[SamAdams76]

All the kids had boomerangs when I was growing up. It was actually a great skill to have. With a little practice and a little wind, you could have it come right back to you every time.

Don't see kids playing with them today. I guess they went the way of BB guns, slingshots and whittling knives. Helicopter parents find them too dangerous.

[Flick Lives]

All the kids had boomerangs when I was growing up. It was actually a great skill to have. With a little practice and a little wind, you could have it come right back to you every time.

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Boomerangs were frisbees before frisbees were frisbees.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2825076

[Myrddin]

One thing I've never owned is a boomerang. I had some top quality frisbees. I was dead accurate hitting a target with them. It might be time to try one out. I'm turning 66 next Friday. Time to do some fun things before I can't.

[PUGACHEV]

You have to be really careful around boomerangs. They go out and then come back in from behind or the side. It is very easy to loose track of one, especially if there are several in the air. I caught a boomerang in my teeth once and was lucky I didn’t loose anything.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I had one of those plastic boomerangs, made by Wham-O I think, but never could get it to return. No matter how I threw it, it’d go out about 50 or 60 yards, then go straight up and fall back out there. Used to play with it on the high school practice field when nobody was there — try that now.

I should get another and try again one of these days.