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To: NoCmpromiz

A little large for my girlish hands. Still, I found a good quantity of slingshot-sixed pebbles...and I have a slingshot today, but marbles are my ammo. ;o]


1,152 posted on 03/21/2013 12:28:22 PM PDT by Monkey Face (In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. ~ Ben Franklin)
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To: Monkey Face
I have a slingshot today, but marbles are my ammo. ;o]

Marbles work well too, but when you're a kid and you have to BUY them, you don't use them for ammo!

Fortunately, where I grew up we had a secondary source for when the Buckeyes weren't falling at our feet off the trees. The railroad cut through the west side of town and if you walked the roadbed (ok, I know, that's trespassing - but back then no one was thinking about blowing up a train so no one hassled us...) you could find all sorts of stuff that bounced out of the cars. If it bounced out of northbound cars it was usually coal heading to the Lake Erie docks. If it bounced out of southbound cars it was those beautiful round taconite pellets...

Thus Mother Nature and the Chesapeake & Ohio were our main suppliers of slingshot ammo!

1,221 posted on 03/21/2013 6:13:05 PM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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