How Lethal Were Lawn Darts? (The Most Dangerous Game Ever Created ???)

[@KentuckyBallistics]

Just in case you were wondering...that was 50 Beowulf LOL! I hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching!

[@tennoheikabanzai1944]

ok 👍

[@Bush-g6u]

You’re the best

[@cygen365]

@@tennoheikabanzai1944 ok

[@Yesook_geography]

KENTUCKY BALLISTICCCCSSS YOU MADE MY SON BUY A GUNNNNN

[@averagepizzaenjoyer5681]

you gotta shoot these out of the harpoon gun

[@bcelliott]

My brother and I played with these every time we visited our two elderly great aunts. Their set had sharpened ends, not blunt ends. We never tossed the darts at the circles...most of the time just hurled them underhand straight up as hard as we could and ran for cover. The darts would bury themselves in the ground halfway up the fins, and there were some close calls! The day we were throwing them at and making holes through the wooden fence in the back yard was the last time we saw the darts.

[@yogidemis8513]

I remember doing the same. My parents would get mad when they saw me do it but it was a lot of fun!

[@ValexTheGobbo]

we'd play with them with the horseshoe pin my grandad had in his backyard behind the pool. they never had the rings but the darts were good horseshoe subs for us kids

[@Xchef68]

@@bcelliott i had them as a kid... we had pointy ends....

[@jackgilchrist]

If they were blunt, a grinder could take care of that.

[@VintageFordChannel]

We had 3 sets. Even tournaments. Zero accidents. Here in Canada they stopped selling them a year after the US banned them. So we stocked up on sets to sell to the Americans. Thanks Kmart. I guess we were more responsible in the early 80s since kids in my area had rifles by the age of 10-12. Again, zero accidents.

[@flannellemur4818]

I love it when gun tubers take a break from fire arms just to mess with stuff like this. Like when Matt was using the Quadhawk, thanks for doing this Scott :)

[@KJW742]

The quadhauwk is next in que

[@susbak2]

Quadhawk tuah

[@lcarus42]

Ditto, but I do feel like an episode like this should have been a co-lab with them playing a game Jarts with torsos instead of rings.

[@flannellemur4818]

@ Idea for next time, the group plays lawn darts with zombies

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Thrown objects travel on ballistic arcs. So they still fit the channel name!

[@JustarLad]

Fun Fact: Did you know, they used actual barrages of darts for warfare. Back in the First World War, before planes were equipped with explosives, they used a bunch of darts called flechettes. These would fall from the sky and rain upon the enemy frontlines. Though, later knowing the ineffectiveness of these darts they decided to use grenades instead, which lead to the first arial bomb. I just thought it was interesting because it reminds me of this in a way,

[@azuredrake8294]

Way older than that chief, take a look at Roman plumbata war-darts. Medieval siege weapons.

[@mattdeaver6850]

A modern anti-tank sabot round is basically a giant glorified dart

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

war darts from roman and earlier. Hand thrown arrows basically

[@beebob1279]

And then they evolved into a lawn game. Who knew

[@equarg]

I saw a special on that and this reminded me of that!!!!!

[@MrHaterplease]

those darts have blunt tips. the ones I had as a kid were super sharp.

[@MattStryker]

Yeah, the ones I had were pointed too.

[@kamplayz2565]

My dad still has his set and they are pointed. Probably had different styled tips with each brand.

[@ckmoore101]

Correct. If you get ones from the 70's, they were sharp

[@JiggyjarjardoM77]

Mine had points

[@arrobrewer2730]

Same here and no sliding fletch. Had dad sharpen them up because the ground was hard. No injuries

[@350smb]

Wow! That brought back mixed memories and emotions. I was one of those 6100 sent to the ER. Like others in this chat, I was about 7 years old and not merely content to throw the jart as intended, but had to hurl it upwards and then run and try to see how deep it would go when it hit the ground. On one of my throws, I somehow ran in the same direction as the arc. Sure enough, it landed right on my head. I can still remember the feel of the impact. Blood was everywhere. I ran into the house, screaming. My parents came up, screaming, then screaming at each other for not watching me. Off to the ER holding a towel over the injury. Many stitches, but X-rays showed no fractures. My mother was instructed to ask me a series of questions in the morning, I guess to check for signs of a concussion. All good. Now, some 40+ years later, I’m watching this video and figuring it must have been a glancing hit, like the first actual contact Scott made in the video. Those darts were sure fun up until that moment. God was looking out for this dumbass that day!

[@pepinlebref7585]

thanks for sharing. This is no joke, but it must have been fun. In Europe we didn't have such toys

[@SophieMitchell-b24]

@@pepinlebref7585 Europe's so boring. They look like fun.

[@pepinlebref7585]

@@SophieMitchell-b24 I can't disagree

[@Marvin_R]

@@SophieMitchell-b24 lawn darts were a european invention, designed as long range weapons of war. look up the roman "plumbata". insane that someone thought a deadly weapon would make a great children's toy.

[@FadersAnd]

Going to the er for stitches was a frequent occurrence as a kid in the 80s - but we had fun

[@ruger8412]

They're up there with 3 wheelers 😅 the 80's were a special time 😂

[@Brusseldudes7180]

Sit on the three wheeler while driving with it in the back of a truck😂

[@blainclatworthy5423]

I lived through the 80's.

[@animalmother9945]

80's came out in late 60's / 70's

[@daemonhat]

a buddy of mine had a honda 120 and it was the best thing ever. and only rolled it once. almost twice but managed to get it under control. used it for years until one day we jumped a hill and it broke in half.

[@H20Duck]

We were chucking these at each other in the 60s

[@DROP_BEARZ]

The first time I saw air dropped flachettes in the war memorial museum, I genuinely got chills. Sometimes the simplest weapons are the scariest.

[@jimmccoal2693]

The Roman's also used large Darts.

[@forginglifeandfamily]

Had 2 sets of these growing up. They were a blast, just like a gun, you follow safety...

[@scrappydoo7887]

Exactly 💯

[@dtcdtc8328]

I got some off Ebay before they "banned" them, now you can only buy empty boxes 👀 They are truly a blast.

[@OfficialJanitor]

What safety protocol is there for a game where you are throwing darts at each other?

[@dtcdtc8328]

​​@@OfficialJanitor Um you aren't "throwing them at each other" you are tossing them and tell me, do where do you stand when someone is sh-ting a firearm? In direct line or off to the side and back ? Same with horseshoes, no toddlers and no animals nearby. It's a adult game . Smh

[@scrappydoo7887]

@OfficialJanitor what makes you think you are supposed to throw them at each other?

[@dan.13]

I'm 55 years old. We had them in the 70's. My brothers and I never bothered with the loops. We just chucked 'em at each other!

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

Kept you on you toes, lol!

[@brianj9262]

I'm 55 too. We threw at each other too. Our youngest brother would try to catch them. Do you remember those hard black shoes we wore as kids? These just bounced off. I kicked a dart as it fell. Kids today break a nail playing video games

[@philwarner7171]

50, but heck yeah we chucked them at each other.

[@MiGujack3]

based

[@Th0tp4tr0IIL0L]

Yup my mom did the same thing lol

[@Toupac1029]

My Grandpa would make me patch the holes in his roof! Lol i was 10 years old. He was a WW2 Marine. I learned a lot from that amazing man.

[@philtanics1082]

Haha I grew up playing these with my grandfather... and having to fix the holes I made too lol. He was 82nd Airborne in WW2, no doubt the greatest generation.

[@tomjohnson5597]

Accidentally put a few holes in the roof of my grandfather’s shed with them. 😮

[@tomb2768]

😂😂😂

[@rmp5s]

Oorah

[@Toupac1029]

CPL Murray Lee Ball. USMC Pacific theater. 2 purple hearts (carried a Japanese slug in his leg for 40 years which was finally removed) BAR was his favorite tool in the war.

[@overwatchdesigns8969]

Countless hours playing with these things unsupervised as a young teen. Never an injury. Loved them. Always had that tinge of dangerous weaponry that every young boy needs!!

[@mrSaber79]

There is actually a late roman weapon that looks exactly like lawn darts. They are called plumbata. If i recall, they were actually meant to be thrown in the same way too!

[@badtime9000]

im pretty sure they were designed off of plumbata

[@mal2ksc]

The main difference is that, being held together by a soft bead of lead, plumbata were single-use weapons. They didn't get bent, they got wobbly and/or fell apart. Tod's Workshop just did a video about a modern update he calls the "ferrata". He replaced the lead with an equal weight of steel, making the weapon a lot more durable and also safer to handle. The steel bead is a bit bigger because of the density difference, and the two metals _look_ different, but those are both reasonable compromises IMO. Certainly I don't think the Romans were too concerned whether their lead weights were pretty.

[@KarstRats]

@@mal2ksc using my own logic about how humans have wanted weapons to perform. I would think that they tried to use a soft metal so it would break off inside the target. But i could be dead wrong.

[@The_Black_Knight]

Overhand throw was the preferred method for accuracy.

[@mrSaber79]

@The_Black_Knight my bad. I haven't refreshed my memory about it before posting. It's still awesome to think about though.

[@CrashTestPilot]

Still got a couple of sets of Jarts up at the cottage that we've had since the 70s or 80s. They still get used when we're up there.

[@dtcdtc8328]

There is no more fun lawn game. Blows away horseshoes. The same people who fought to ban them are the very same people who are trying to ban guns.

[@LethalG1523]

Have you had any incidents?

[@dtcdtc8328]

@LethalG1523 We haven't, the dog got out and came charging down to where we play, but luckily, we stopped and put the dog back up. Shew.. lol

[@CrashTestPilot]

Not a one. Just don't have people down range.

[@dustinb2258]

Keep them. Sooooo hard to find them. They are garbage sale gold

[@dennisvandermarkt8263]

80s oh no. Early 70s. I'm 60. Played with them. Awesome Scott

[@TheMAMBA1965]

They can out in the late 60’s. His set looks pretty vintage.

[@Uriel77200]

I was born in 72. We played with these in the late 70s

[@danstephens9500]

@@TheMAMBA1965 They actually came out in the 50's. They became the most popular in the late 60's. My first memory of them was in the late 60's. And I seem to remember sharpened points.

[@Tim-kryan]

@@danstephens9500 I agree about the points being sharp.

[@Tim-kryan]

We played Jarts in the 70s too.

[@danwhite4157]

My friends and I were about 12yo when we discovered Jarts and a 3 man sling shot as well as a old abandoned 80s swing set will get you a long stern talk with a couple of state troopers over a distribution transformer.

[@westcoastwarriorsarchive7929]

congratulations you 12 year olds recreated a primitive balista lol

[@robertlewis8295]

Had these when I was growing up, we didn't follow the instructions. We were smart enough to mark a throwing line and set up a single target circle. We were smart enough to realize throwing these basically at each other was a bad idea. We also used our garage door as a backstop for an indoor BB gun range, not too many ricochets.

[@DaphnieSparks]

Fellow Kentuckian here. I have to admit, this is damn near surreal that you're covering this. Without going into a lot of detail, let's just say the 10 stitches my sister received to the noggin, back in the late 80's from an innocent game of lawn darts, thanks you.

[@Jonbo117]

...bro

[@glorfendell2967]

Lol blunt tips? Not in our day. Ours were pointed and weighted to land extra hard.

[@Razor-gx2dq]

Dude...

[@kellypg]

​@@glorfendell2967I'm so proud of you. You're so brave.

[@rogerstlaurent8704]

@@clumsyninja2023 it was a young 7 year old girl in them mid 80s that got struct in the head with a lawn jart and died and the father push for a bill to band the sale of lawn jarts

[@powwowken2760]

I swear the set I played with at my grandparents house had legit points on them rather than those rounded tips... I remember accidently lodging one in a wooden fence with a normal underhand lob.

[@nabcunion]

They did.

[@trinitywright7122]

Oh we lobbed them into many things.😂

[@btrswt35]

The ones we had, did have rounded tips. Seems like there were different styles.

[@jackgilchrist]

I think maybe the older styles had points and in the '80s some makers started blunting them.

[@Zaku186]

I have a set i found at my grandparents house that has sharp points. They are super fun

[@jonenglish6617]

Scott. Everyones parents had these when I was a kid (1980s). So much fun. As an aside DUI was a $53 fine then. You can imagine the stuff that went on.

[@markbowman3475]

Where did you live? I got a DUI in 82 and the fine was $500.

[@jonenglish6617]

@@markbowman3475 Ontario Canada

[@jayrowe6473]

I still have the original set of Lawn Darts we got when we were kids. We got ours in the early 1970s, and they were a lot of fun.

[@markc6207]

Want to sell them? I want them.

[@JT_771]

We had these growing up. used them fairly regularly. No injuries, but we definitely didn't have people too close to the target range. :)

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

You mean you used common sense and knew they could be dangerous

[@keithfreeman5204]

Lawn Darts + R/C Model Airplanes + Servo Release. Great Fun.

[@trinitywright7122]

Mmmm I hope Scott is reading these

[@mikehawkhovers9872]

Now that's fun

[@gwbuilder5779]

The old Cox planes with tether lines to control the plane.😂🤣🦅🇺🇲🤙

[@jamesstewart924]

Yep, r/c planes with nitro fuel....

[@lulatsch1515]

Congrats you just reinvented a weapon from WWI

[@ericlestick7325]

I LOVED Lawn Darts. Both of my grandmothers had a set....the old, pointy tipped ones. The fences suffered. So did the sides of the houses, and trees...and even the garden hose. But neither my brother nor I ever suffered, and we hated each other.

[@BrianPieper]

Great to see something different. One of these stuck in my brother’s arm. We just pulled it out and said don’t tell mom. He was fine. So for sure these things were dangerous. lots of the fun spinning playground equipment all got removed due to injuries too . Miss the gate etc. thank you for great channel. Grew up with shells in my pocket in countryside. Now living the urban life so thank you for keeping the memories fresh. Cheers

[@erikduggins228]

Jarts came out in the 60's. Had them as a kid. And they were originally sharp pointed. Later they were made blunt and then banned outright. I loved them way back then.

[@trinitywright7122]

Yes, they came out in the '60s

[@DH-xw6jp]

Lawn darts are stil sold, they just have big foam rubber tips.

[@OkieintheSmokies]

Hay bud, I love your channel. I grew up on 300 acres in WVA from 6th to the beginning of my senior year. Born in 59. Those Yard Jarts were available before 1980. We played them all the time before 1976 when we sold the farm and moved. No on ever was injured, ever. We followed the instructions. Loved that game.

[@brian70Cuda]

I still have mine:) A true junk collector I am;) I had so much fun with these.

[@OkieintheSmokies]

@brian70Cuda I wish I still had mine. Hours of fun playing the game. Idiots used them as not intended and got hurt. Just like many things. But we had then around mid 70's, not the 80's like our bud we follow said they were in use.

[@OkieintheSmokies]

@brian70Cuda if you find another set, and they are not valued as gold, contact me again. I would love to purchase them.

[@brian70Cuda]

@@OkieintheSmokies Will do, I don't look anymore though for such things. Garage sales used to be great up until e-bay came along.

[@OkieintheSmokies]

@brian70Cuda hay bud, I'm now crippled and disabled. It's ok. Yard Jarts CAN be played leaning or sitting. Lolol Yah bless you and yours!

[@duggy889]

Once again Scott you have made me laugh ! Which is a good thing. When I was a kid we tended to do all the dangerous stuff, like making hydrogen with Drano and aluminum chunks, and going down in the newly constructed sewer system, all the way to the plant(no poop in there yet.) Lawn darts were kind of mellow compared to all the crap we did.... Thanks again for cracking me up !!

[@garretisla5282]

I was in P.E. at school in Nor-Cal, with our teacher, Mr. Rubin. Happy Valley Elementary. After his explanation of their use and origin from the Roman Plumbata, I watched a squirrel quite literally get pinned to the earth on our classes first group throw. Best P.E. class ever. 😂❤😂

[@ludecom-cz1wz]

I was wondering who would bring the plumbata to the story.

[@letsgobrandon8271]

Best P.E. class ever?? Not for the squirrel!!!

[@jamesbaker3153]

Of course you're from California.

[@stephendosson246]

Didn’t the airforce also drop bigger darts on a masssive scale in both World Wars?

[@Cookingwithteargas]

​@stephendosson246 i think they dropped a truly massive dart at 10,265 pounds once. And the British at about 22k

[@johnathansaegal3156]

We had those "Jarts" as kids/early teens. We had a lot of fun until the recall hit and my parents said my brother and I could no longer play the game. Instead of returning them, my brother and I made a black powder launcher for the darts: we cut down the fins to fit in the high-pressure gas pipe we used as a barrel (the black powder was made from the chemistry set my folks got my brother for his 10th birthday - it even included how to make black powder in the instructions)... anyway, coupled with the trigger and hammer from a cap gun and the plastic "ring" caps used in toy cap guns made great percussion caps, we were firing those "Jarts" over our house, the neighbor's house and across the street of those houses. We stopped when a "Jart" ended up hitting... not my friends who were spotting where they landed, but the hood of a car parked on the street. Yeah, that's a good time to stop.

[@bananacreamblues7786]

You and your brother sound like a lot of fun to hang out with lol

[@Blasted2Oblivion]

Sounds to me like you took the recall as a challenge. "Too dangerous? I'll show you dangerous." That kind of thing.

Jason Platt got hit between his eye and cheek, while our babysitter was all coked up. It was the 80’s 😂

[@Hunt45]

🤝🤝🤝🤝

[@Tsuter1978]

Yup, it’s all fun and games until your jart goes through a windshield.

[@Steelythestacker]

The ones we had were sharp on the tip. Those look like they had a blunt tip.

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

Those were the old school ones

[@ForSquirel]

Definitely remember mine being pointy. Never even thought twice about not standing next to the ring. Man we were dumb kids.

[@trinitywright7122]

You know that's exactly what I thought. The ones we had had really sharp tips I mean like really sharp like an error that you shoot into a target. Those ones he has is blunted off.

[@trinitywright7122]

​@@j.robertsergertson4513yeah the good ones

[@mal2ksc]

@@trinitywright7122 That was a pretty stupid design choice to ever sharpen them from the factory. That's practically baiting kids into using them unwisely. If the blunt tips can't stick in the ground with that much momentum behind them, a sharper point isn't going to help that much, so the game doesn't need them to be sharp.

[@ANip351]

Thank you lord for blessing us with Scott's talents 😅, at 9:46 in mate my whole household just lost it in laughter, I let out a year's worth of endorphins 😂 and started crying bro😂. Well done and God bless always. From Newcastle, Australia.

[@tonytrowbridge942]

The lawn jarts were awesome. My brother ended up in ER with a jart stuck in his head. That wasn't cool. I had one stuck in the top of my foot, but was able to just pull it out and "walk it off." 😂

[@scrappydoo7887]

@@tonytrowbridge942 🤔

[@MiGujack3]

Crazy times, now certain people go into a coma when people push back their DEI statements.

[@tonytrowbridge942]

@@MiGujack3 😂

[@Starfighter-nk4mo]

Crazy you didn’t get a bad infection seeing as the dart point would be so covered in bacteria by being in soil. I hoped you cleaned it well!

[@tonytrowbridge942]

@@Starfighter-nk4mo it was like 40 years ago. Not really worried about it.

[@Manco65]

I had one set and immediately adapted them as modern plumbata. Roman war darts. "I threw a lawn dart straight up into the air. It landed upon my forehead straight and square!" 😛 Seriously im glad none of my cousins and I were hurt with these...but not for lack of recklessly trying.

[@ngabanski6079]

Glad someone else know what the jarts originated from. "Were they lethal?" Well the Romans used them in warfare so that's a yes.

[@howardoller443]

Regardless of your lawn dart skills, or lack thereof, you gave us another excellent video, Scott.

[@maxiii266]

Man ever i see you, i love yours vídeos! Saludos desde Argentina!!

[@kriskodisko]

This was the quietest episode of KB to date until 11:48

[@StirlingLighthouse]

These were a blast, until someone decided to throw one straight up! The scattering was real!! Thanks Scott 🙏

[@trinitywright7122]

After after we played with him for a while and got tired of hitting each other in the foot, we used to wait till dark and then throw them straight up in the air. Yes. And I am still crazy. Yes. None of them ever hit me in the head. 🙃

[@GUNNER67akaKelt]

But... that's when it was most fun!

[@zzzzzzzzzzaper]

@@trinitywright7122 I believe Hasbro came out with a lighted set then they were banned.

[@christopherdean1326]

Your explanation of the game made me realise why they got banned! When they came out over here in the UK, I am 90% sure it was played like a normal darts game, with everyone throwing from the same place into the same target some yards away. Nobody was supposed to be in the flight path. That's why I never understood why they were considered so dangerous! Another aspect that occurs to me, is that most people in the UK have much smaller gardens than you get over there, so the sensible thing was for everyone to stay together and throw the darts to a single target.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

They were banned because lawyers are really good at getting money for stupid people who hurt themselves or other by doing stupid things.

[@barrothontherocks3325]

@@MonkeyJedi99 it helps a lot for the lawyers when the product itself has dumb instructions so they can't even hide behind a "use as intended*" disclaimer

[@OtakuD50]

I think the intention was that with a player standing near each goal, there wouldn't be a need for one player to walk all the way to the goal to pick up the darts and walk back to the throwing position. I bet whoever thought of that was feeling pretty clever at the time.

[@barrothontherocks3325]

@@OtakuD50 it's actually insane to me to have an outdoor activity, like "let's get outside and get some exercise" and try to find a way to not have to walk a little bit, i guess that's the entire spirit of golf tho

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@OtakuD50 Yeah. You don't even see that in games of horseshoes. Standing near the target pit is a recipe for blunt force trauma.

[@eugenesis8188]

Brooo. When i was a kid, i had a 40 lb recurve bow, an air rifle that was closer to a 22 than an air soft gun, all kinds of firecrackers, and we dug holes and made ludicrous bike ramps all the time. My mom was cool with all of that, but then i find this exact box of lawn darts in my grandmas basement, and mom shut it down within 15 minutes. To be fair, i did sharpen the tips and i was just throwing them straight up and watching them come down.

[@teddyboukagain9985]

Bunch of us kids would stand in a circle back to back, throw one up in the air and all run screaming. Also played cowboys with BB guns, how none of us ever get hurt I’ll never know.

[@trinitywright7122]

We played cowboys with pellet rifles. I got you beat.😂 You jarted well!!

[@wrenchwiki8036]

My all time favorite was M80 apple fights.

[@lynx50187]

Used to soak the bbs in index to make it sting

[@RAYTHEONGAMING]

We used to in the 90s with Red Ryders till my friend got a 760 pumpmaster and sent someone to the hospital.

[@kasper_429]

"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alankeith7866]

We had those as kids and had a lot of fun with them. We also made sure that everyone knew when we were throwing them. A little bit of logic...

[@mica-i7l]

Yeah we had fun with jarts for years, no problems. Jumping ramps with our bikes trying to be evil knevil was the real problem.

[@alankeith7866]

@mica-i7l the best of times right there!

[@brentkeller3826]

I remember those. The instructions at the time had both teams facing each other. Pure darwinian fun.

[@RikkuHen]

I was three. Two of the neighbor boys had these Jarts and were throwing them at a circular rug (the kind that looks like a rope and is just coiled around until it makes a rug) that they had hung off of a chain link fence. I happened to wander behind that fence to see what they were doing, just as one of their throws went wide. The jart struck me right in the sternum and just hung there. I screamed bloody murder, the boys ran off to get their dad, and both sets of parents arrived at the same time. My parents had the good sense to leave the jart in me as they rushed me to the hospital. Fortunately, it struck the bone squarely and did only minor damage. The jarts disappeared after that. Fortunately, I was too young to have any memory of the event. But the story was told to me many times by my parents.

[@marines0001]

Had them as a Kid loved them good times. originals had a bogger circle and pointed tips.

[@katrinadymond4155]

I'm 61, and when I was a kid in the 70's most families had these. It saved you from having to dig "horseshoe" puts. Now us kids however, yep tossed them as high and hard as you could. Never knew anyone who got hurt. Thank you for a great video

[@keefparadise1597]

I'm 48, I got those for Christmas when I was like six years old. I took one to the leg from about 50 yards away from the thrower (my older brother). edited to add: we sharpened the darts by rubbing them on the concrete sidewalk.

[@tomb2768]

😂 we did the same thing , and I was the recipient of one to the knee from my older brother also. 🤣🤣

[@redneck94chevy]

​@@tomb2768 game reference: So you used to be an adventurer until you took an arrow to the knee? 😂😂

[@westcoastwarriorsarchive7929]

Did they get taken away after that? Or did your parents let you keep playing with them?

[@jimmccoal2693]

We had lawn darts and all 3 of my brothers survived. I belive in natural selection.

[@Danjsm1988]

The actual banned ones had sharpened tips, we had a set of them that my brothers played with. My brothers also used to shoot each other with BB guns.

[@jossege]

this style with the blunted tip is also banned. the only sets you can buy now are the ones that are just big rounded weights at the bottom

[@jeremywhittington7605]

Lawn darts were awesome, I’m all for any toy that culls the herd lol!

[@Chandler-n6l]

Ahhhhhh......the Good Ole days. Ash trays in cars, no air bags, metal slides.......

[@thomasdark9763]

Cannot forget the rear facing seats in the station wagon

[@PuppyMonsters]

My buddies and I figured out the trick to not get stuck on a hot metal slide while wearing those short shorts we had to wear in the 70's was to take a handful of dirt up the ladder with you and spread it on the slide before you went down. We got a faster ride and our legs didn't get burned.

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

Riding in the back of pickups.

[@thomasdark9763]

@ Surfing in the back 😁

[@corkbulb2895]

You missed the best part. NO INTERNET!

[@jazzman782000]

Throwing Jarts straight up and running. Me and my cousins’ favorite outdoor activity, after croquet, when we were at our grandparents’ house.

[@PaulLorenzini-ny2yw]

I got a wicked croquet welt on my shin, the perp got an apple thrown at 60mph, 12 year old throwing speed to the noggin, we are all alive still with the scars to prove it.

[@patchesdf]

I grew up in the 70's we already had these. This is how we played with them. We would all stand in the center of a field or our backyards. We stood back to back in a circle. One takes the lawn dart and hurls it straight into the air as hard as they can, then we all fled for our lives. Loads of fun!

[@AlexanderUbel]

Yep.

[@spudgunnin]

My brother and I played with these every summer in the early "80's and were tons of fun. We also had enough common sense not to stand behind our opponents target ring. Even horseshoes will take you out if you hang around behind the pin. Maybe we should bring back jarts to thin the herd.

[@0tedaCecapS]

That's what gun's are for and Americans are doing a good job at that, A+++

[@awsomewolfman124]

@@0tedaCecapS Good job, you made an unnecessary and politically charged anti American and anti gun comment on a gun tuber channel. I bet you feel great! :)

[@SpaceCowboy-u7j]

⁠@@0tedaCecapS we are? Do have any idea how many guns Americans own? Like the meme from about 20 years ago says: *“THERE ARE OVER 200 MILLION LEGALLY OWNED GUNS AND 12 TRILLION ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION IN AMERICA…IF WE WERE A PROBLEM, YOU’D KNOW IT.”* 🇺🇸 😘❤️

[@0tedaCecapS]

@@awsomewolfman124 How's that anti American? or anti gun and Scott is one of my favourite Utubers, I'm all for Americans doing whatever in their own country.

[@AlexofZippo]

Yeah that seems to be the biggest smooth brain move to me, why stand right where a missed shot will hit you?

[@Jafromobile]

The slow mo sound of the dart impacts were spectacular! So juicy!

[@lunarvvolf9606]

I played with rusting tonka trucks, lawn darts, bb guns, and abusive stepdad how I made it through childhood is a small miracle.

[@bloodyirishman5758]

Wow...what a blast down memory lane! The fact my brother and I are still around after having multiple sets of these proves there is a higher power lol!

[@scottm85]

No it doesn't.

[@howardoller443]

@@scottm85 Yes; the teaching, life, and death of Jesus Christ proves there is a Higher Power.

[@MarkusMöttus-x7j]

​@@howardoller443 Nope.. That's common sense... Which should be instilled in you by your parents, not a book written by hundreds, if not thousands of people that haven't walked the earth in centuries and some not in millennia.. 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤦🏻

[@MarkusMöttus-x7j]

No it showed you either had common sense or y'all just got hella lucky! 💁🏻

[@howardoller443]

@@MarkusMöttus-x7j Your foolish denial of God and His holy Word shows your unholy bias, denial of historical truth, and lack of common sense. Common sense is sound judgment in practical matters. Proverbs 8:5 speaks of the need to develop “common sense,” which other translations simply call “prudence” or “discretion.” Biblically, common sense can be thought of as a combination of wisdom and discretion (Proverbs 3:21; 8:12-14). Wisdom is knowing what to do; discretion is knowing when and where to do it.

[@ifabforfun]

"... filled with green blood" lol the Slo Mo Guys will never trust you again. Glad they showed the uncensored footage though, it was CRAZY!

[@trinitywright7122]

😂😂

[@bigrandy37387]

kentucky ballistics will always be the best gun channel hands down!

[@Carstuff111]

First off, great video, and second, yeah these things are very dangerous, I have seen first hand the results of a lawn dart oops. I happened to be at the ER with a friend for a possible broken foot (it wasn't thankfully) and this guy comes stumbling into the ER with a few other people in tow, and he has a lawn dart sticking through his shoulder. It turned out he and a few of his buddies got good and drunk, found a bag of lawn darts, SHARPENED them, and decided to go out in the back yard to throw them at things. He happened to step in the line of throw at just the right (wrong?) time... I nearly threw up seeing that through his shoulder. Also, fun fact, he and his buddies were arrested. One for drunk driving, and the rest for drunk in public, among a few other charges.

[@Easy_Skanking]

As a child of the 70's, we played lawn darts, horse shoes, had rock wars, walnut wars, and dirt clod wars. No injuries more than bruises. 😁 The greater injuries were from attempting stunts on big wheels, then our bikes, and sliding down hills on our knees. 🤣 We had some seriously fun childhoods.

[@PatternRecognitionMusic]

Oh jeez the flashbacks are real....dirt clod wars haha what an era.

[@SandyMasquith]

You definitely fixed the lawn dart injuries! The 50 Beowulf managed to remove the head, thereby solving the problem of the lawn darts in the head. Well done!!

[@trinitywright7122]

😂😂

[@TheMrNiceGuy223]

We played lawn darts and never had any issues with safety but I can see how people can get hurt with these.

[@ronjones-6977]

Rocks are dangerous when thrown 30 feet into the air, too. Don't tell Big Brother, or they'll try to ban them.

[@0NiKiSUxNuLL838]

nice profile pic

[@jurassicjojo4758]

Well, when you lack common sense, it can be similar to throwing knives at a board with a person standing between the thrower and the board.

[@leftyo9589]

yup, the fun police had to protect the stupid people.

[@charleswisconsin9196]

@@leftyo9589 i hope you thank them for protecting you, then.

[@brandonlevy8680]

This, Horseshoes, Roller Derby, Monkey Bars and Dodge Ball. I miss the old days.

[@lardo666]

"I have experience throwing tables, but..." Only on this channel does that feel a natural statement. Best wishes for the winter ahead

[@notsosilentmajority1]

How many of us still point our fingers and move our arms when the Intro starts? "What's up everybody, my name's Scott and you're watching Kentucky Ballistics" Perfect timing with the sound effects too, lol.

[@the_wingnut]

Yup! Been doing it for years. I miss Scott pointing at the range sign, it added another whack/point. If I don't do it, my wife thinks I'm sick or depressed.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

@@the_wingnut Great minds my friend, great minds... 👍

[@davidfarrens3572]

Loved those as a child. So fun.

[@bigtimedom9660]

8:03 Me when I get sick again.

[@albusplaustrum06]

I am just impressed the fins didn't break right away being over 49 years old and being made from 80s plastic. Only game I still have from the 80 is Dark Tower and it is a miracle it still works.

[@jossege]

ive been trying to find spare/replacement fins for my set. my stomach hurt watching them get destroyed 😅

[@HD.Beamer]

Hello from Switzerland 🇨🇭 love it 👌🏻

[@DownRange02]

Played Jarts MANY, MANY times as kids. No one ever got hurt because we were very sternly instructed on how to play the game safely. You “MOVE AWAY FROM THE CIRCLE WHEN A JART IS TOSSED!” Great memories!

[@billyjoe6933]

I remember throwing reagular darts at each other when we were kids .we stoped when a cousin had one stuck in his head right above the eye just hanging there.great memories. We would be dead if we got our hands on these .the damn clackers left our hands beat all to hell but those lawn darts look deadly.great video

[@ryanmuir6338]

I had those when I was a kid, no issues with them, but a water filled plastic rocket that clipped to a base while you pumped it full of air before pulling a trigger release clocked me good in the orbit when I was leaning over it to push down and pump as much air pressure into it as possible causing it to bust loose of it's hold down lol

[@reptiloidmitglied2930]

My old physics teacher had one of those rockets. He used every opportunity to get out of the classroom and fired it at at the highest window of the school building to scare the other teachers up there - and for the sake of eduaction of course 😂

[@henryturnerjr3857]

I remember playing with those things! They would always end up on the roof or stuck in a tree within like 10 minutes. 😂

[@ewjorgy]

Had a friend who took his old set of those and added a 3' PVC pipe with some caution tape at the end. He would drop them from his hang glider at around 500' to plant his own wind sock where he was going to land. One day it landed square on the butt of a cow. Cow mooed, ran about 10 feet and went back to munching grass. Would NOT want to get hit by one! If anyone ever deserved a holy cow T-shirt it was him! :) Take care and all the best from California!🧡

[@coyster530]

If I had to guess you were probably in Far Northern California. I live north of Sacramento by a couple hrs

[@phreakazoith2237]

Now this sounds a lot like the beginning of air to ground weapons in WW1. Before bombs they used Aerial Darts, the Germans called them fliegerpfeil. more or less lawn darts but masses of them dropped from planes

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

Oh course California ruins another thing for everyone

[@trinitywright7122]

Wowwwww You outdid my danger with that one

[@j.robertsergertson4513]

@@ewjorgy oh course California is the another reason for ruining something for everyone

[@sneffels]

i loved playing this at my grandparents back when i was like 7

[@saskafrass1985]

We had them taken away when we were caught playing lawn dart chicken. Throwing them at each other. Can't remember exactly if it was my brother or cousin but one of them had one go right through his shoe and pinned his foot to the ground. It only took a big chunk off his toe, so peroxide and bandaid. No emergency room. We all got yelled at.

[@FrancescoJoti]

Great video scott 👍 The roman use a weapon called plumbata very similar to this

[@ironmanjjwattgaming]

0:47 Bro got hit in the wrong part of the brain 🧠😭😆

[@chandrapost2744]

lol btw I’m on my mom’s account

[@ironmanjjwattgaming]

@chandrapost2744 💀☠️💀☠️ oh

[@krumble4520]

Not really Actualy if he is having visual disturbances it would sense that he was hit in the occipital lobe

[@ironmanjjwattgaming]

There's something called a joke 😭

[@charleswisconsin9196]

is there a correct part of the brain?

[@SA12String]

We had Lawn Darts as kids. We're both still alive, basically. Also, I seem to remember that ours were sharpish, not rounded like the Jarts you have. Just a spectacularly bad idea, right next to the kid's science kits from the 1950s that had real radioactive elements.

[@glenjones6980]

Drinking water from a hosepipe and antiseptic wipes would be mum licking a hanky before wiping the bleeding knees/elbows or whatever. We were built tougher years ago 😂

[@trinitywright7122]

Oh man, I had a great chemistry set in the '60s. I may have said a couple things on fire accidentally. Maybe

[@jcbass2u]

My set had brass weights and a sharp pointed end....red and blue flights. we played with them for years, never had an issue, just weren't dumb enough to stand near the ring while the darts were in play. and yes we threw them straight up as well. Put a nice hole through my dad's garage roof....we also used to shoot our Compound Bow straight up and dodge the arrow as it came back down, so dodging a lawn dart was not a problem.

[@blackdoge4151]

He found dubya's submarine what a nice guy!

[@trinitywright7122]

Oh that intro was funny

[@OriginCorey]

8:49 which to be fair would be an absolutely catastrophic injury to little Timmy on field day

[@DavidStriker]

Nothing like the 70's and 80's those were great times with some very cool stuff and beautiful well built cars and trucks . Nothing like the good ol'days with a gun rack on the back glass and 3 on a tree and Huntin fishin and lovin everyday like good folks .

[@Zach-ku6eu]

Yup. That Skull Shot Happened To One of My Step Cousins. Everyone was playing 'Catch' over the top of the trailer home. *Those were designed after actual ancient War Darts!*

[@alanduncan9204]

Now I know what I want for Christmas. Thanks

[@trinitywright7122]

But where can we get them

[@allens4974]

The ones I remember playing with were "Lawn Darts" not "Jarts" and the tip on them seemed more aggressive and the fletching was fixed to the shaft, so they didn't slide up and down as the ones used here. We never did play with them as described in the video and never had any injuries from them either. When we played, it was everyone stand at one circle and throw their darts down range. We would gather are darts and then repeat the process going the other way. Never could understand as a kid why they would be banned and I was disappointed when they were. I was really big into archery when young and a game that combined archery and horseshoes was awesome in my book. But if people were actually standing by a circle while their opponent threw the darts at that circle, I could understand the desire to ban them. Also have to wonder how many great things we have in this world (and that has greatly benefited the world) would not be here because they were "dangerous".

[@S-T-E-V-E]

I had those Lawn Darts as a Kid! I bought them on Holiday in America in the 80's! 😂

[@jimbatten1927]

I can still vividly remember the first time my mother tried tossing one of these. It went straight up, we all went running in different directions to get away while she stood there wondering where the danged thing went. It landed about 2 feet from her. Oh what fun! They were actually pretty fun, one of our favorite toys.

[@davidcreager1945]

I remember playing with these when I was a kid ! 😂

[@drewcagno]

I once made a PVC bow that I turned into the jankiest crossbow you've ever seen. It fired the OG lawn darts. At like 75 feet it would punch into 1/2 inch plywood like nobody's business. I've still got it in my basement. It's absolutely terrifying!

[@trinitywright7122]

Oh dude !! Scott's going to want to borrow that. And we want to see that

[@drewcagno]

If Scott wants it he's welcome to hit me up. I'm close enough that I could drive it to him. Be a nice weekend trip......

[@xCreepyKidsx]

When I was a kid we were at a get together and a young girl caught a lawn dart to the face. It luckily missed her eye but went through her cheek and stuck there. She tossed it up and just stood there staring at it as it rocketed downward instead of moving. It was really messed up.

[@FishOnCrackMC]

Played with these with my sister in my uncles yard while my dad and him worked on his truck. His truck filled the entire yard with white smoke, could not see more than a ft in front of you. One of my fondest memories.

[@artiomvv569]

My father said he once killed a rat by hitting it with a lawn dart when he was 15 or 16, he threw it at it like one of those darts used on dart board

[@trinitywright7122]

Well good use of the jart

[@hariman7727]

Poor Ratigan shall never conduct a crime spree again.

[@MikeBaxterABC]

11:03 An object like this thrown approximately 30 feet in the air, could be expected to be traveling at 60 MPH on impact.

[@gilgameshmcballin]

It should be travelling at almost the same speed it was thrown minus the friction from wind resistance

[@charleswisconsin9196]

@@gilgameshmcballin too bad basic physics disagrees with you.

[@maxhunter3574]

Lawn darts .....on the next collaboration with Houston Jones, LOL!

[@Cameron-xm5oy]

I love kentucky ballistics you dont care about youtubes new guidelines and i like that your cool dude keep up the good work

[@gordkudeba1756]

Hey Scott. Growing up in Northern Alberta in the mid-80s we actually played with those things on our farm as farm kids. The first thing we did when we opened our box of them was went into the shop and ground the tips as sharp as you could get them on the bench grinnder. Then we took them hunting squirrels. Those were simpler times because the parents trusted you and farm kids usually a little bit safer than city kids. And yes we did get a lot of squirrels and we never got hurt. Love the video man.

[@NihilusTheGreat]

It's not a .600 nitro express revolver...but I'm still happy from the last video.

[@adammaj9707]

cheers from Poland

[@mikeohagan2206]

I still have my set somewhere in my storage locker. Danger was a big part of being a kid in the 60s and 70s. We were tougher back then and learned to live with injuries and pain. Good times.