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Pea shooters seemed to be far more popular in the past than they are today - I can't remember the last time I saw a child with a pea shooter. I don't know the history of the pea shooter but I'm guessing its been around for many years and has got many a naughty schoolboy into deep trouble with the headmaster.

If you look at any of the comics from the 80's you'll see loads of kids with catapults and pea shooters but they seem to have mysteriously disappeared from use today - does anyone know if kids still use pea shooters?

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  • Anonymous user
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    I made a new type of peashooter. It allows one to shoot any size of pea without having to seal it!Even Air-Soft BB's
  • Anonymous user
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    Hello everyone, peashooters seem hard to come across nowadays, so for anyone looking you can find some good ones at Peashooters.org. They're actually sold by the same people John Paster spoke of, from railriders.net. And they have ones that can shoot BBs too.
  • Anonymous user
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    Can anyone tell me how to make a pea shooter out of clothes pens? I had one back in the 1960's. I could shoot matches with it too. They would light as they came out of the clothes pen.
  • Anonymous user
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    I finally found a company that sells good pea shooters, made from metal, feels good, shoots better. They are really made well with this flared end, it's cool. It's a link on the page - railriders.net
  • Anonymous user
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    I would like to make my own, does anyone know how long and how big the whole should be? As a kid we always had one. i heard there was a small company that does make them, anyone know of this? Thanks
  • Anonymous user
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    pea shooters are cominng back in my school all of the kids are making them but noone has been using catapults
  • Anonymous user
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    i have just got a pea shooter for my birthday and it was ?1 with a load of ammo. it is great fun. more young people should have them. i am 14 and i enjoy it!!!!!
  • Anonymous user
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    i remember lots of soggy spit filled paper being stuck to everyone and everything gross!!!
  • Anonymous user
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    My friend lost his eye through a pea shooter. We had this really rude dude in class whom made a pea shooter of a Bic pen. in stead of using the normal acceptable pellets out of paper he devised a needle tied to a match stick with cotton string. He hit my friend in the centre of his eye, resulting in blood flowing and damaging his eye permanently. My friend received a glass eye, he changed after the incident, left school in grade 10, no one heard of him again. His parents is stil looking for him today.
  • Anonymous user
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    HI. I am young as you might say, and my friends and i play with pea shooters, but we dont call them pea shooters.So there is still hope for old things

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