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re: Anyone remember the outdoor gadgets you loved as a kid?
Posted on 12/14/15 at 3:30 pm to Bleeding purple
Posted on 12/14/15 at 3:30 pm to Bleeding purple
Flip n Klik knife...loved these things.
AND my Benjamin rifle
AND my Benjamin rifle
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Posted on 12/14/15 at 3:31 pm to VernonPLSUfan
You missed out then VP.....everyone in out neck of the wood knew you had to throw those junkass straps and get tubing.....upgrades bo
Posted on 12/14/15 at 3:32 pm to OleBallCoach
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You missed out then VP.....everyone in out neck of the wood knew you had to throw those junkass straps and get tubing.....upgrades bo
copied for future delete... ... ...
Posted on 12/14/15 at 3:34 pm to VernonPLSUfan
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Surgical tubing! We didn't need no stinking surgical tubing.
I used to steal the surgical tubing Dad had in his welding hoods as a tensioner for mine. LOL. Lucky for me...Mom was a nurse.
I also agree with the "survival" knife statements.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 3:36 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger
Ninja stars and butterfly knifes were also great to have. I use to pick up the ninja magazines at the K&B and dream. Remember, "only a ninja can stop a ninja"
Posted on 12/14/15 at 3:37 pm to SportTiger1
Yea, the Benjamin air was the tits. My buddy had one, I had a spring loaded BB gun. I could take em out if they were on the low limbs. My buddy had no limitations on his killing area.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 3:47 pm to VernonPLSUfan
Boomerang, I would throw it till my arm fell off
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:05 pm to Bleeding purple
My hatchet, machete, Benjamin Sheridan, and compass. Those were the only three things I wanted anything to do with for a very large part of my childhood.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:09 pm to REB BEER
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Yep, my wife and I had this discussion the other night about my 11 year old. She thinks he's looking at porn on his ipad because he's been deleting his history. I told her when we were kids, all we had to look at was a stack of playboys stashed out in the woods that all the neighborhood boys knew where they were at.
Well, to be fair, Playboy isn't even in the same league as internet porn
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:32 pm to wickowick
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Ninja stars and butterfly knifes
Blow gun, benjamin .22, compass, magnifying glass for starting fires, sling shot (went by another name when I was a kid).
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:38 pm to Bleeding purple
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... secret to ... outdoor dominance ... 12 y/o or younger?
Banjo minnow.
Still. To this day. Pisses me the f off I saved for that stupid shite.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:38 pm to jorconalx
Benjamin with my Tasco scope, I would shoot out the pecan hulls at the top of the trees in our backyard. Diawa ultra light, beetle spins, and 12 foot jon boats, a fish stringer, and that was about all I needed for 97% of my time.
Other than that, I don't remember any outdoor essentials. An axe was great as I got in my pre teen years....we would chop willows part way down...then one would climb and ride them down as they fell. Then we would build a log cabin....we never got a roof on it, but in our defense we tried to make it about 2400 square foot.
Other than that, I don't remember any outdoor essentials. An axe was great as I got in my pre teen years....we would chop willows part way down...then one would climb and ride them down as they fell. Then we would build a log cabin....we never got a roof on it, but in our defense we tried to make it about 2400 square foot.
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Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:39 pm to jorconalx
This has made me think of things I hadn't in a long time. The homemade ninja stars out of scrap metal were very interesting. My next door neighbor was a tinkerer and made all kinds of weird shite. He even made a mini guillotine. Did you know you can make a pretty mean poison from boiling down a pack of cigarette tobacco into a paste?
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:42 pm to AlxTgr
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Did you know you can make a pretty mean poison from boiling down a pack of cigarette tobacco into a paste?
No I did not. We use to whack the robins around nachman back in the day.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:45 pm to AlxTgr
I coulda made a noose in my sleep at an early age. I suppose Clint Eastwood movies were to blame. Wouldn't last a day in elementary school these days.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:45 pm to Bleeding purple
Got this as a Secret Santa gift at school when I was 10 or 11 (can you imagine how many SWAT teams would be called if that happened today?).
I used it to death, all the way through college (where I'd take out the floodlights of the fraternity house that backed up to ours).
It finally broke after 12 years or so of use. Someone pulling it too far to see if it would break.
Best outdoor gift ever for a kid.
I used it to death, all the way through college (where I'd take out the floodlights of the fraternity house that backed up to ours).
It finally broke after 12 years or so of use. Someone pulling it too far to see if it would break.
Best outdoor gift ever for a kid.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:48 pm to jorconalx
Man, you guys are awesome. This was just what I was looking for.
I remember my BB gun, a swiss army knife, the Rambo knife the GI issued belt and canteen with soup tin on the bottom, binos, and throwing stars.
I remember my BB gun, a swiss army knife, the Rambo knife the GI issued belt and canteen with soup tin on the bottom, binos, and throwing stars.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 4:51 pm to SportTiger1
I grew up so poor all we had was sticks & sometimes they were hard to come by. You would carry around your stick everywhere. When you came upon another stick, you beat the 2 against each other. Very violent battles at times. Usually after 3-4 impacts one stick would rise as a victor. I've had a stick last a couple weeks before & beat down half of the woods.
Posted on 12/14/15 at 6:07 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger
the correct nomenclature was "wrist rocket"
Posted on 12/14/15 at 6:14 pm to cgrand
and bottle rockets...
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