scotch arrows

By ghost of mensforth -
anyone remember making them in the late 70s with bamboo, string, beermats and hurling them on Kenton Bar Field?

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  1. El PatronTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 6:52:00 AM GMT

    No - but I do remember taking my slug gun (a Diana SP50 .177 caliber breech loading air pistol) down the fields and shooting at anything that moved. I never did manage to hit anything though.....

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  2. El PatronTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 7:21:00 AM GMT

    I mean anything except John Wright

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  3. El PatronTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 7:35:00 AM GMT

    Or as he styled himself "Viper Velma"

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  4. ghost of mensforthTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 4:15:00 PM GMT

    Master,
    why did this creature call himself'Viper Velma?'...

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  5. ghost of mensforthTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 4:25:00 PM GMT

    Having done some research apparently they were also known as 'dutch''bobby'& 'whip' arrows...I still remember how to make them!(you could also use a playing card instead of a beermat for the flight!

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  6. El PatronTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 9:11:00 PM GMT

    Can you make one at the weekend and take a picture or two - maybe even try it out and make a video?

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  7. El PatronTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 9:51:00 PM GMT

    Why Viper Velma - no idea.

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  8. El PatronTuesday, May 17, 2011 at 9:54:00 PM GMT

    Google showed up this THIS - it seems that Viper Velma was the title of a story in a Popeye magazine published in 1982.

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  9. ghost of mensforthWednesday, May 18, 2011 at 5:25:00 AM GMT

    well done! good work finding this!

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  10. El PatronWednesday, June 1, 2011 at 4:58:00 AM GMT

    Bog blast your damned eyes GOM - make a scotch arrow this weekend and do a video clip AND a step by step photo-journal of the making of the said arrow.

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