Before there were frisbees

[turd]

we had Sail Rabbits. In South Dakota there used to be LOTS of jackrabbits. Many got flattened on the highways, and after a while got pretty hard and they would sail well when thrown like a frisbee. Kids get pretty inventive when there's not much to do in the summer.

Anyone else make their own toys or use something handy in a fun way?

 

[Mobuck]

We had 'possum skimmers'. Took much longer for them to dry to usable stiffness.

 

[nekvermont]

The first thing that came to mind were "Apple Sticks". We would take a straight, thin, whippy stick, sharpen a point on the end, shove a small apple onto the point and whip it like a fishing pole. Amazing how far you could make an apple go. Usually, a longer stick would whip an apple further. Apple stick fights were quite the entertainment for all the neighborhood kids.

 

[contender]

I made my own tin can mortars as a kid.

 

[turd]

^^^That was cool!

 

[Cholo]

Sail Rabbits LOL I've never heard that term except below.

Who can name the movie this is from? Look at the young Don Johnson and Nick Nolte.

 

[Ride1949]

Return to Macon County.

 

[blume357]

I recognized Nolte but not Johnson....all I remember is I thought the movie was awful.

 

[41Dude]

We were lucky enough to live in an area with woods deep enough to build tree houses. We would scrounge up lumber from wherever and drag it out to the trees. Some nails and hammers with good rope and we were living large. Reruns of Tarzan movies were on all the time so rope swings were a must. Amazed we did not kill ourselves.

 

[gunmanjones]

Sail Rabbits LOL I've never heard that term except below.

Who can name the movie this is from? Look at the young Don Johnson and Nick Nolte.

I haven’t heard sail rabbit in about 50 years!

 

[JiminMaine]

Dried cow paddies make pretty good frisbees too.

My Dad was a part-time gunsmith. One year one of the local veterans organizations got some new rifles to use for ceremonies so they gave their old 1917 Eddystone rifles to my Dad for disposal. These had been used for shooting blanks and never cleaned, some of the barrels were so corroded you could barely see through them. We ran a brass brush through the barrels and saw there was still a little rifling left. This is the early 60s, kids played "War" all the time. We got the bright idea re-priming the 30-06 cases and then just pressing the mouth of the case into a block of canning wax so we had a 1/2" wax slug in the case. You just have to picture a bunch (6-10) 10-13 year kids running through the woods carrying a 10 lb. rifle shooting at each other. There was none of that, "I shot you first", "No you didn't" crap. You knew when you were shot, those wax bullets stung. We were luck nobody ever shot an eye out.

 

[turd]

Cow patties ARE good, just be sure they are completely dry and remember to wash up after.

 

[41Dude]

Cow patties ARE good, just be sure they are completely dry and remember to wash up after.

EEEEEUUUUUWWWWW. I did not know they had to be dry.

 

[el caminero]

EEEEEUUUUUWWWWW. I did not know they had to be dry.

Yippie-ay-eyy, cow-pattie.

 

[el caminero]

Sail Rabbits LOL I've never heard that term except below.

Who can name the movie this is from? Look at the young Don Johnson and Nick Nolte.

Nitrous in a 57 chevy, and the ford boys bought their shotgun at the hardware store.

 

[el caminero]

I recognized Nolte but not Johnson....all I remember is I thought the movie was awful.

I watched it for the scenery and the cars.

 

[el caminero]

we had Sail Rabbits. In South Dakota there used to be LOTS of jackrabbits. Many got flattened on the highways, and after a while got pretty hard and they would sail well when thrown like a frisbee. Kids get pretty inventive when there's not much to do in the summer.

Anyone else make their own toys or use something handy in a fun way?

Legend has it, frisby was the name embossed on the tins (not aluminums) the frisby pie company used. And ya thought getting headstruck with tha plastic ones hurt!

 

[gramps]

Boomerangs were the fad in Atlanta, Ga when I was a kid!
gramps

 

[warren5421]

Horse apples and city cousins, Aunt Omega as not a happy camper!!!!!

 

[jimbo1096]

Sandlot baseball and night frog and gar gigging, fishing any other time not in school

 

[Fox Mike]

We, Bob, Bill, and I, had a dugout in the woods that we reinforced with logs and put a tin roof on. Warm, dry, and a great 'hangout'.

 

[Terry Baird]

Sail Rabbits LOL I've never heard that term except below.

Who can name the movie this is from? Look at the young Don Johnson and Nick Nolte.

I have never heard the term "sail rabbit". Pretty funny. Funnier still is that I idd not recognize young Don Johnson until I heard his unmistakable voice. Unmistakable to me anyway, an unreconstructed Miami Vice Fiend.

Boomerangs were the fad in Atlanta, Ga when I was a kid!
gramp

Boomerangs were the fad in Atlanta, Ga when I was a kid!
gramps

What do you call a boomerang that does not come back?
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A stick.