[tubebender]

Y’all must really be old as I am only 77 and don’t remember red inner tubes and all my sling shot bands were cut from 600 X 16 car tubes. Today I have 2 wrist rockets that I shoot marbles at what ever annoys me...

[calex59]

I’m younger than you, I am 68, but in LA, when I was a kid, there were quite a few Red automobile inner tubes still about, thus the reason we fought over them:)

[TXnMA]

Times change -- and so do our "toys". I decided to "play with" Canvas^R and see how quickly I could draw that ca 1944 "Inner Tube-band 'Tommy' Gun" from memory:

There was a piece of strong twine attached to a nail in the center of the "muzzle" notch, then laid back atop the gun in the groove until it extended out through the "rear sight".

Then, starting from the muzzle end, "rubbers" were stretched from the muzzle notch back to the top notches, each one trapping the twine beneath it.

When you had the 22nd "rubber" stretched back to the notch in front of the rear sight, you were "ready to go to war"...

Then, simply by pulling upward on the loose end of the twine at the back, you could loose single shots or "hose 'em good"! Of course the bands at the front had considerably lower "muzzle velocity"...

But, for a while, there, I was the envy of the whole neighborhood -- after the "coping-saw blisters" healed, that is... '-}

[TXnMA]

FWIW, most of my inner tube "stock" came from our Model "A" Ford's tires -- plus what I could wheedle from the guys at the local "service station"... (Remember real service?)