We used a chunk of wood maybe 2-3 inches wide, maybe 1/2-3/4 inch thick, and anywhere from about 6 inches to about a foot long. In other words, anything we could find. A nail about 2-3 inches from one end, sticking out an inch or so - that was the "trigger". Then 2 or 3 tire tube rubber bands held the clothes pinin place. You opened the clothes pin to clamp one end of an inner tube rubber band, then looped the other end around the "front" of the gun. To shoot, you squeezed the "trigger" and opened the clothes pin enough to releast the rubber band. Don't run with one of these, you'll put your eye out. LOL
We used to make darts, using a corncob with 3 feathers stuck in one end, and a nail, with the sharp end pointing out, in the other end. These were perfectly safe. And, would stick in the side of the corn crib very nicely.
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