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(130,915 posts)You'll shoot your eye out!!!
trof
(54,256 posts)GURLS didn't GET BB guns.
They got dolls and stuff.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Also had a 22 rifle. 1957.
trof
(54,256 posts)I didn't get a .22 until I was about 18 or 19 and bought my own.
I was born in 1941.
elleng
(130,915 posts)but a real rifle (in summer camp, TAUGHT riflery!!!)
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Yonnie3
(17,442 posts)I still have it. Spring loaded and it could shoot a BB all of 10 feet.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)because he "would shoot his eye out". I quizzed my grandparents separately for confirmation and when I asked them why my dad couldn't have one they both said word for word and matter of factly, "He'd shoot his eye out". We still laugh over it.
What is "a compass, a stalk, and a thing which tells time"? I can't figure that out.
trof
(54,256 posts)The 'thing that tells time' was a sundial?
Canoe52
(2,948 posts)My dad told me about how he and his brothers would shot their BB guns at each other in little mini battles, which is probably why we never had any.