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The Daisy BB Rifle Is Still Here!
Vanity | 11/22/2014 | jespasinthru

Posted on 11/22/2014 6:14:25 PM PST by jespasinthru

You can still buy a Daisy BB Rifle for your kid. I didn't know that.


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To: yarddog

.50 cal air rifle ?


81 posted on 11/22/2014 8:29:55 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: jespasinthru

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?


82 posted on 11/22/2014 8:38:21 PM PST by Elderberry
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To: jespasinthru

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 :)


83 posted on 11/22/2014 8:39:35 PM PST by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Molon Labe)
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To: jespasinthru

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”......


84 posted on 11/22/2014 8:45:07 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: jespasinthru

I bought one this summer. Lots of cheap plastic in it and made in China.


85 posted on 11/22/2014 8:49:29 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: yarddog
I noticed the Daisy Powerline model 880 was no longer in it.

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!?!

86 posted on 11/22/2014 8:56:43 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: TigersEye

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.


87 posted on 11/22/2014 9:21:38 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: yarddog

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.


88 posted on 11/22/2014 9:37:44 PM PST by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: Charles Martel
Thanks! They look good. I have never owned a CO2 air gun, not that I have any bias against them, or a high quality air gun.

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.

89 posted on 11/22/2014 9:38:59 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: jespasinthru

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.


90 posted on 11/22/2014 9:52:36 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: jespasinthru

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/


91 posted on 11/22/2014 10:20:50 PM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does 35 years ago, hen my daughter - by their fruits)
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To: Brother Cracker

Sweet!


92 posted on 11/22/2014 10:53:57 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: don-o

That was the Red Ryder.


93 posted on 11/22/2014 11:42:39 PM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: Ouderkirk

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.


94 posted on 11/23/2014 1:18:37 AM PST by real saxophonist (Youtube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Better yet...


95 posted on 11/23/2014 1:26:06 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
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To: yarddog

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


96 posted on 11/23/2014 5:31:48 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: PROCON

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.


97 posted on 11/23/2014 5:59:04 AM PST by crabpott (' we are living in the strangest, most perilous, and unbelievable decade in modern memory' VDH)
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To: PROCON

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.


98 posted on 11/23/2014 6:02:46 AM PST by crabpott (' we are living in the strangest, most perilous, and unbelievable decade in modern memory' VDH)
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To: Fresh Wind

Very Nice Indeed,

Thank you.


99 posted on 11/23/2014 6:18:41 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: crabpott
Well, since I'm not sure how advanced your picture skills are, go here and scroll down to "How to add images to your post." Good Luck.
100 posted on 11/23/2014 7:01:58 AM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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