret so lets share our shame and be dammed. Fields sports related please.

 

When I was about 12 we used to fish an old sand pit in Essex, whilst floating bread for small carp, the swans kept nicking our bait. To prove we where double hard from hell we invented a test of courage, kneel on the small bridge that went to a pump and entice the swans to reach up for out held bread crusts, then grab them by the neck and hang on for as long as you could.

 

Bear in mind that grandma had told us a swan can break your arm with its wing and that fact that we where only 10 or 12 it all adds up to a real test of courage.

 

Now older and wiser I repent and seek forgiveness.

 

pavman

[BountyHunter]

My mates and I used to shoot snails and slugs when we were young. One particular day I walked up to a snail that was sunning itself on a wall and shot it point blank with a .177 Daisy (i think..) anyway, the pellet at close range displaced the snails innards....all over my face, it was grim.

 

BH

[Cranfield]

We use to go round the ditches on the marshes, with meat skewers and old sharpened kitchen knives lashed to willow poles (like a spear).

 

By stamping along the banks we could flush water rats out of their holes and they would swim along the bank under water.

The skill was in judging the correct amount of lead to give the bubbles, to ensure you speared them.

 

It also worked with the occasional moorhen.

 

Thats what comes of living in the middle of nowhere and making our own entertainment. :thumbs:

[bobt]

When we were young we would go "bush" for a week or so in the summer holidays, camping in a feild corner, eating what we could shoot with the air rifles or scrounge, I remember the farmer sort of adopted us one year when he found 6 12 to 14 yr olds in his field :thumbs:

 

He had us fixing fences and rounding cattle up we loved it.

 

had to go to hospital once when my mate shot my thumbnail off when he missed the stick I was holding.

[magman]

used to catch frogs to race in the silage pit when empty

losing frog used to be kicked as high as possible :*)

[mikky]

i grew up in Kenya,after the rains the frogs used to come out on the lawn,my dad used to flick his cigarette onto the grass,the frogs thinking it was a firefly used to come jumping over scoff the fag ...jump about like mad and cark it.cruel..but funny as foook :thumbs:

[Maori Haz]

When on holiday in France, we were playing games outisde the caravan by candlelight and on the ground there were big ants (giant ones) and because of my hatred to them i used to put them in the candle wax where they would shake and die or sometimes shake and like fizzes and bounce around the candle. Mean but they were annoying and i was little. They were then molded into the candle as like a memorial. :thumbs: cruel i know

[Cranfield]

Evenings spent in the barns with a large torch and old tennis rackets.

A noise would disturb the roosting sparrows who would fly at the light................you can guess the rest. :thumbs:

[mossy835]

when i was young me and i mate lived near a big clay pit at the weekend no one around we used to get the newts from the big pond lie them on the line that carry the clay carts roll the carts over the newts funny at the time.

Edited December 9, 2005 by mossy835

[mossy835]

another we went into the river caught a fish got a thorn from the hedge and pined the fish to a phone pole.

[kip270]

In the summer time, i used to venture out with my huge magnifying glass and sit and zap all the little bugs,ants,woodlice, any little creature i came across :*) (made a funny cracking noise though)

[Ferret Master]

Hi,

 

From what I'm reading ( I'm still young) I'm an angel! :thumbs:

 

FM

 

P.S Although it was all in the past it might not be the best place on a public forum read by antis who will twist and manipulate this infomation to talk about things like this. It sort of puts us in a bad light despite you only being young at the time.

[kirky640]

i go with the master on this one the townie bu--ers dont need amo we do

they will never under stand until they are hungery !!

the early bird gets the worm but the 2nd mouse gets the cheese think on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbs:

kirky

[mossy835]

yes but we had some kind of fun in our life they have not got a life. :thumbs:

[digger]

*** ? hello all antis,here is some propoganda,use it as you see fit.

no disrespect to those who replied but ***,lets just all say "yes,i was a cruel kid but now i have grown up"

wise words from ferret master,****,who needs to feed the antis after seeing this topic.no killjoy,just dont see the need to advertise being a tad nasty as a kid.

whose first up to confess to killing a kitten ? anyone for drowning a puppy ? no ? then dont feed the hand that will bite you.*** if you want to boast of being a nasty dont do it on this forum :<

[SNAKEBITE]

I can honestly say that as a kid I never did anything to harm animal except for the time I put a dozen or so sticklebacks in my grandads ornamental pond and they killed all his gold fish! It was years before he got rid of all the stickies!

 

It was only later in life that I have become a bunny murdering scumbag :thumbs: !

 

As for the vein of the thread then unfortunatly I can say I had chicken last night and the antis are going to have a go at me! T0$$ers.

[Enzo]

mossy835, with regard to your experiments on the clay wagon tracks - is that what they refer to as 'NEWTons' third law?

 

If something heavy rolls over your head, you will be squashed?? :thumbs:

 

With regard to anyone reading about my past and seriously wanting to do something about it - let me save you the bother. Just post your e-mail addy and I'll send you a copy of my psychiatric profile!!!

 

Keep 'em coming all - and I thought I was troubled?

 

Enzo

Edited December 10, 2005 by Enzo

[lurcherboy]

I thought about posting my childhood antics, but then thought better of it; I don't want to go to prison :thumbs:

 

Like all yours though, you nutters!!!!

 

 

 

LB

[ROB REYNOLDS UK]

no comment

[BountyHunter]

Well I consider my wrist well and truly slapped.

 

BH

[Paul in North Lincs.]

......All of the aforementioned

 

along with drinking straws and frog... need I say any more.

 

 

Bats... We would have been about 10... we'd nick me dads fly rod and tie about 12ft of line and a trout flie on the end usin 30 granny knots.

 

down to Nobby Hall we'd troop (local country park). When it started to get get dark in the fields net to the old hall the fly would be swung above our heads using the rod, and now and again we would pin the odd bat that radared in on it circling in the sky!!!!

 

 

.........happy days eh.........

[Dunkield]

DON'T try this at home kids but...

 

1) We used to get 2 HUGE bolts and nut that fitted.

Screw the nut halway onto one bolt and fill the hole up with the end off Swan vesta's. The carefully screw the other bolt in as far as you dare and drop the whole lot of the garage roof onto the drive.

 

The force of the explosion would strip the threads off one of the bolts or the nut, very frightning, and very stupid :*)

 

2) Get a piece of copper pipe an hammer the end over.

Whittle a stick to fit in the end, just.

Light a banger and wait until it fizzed and drop it down the tube, shove the stick in very quickly and hold at arms length - even more stupid that the first one

[pavman]

Gents

 

The point is most of us have in our young and foolish days been tw#ts at some stage or another, the fact that we have grown into responsible sporting folk who show respect for our quarry and surroundings speaks volumes, When I was introduced to fied sports I grew up!

 

In the area I am there are plenty of young folk who I am willing to bet commit far worse and will never grow out of it and be able to channel there energy to any good for man or beast and I don’t see any Anti's banging a drum on that front, my local paper is full of reports of old folks being targeted by thugs in the wise words of NTTF

 

Kids that hunt, fish, and trap don't mug little old ladies.

 

pavman