In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
BB Gun Wars
gearheaddad
Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
Rack-Ops thread got me thinking about our summer time BB Gun wars.
We would split into 2 teams and after an hour so of serious combat someone would yell the secret code and all of us would turn on Gary, a kid that always came to the wars and drove us all crazy! He usually would climb a tree and act like a sniper. That was always a big mistake!!! It didn't matter who's team he was on, he was treated as a bad Lieutenant and everybody shot the hell out of him!!
Middle of summer, 2 pairs of heavy pants, 2 t shirts and 2 sweat shirts!! Double up on sunglasses and aim from mid torso down.
No pump up guns just single shot and cock BB Guns.
Great times!
Anyone else ever participate in BB Gun wars?
We would split into 2 teams and after an hour so of serious combat someone would yell the secret code and all of us would turn on Gary, a kid that always came to the wars and drove us all crazy! He usually would climb a tree and act like a sniper. That was always a big mistake!!! It didn't matter who's team he was on, he was treated as a bad Lieutenant and everybody shot the hell out of him!!
Middle of summer, 2 pairs of heavy pants, 2 t shirts and 2 sweat shirts!! Double up on sunglasses and aim from mid torso down.
No pump up guns just single shot and cock BB Guns.
Great times!
Anyone else ever participate in BB Gun wars?
Comments
I have great memories of BB gun wars in our neighborhood back in the mid 60's. Same rules, lots of clothes, safety goggles or even a welding hood were used by all. Good times, imagine such a thing going on now [}:)][:(!]
Well now we have paintball....way more fun and much safer! And still leaves good welts to boot. The best shots are in the face mask and the filling goes through the air holes and they get a mouth full!
last time we had one my brother stuck his head out just as I fired hit him right between the eyes dead center, raised a big old knot and scared me
as we were going in the house he banged the storm door acted like it flipped back and got him.
I decided it was too stupid to continue having bb gun fights ..
I have worked with two people in my life , that were blind in one eye over being shot with a bb gun . early on
sure made me think how damn lucky we all were
quote:Originally posted by William81
I have great memories of BB gun wars in our neighborhood back in the mid 60's. Same rules, lots of clothes, safety goggles or even a welding hood were used by all. Good times, imagine such a thing going on now [}:)][:(!]
Well now we have paintball....way more fun and much safer! And still leaves good welts to boot. The best shots are in the face mask and the filling goes through the air holes and they get a mouth full!
I have never had the chance to do the paint ball thing, but I bet it would be a hoot !![:D]
quote:Originally posted by kidthatsirish
quote:Originally posted by William81
I have great memories of BB gun wars in our neighborhood back in the mid 60's. Same rules, lots of clothes, safety goggles or even a welding hood were used by all. Good times, imagine such a thing going on now [}:)][:(!]
Well now we have paintball....way more fun and much safer! And still leaves good welts to boot. The best shots are in the face mask and the filling goes through the air holes and they get a mouth full!
I have never had the chance to do the paint ball thing, but I bet it would be a hoot !![:D]
Oh it's a blast....espicially if you shoot your buddy in his butt with pink paintballs!
quote:Originally posted by William81
quote:Originally posted by kidthatsirish
quote:Originally posted by William81
I have great memories of BB gun wars in our neighborhood back in the mid 60's. Same rules, lots of clothes, safety goggles or even a welding hood were used by all. Good times, imagine such a thing going on now [}:)][:(!]
Well now we have paintball....way more fun and much safer! And still leaves good welts to boot. The best shots are in the face mask and the filling goes through the air holes and they get a mouth full!
I have never had the chance to do the paint ball thing, but I bet it would be a hoot !![:D]
Oh it's a blast....espicially if you shoot your buddy in his butt with pink paintballs!
Knuckles and nipples, two of the most painful places to get hit![:0]
Rack-Ops thread got me thinking about our summer time BB Gun wars.
We would split into 2 teams and after an hour so of serious combat someone would yell the secret code and all of us would turn on Gary, a kid that always came to the wars and drove us all crazy! He usually would climb a tree and act like a sniper. That was always a big mistake!!! It didn't matter who's team he was on, he was treated as a bad Lieutenant and everybody shot the hell out of him!!
Middle of summer, 2 pairs of heavy pants, 2 t shirts and 2 sweat shirts!! Double up on sunglasses and aim from mid torso down.
No pump up guns just single shot and cock BB Guns.
Great times!
Anyone else ever participate in BB Gun wars?
That's what happened to me!
They're problem with me though, was that I knew every inch of the desert we were playing in and they could never shoot me, so they decided to get everyone to come after me!
I still never got hit![:D]
quote:Originally posted by kidthatsirish
quote:Originally posted by William81
quote:Originally posted by kidthatsirish
quote:Originally posted by William81
I have great memories of BB gun wars in our neighborhood back in the mid 60's. Same rules, lots of clothes, safety goggles or even a welding hood were used by all. Good times, imagine such a thing going on now [}:)][:(!]
Well now we have paintball....way more fun and much safer! And still leaves good welts to boot. The best shots are in the face mask and the filling goes through the air holes and they get a mouth full!
I have never had the chance to do the paint ball thing, but I bet it would be a hoot !![:D]
Oh it's a blast....espicially if you shoot your buddy in his butt with pink paintballs!
Knuckles and nipples, two of the most painful places to get hit![:0]
I got hit in the kneecap on a 20 degree. That was the worst that I had. We spent so much of our childhood shooting at each other.
quote:Originally posted by gearheaddad
Rack-Ops thread got me thinking about our summer time BB Gun wars.
We would split into 2 teams and after an hour so of serious combat someone would yell the secret code and all of us would turn on Gary, a kid that always came to the wars and drove us all crazy! He usually would climb a tree and act like a sniper. That was always a big mistake!!! It didn't matter who's team he was on, he was treated as a bad Lieutenant and everybody shot the hell out of him!!
Middle of summer, 2 pairs of heavy pants, 2 t shirts and 2 sweat shirts!! Double up on sunglasses and aim from mid torso down.
No pump up guns just single shot and cock BB Guns.
Great times!
Anyone else ever participate in BB Gun wars?
That's what happened to me!
They're problem with me though, was that I knew every inch of the desert we were playing in and they could never shoot me, so they decided to get everyone to come after me!
I still never got hit![:D]
What? No Peach Orchard charges?!!!!!!!!![:D][:D][:D]
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
my brother I did the same except the screen door part
I would bet more kids also had the same thought [}:)][}:)]
quote:Originally posted by hillbille
we used to cock the lever action one shots and slip a kitchen match down the barrell shoot it on sidewalk and it would light. then we got braver and would shoot the matches at flies on the screened in back porch, till they tore the screen so bad we got our butts blistered for that. Then the ultimate, we took the used kitchen matches and shoved a sewing needle in the end and shot them at each other, now those stung if you hit bare skin, would go thru clothes but not as far......[;)]
We burned one old house down when we added bottle rockets into the mix.
I remember the you will "shoot your eye out be careful" but that was about it / even the city LEO who had a talk with me on 1st day I had mine just told me I could not shoot it in city limits take it home ( of course officer [;)][}:)] )
now a "real" gun was a completely different category and had strict rules .
when my kids came along all guns had the same rules and all treated like they could kill someone
I also had cousins ( Hatfield's honest , in Tennessee who would shoot 22's I watched them do it one would hold a target in his hand the other would shoot it out than reverse the shooter /holder . positions
I was just a young kid but even that to me was stupid
I went for head and face shots. Most would quit or surrender before I shot, but some of the weaker in the heads ones required a head shot first.
They wanted to gang up on me but could not get past the return fire and pain.
Noticed that I had lots of kids that claimed to be my friend after the fight, that I could not really trust.[;)] Still have to watch out for such even today.[;)]
If they come after your guns, give them your bullets and BB's first.[;)]