I'm not sure how, but I hit it in the arm which flipped it behind itself and knocked the gun out of his hand, yet the figure remained firmly in its place. I sat back on my bed and fired at one of them. I took a lego base from a castle set I had and set up a bunch of wild west lego figures on it as targets. Anyway, we would bring our guns to each others houses and have a grand old time. It never seemed to bother Jonathan though. Obviously this was very frustrating in the heat of battle. This may have been why it shot so far but it also made it a slight pain to reload because you had to line it up just right. The sharpshooter had a small tube inside the barrel that the dart had to be stuck on to. With most Nerf guns, you simply stuck the dart/ball inside the barrel, pulled back the handle, and fired. The only thing about it that I wasn't fond of was how it was loaded. It was one early model Nerf guns, but it never lost any of it's power during all the years that Jonathan had it. I was always impressed by the range of this gun. I think it was because the end of the barrel was pink. For some reason, I always thought this kinda looked like Donald's plunger gun from Quackshot. On the occasion that I did, I really appreciated how the balls were stacked on top of each other so you didn't have to reload after every single shot. Rarely did I have all three balls at once. I would always find it again eventually, but it was always right after losing another one. My only complaint is that I kept losing a ball. This would be my only Nerf Gun for a while, but I had a lot of fun with it. After that, I would make targets in my room by setting up G.I. After everything was cleaned up, my dad, myself, and one of my relatives took turns trying to get a ball through basket. One of our household Christmas decorations was a gold basket-ish thing with a big red ribbon that was hung above one of the doorframes. After getting this, I would start to look for other Nerf guns whenever we went out somewhere that had toys. And it wasn't even a gun, but rather the Nerf slingshot. I don't remember the exact year, but I know that I received my first Nerf gun as a Christmas gift. And yes, I do realize Nerf guns are still around today but I'll comment on that at the end. I'm not going to present you with a complete list of every Nerf gun that was released at the time, but I did want to reflect on what I had, what my friends had, and the ones that I wanted. It was a lot of fun, and coupled with my own individual target practice, Nerf is one of my favorite childhood memories. In fact, going to John and Chris's house without some type of foam weaponry was akin to bad social etiquette: it simply wasn't done. It is with these three people that the majority of my Nerf battles took place. I had a friend named Jonathan and together we had mutual friends in two brothers named John and Chris. This, of course, just made it all the more fun for us. It was also every parents worst nightmare as their child and his/her friends unleashed foam fury throughout the house, vaulting over furniture that was never meant to be used as cover and "accidentally" knocking over lamps and other assorted glassware. Therefore, the Nerf gun was a very beautiful thing indeed. I don't know what it is about young boys that makes us this way, but if something can launched, jettisoned, catapulted, or made to be shot out of something in any form, then it's pretty much guaranteed to make us happy. But when I think about it some more, I see the Nerf gun. Joes and their various vehicles that I owned. When I look back at the toys of my youth, my first thought is towards the G.I. After six articles of Super Nintendo memories, I wanted to take a break from video games and write about something else.
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