Posted on 08/14/2017 8:23:16 AM PDT by w1n1
“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.”
My brother and I each had one as a reward for a day of trying on back-to-school clothes and coats.
We had them for about 20 minutes after we got home. We were warned not to shoot them at each other. "But Mom...they don't 'shoot' anything! They're fake rifles".
Didn't matter. She saw us playing Cowboys and Indians and that was the last we saw of those rifles.
Truer words were never said 
“Didn’t matter. She saw us playing Cowboys and Indians and that was the last we saw of those rifles.”
LOL! I’m betting a set-up so she could get the money back!
I did get a .22LR for Christmas when I was about 12 or 13. It was a Winchester bolt action. I took it to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays for Firearms Safety class on Tuesdays and for Marksmanship class on Thursdays. That was in Hampton Virginia. I’m pretty sure that same high school would suspend a student for having a photograph of a rifle today.
Bought a Marlin bolt-action single-shot .22 in 1965 at the local Sears and carried it home on the city bus. This was in Southern California believe it or not.
I remember those well. Who didn’t want a Crossman 714?
Could be. Grandma bought them for us. The deal was, be good boys and try on clothes for school then you get to pick out one toy each from the Toy Dept. (Pogue's Department Store in Cincy). Mom wasn't happy with our choices but a deal's a deal.
Now that would be my Christmas that lasts a lifetime. Get off my lawn!!
Me too brother. I guess that dates us. ;^)
That add for the hammerless Iver Johnson is correct. It had a hammer spring that could have been used for a truck suspension. Accidental discharge was impossible. Intended discharge was only slightly easier.
LOL!! Every kid (well, not the girls) hated the “try on clothes for school day.” It was dreaded about as much as the first day of school. Definitely a wave of melancholy engulfed us with just mere mention of the phrase.
I was wonderin’ how long that would take : )
My parents were driving down a gravel road in Arkansas, if you”ll forgive the redundancy, in the early ‘60’s, and found a Remington 514 in the road. Still have it.
I remember many years ago there was a Master Lock commercial where they shot the lock with a 30-06 to show how tough it was, it took the hit and still functioned. Weatherby came out with and ad at a latter date date showing the same set up with a Master Lock but this time they shot it with a 300 Weatherby completely destroying the lock. Can’t remember what they said later but it was pretty funny at the time.
Got a Remington “Targetmaster” 510 single shot when I was 7 years old, I’ll be 80 in two months and the rifle, in excellent shape, still shoots as well today as it did way back then. Looks like the lower right rifle in the Remington photo.
I remember Christmas morning when both my brother and I got those rifles. Dad took us out in the snow after lunch so we could shoot our new rifles. I’ll never forget that day, EVER!
Banned! Funniest Ever! Incredible! Unbelievable!
Internet Hype. C***suckers will say anything to get you to click on their stupid sites.
And all this time I thought it was just me...
I own (or have owned) six of the items on that list. Guess I’m just a sucker for good advertising.
OT but one of the advertisements on that list is for the Remington 514 bolt-action .22LR, which was Gary Marbut’s inspiration for the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. Marbut wanted to manufacture a youth rifle exclusively for sale to and use by other Montanans, without federal interference or oversight. So he wrote and introduced a bill to the Montana legislature that cited the 2nd, 9th and 10th Amendments to the US Constitution codifying that state’s exemption from BATF regulations regarding the manufacture of firearms within that never meant to leave the state.
The Montana law inspired seven other states to pass and enact their own versions of the Firearms Freedom Act, the long term goal of which is to push back against the overreach of federal firearms legislation and over-broad application of the Constitution’s commerce clause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Firearms_Freedom_Act
http://firearmsfreedomact.com/
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