Wax Bullets.
Mentors used Wax Bullets when I was a wittle kid. We did not even have a television.
Years later when we got one , it had 3 stations, that came on around 5:30 am and it went off the air about 9:30 pm, with the National Anthem
Rabbit ears...
Black and white picture...
"Injun" came on when there was no programming.
Real is having your butt popped at around midnight because you snuck out of bed to shoot that 'injun' with corks from a lever action and suction darts from a 1911 looking dart gun.
Mentors would set up a Movie projector, or Slide Projector , and have the movie/slides show onto the wall of a barn or similar structure.
Safe backstops and all that...
Now I wondered as a wittle kid, how come some movies being made, or pictures being taken were they way they were.
I mean they told me, still until I saw them projected onto a safe backstop, I did not understand.
"Young-un, now see this right here <mentor pointing to a projected still image> what would you do?"
-Sometimes I was to run, like the one with a person chasing another with a machete.
-A holdup, and it showed a way for a kid to run and get help, I was supposed to say so.
-Chain Gang is working and one is running away...I was supposed to tell an adult, and call Sheriff /Police .
-Bank Robbery and I am downtown and see Bad Guys run out of a bank.
I was supposed to:
(a) "get an adult",(the one I was with, or storekeeper near)
(b) find the beat cop,
(c) put my emergency dime into the pay phone, dial "O" for operator and tell her. Oh, and the operator would give me my emergency dime back.
(various aspects of this type of thing they mentored me on)
-Some I had a clear shot, and did shoot with wax bullets from a revolver. Different stuff.
Now besides wax bullets, they did these "set ups" with .22 rim-fire, center-fire, and shotgun loads.
Safe backstops, still live ammo.
Now brain-fade on the names of simulators Police, Military and others use, which I have done and these are great if you get a chance to do these, do so.
Still I remember wax bullets, and these projected images.
One time I totally missed, I mean the wax mark was on the wall.
I "fixed-ed" it. All it took was scooting the slide machine over a bit and I hit the BG. *smart huh*
"Young-Un! You ain't supposed to do that!" - Mentors hollered, then they got to snickering and chuckling and trying to hide the fact they were.
*innocent wittle boy wook*