Can you smell it?

[HD]

This was what I grew up with....

[mike89]

me too..  and had fun too.. 

[dakids]

Hell yes!!!

[Leech~~]

It was costly but the bang was worth it!
Use to hit the whole roll at once with a hammer!  Probably why I can't hear anything today? 

[roony]

Huh?

[birdswacker]

It was costly but the bang was worth it!
Use to hit the whole roll at once with a hammer!  Probably why I can't hear anything today? 

X2

[Jerkbiat]

Oh yes for sure!!!!

[dutchboy]

Cap guns. Yep can smell it yet today. Funny thing, I quit smoking over 30 years ago, I still have days I can taste a Winston right before I lit it up.

And yet I can't tell you what I did all day Friday.   

[LPS]

I quit in '87 and can still taste them sometimes.  Best thing I ever did was quitting them.  I used to have a cap gun too.  Everyone did.  Fun toys.

[roony]

you'll! Quit the Pall Malls 21 years ago. I can't believe what people are paying for smokes these day.
If I remember right, a box with 5 rolls of caps was a nickel.

[Dotch]

I don't recall the price but we usually got them at Ben Franklin or the V Store. Somewhere in the boxes of stuff I brought home from Mom's last fall are my two Matt Dillon cap pistols. 

[Steve-o]

I played with cap guns and hit caps with hammers.  Then just as I was growing out the toy gun stage they came out with these disk thingies.  I remember my dad telling me those things were almost as expensive as .22 bullets - and he probably wasn't far off.

When did caps go away in Minnesota?

[Leech~~]

I played with cap guns and hit caps with hammers.  Then just as I was growing out the toy gun stage they came out with these disk thingies.  I remember my dad telling me those things were almost as expensive as .22 bullets - and he probably wasn't far off.

When did caps go away in Minnesota?

I remember when these came out. Lots louder then plan caps. And yea costs lots more and you had to get a different gun, but I did! 

[roony]

I played with cap guns and hit caps with hammers.  Then just as I was growing out the toy gun stage they came out with these disk thingies.  I remember my dad telling me those things were almost as expensive as .22 bullets - and he probably wasn't far off.

When did caps go away in Minnesota?

I remember when these came out. Lots louder then plan caps. And yea costs lots more and you had to get a different gun, but I did! 

Rich Kids.

[snow1]

Yup great memories,almost forgot until this thread,these new caps are great for training young bird dogs,less crack than a starter pistol.And oh yeah,the hammer on the cap roll.guess it was in all of our gens growing up.

any of you old timer's make smoke bombs out of farmer match heads tapped inside two bottle caps? My crew were piro's back in the 50's funny how long certain walk's of life hang with a guy.

[glenn57]

nope. dont remember then.........i was an alter boy growing up!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dotch]

Never did the bottle cap thing but took a metal ballpoint pen body, the spring & a bobby pin then stuck a stick match in it. Put the bobby pin thru the spring, pulled the ends of it thru the narrow end of the pen body, bend the ends so it didn't pull back thru & voila! Instant stink bomb. Pull the bobby pin striking the head on the match and pew! Let one of those babies go during a boring filmstrip and the lights came on shortly thereafter.

[markn]

Never did the bottle cap thing but took a metal ballpoint pen body, the spring & a bobby pin then stuck a stick match in it. Put the bobby pin thru the spring, pulled the ends of it thru the narrow end of the pen body, bend the ends so it didn't pull back thru & voila! Instant stink bomb. Pull the bobby pin striking the head on the match and pew! Let one of those babies go during a boring filmstrip and the lights came on shortly thereafter.

Friend of mine did that pen trick on the school bus one afternoon. Driver tossed us off the bus and made us walk to the last mile home. Not sure any school bus driver would do anything like that now. 

[Leech~~]

I remember when these came out. Lots louder then plan caps. And yea costs lots more and you had to get a different gun, but I did! 

Rich Kids.

Bahaha, so you've been the same since you were 10-too! 

Well add that we got Gov, cheese and reduces school lunches.  But I had a paper route and never stopped working a day since. 

[roony]

I remember when these came out. Lots louder then plan caps. And yea costs lots more and you had to get a different gun, but I did! 

Rich Kids.

Bahaha, so you've been the same since you were 10-too! 

Well add that we got Gov, cheese and reduces school lunches. 

We never took no welfare

[Leech~~]

I remember when these came out. Lots louder then plan caps. And yea costs lots more and you had to get a different gun, but I did! 

Rich Kids.

Bahaha, so you've been the same since you were 10-too! 

Well add that we got Gov, cheese and reduces school lunches. 

We never took no welfare

Then back at ya-Rich Kid! 

[roony]

Maybe if you had used the el cheapo caps your family wouldn't have had to be on welfare. :-)

[LPS]

We got big chunks of commodity cheese from the in laws.  Best cheese ever!!!

[Leech~~]

Maybe if you had used the el cheapo caps your family wouldn't have had to be on welfare. :-)

Wow, we really weren't on welfare just got a few benny's for not making as much as your family.  It's ok we all ended up ok later in life. 

Thing that hurts here, is you are usually the bleeding heart libber who stands up for all the poor and down trodden lefty stuff.  But then make fun of others less
fortunate?      

[roony]

Maybe if you had used the el cheapo caps your family wouldn't have had to be on welfare. :-)

Wow, we really weren't on welfare just got a few benny's for not making as much as your family.  It's ok we all ended up ok later in life. 

Thing that hurts here, is you are usually the bleeding heart libber who stands up for all the poor and down trodden lefty stuff.  But then make fun of others less
fortunate?      

Wrong on both counts but not surprising.