This got me thinking...

[ChuckThunder]

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Who else played "war" as a kid? Not with airsoft or paintball guns, but with wooden, plastic, and sometimes homemade guns that didn't actually shoot anything. I sure did. I would wear my dad's old Marine BDUs (way too big) and the neighborhood kids would wear mostly the same thing. The battlefield would cross several backyards, respectivily. Since I lived in the suburbs of Illinois the backyards were quite big with no fences, the tactics primitive, and there was always the one kid who never died even although you were right behind him when you yelled "Bang!"

[Roger Rabbit]

On the beach, the cricket bat was the machine gun and the stumps were rifles.

Can't beat good old imagination.

[Guttorm]

My friends dad would make wood rifles for us, and we'd run around, shooting up the neighborhood. :)

[Tane Angle]

:D I did too, though there wasn't usually an enemy, per se. No one ever wanted to be the enemy, so we just had to do missions like "infil and get the cookies," couldn't get seen by the adults, and had to protect the neighborhood girls (be they nice European girls to be liberated or nurses or whatever; yeah, we were chauvenistic, stereotyping pigs, I apologize.) Hope none of the girls are offended by that. I'm a more worldly man today, don't worry.

But so running around with sticks, wearing WWII-vintage gear, things like that. Good times, good times. Anyone else ever accidentally (or on purpose) nearly impale themselves on their "rifle?" I've learned proper weapons handling since then, don't worry. :D Have a good one all.

[EvanL]

I used to dress up in Camo and play with cap guns. I would ambush people getting off at the bus stop at my house. Had the cops come once because someone called them. They just laughed and told us to have a good time. My cousin was doing the same thing when he was younger but in a field and someone called the RCMP, and they showed up with a swat team. He was crawling through the grass and came upon a cop in full swat gear pointing a gun at him. haha

[ChuckThunder]

. Anyone else ever accidentally (or on purpose) nearly impale themselves on their "rifle?" I've learned proper weapons handling since then, don't worry. :D Have a good one all.

I remember having a plastic M16A1 my mom got me a party store, it was about 1/4 size of a real one and the charging handle would actually pull back and lock. When you depressed the trigger it would unlock and slide back into the carry handle while making a gunfire sound that was really a half-assed "clack, clack, clack, zroop!" Of course, I loved it. But broke about two weeks later, jumping out of a treehouse (plane ;) ).

[NcDeuce]

I remember getting one of those M16 or M4 guns that made sound for Christmas a long time ago. It looked cool, it was already painted desert colors but for some reason, I didn't like it. The sounds it made were pretty crappy.

I played with BB guns, replica American Civil War weapons...

Yeah, nobody ever wanted to be the "bad guy"... :| So, we just imagined charging or raiding some defensive fortress in the middle of a field on Fort Campbell...I bet the neighbors got a kick out of us.

[Minjin]

I always had one of those plastic Uzis that made the growly "shooting" sound when you pull the trigger. We had tons of fun. Kids these days suck though.

[MolliG]

Nearly 30 of us use to run around with green plastic 1/2-sized AK47s, M9s and crutches when I was around 10 (6ish years ago)... I use to be the envy of everyone running around in my Dad's S10, Kevlar and my full-size cap firing Uzi (Pistol)... Then I discovered Airsoft and PCs...

:lol:

[papasmerf]

I played as well, me and my friends would go down to the field where all types of construction work was being conducted. After all workers left which was barely before sunset, we'd infiltrate the area and play like mad. I remember they had these little tunnels in the ground, I don't know what they were for, so we'd go in there with our flashlights and play there too. It was fun, fun, fun, but I was in the 4th grade doing so... rofl p-)

[Midtown]

NERF BOW AND ARROW. Nuff said.

[usa320]

yeah we used to play soldiers...it was fun...like 10 of us or so would split into teams. we would use cap guns, water guns, noismaker guns, them electronic laser guns...all sorts of stuff...

[Argyll]

rofl I got to hand it to you guys,see we all had FUN in these days,and nobody sneered at us either,and it was fun unless you were either the Japs or the Germans!!

Memories are there to be cherished ,nothing to be ashamed of,we had rival gangs from nearby housing area's so we could have like Platoon size skirmishes in the woods,and once we finished playing we'd all make a mega bonfire and try and cook sausages and stuff on the end of sticks ,only to be sick as dogs for the next 3 days!!

Coming from Scotland,many years ago when I was about 12/14 we went to this old estate house and found all these Claymore swords and Lochaber axes and stuff,shield's the works,and a whole load of kilts and Plaids,so we dressed up,there were about 20 of us,and headed into the hills to re-enact some good Scottish Battles,so we spots these cars and run down the hill side and stand in front of them ,they were American tourists,and they thought this was brilliant,they really thought this was the way Scottish kids dressed and behaved!!,So they took loads of photos of the grubby little Highlanders ,left us £10 quid which was a hell of a lot in those days, we quickly cottoned on that we could make a fortune during the summer by stopping all the cars along that road,all was going well till the local cops found out about this,and confiscated all the weapons!Was a real bummer but not before we made like £300 for the summer!!
Those were the days!! :lol:

[NcDeuce]

Has anyone here ever participated in a "rock" or "mud-clump" war? Those were brutal conflicts in the subdivision construction sites, especially when you had a mud-clump with a rock inside. p-)

[Maverick77]

**** we still have rock battles.

Yeah I used to play war when I was a kid but not with the other kids I used to just wander off by myself and imagine being in a real battle and killing 1000s of enemy soldiers which were usually Whermact, Indians or the Mexicans that attacked the Alamo.

[Flagg]

This is something I haven't thought about in a long time!

My friends and I spent every afternoon in the late 1970's with our pellet guns hunting small game or each other in the woods or playing inside the adandoned Byburry Mental Hospital in Philadelphia:

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The complex was enormous and covered many acres and had underground tunnels called the "catacombs" for moving patients from one building to another which were useful for "assaulting" another building from below.

Nothing like having an insane asylum for a childhood playground....good times ;)

[EvanL]

Isnt that place haunted? i saw it once on the travel channel. ANyways, rock fights were the best. I used to huck em at the power generators on the electrical posts until; once i smashed one and it exploded sending some sort of flammable liquid all over.
I once gave a kid a concussion cus i hucked a rock in his head and i had to write a letter of apology.
For those canucks out there, any of you guys remember ice ball fights? :)

[Ichhabe]

Oh Glory Days of Childhood. In my neighbourhood there were a LOT of kids.
One of my foundest memories were when we played Medieval Sieg the castle... All had made pretty nifty swords. Many of us had made shields and painted them medieval style... ( I actually had a Moon crecent and a star. Some years later I've learn it was the Turkish national flag ;) )
Then we split up in two teams. Some days we could be 25-30 kids on each team, and then we waged war. One team was on top of this brick wall that was about 30 meters long. At the highest it was about 2 1/2 meters high, and at the lowest 1 meter.
Then the other team charged with ladders and throwing spears. MAN, that was great times.
The game always ended with one of the boys nose bleeding after being hit by a wooden sword. For some strange reason it was always Knut, a good friend of mine.

[ßå$tĮТHÏ¿ð]

Ya we used to have rock wars, those were pretty intense. We'd always do them on school property...every once in a while a window would get smashed and we'd all run home. rofl

We used to play war...mind you on a much smaller level. I used to have an m16 replica that was neon green that made a "clacking" sound when fired. So we painted it up and i played war with it and it was great until i broke it...that sucked i was a lil choked up about that.

[Maverick77]

Bunch of Canadian idiots in a full school parking lot start throwing iceballs at eachother and end up hitting everything in the parking lot expect eachother.

Yeah, been in many of those

[Apogee]

It was always flash light tag for us. Those were the days. Now two of us that used to play are at West Point, and another one is on his way to Iraq. Damn good training if I do say so myself.

[budanski]

Played war using BB guns was cool, getting hit with .22 caliber air pellets/dart, not. :(

[Marxist203]

I used to dress up in Camo and play with cap guns. I would ambush people getting off at the bus stop at my house. Had the cops come once because someone called them. They just laughed and told us to have a good time. My cousin was doing the same thing when he was younger but in a field and someone called the RCMP, and they showed up with a swat team. He was crawling through the grass and came upon a cop in full swat gear pointing a gun at him. haha

Camo and Cap Guns, a Canadian tradition!

[Tane Angle]

Anyone else dig up their parents' lawn? Every weekend during the summers we would make a trench network that looking back was probably only two feet deep, but at age seven, that seemed like a lot of work. We'd even put up chicken wire and string up can-alarms and shoelace "trip wires." I had an uncle who taught us how to make the can alarms and stuff. He got yelled at for that almost as much as me. :D

By the way, I said every weekend because on Sunday we would have to have the lawn filled in and relatively cleaned up. The next Friday, we would start it all over again.

USMA, take care to your friend.

Have a good one all.

[Herrmannek]

On the field near of my house ~200metres was abandoned garden with many aple trees. After eating many stil green apples, everyone was colecting few from the ground into tshirts, we were spliting into two teams(CA 5-6 in each) and then starting trowing aples at oposite team members and swearing them as much as we could, Battle was won when all oposite team members were pushed outside the garden with superior apple-power. I tell you guys this was best team play ever had :).

[ChuckThunder]

On the field near of my house ~200metres was abandoned garden with many aple trees. After eating many stil green apples, everyone was colecting few from the ground into tshirts, we were spliting into two teams(CA 5-6 in each) and then starting trowing aples at oposite team members and swearing them as much as we could, Battle was won when all oposite team members were pushed outside the garden with superior apple-power. I tell you guys this was best team play ever had :).

Did the same thing for many years. We had trees with small green crab apples (approx size: lacrosse ball). I specifically remember one of the fat kids getting hit in the gut and the apple left perfectly round crater. rofl

[simple jumper]

I use to have my own "army" I'd train my friends at school with tactics and capturing ppl, when that became boring we learned interogation techniques (tying someone to a tree and hitting them till they said what we wanted to hear) then that got boring...so we became a mob and attacked ppl for the stupidest things, like if I didnt like their shirts. It was cool though I would stand in the middle of the group as we walked, snaped my fingers and pointed at our target and I'd watch as my goons jumped them.

I think kids need toy guns, thats why there are all theses shootings now, they cant pla ywith fake guns so they go out get real ones and dont think of whatr could happen, had they had a toy during their youth, maybe, they would ahve learned that a gun is a tool and not something that you can use to solve problems. :backhand:

[IronHeart_26]

I grew up on a cul-de-sac where the boys outnumbered the girls....but we still played war with them....we just hated it when we got caught. We used pinecones,rocks, sticks, gumballs off a sweet gum tree,mud pies, dirt clumps, toy guns, made sling shots with sticks and rubber bands(you name it, we used it)....the tree house was our headquarters....but during our wargames no neighbor's yards, shrubs, or garages were off limits.... not even the dog houses(our German Shepherd had a dog house that was big enough to fit six kids in). We once hid under the cover on my dad's boat and ambushed the boys when they were walking around trying find us. Three girls against against about nine boys. Oh the memories.... :)

[Saranof]

I also had some sort of training stuff for a couple of friends, mailey ment me screaming out orders and the poor buggers trying to perform them :)
Had a green toy m16, my first gun. My parents kept those things from me until I was about 10, cos of bosnia and stuff...I dunno...
Krept around in a field, taking pot shots at bus stops :D

[Salty Dog]

i was "going on missions" up until the summer. nothing else to do in my town, so we would just go out to conservation areas and observe people, and mess with them. nothing like seeing somebodies face after they see six green guys, full battle rattle, comin out of the tree line at them.

[Zach R.]

:D
Good times, good times. Anyone else ever accidentally (or on purpose) nearly impale themselves on their "rifle?" I've learned proper weapons handling since then, don't worry. :D Have a good one all.

Me. rofl