Thread: How did we ever survive growing up in the 60s-80s?

Bugger cap guns , when i was a kid i had a slug gun for birds in the orchid and a 22 rifle for getting rabbits , nothing like braised bunny.

You could walk into the Mick Simmonds store in Parramatta and buy a 22 no licence req and carry it home on the buss , imagine the **** that would cause to-day .
Glad i was born back then and not now .

G`day

Cap guns , Spud guns , Cracker guns ( had to make them yourself ) , Slug guns , 22 for rabbits and all at primary school age .

Back then though parents laid down the rules and uses, which meant something and i guess we were taught the difference between right and wrong .

Originally Posted by trog

Loud fast rock and roll. Never to be outgrown , in fact treating myself to a pre birthday bash with the cosmic psychos tonite 😈

Happy Birthday! Wish I had have known, would have gone too!

Originally Posted by Fatso

Bugger cap guns , when i was a kid i had a slug gun for birds in the orchid and a 22 rifle for getting rabbits , nothing like braised bunny.

You could walk into the Mick Simmonds store in Parramatta and buy a 22 no licence req and carry it home on the buss , imagine the **** that would cause to-day .
Glad i was born back then and not now .

Yep.... I bought my .22 air rifle at K-Mart and carried it all around the shopping centre before catching the bus home!

For most of my years in High-school, once a month I travelled by public transport from NW Sydney to Long Bay range for the school's military rifle club, carrying a 303 both ways. Not a single eyebrow raised or any comments. (The rifle was minus the bolt, but this was not necessarily obvious - the teacher/supervisor carried the bolts)

John

On the farm I had a shotgun, a. 22 and a slug gun to play with. Crows in the corn were favourite targets. The neighbors complained about the holes in their roof. Apparently what goes up also comes down...

Hi,
Black powder, blasting powder, percussion caps, Aluminium powder, Zinc dust, Amonium Nitrate, yellow detonator fuse could all be bought at the local hardware shop, in school uniform too.
They needed a note for detonators.
Chemist would sell the ingredients for Nitrogen Iodide and Thermite (I won't list them here)

Two inch galvanised piping with a cap made a beaut black powder cannon, or two caps for a Bangalore torpedo.

Amazing I survived it all.

Cheers

We used to do the same with PVC pipe and caps. Black powder, gun powder, and waterproof wick could be bought at any gun shop at any age all in the same basket and the clerk's didn't blink an eye.....