ips Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 (edited) Dads, eh? I got a rollicking of mine for bringing a rabbit home with 3 pellets in it. "What the devil do you think you were playing at?" "It was wounded in a big bramble patch and I couldn't get to it and it wouldn't keep still when I tried to finish it." "Fair enough, I'll get you something because that will not happen again. Just make sure you break the high jump record next week." Next week comes and we're +2&1/2". A few days later, compliments of the Exchange and Mart my machete arrives. Come saturday and I'm walking past the bank and post office with this in its sheath hanging from my belt and the air rifle under my arm - all of 13 years old. Nowadays I'd be in a care home and father would be inside.Ha, yep I always had a sheath knife on my person in the early 70s. Be locked up nowWe were even less well off, my dad got me an empty box and told me it was an action man deserter....**** alright..........top trumps now...... 1/- WAR MAGS.......................best read with your mates and loads of bubblegum...... I still have a small collection of "commando" mags. I found them in mums loft a year or so ago, oh and a full box of "guns review" from mid 70s Edited September 3, 2017 by ips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scutt Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 A clothes peg two rubber bands from bottle top stoppers two bent hair clips and you had a gun that fired matchsticks only the posh kids had cap guns . A test of courage me mothers crocodile hair grips on ya finger for the count of ten . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Making a "tank" with an old cotton reel, a matchstick, a rubber band, a candle end as the lubricating bearing and a tack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ips Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Making a "tank" with an old cotton reel, a matchstick, a rubber band, a candle end as the lubricating bearing and a tack. Forgot about that too 😁 Brilliant thread for anyone over 50 this 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger-Mouse Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 We were even less well off, my dad got me an empty box and told me it was an action man deserter.... :lol: Brilliant! Top Trumps I remember, cap bombs too. Scraping match heads into a pen lid and using a full match as the fuse, can't remember what we called those but they went off with a bang. No idea what the OP is on about though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Aah, things going off with a bang - we had better not get into the delights of weedkiller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthedark Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Was anyone foolish enough to do the two big bolts wound into a nut full of match heads then tossed into the air (high into the air for additional running time :-) ). Never found both bolts, ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loriusgarrulus Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 The best was drilling a hole in a chalk and inserting a match in. When a teacher who was a furious scribbler on the blackboard got going it wasn't long before it ignited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampire Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 (edited) Did a lot of these,thats a long while ago. Bolt bangers,i got them band in school Huge ball bearing playing marbles,i lost mine to the school champ but i kept it anyway Throwing arrows,string wrapped round shaft and cardboard flights,they went a good distance. Hong kong fuey go cart Summer holidays that lasted forever and winter when it really snowed Raliegh chopper Yamaha fs1e,selling for £4000 now. Harp lager and pool. Mk1 escort and bob slieghing with it down snow drifted hill on country lane Mk3 capri (they thought drifting was a new thing )and girls and into debt Boy to man Edited September 3, 2017 by vampire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisdom Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Was anyone foolish enough to do the two big bolts wound into a nut full of match heads then tossed into the air (high into the air for additional running time :-) ). Never found both bolts, ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisdom Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Yes I remember them very well the bigger the bolt the better.Bit of a swine if it went off on your last matched and you had to start all over again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 Aah, things going off with a bang - we had better not get into the delights of weedkiller. We used to use fertilizer as a base oh and could get some very dramatic flash burn ups from powdered milk. Not too surprising that I went in to Bomb Disposal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 I remember folding a cigarette packet and pegging it to the bar on my bike, so that it would catch the spokes and make a great sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TriBsa Posted September 3, 2017 Report Share Posted September 3, 2017 We used to use fertilizer as a base oh and could get some very dramatic flash burn ups from powdered milk. Not too surprising that I went in to Bomb Disposal! Days of innocence, when Boots the Chemist used to sell Potassium Nitrate to kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 likewise! Used love playing that with my dad as a kid. It would often come out at Christmas. Blimey that brings back memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 Yep, 4 of em. Was made up when 'grip hands' came out as they could hold stuff proper, not like the original plastic hands. PsSo who will own up to action man.We were not well off when dad left the raf, action man was quite expensive in 1971 but dad came hone from work one day with a pressie (for no reason) it was action man copy called (I think) "Tommy" he got it off Wigan market. I thought it was better than action man but only because my dad bought it for me (RIP dad ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 Aah, things going off with a bang - we had better not get into the delights of weedkiller. yup.... dont even go down that road.........its a bloody mirical im still alive ...and those around me.....crazy ...crazy....crazy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 What about those spinning wooden bobbins that were whipped into action by a string on a stick? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 What about those spinning wooden bobbins that were whipped into action by a string on a stick? never could get the hang of them...........you had to start em by winding the string around the top and flicking it /pulling at the same time....they usually ended up 30ft away from where i wanted... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 Pocket money. 6d. Saturday morning pictures and a 1/4 lb of aniseed balls and you're nigh on brassic. But help was at hand in the form of the army. One of my playgrounds was Woodbury Common and as we lived at the higher side of town even if the wind was in the wrong direction you could still see the thunderflashes go off. First thing next morning it was on your bike laden down with back packs, side packs and any other ex WD packs you'd managed to acquire. Knew the place like the back of my hand so was aware of where the Bren Gunners had been placed so it didn't take too long to fill said packs, strap them on the bike anywhere you could and yourself and free wheel all the way back into town. Talk about overloaded, there was no way with the weight you could stop if anything got in your way. Naturally, every other kid was at it so it paid not to be too greedy, making sure you were the first to get to the scrappy as once he twigged what was coming the price of 303 cases fell considerably. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subsonicnat Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 truth time now.......just remembered.......... got given an ace cap gun for birthday from my uncle..(he was in Burma during the war) and always showing me stuff how to kill japs etc;......... antway this cap gun ...think it was called "the lone star"....looked like a colt peacemaker with a smith&wesson cylinder release (i know now)....it had 5 what looked like 45cal ACP shells in it ...you dug the end into a spud...and loaded a cap into the other end..(i used 2 ) and that had a small hole in where the cap went....loaded them into the revolver.... didnt have it for very long as i shot my dad in the rear when he was filling the coal bucket up in the coal shed...i ambushed him as i was saving prisoners from the japs... imagination............cost me a sore ear. Your on about a SPUD GUN,Ditchman, Now you are tickling my senses,lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthedark Posted September 4, 2017 Report Share Posted September 4, 2017 Throwing arrows,string wrapped round shaft and cardboard flights,they went a good distance. They were immense . Did they really go a couple of hundred yards, or have I got wagon wheel syndrome? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Ps So who will own up to action man. We were not well off when dad left the raf, action man was quite expensive in 1971 but dad came hone from work one day with a pressie (for no reason) it was action man copy called (I think) "Tommy" he got it off Wigan market. I thought it was better than action man but only because my dad bought it for me (RIP dad ) I had one of those action man copies and yes it was called Tommy Gunn I think. He was exactly the same size so the equipment and clothes could be interchanged. Remember the Action Man parachute with long ripcord so you could throw it high in the air (or drop it off of a building) and pull the cord. Never really worked. Or the deep sea diving outfit with the rubber tube you could blow down to make bubbles when in the bath! I had loads of Action Man stuff. Always wanted one of the tanks though but never got one. There is a toy museum near me. Haven't been for years but will try to go again soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonker Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 We used to make darts out of pins with length's of cotton doubled end then whipped on with more cotton to make a flight, similar to the old air gun darts. We used to fire them from a biro tube like a blowpipe.You could get it through a blazer at school. I got the cane a lot as well , can't understand why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Can anyone remember 'booby' arrows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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