Weapons Soviet child

What was in the arsenal of the Soviet child?
The most common weapon was, of course, a slingshot. It is hard to imagine a Soviet child who would not know what it is and did not shoot out of it. Who sparrows who bottles or cans, and some on the glass or street lamps.
Distribution slingshot received for simplicity of design, reliability, higher than the AK-47, range and accuracy of the battle, and, of course, stopping power. Properly made slingshot let a hundred meters with a metal nut to break a window or outdoor ceiling lighting.
As the bullets could be anything you like - nuts, ball bearing, smooth rounded stones or more sparing ammunition - peas, fruits of mountain ash, cherry stones ...




Rohatyn was taken from almost any tree, but the best we have considered a slingshot acacia. Rubber is also used from different sources - cycling chambers, medical tourniquet, belt from suits ...



Have been modified to slingshot paintball school voynushek at school variable was used small-caliber slingshot - wire frame and shock-return mechanism of gum-Hungarian. As the missiles used to bend the aluminum or copper wire. Often playing in the summer of the war, a large piece of aluminum wire just two or three times wrapped around the waist and, if necessary, could lie behind a tree and quickly change the shop mangled the necessary ammunition.

In this light, the slingshot was an option for schools, the teacher did not take the slingshot. As such, a slingshot and it was not - just on the index and middle finger worn gum with pre-tied loop. Removing weapons in case of danger, is a fraction of a second ...





More severe cases was slingshot crossbow. On board was fixed wooden clothespins, and fasten the other end of gum so as to get a "loop", which falls saddle just on the clothespin. When the required tension, of course. The noose was laid gum "bullet", gum stretched and clamped in a clothespin. By clicking on the clothespin occurred shot. They shot all the same rowan, peas, bell pepper or pellets.



An example of such a crossbow.



Trigger



By the way, it was the "elite" of this kind of weapon. It was used in place of the board slightly curved legs of the chair, like Pushkin's dueling pistols, and advanced trigger wire

The most advanced version called samopaly. This is closer to real firearms. The thick-walled metal tube are sealed at one end (flattened and then filled with lead), near the closed end of the drill holes in 1 mm. The tube is attached to a bed of wood, usually in the form of a gun (again, sometimes used is the same leg of the chair). The tube using a cleaning rod driven "sulfur" of matches, wad and homemade piercing bullet lead. The shot is made when a special shock frame, freed the trigger, hitting the cap is inserted into the small hole stud.
The bullet had very serious stopping power - 15 match heads 4mm hammered barrel bullet 5 centimeters tree. With the crossbow was better not to get into the police ...



Another lightweight weapon was spichkostrel. He makes wooden underwear clothespins feel the usefulness of the Soviet devaysa? .. Shot conventional or burning matches meters 10.
For its production versed wooden clothespin, needle files place to eat through the spring (from the same pegs), eat through "trunk" on one half dressed spring halves connected back to back and rewind tape. Spring and played the role of the trigger and the pusher simultaneously.
Sometimes on "trunk" was attached a piece of "chirkasha" of a matchbox that she would light up a match when a shot. Most just carry out a box and immediately shot.



Firecrackers in my childhood was replaced with modern firecrackers. Options explosive mixtures were a great many, but in our backyard more often used mixture tablets gidropirita and dipyrone, which can be bought at any drugstore. How to use will not tell, because nuegonah



Is my favorite weapon ballistic missiles were "roof-to-ground" of nitrate. Rather, from newsprint, impregnated with a mixture of ammonium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal, and then dried on the battery. Scraps of paper tightly rolled into a tube, which is externally wrapped with foil. To form the appearance of a rocket into the back of a wick inserted firmly from the same material as the filling. To start it was necessary to ignite the wick, and launch a rocket. From the length of the wick depended on when to start her inner fire of the rocket will fly, howling, whistling and scatters sparks. For this reason, it is more effective to run all of them were from the roof of high-rise building. We can recall a lot of weapons ignited - and dymovuhu of a plastic ruler or a piece of a tractor wheel and grenades nitro, and simple water bombs ...

Speaking of water ... Water is used in a more innocuous versions of children's arms are usually younger students. For example, in a conventional bryzgalki. The plastic bottle is fused or simply inserts the body part of a ballpoint pen, and the bottle is filled with water. Next, a simple click on the bottle is squeezed out of the water, which was directed "trunk" of the handle for the purpose. The disadvantages were relatively small range and drop in power shots in the partial expenditure of water in the bottle. By the way, as our usual plastic bottles in our childhood we were not, to find housing for Mighty bryzgalki was not so easy. Used bottles of shampoo, "quack-quack" glue PVA and liter bottles of "Whites»



Another subspecies of light weapons and more children were plevalki. They spit through anything and everything - metal and plastic tubes, pens and everything that had a long and hollow inside. As the cartridges used rolled up pieces of paper, pepper, cherry stones, ash and all that was round in shape and could fly away. Fans give a thrill to do plevalok boom - from the rod ballpoint pen paste extruded bead, and at the very core of pounding usual sewing needle. This "boom" was inserted into the tube and blown into the goal ... I think it would be superfluous to talk about feelings, when the arrow enters the body ...



In general, we were playing teens for the full program, arranging the real action in the construction of that modern peyntbolistskoy shkolote with all their armor and helmets, not even dreamed of ...

Source: aquatek-filips.livejournal.com

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