HOW OLD ARE WE???
Hey Guys 😀
I was just sittin here drinking a beer twidling with me belly button (as you do ), thinking about how much of a ‘fringe’ hobby this is. Then i started thinking about how young i was when i first started playing with air rifles. It was the early eighties, i was about 11 or so when i first started playing in the woods with them.
I’m 37 now. I’ve got an air rifle. i go to the woods and play with it.
In 20 years, you’ll find me somewhere, playing with me air rifle.
Roll Call.
Ages please. It can’t be just me whos getting older but still playing… 😕
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i would have thought they would have changed to something else for the propellant in this lawyer happy society today. hell 40-50 years ago, if you blew your hand all to hell doing something like that, your father would just whop you upside the head and call you stupid. now they run and call a lawyer and complain about a dangerous product. like the dry cleaning bags that have “NOT A TOY” written on them D-OH! 🙄
Or your kid calls dhr on you and you go to jail for child abuse.
Got this in an e-mail the other day, so true….
SCHOOL — 1957 vs. 2007
Scenario:
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1957
– Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007
– School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to
jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario:
Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1957
– Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2007 – Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario:
Jeffrey won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.
1957
– Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2007 – Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1957 – Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 – Billy’s dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy’s sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy’s mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1957 – Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 – Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario:
Pedro fails high school English.
1957 – Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007 – Pedro’s cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro’s English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English..
Scenario:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1957 – Ants die.
2007- BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny’s Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1957 – In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 – Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.
This should hit every e-mail to show how stupid we have become!
And if we do not wake up and take our country back – WE will not have a country , nor a society to grow old in or for our children to grow up in
Think about it !
Oh yeah the topic…
I’m 37 going on 21… Just don’t tell my boss! 😆 😉
Parked next to the WMD’s
I used to like California but WTH! When are they gonna stop. It wont be long before its illegal to leave your house without hazmat suits on so you dont spread any germs or drop dead skin cells in the environment.
What ever happened to common sense?
i would have thought they would have changed to something else for the propellant in this lawyer happy society today. hell 40-50 years ago, if you blew your hand all to hell doing something like that, your father would just whop you upside the head and call you stupid. now they run and call a lawyer and complain about a dangerous product. like the dry cleaning bags that have “NOT A TOY” written on them D-OH! 🙄
In Californi you have to get a permit to launch a model rocket, the fire department has to be notified…
One of my buddies was the National Champ and still holds the duration record!! 😀
i would have thought they would have changed to something else for the propellant in this lawyer happy society today. hell 40-50 years ago, if you blew your hand all to hell doing something like that, your father would just whop you upside the head and call you stupid. now they run and call a lawyer and complain about a dangerous product. like the dry cleaning bags that have “NOT A TOY” written on them D-OH! 🙄
Couldn’t let the story of those lights getting out…….
He was fine when he landed again, though did report sightings of strange lights up there…..
Then we gave him to the cat. Way to treat an intrepid test-pilot.
Yup, launched a mouse before!!!!
He was fine when he landed again, though did report sightings of strange lights up there…..
I have one in the garage somewhere I never built, got it a few years ago, i’ll check out the motor and see if I can find anything on the ingredients.
UpTheHill, yeah no way are those motors today propelled by the same stuff.
I always thought is was a hassle using a battery and wire with clips to insert into the motor for ignition, I would just go to the hobby store and pick up a roll of Jet X fuse, or the good water proof fuse and just put a piece of that in the motor nozzle, light it, and get away. That water proof fuse was great, the same fuse you find on Cherry bombs, M-80’s ect. The stuff would burn completley submerged under water. It came red or green with a special coating on it. Came in 2-3 ft rolls. Doubt you’ll find that in the hobby store today.
Propellant for the estes motors is primarily compressed Black Powder, with additives to control burn rate. far as I know, hasn’t changed.
Yeah i read stories of kids putting all kinds of stuff for a payload, mice, bugs ect. I’m not sure a mouse could withstand the G forces when taking off, these things would be hundreds of feet up in like 3 seconds.
UpTheHill, yeah no way are those motors today propelled by the same stuff.
I always thought is was a hassle using a battery and wire with clips to insert into the motor for ignition, I would just go to the hobby store and pick up a roll of Jet X fuse, or the good water proof fuse and just put a piece of that in the motor nozzle, light it, and get away. That water proof fuse was great, the same fuse you find on Cherry bombs, M-80’s ect. The stuff would burn completley submerged under water. It came red or green with a special coating on it. Came in 2-3 ft rolls. Doubt you’ll find that in the hobby store today.
Wasn’t there also 1 that that could carry an egg as it’s pay load? I seem to remember wanting to put a mouse in the payload compartment instead. 😈
oh yeah, i’d forgotten about those.
I did a google search yesterday and Estes is still in business, still making rockets and RC planes. couldn’t figure out what the engines were made from, but can’t imagine it’s made the same as when we were kids.
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Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1957
– Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007
– School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to
jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
a couple of months ago, maybe last fall, a student in jr. high school had the police called and surrounded him for terrorizing with a gun.
it was after school, and he went home and brought back a new crosman 2240 that his dad had just bought him, and he was showing it off to some friends in a park across the street from the school, some jackass saw them and call the police. they let him go after he told them what he was doing. at least the cops in Maine have some common sense left. the caller was probably from one of those “civilized” state south of us.
boy, this thread has wandered all over the place from the original how old are you into a bunch of grumpy old men complaining about the mo-rons 🙄 😆