We were born at the right time my friend. Rockets. Sling shots. BB guns. Pellet guns. Kites. Rock fights (rarely). Snow ball fights (often). Fist fights (rules) Carbide cannons and lanterns. Hitching rides using car bumpers (ice sledding) Riding bicycles everywhere... Breaking street lights (lol) Throwing corn cobs at semis (lol) Throwing dirt clods at cars (lol) Throwing tomatoes at cars (lol) Throwing apples at cars (lol) [I’m going to burn in hell]
every kid had a pocket knife ... we played games like stretch and chew the peg ...
Sling shots, man that was my thing. All it took was a Y shaped branch and an old inner tube, weapon of choice for the maker-kid. Best of all ammo was literally underfoot if you lived in a town that didn’t have all paved streets. Sure you could put an eye out but mostly the worst would that happened was a sting and you’d beat the snot out of the kid who shot you and he wouldn’t do it again! My first endeavor with a BB gun involved shooting out a street light (and getting caught) so that was also my last. Slingshot though, that was portable mischief power that any kid could afford!
You didn’t mention firecrackers. And that brings us to “shooting firecrackers out of slingshots...”
Remember tennis ball cannons?
I shot one at cars at night.
Soaked the felt with lighter fluid so the ball was FLAMING!
Another thing we had as kids. We could walk into the local market and buy lighter fluid. No one would even bat an eye.
But, I’m old enough to remember buying Lucky’s for the old man.