Did you grow up playing with this deadly game??????

[69 OUR/TEA]

                         Jarts!!!!!!
 
    Don't know how long they have been banned and illegal,E-bay yanks them as soon as they get listed,so since craigslist does'nt police things like this,picked up a set.Had these when I was a kid,never knew what happened to them.Other family members have them and is a game we play at all our family picnics and such.
Obviously could be deadly if struck with one if not paying attention,but getting hit by a horseshoe would'nt feel or be any better.Kinda funny as BB guns,pellet guns,and paint guns are readily available ay Walmart,Dicks,etc and such.
Anyway,you usually find these at tag sales,garage sales,flea markets,and as I  metioned to a couple friends that I found a set to buy,seems alot more people  say they have or think they have a set in their attic or garage,or basement.From my research there are about 6 or 7 diff companys that made them such as Jarts,Regent,Franklin,and a couple more.The ones that I wanted were the orig Jarts missle game,made in New York.
Just curious,how many of you still have these things kicking around or still use them?
And also,if you do,would be interested in getting rid of a set as I would like to pick up another set for myself?
The set that I picked up is dam near mint,barely used,even the extra fins were never put on.Thanks,Paul

[GTXtreme]

yea i remember that game and i'll never forget someone throwing one at me and how it stuck in my shin and having to pull it out it was fun, still have the scar lol   

[Cooter]

Yessir, and just like everything else, some brain dead moron decided to throw 'em at someone else. now they are collectors items....Played with 'em the CORRECT way for years, never hadda problem....

[GTXtreme]

sorry you dont have a sence of humour

[A383Wing]

Yup...I remember playing with them.....

<god I'm old>

[Chad L. Magee]

I used to play Jarts with my cousins at their farm during the wintertime, but it was a whole different game to us.  We built snowmen and then took turns seeing how many we could hit from various distances.  Different parts were worth different points.  To make the game even more fun, we installed a bag of red koolaid to represent the heart, protected with an ice cage to represent a rib cage.  Since we tended to hit rocks often with them, the tips were treated to a very nice sharping job each time before we used them out in the snow.  I think we finally hooked firework rockets (big ones) and launched them out of an old cardboard tube (like a RPG), but the plastic (or were they pot metal?) fins broke up after the explosions.  Ah, memories.........

[69 OUR/TEA]

I used to play Jarts with my cousins at their farm during the wintertime, but it was a whole different game to us.  We built snowmen and then took turns seeing how many we could hit from various distances.  Different parts were worth different points.  To make the game even more fun, we installed a bag of red koolaid to represent the heart, protected with an ice cage to represent a rib cage.  Since we tended to hit rocks often with them, the tips were treated to a very nice sharping job each time before we used them out in the snow.  I think we finally hooked firework rockets (big ones) and launched them out of an old cardboard tube (like a RPG), but the plastic (or were they pot metal?) fins broke up after the explosions.  Ah, memories.........

WOW !!!!!Maybe it was you that got them banned!!!!! LOL

[jeryst]

If I remember right, they were banned because quite a few kids got hit in the head with them. Some died.
Kids would just throw them up in the air, instead of away from themselves.

[loudmouthaussie]

see thats just natural selection. bet those kids wouldnt have contributed much to the world. now generations of em will be saved 

[Chad L. Magee]

I used to play Jarts with my cousins at their farm during the wintertime, but it was a whole different game to us.  We built snowmen and then took turns seeing how many we could hit from various distances.  Different parts were worth different points.  To make the game even more fun, we installed a bag of red koolaid to represent the heart, protected with an ice cage to represent a rib cage.  Since we tended to hit rocks often with them, the tips were treated to a very nice sharping job each time before we used them out in the snow.  I think we finally hooked firework rockets (big ones) and launched them out of an old cardboard tube (like a RPG), but the plastic (or were they pot metal?) fins broke up after the explosions.  Ah, memories.........

WOW !!!!!Maybe it was you that got them banned!!!!! LOL

Oh, that was nothing compared to some of the other stuff we were doing out there.  Ever catch a snowman on fire?  I figured out a way or two......

In retrospect, we were probably lucky we did not ever try to throw them at each other (or God forbid, tried to play them per the instructions).....

BTW- Thanks for sharing your Jarts finds with us.  I have not seen them since about twenty years ago.....

[Cooter]

sorry you dont have a sence of humour

Wasn't directed at you directly, just saying most kids weren't happy playing with them the correct way....That got "Boring" quickly and then comes the "Brain dead" part...

[69CoronetRT]

                         Jarts!!!!!!

We had the Jarts. Great game when played properly.

I'm not sure how my generation ever survived 'dangerous' toys like this, Klackers, Super Balls, Creepy Crawlers, Vac-u-form, Easy Bake Ovens and all the rest of the fun toys. Not to mention we had things you just can't buy anymore like Bag O' Glass and Doggie Dentist.

[68X426]

I was real good at jarts.

[Old Moparz]

I still have a set, it's in my attic. I bought it in the mid 1980's for a big camping & canoe trip with about 15 or so friends. After seeing that we brought more beer than anything else, I decided not to take the "steel-pointed-will-go-in-any-direction-a-drunk-can-toss-it-to-stick-in-the-skull-projectiles" & left them in the car. 

[bull]

I didn't mess around with lawn darts much but I and some of my friends thought it was fun to shoot arrows up into the air with a recurve bow (far enough to where they would disappear) and stick them in the ground as close as possible to where we shot them from.

[69bronzeT5]

I used to always play those........my cousin launched one across our yard (about 2 acres) and it went about 2 inches into a tree....

[mikesbbody]

Never played that Game but I use to have a Hunting bow myself and a friend would shoot the arrows straight up in thr air and try to catch them on the way down...
What were we thinking...

[8WHEELER]

I used to always play those........my cousin launched one across our yard (about 2 acres) and it went about 2 inches into a tree....

Dude, I did not think you were old enough     but I on the other hand tried to use them in
a responsible manner, because I am that old. But it was tempting to see how far they ''could'' go, but alas
we played fair.

Dan

[b5blue]

Now I miss my Vac-U-Form and Creepy Crawlers sets.  (and my Johnny Seven OMA)

[TruckDriver]

I used to play with those. Not only that, me and the neighbour kid used to take his dad's bow & arrow and shoot the arrow straight up into the sky, and wait til we could see it coming down, before we would run out of the way Yea, we weren't the smartest I guess 

[stripedelete]

see thats just natural selection. bet those kids wouldnt have contributed much to the world. now generations of em will be saved 

Yep!

[resq302]

God, my grandfather has a set just like that in the original box still.  Granted, it does not seem to be in as good of a shape as those box wise but I remember playing with them gowing up too.  I also remember the black plastic "handle" coming off in my hand a couple times with the rest of the Jart go flying away from me.  That made it into a fun game of something like quick draw and seeing how far and fast you could do it.

[Skyview69]

I have a set in my garage...won't let the kids near them...but I played them when I was young...never had a problem....fun game

[jeryst]

Never played that Game but I use to have a Hunting bow myself and a friend would shoot the arrows straight up in thr air and try to catch them on the way down...
What were we thinking...

I was about 4 when my parents bought me one of those play bow and arrow sets. You know, the ones with the suction cups on the arrows.
I took the suction cups off and put the arrows in the pencil sharpener. They were just the right size.
Had a lot of wounded rabbits in our yard that summer.

[1BAD68]

Two weekends ago a friend of mine pulled out an original Jarts set and we played it for a while.
I was surprised at how flimsy they really are. When I was kid they seemed so much heavier and deadly.
Maybe they had diffrent manufacturers back then but the "Jarts" brand are really wimpy.

[Troy]

I played with them a lot. It never really was much fun to just throw them at the hoop.

Troy

[Old Moparz]

I could bring my lawn dart set to Carlisle & we could all drink beer play out behind the motel. Or make up a new game with them at the go-cart track. 

[MoparManJim]

Oh boy, this thread brings back memories about my late grand dad  . I have a small story to tell you all. 

Back when I was kid and wasn't working on models very much in the summers afew of my friends and I would get togother at the house and my grand dad live just a across the yard from us. He would always come out and set on the wood and watch us play. Well one day my late dad bought a truck load of wood home. Him and grand dad decided to spilt the wood in the back yard area (next to the area where my grand dad always set at) well this one evening my grand dad was taking a break from slipping wood and decided to set down on the one piece of full cut piece of wood and was talking to us for afew seconds. Now my friend and I get back to playing the game and through the darts at the circle. But we are underhand throwing them lightly. Well my grand dad is watching.. I go to trow the dart and bring my hand up and almost as my right arm gets in front of me I leave go. Now I'm thinking the dart is going out wards (not keeping my eyes on it). Some how the dart didn't go like I though it did but rather it went up and some show tilted the other way and landed... right between my grand dads legs and nailed him right in the pants and the metal point stright in the the wood that he was setting on. Lucky he was wearing baggy pants as the dart just mist something that would have hurted alot if it had been over afew hairs to what my grand dad told us. All I remember was afew seconds after I had let go of the dart was my grand dad left out a "Hey!!" and my friend and I both turn't around fast to see what happen and that was when he bought it to our attention. We didn't play with the darts after that.. we was to afraid that we would hurt someone or something with them.   

[Duchess]

Sure did!  What a hoot.  We mostly played with the darts themselves, flinging them around wildly.  No injuries I recall.

[1969chargerrtse]

Yessir, and just like everything else, some brain dead moron decided to throw 'em at someone else. now they are collectors items....Played with 'em the CORRECT way for years, never hadda problem....

[chargergirl]

We never had lawn darts...Bocce yes, horseshoes of course but my brother used to use the bow and arrow to shoot straight up and attempt to catch the arrow as it came down. Natural selection did not work...he's still here. lol

[jb666]

It's a good thing my little horse-shoe accident was never reported 

[resq302]

I could bring my lawn dart set to Carlisle & we could all drink beer play out behind the motel. Or make up a new game with them at the go-cart track. 

Better yet, if I can't find my grandfathers set, I'll have you bring them for the char-b-q Aug. 21st.

[69rtse4spd]

Sure did.

[69bronzeT5]

I used to always play those........my cousin launched one across our yard (about 2 acres) and it went about 2 inches into a tree....

Dude, I did not think you were old enough     but I on the other hand tried to use them in
a responsible manner, because I am that old. But it was tempting to see how far they ''could'' go, but alas
we played fair.

Dan

When we moved into our house on the Island back in 2002, they were left at the house. However, they ended up breaking around 2006....

[John_Kunkel]

Without lawn darts the F-16 would never have got its nickname.

[DodgeByDave]

I survived Jarts, Thalidomide, Riding in the back of trucks (unsupervised, I think dad wanted us to fall out) and no seat belts.

All I got was a lousy shirt.

[Ghoste]

There may be a set still hanging around at my folks house but the story about those things that most stands out in my mind is from many years back.  I was living in a pretty crappy area with run down houses and what not.  The place I was living in was ahouse split into three apartments and one day the professional welfare mom that lived underneath me was in the parking lot with her child assets playing with those damned lawn darts.  I came around the corner just in time to see one of her little morons bury a dart into the top of the right front fender of a 69 Charger I had at the time.

[squeakfinder]

   There's a load of them on craigslist......






                                                 http://www.craiglook.com/all.html?q=jarts

[squeakfinder]

  I'll try that again...       http://www.craiglook.com/all.html?q=jarts...

[69 OUR/TEA]

Holy cow,they're everywere!!!! Thanks for the link.

[Road Dog]

I survived Jarts and Clackers!

[moparstuart]

I survived Jarts and Clackers!

oh yeah I had some lime green clackers , those where a blast  only lost a couple of fingers 

[Old Moparz]

Clackers, what a great toy!! It had absolutely no purpose other than to clobber a sibling & claim it was accidental. 

I had a set when I was 7 or 8 years old. When you got them going really fast & loud, you almost expected them to explode & shatter into your face.  What mostly happened, were just bruises all over your arms.

[moparstuart]

   here are my lime green ones I had

[Road Dog]

These are the actual ones I had as a kid.

[moparstuart]

very cool i  gotta find me a pair to hang from the rear view mirror of the birdible

[chargergirl]

Now those were cool!

[aone415]

[sarcasm]We used to play this game religiously in the summers of the late 70's and early 80's... until... the neighbors dog was killed during a sudden death match, from that point on Jarts as banned in our town and the 4 towns that bordered ours.  Possession of "Jart Paraphernalia" was punishable by 30 days and a $500 fine [/sarcasm]

[jeryst]

[sarcasm]We used to play this game religiously in the summers of the late 70's and early 80's... until... the neighbors dog was killed during a sudden death match, from that point on Jarts as banned in our town and the 4 towns that bordered ours.  Possession of "Jart Paraphernalia" was punishable by 30 days and a $500 fine [/sarcasm]

Well, it WAS a "Sudden Death Match"! What did they expect? - lol

[68 CHARGER R/T]

actually they still make them and ship em to you . you have to assemble them cause its illegal to sell them assembled.

http://www.lawndartparts.com/

[maxwellwedge]

Man - If those Clackers were out of balance they could really mess up your wrist. I had Creepy Crawlers and Creeple Peeple - both by Mattel and both used the "Thingmaker" hot plate. We generally abused lawn darts, bow and arrows, BB guns and lots of other stuff....those were the days before computers, internet and video games when your parents threw you outside all day....there were a lot less "creeps" those days as well so the parents were never worried about that.

[oldcarnut]

Just read the thread and it brought back some old memories.  Found an old pvc potato gun I made way back in the garage rafters.  Back in early 70's when soda cans were made of steel we'd cut the ends out and duct tape them together and shot tennis balls out of them.  If you put enough lighter fluid on the ball you'd get a fireball shot.  As many spuds and balls shot we never had one get stuck and blow apart on us.  The chemistry kits were fun too.  Probably a good thing I didn't have the Anarchists cookbook back then that I got later on.

[jeryst]

Man - If those Clackers were out of balance they could really mess up your wrist. I had Creepy Crawlers and Creeple Peeple - both by Mattel and both used the "Thingmaker" hot plate. We generally abused lawn darts, bow and arrows, BB guns and lots of other stuff....those were the days before computers, internet and video games when your parents threw you outside all day....there were a lot less "creeps" those days as well so the parents were never worried about that.

How about "Incredible Edibles"?
Man, those things tasted like crap.
Those chemicals are probably STILL floating around in my body.
They should have been called "Incredible Inedibles"!

[Chad L. Magee]

The chemistry kits were fun too.

I have a few of the older chemistry sets (most were unused, for display in my laboratory area).  One of them, from the 1930s, used to contain radioactive materials (like Ra, Th, U ores) and mercury metal.  It fits well with my large "Frankenstien"-style electrical switch that will be soon be mounted on my lab wall near those sets....

[maxwellwedge]

Man - If those Clackers were out of balance they could really mess up your wrist. I had Creepy Crawlers and Creeple Peeple - both by Mattel and both used the "Thingmaker" hot plate. We generally abused lawn darts, bow and arrows, BB guns and lots of other stuff....those were the days before computers, internet and video games when your parents threw you outside all day....there were a lot less "creeps" those days as well so the parents were never worried about that.

How about "Incredible Edibles"?
Man, those things tasted like crap.
Those chemicals are probably STILL floating around in my body.
They should have been called "Incredible Inedibles"!

Incredible Edibles - Good One! The Plasti-Goop was probably not a safe thing!