Posted on 11/22/2014 6:14:25 PM PST by jespasinthru
.50 cal air rifle ?
Growing up, the bb gun was necessary to protect your neighborhood. Kids on the other side of the bayou were the enemy. Many a battle occurred when the enemy attempted to advance across the train trestle.
Also. What about cap guns that used roll caps?
You can buy them for adults, too! Hubby got one for me for Christmas last year, since I never got one when I was young :)
Got mine from sixty years ago in the cellar - not used in years, all rusty, and with all the restrictive gun laws in Jersey, probably illegal to even own - and yes, they really did tell you “you’ll shoot your eye out with that thing”......
I bought one this summer. Lots of cheap plastic in it and made in China.
That's the model I got this summer. (see previous post) It sure isn't anything like the Crosman Pumpmaster 760 I had when I was a kid. Maybe that's made in China now too!?!
The Chinese actually make a very good clone of the old Crosman 180 CO2 pellet rifle. Since Crosman doesn’t make that model any more, I’m sort of glad that the Chinese penchant for copying successful designs is keeping it alive, sort of. Real metal and wood construction, too. Google “QB78”; the rifles have developed quite a following.
You sound like you’re prejudiced against Gingers. I am black, but my oldest brother married a pale, red-haired girl with freckles. They have three kids now, and they’re all kinda weird-looking. With long, bushy, orange wild hair. And they have beautiful faces, but she has to put sunscreen lotion all over them when they go outside in the summertime.
Someone mentioned upthread that loading pellets in a Crosman 760 is easy and I concur from having had one as a kid. I haven't tried any pellets in my Chinese Daisy 880 yet but I can tell by the shape and size of the bolt area that it is not going to be easy.
My first Daisy looked like a Winchester lever action. You ‘cocked’ it, pulled back the hammer, buckhorn sights. It was accurate.
Daisy started out making water windmills for farmers. They would throw in an airgun. (Autocorrect wants airgun to read virgin or origin. That’s awkward.)
Anyway, the airgun was a big hit so they phased out windmills.
Yes, this is on the final exam.
So’s the 1938 Daisy Red Ryder BB gun -
I still have mine form 1938 and it still holds a full charge!
When I was little, I didn’t make snowmen, I made “snow” horses with a snow Little Beaver” on the back -
http://www.basspro.com/Daisy-Model-1938-Red-Ryder-BB-Gun/product/25938/
Sweet!
That was the Red Ryder.
When I was 13 or 14 there were 3 of us who had Crosman 760s. We hunted squirrels with them. Pump it up high enough, eventually the cylinder would fail. We’d just go buy another one. I think they were about 25 bucks.
They must have changes the 760 since I last examined one. I still have my 761XL from back in the 1970’s and have rebuilt the pump on it several times. It has the rifled barrel and the wood stock along with the brass plated finish on the action.
The “Red Rider” types are little more than a Pop gun and Daisy used to make the exact same unit as a pop gun.
Obviously things are never the same as time progresses. As you say, Crosman has cut costs, and I’m sure made things much cheaper to stay in an affordable price window.
There are other airguns out there that are superior to the 760 but they cost almost as much as a .22LR
Fell asleep. No I don’t. Use to just tap the photo and get a drop down and then sends it where you will. Apparently something’s changed. I could use the help. Thanks.
Fell asleep. No I don’t. Use to just tap the photo and get a drop down and then sends it where you will. Apparently something’s changed. I could use the help. Thanks.
Very Nice Indeed,
Thank you.
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