Comment on I can still smell them

imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I grew up with both, the paper ones were nice for “other” destructive purposes. And that you had a ton of shots on a roll.

  The rings were nice because they always stayed in alignment. The paper ones would sometimes lose their pacing and the hammer would hit the spaces between the dots.

  I remember seeing plastic 12 shot rings too.

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• filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wow, I remember having a revolver, it was loads of fun as a kid to actually have the shots go off. Probably infuriating to the adults, which may be why I rarely had any.

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  • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The revolver I had constantly burned my hand. Whenever it hit the “bullet”, sparks went straight towards my hand. Still, totally worth the pain.

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  • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Naw, the adults were at home. We were outside. 

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you remember “playing outside” you must be very old.

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• wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Can I ask you when you were born? Because I remember using the paper strips when I was really young and then at some point they dissapeared and got replaced by those plastic rings. I was born in 94.

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  • Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I used both. Am from 93.

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  • sulgoth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I can see why they went to the rings. You could do the whole strip with a thumbnail if you were a young idiot.

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      you could also get the whole strip with a thumbnail of you just wanted to have some fun

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    similar age. I used both. I think the strips did get harder to find at the dollar store when I got older

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  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    92, Baltics

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• GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They sold these and the strips next to one another at the dollar store when I was a kid. Born '95

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.

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