Weapons From Your Youth,

[daytripping]

I was discussing earlier some of the weapons from my youth, looking back it's surprising no one was killed or injured badly as we used to carry a fair quota of artillery.

 

Black widow catapults were always a favourite.

 

 

Gat guns as well were a regular in the pocket of any youth!

 

 

And most kids had easy access to various lock knifes, this was pre the days they were used to stab each other, any more weapons of choice from your early years?

 

[Bluto10]

my mind.

 

[daytripping]

Pea shooter for shooting roddie berries, we used to collect black bags full of berries to fire off,

 

Couldn't find a pic of the old colours, white rod, red face.

 

Looked like this, could give a fair sting with a direct hit.

 

[DD1903]

Water pistols, spud guns and water balloons

[daytripping]

Kids these days sitting in their bedrooms playing COD don't know they're born, it was real urban warfare in the old days.

[Red Dragon]

Spud guns were ace.

 

[granite sheep]

Air rifles, bangers in a tin can, playing armies in the woodies, making ramps fae planks and breeze blocks......

 

Aye, kids these days, no knowledge of real urban action!!!

[DD1903]

Bangers were brilliant. Ah the days

[bonzodaddy73]

My weapon of choice was "shit on a stick"

Nothing struck fear like it..

[daytripping]

If you found a set of these bads boys at the dump production in the shed went into full swing before a racing machine emerged the next day.

 

[daytripping]

Dropping one of these in the old indoor market provided minutes of amusement.

 

[looksgoodinred]

[daytripping]

Got to agree with the bangers shout.....they really used to sell these to kids,

 

[Guest milne_afc]

You can still get black widows in Aberdeen. The diving shop on Waterloo Quay has them for about £15. They also do a fine line in air guns, crossbows and balaclavas.

[kingofearth81]

a drainpipe and rockets used to make useful homemade bazooka - another old favourite was putting bangers in milk bottles and running like f8ck!

[Ke1t]

I stabbed another kid in the neck with a biro while he was attempting to batter me, and when I took my hand away it was sticking in there like a little blue arrow.

 

That ended the scuffle pretty quickly.

 

I got into a fair bit of trouble for that, as it transpired.

 

Fuck him... he started it.

[ollie1903]

A Millwall Brick did some damage like

[caledonia]

remember this cheap one in school dayts

you could always get the arse lickers/teachers pet who sat at the front

[Dal Riata Don]

The biggest weapon of youth was being young.

[granite sheep]

 

a drainpipe and rockets used to make useful homemade bazooka - another old favourite was putting bangers in milk bottles and running like f8ck!

Ever heard of a hairspray spud cannon? My brother made one of them a good while back, fit a big pipe onto a long thinner one, put a nail into the thinner bit just before the join to keep the spud from falling into the big end, fit a lighter to the end cap, load with a tattie (or silicon gun tube), spray a toot of hair spray into the big bit, screw on the end cap,click the lighter............ Top artillery fun!!!

 

See this place for what I'm on about:

http://www.spudgundepot.com/

[King Street Loon]

Black Widow Catapult and Peas Shooter were my weapons of choice.

[cow]

Not for me. I'm a lover not a baker.

[boboisared]

Fireworks.

 

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[Bluto10]

bad mobbys a bit handy!!??

thinks he's a bit tasty

thats fuckin hilarious.

[Huntlysheep]

My bb gun used for shooting at a the glory hunting Huns & Tims in Huntly watching the grown "hard men" aboot greeting good times.

[Bluto10]

im more of a wordsmith than a swordsmith

i prefer to settle my arguments with a good old debate

[fine-n-dandy]

remember this cheap one in school dayts

you could always get the arse lickers/teachers pet who sat at the front

 

Got a much better squeal from using a paper clip & was easier to aim & could sometimes even draw blood.

Hurt like fuck when you got hit with one of them from most distances but close up was like a fucking air rifle.

 

Used to nick all the teachers supplies

[fine-n-dandy]

Fishing line, condom with petrol over some sort of spike, a candle below it & thread the fishing line through a lit fag (or the candle) & you had the perfect time bomb, allowing plenty time to watch from distance.

 

Burned many a gamekeepers boat shed/lunch cabin with this little gem.

 

Oh the days

[ChutneyLove]

I save up the six quid it cost for a Gat from Browns Fishing Tackle on Belmont Street. Bought it, hid it under my bed because I was afraid my Mum would find it. Used it about twice, lost one of the darts. Sold it for the same as I bought it for. Actually lost money on it when you consider the 10p bus fares it must have cost me to get to town and back.

 

Brown's Fishing Tackle later became the place we would go and get the mannie behind the counter to put bets on for us. He'd go to the Ladbrokes downstairs for us. Me and a pal had to launder our winnings one time when we got a 66-1 winner called Jinxy Jack. We had a quid on between us. Having about 30 quid each (after tax in those days) was a bit of a problem for a pair of 12 year olds. Must have just about bought up most the sweeties in Maxwells on George Street.

[urbanprotection]

Best childhood weapon, after shite on a stick, was bee on a stick.

 

Catch bee in jar.

Put in fridge til it falls asleep from hypothermia

Tie thread round it's waist.

Tie other end to stick

Wait til bee wakes up

Chase friends with angry bee

 

Make sure stick is longer than thread.

 

Shite on a stick was easier.