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No comment Pellet Guns and M80`s now were talking!

 

I found it pretty much impossible to hit anything with a sling shot.

 

Dad taught me and my brother how to whittle sling shots as kids. We used surgical rubber band and a leather boot pull to build them. Many moons ago!

 

Funny. I was walking through my local Ace Hardware the other day and there was a Crossman wrist rocket on the shelf in this little camping supply section. It was $9 so I gave it a good home. Gonna practice with it a bit and then show that cute little skunk that cruises the camp spot we always get locally at the lake where we've been taking our new travel trailer. Just a little love tap to remind him who's boss until he sprays my shit.

 

If i posted this already, here you go again. Remember slap chop?

 

My Labrador is a well trained gun dog. Like yours, he was ALL ABOUT retrieving the morning paper but after a number of years, that rag went off the reservation and wasn't worthy to wrap a dead fish in it so we canceled. As did damned near everybody else in my hood but when I let Jack out in the morning, he started coming back with a newspaper! Turns out, one of my neighbors about 4 or 5 houses down was still getting his paper and Jack's duty was to retrieve it so, by golly, he did! Took some doing to get him to stop but we filled the void with some new activity.

 

Boxer's story is somewhat similar.... He's a Weimaraner, his name Boxer comes from our many Box turtles. He was 12 weeks old when we got him, and I would take him out with me in the morning when I would get in the paper. On day ten he started running ahead of me and picked up the paper for me. But then if a neighbors paper was there but ours had been missed... he ran a picked up the neighbor's paper. When we would go for morning walks he would pick up anyone's paper that was still in their driveway, and we would have to wrestle it away from him... that was HIS paper! He doesn't do that any more, he finally learned that those are not our papers. Boxer doesn't do guns... he gets deathly afraid of the sound of fireworks, and he doesn't care much for thunder either.

 

They still make those? Asking for a friend.

 

Amazon says yes


https://www.amazon.com/COZZYWARE-Ch...d=1660953468&sprefix=slap+chop,aps,188&sr=8-5

 

I had several .

On some if you rewound the roll you could double them up.

 

Destroyed a few .02 bottles with my “wrist rocket “, fun was worth the lost revenue. Besides my paper route had a side hussle collecting empty bottles.$$$$$$

 

My rolls never fed correctly out of the gun. You'd have to pull them through and line them up with the firing pin.

 

I rocked the "Fanner 50" myself.

 

I never had one personally but relatives did

 

Successful feeding on those guns was largely a factor of the quality of the caps.

 

Truth. I had the revolver style as well that used the ring caps.

 

We usually ended up just smashing them with rocks.

 

Remember when edible cardboard was all the rage?