Posted on 07/02/2016 1:07:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber
What's it like to fire a Daisy BB gun? It's an experience I'll never forget. Everybody knows BB guns are scary looking and ought to be banned, but I thought I would try to shoot one without any preconceived notions. What I encountered changed me forever.
I took a deep breath and determined to enter a Wal-Mart. A "greeter" met me with, "Howdy, welcome to Wal-Mart." I'm from the north. We don't say "Howdy". I sneer back at the microaggression and strain to hold back tears of rage. Barely controlling myself, I asked where I could find a BB gun. He directed me to "sporting goods," still smiling and gloating over his slyly delivered offense.
I go to the "sporting goods" section, a perfect charnel house where implements of sulfur, death, and destruction are openly and brazenly sold. I notice a BB gun just lying on a shelf. I reach for it as if it was a poisonous snake, wondering if it will go off when I pull it off the shelf. That's right, a shelf. Where anybody could get it.
I go to the counter and the death merchant asks me if I wanted BBs to go with it. He even had the audacity to offer me "Copperhead" brand BBs! How could this inbred hick not know that I see a therapist twice a week to treat my herpephobia?
I buy the gun and the recommended BBs. I'm dizzy going out to the parking lot. A passing stranger, attired in a camouflage assault t-shirt, asks, "Sir, you okay?" "How dare you assume my gender!" I shout back. "Sorry, just checkin'," he said as if my health was any of his business. But the worst was yet to come.
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What parent would name their son “Gersh”? A name like that is guaranteed to cause soap dropping.
Unscrew the BB barrel, cock the lever, light a cherry bomb, drop it in the barrel, and shoot the cherry bomb into the air....
It was all in the timing, as you did not want the cherry bomb to go off before you had shot it up into the air.
Kind of makes the BB gun spread out, destroying most of its future functionality.
Cuffing wonder that ANY of us ever grew up.
Scrapes and cuts, go in the house, Mom washes it off, dabs on some on some monkey blood, dance around till it drys and quits stinging, she puts on bandaid then run back outside, about 10 minutes.
Yup, you bet it was.
Me and my two brothers were basically latch key kids after I turned 12. We were raised by a well intentioned single mom who had to work at night. We were basically let run free... And we sure did.
In the seventeenth century that was the procedure for firing a mortar. Load the powder charge; place the bomb on top of the charge, fuse pointing up; light the fuse to the propellant charge; light the bomb’s fuse, run like hell, and hope the propellant charge would fire before the bomb exploded. If you ever get to see the old PBS special, “By the Sword Divided”, the Brits actually fire a mortar that way.
“Virtually every male child outside of “city limits” has. Great Post.”
I spent countless hours as a kid shooting little green army men behind the dirt forts I made for them. Good times.
In the 50s we took a Daisy 500 apart, replaced the main spring and re-secured with bolts(replacing the rivets). Painted it all white to not think it was one of our regulars.
Hard to cock but could penetrate 1/4” plywood. I used it to shoot rabbits and squirrels.
As a kid, I had a Crossman. My cousins had them too, and we were out in the country shooting at inanimate stuff when we came upon some ducks on a pond. Both cousins shot at the ducks, barely causing a flutter. I shot, and the ducks flew away, except for one. I had put a pellet right through its neck.
Then you're talking about Chinese...........
The only quality air rifles made today are European made........FX, Daystate, Hammerli, Walther,....the list goes on.
Can you imagine the Swat Teams Hot Roping into our neighborhoods if we all did this now
LMAO!
If I remember correctly, the little ‘magazine’ up top held about 12-15 BB’s, (Pellets were loaded one at a time), and the BB’s were captured by a bolt, with a face that was magnetic, and run back into the chamber. If you reciprocated the bolt back and forth adding all of the magazines’s BB’s into the chamber, (with the barrel tipped slightly up so as not to have the additional BB’s run out the barrel’s front as the bolt’s magnet would only ‘hold’ 1 or 2 BB’s in place,) you could turn the Crossman Powermaster 760, into a ‘shotgun’! Worked slick! They had real wood stocks and forends also!
I used to hunt Quail with my Crossman... Yum!
Ha! I had a Crossman M1 Carbine. Full auto, baby.
Well, okay, you hold down the trigger and pump the barrel. So, semi-auto. Had BB gun fights with those. The Daisy boys got their arses kicked.
Had one as a kid. Fantastic powerful toy
Ah, the days before paintball guns were commonplace. Been there, done that, got the small, deep bruises. We did manage not to shoot one another in the face, though - sounds like in your case, someone on the opposing team ignored the rules (or was just a peckerhead).
BB guns are like pot is to hard drugs.
Start out on BB guns and before long your shooting AK47’s & .357’s.
Which is a lot more enjoyable than burning out your mind on drugs. That’s why the left prefers pot to BB guns, a burned out mind is more apt to vote dem.
A great way to increase distance and velocity was to put a mud clod at the end of a stick.
Yeah, having real firearms placed out of reach for many people will tend to make the airgun manufacturers thrive and improve.
Gotta say, though, Crosman has done very well with its Benjamin Discovery and Marauder. Both pre-charged pneumatics are derived from the Crosman 2260 CO2 pellet rifle, which in turn was a modernized (1990s) copy of the Model 160 I had as a kid. The Marauder has a shrouded, integrally baffled (read: suppressed) barrel, with around 1000 fps in .22 caliber.
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