Thread: More stupidity

Originally Posted by 10-Ring

Biked out, usually with my mate sitting on the crossbar. Passing motorists used to wave to us.

I rest my case! It is a different world we live in now (mores the pity)but I would like to think that in some small corner of the country that still happens.

Originally Posted by Rushy

I rest my case! It is a different world we live in now (mores the pity)but I would like to think that in some small corner of the country that still happens.

Agreed, hope it does.

frankly within arms length seems the safest bloody option from any way you want to view it.

Didnt get up to grabbin a .22 and goin to the dump but hey bows of lancewood with toitoi arows tipped with a nail or as cousins taught us a flattened .303 shell filed to a sharp point accounted for more than a few birds .

can also remember dad shooting possums in his shed .buggers used to come down from bush at back of moana and sit up in the rafters tormenting him as he cut the kindling.his 12g sxs accounted for quite few -maybe thats where my love of jacko shooting came from.

That reminds me -whos up for a good old shanghai-single rubber from old red car tube with a boot tongue as a pouch for ya rock
.hell we had some battles with those.
brother mate and i were up at our bush hut one day ,decided on a bit of fun.me with mates old ww2 tin hat on dives intosome shit in a gulley whilst boys take cover behind a big rimu and it was all on.I had both of em covered with my shots ricocheting off the tree till one of them bowled me arse over elbow with a high velocity rock on the lid.ears rang world spun and it left a dent ,but hey it was a war wound so all was fair.
would i try that today-yup had a shanghai in the garage for quite a while till it disappeared -suspect daughter who may have seen me taking aim at a mangy cat crapping in the wifes flower bed.
my kids wouldnt have clue when it comes to hi jinks like that,
i must admit all the bloody women in our house have out shot me with my.22 at times as i "tutored" them
son is not interested altho at times when he is pissed off with a car hes working on i get "old mancan ya grab ya 12g and put this piece of shit to sleep"
his mates tend to get a little nervous at this stage.wonder why???

Ah kotuku getting to be an old duffers thread this one and OT but who cares.

Yeah, rumaged around the local tip for old shoes/boots for the tongues to make the pouches for the shanghais. Remember us kids finding some french letters at the same time and wondering what they were. Couldn't see any use for making a shanghai.

Marbles (although valuable) were very accurate for the stray cats.

Local cop (lived out in the suburbs in cop house) came to school one day to warn the class about all the power insulators that had been busted on a certain road.
Put the fear of Christ up us, we were sure he stared up down individually and therefore sure he knew of our guilt.

How we never lost eyes in the shanghai fight has got be beat.

Ah, the sinple pleasures of days gone by.

Originally Posted by hamsav

.... we are breeding it out of them

Sadly they are trying to stop us breeding it into them now too.

Hell yes shanghai's battles were fun as were bamboo pea shooters in a classroom. The daddy of them all was fencing staples from a big arsed rubber band. Fuck they hurt.

Used to spend holidays on the westcoast as a kid, granddad had a rusty old .22lr with a bailing twine sling and a slug gun.

Thankfully granddad would notice missing .22lr because when we were left alone and would lob slug gun pellets off the deck into the bulls arses to get them worked up and then start fighting.

So Im all for locking them up, haha.

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who says cowboys&itchybums wasnt good fun when you were kids.maybe a few of these wee misfits today need throwin in the midst of one of these battles just to see how really tough they are .dunno if id wanna be in a boat with bloody fencing staples whizzin round me lugholes either.
hehehe-maybe nickyhager could write a bestseller about our exploits-all attributed to unnamed sources off course.

It,s all turning to shit these days & some of the aboves posts are a perfect example of that being safe with a firearm isn't rocket science there called the 7 basic rules for a reason maybe a helpful lawyer can put there spin on it & make them the 7 complex & complicated rules to save us all , common sense will be gone & probably illegal , I like to teach young people to shoot but sometimes they focus on the shooting side more than the safety side 1 minute a gun is pointed safely next minute it,s not & that is my que at arms length if need be to stop that , its these legal fuckers pulling things to bits that are ruining this country .

What's wrong, @systolic? Nobody stroking your ego so you have to DIY? I think a large majority of us wish you'd just fuck off.

Originally Posted by keneff

What's wrong, @systolic? Nobody stroking your ego so you have to DIY? I think a large majority of us wish you'd just fuck off.

I learnt long ago not to worry too much about what people I don't know think about me. There may be an ignore function on this forum for you to use if you like.

IIRCthe younger itchybums used to come roarin outta the long grass hurlin long green things like flax with a galdioli bulb on the end at ya.bloody things stung if they connected.the occasional toitoi arrow(blunt off course also met a target,with cowboy leaving battlefield temporarily (no bloody yellowcards or concussion tests) for mum to sort it ,then bugger ya back to the fray!! barefoot &shorts all summer,shirt and gumboots in the winter and it was a real shit sandwich when ya bloody sisters beat you at ya game.no wonder our rugby wingers developed such good sidesteps.
BTW which of you buggers was an ace tree climber-higher up, thinnest branches or the best Ive ever seen-bloke i knew used to climb pungas(aka bungies)and perch in the crown whilst we took to it with tomahawks.a loud whoop and timber mickey would ride her down.
there was the odd trip which rendered him stone cold but he always got up so that was fine by us.
hehehe try that today you so called tough boys!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by zimmer

I am sure some of the older forum members may have experienced this, and don't come across all perfect and say "nope":
- Aged ~ 12 yrs, visiting parents' friends property on the edge of town. Farmland out the back. Given 15 shot tube mag 22 to go on my own and get a rabbit whilst olds drank tea and yakked. Happened on several occassions/visits. Had received firearm instruction on many outings with Dad (ex serviceman).
- Aged ~ 15 years, on L&S farm behind Taupo. Dad and mate headed off with one 22. Mate and I given box of bullets and other 22 and headed off in opposite direction. Met up later and compared numbers shot (in those days teaming with rabbits). Jokingly chastised if the ratio per bullets fired wasn't 1:1.
- Aged ~ 14 years. Staying on L&S farm during school hols. Out every day on my own shooting rabbits with farm's 22 Gecado Plinker. Meeting mate from adjacent farm of similar age also armed. More rabbit dead.

Cringe now when I think back. Supervision, even down to the finer point of how it should occur up close - NOPE.
How common in those days - pretty common from my recollection and comparing notes with mates.

Sounds very familiar, Zimmer. And I remember how proud I felt when the old man trusted me enough to say, "Go and get us a couple of abbits for dinner, headshots only" while handing me his old Cooey single-shot .22. But that only came after about 3 years of VERY close supervision and whack round the head instruction.

Originally Posted by Tankd

If you are so smart , then get the bloke who lent him the shotgun off the charge ???????

PM me his details, I know someone that will have a hard look. One of the two best firearms barristers in NZ.

Originally Posted by Rushy

I rest my case! It is a different world we live in now (mores the pity)but I would like to think that in some small corner of the country that still happens.

It does.