I remember the old red rubber [real rubber that they quit making during the war] inner-tubes that were no longer serviceble that as kids we use to cut up and make sling shots out of...man! you could bust out a street light from 200 ft, [not that i did of course

]...and the left over red rubber we would put on a crude made wooden gun with a spring loaded clothes-pin as the trigger release......The dead'ley rubber gun

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My trusty horse Black'ey was a 1 by 1 piece of scrape wood about 5 ft. long with a piece of string for a harness...I look'ed just like Roy Rogers

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