Originally Posted by
Fenelon
Those old Whiz Bangs were about 85 cents a box when I was a kid. We'd ride our bikes looking for pop bottles to get the money to buy them. If we were short we'd just buy a pack of Bulldog pellets. We all had single shot Cooey 39s and we walk the railway tracks, taking head shots on cottontail. No coyotes yet back then. You'd get your 6 rabbits in less than an hour. I remember shooting suckers and rainbow trout with those Whiz Bangs. Lethal if the water was less than 10 inches. Some days we'd shoot 8 to 10 trout, then sell them to the dude at the Chinese restaurant in town. Good cold hard cash money for buying RC cola, sponge toffee, popsicles, dill pickle chips, and Eatmore bars.