Kid with a gun

[Andy Taylor]

Originally posted by Smitty500Mag:
I was still a little to young to have a real gun here here but I was practicing anyway. I see a shadow of my Grandpa at the bottom right of the photo. I think that was on Christmas Day in 1953. Can't hardly read the date at the top.

Smitty

Looks like Leon from the Andy Griffith Show.

 

[Smitty500Mag]

Originally posted by bettis1:
Smitty, it's strange how kids seem to have parallel lives. We used to make the same type of pipe mortars with cherry bombs except we didn't have any batteries. We sure had a lot of corn cobs though and we'd fire them up into the hay loft of my grandfather's barn. Never gave a thought to the fact that we could easily have burned that old structure down in an instant.

Bob

Sure is. Now a days they'd throw you in jail for doing what we used to do. To bad the kids today will never know the joys in the art of bomb making.

Did you ever take a CO2 cartridge and stuff it full of gun powder and stick a cherry bomb fuse in the end of the little hole on the end of the cartridge. That fuse would fit perfectly. Made a great little hand bomb. It took a while using a match stick stuffing powder in the little hole but it was worth it.

As for the batteries we used for ammo my Grandpa owned a boat dock and was a commercial fisherman. He used a lot of batteries in his flash lights that I was able to get my hands on.

My uncle taught me how to do most of the stuff I got into. He also taught me how to get minnows to fish with by using cherry bombs as bait.

Actually M-80s worked better for that because you could tie them to a rock or something heavy a lot easier. Then you light them and drop them into the water and then watch the water boil up and then the minnows came to the top swimming in circles. All you had to do was scoop them up with a net.

Smitty

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by moolan1: To KKG again. Definately a different kind of people down here...

Yep, the South does seem to produce some right fine folks. We're kind of looking at the NM area since we've managed to spend a bit of time down there and found some good folks in that area too.

 

[Trooperdan]

Back in the '50's, those cherry bombs and TNT Bombs were serious stuff! AFIR, the cherry bombs would clear about 12" diameter circle in the lawn, just bare ground! With one of those powerful Wrist Rockets and a buddy to light the fuse we had crew-served artillery! That slingshot would put a cherry bomb up about 150 feet I think!
Good grief, I don't know why the adults didn't just kill us all; we used to do battle with the little lady fingers IN THE HOUSE!