Cap guns! Loved 'em! My brother and I had cap guns to go with our cowboy and cowgirl outfits. (I called myself little Annie Oakley.)
Posted on 12/25/2008 8:59:35 AM PST by Soliton
This Mattel toy set would peobably get you arrested today.
I want one.
Still, it was the high watermark of my cap gunning while it lasted.
Mr. niteowl77
So did I. The great thing was that once you lost the expensive toy, a stick with a branch at the correct angle worked just as well.
I had the Fanner 50 that somehow came up missing,I still have the shootin shell derringer and a rolling block shootin shell rifle....They are at least fifty-two years old and my grandsons want to play with them so badly.Cannot find the spring loaded casing or projectile any more,of course that might be good what with current BATF policies.
I think that was the smell Chavez claimed to be smelling at the U.N. podium the day after Bush was there.
We used to take those paper cap rolls and beat them with rocks on the concrete. Forget the guns, we wanted to be demolitions guys!
Yep...and they were still the ‘good old days’...
I think that’s one of the guns I had, but , like others on this thread, I also made loud noises by sitting the roll of caps on the sidewalk and beating the individual “loads” with a rock. Sometime later someone invented tiny little explosive balls about the size of large peas , that would explode if you threw them hard enough at something hard.
But nothing beat the guns and the cap-rolls. This is rapidly becoming a nostalgia thread. I can’t even remember what the thread started as.
Heck, I had one when I was a kid and I was a girl!
I’m a girl, too. :)
Great video....that cap pistol was after my time. What year would that have been?...I think I need one!!!
Yes. Check your local sporting goods stores. My local Walmart even carries them.
This year I even saw retro 50's style packaging somewhere.
Ah, yes...a man after my own heart. My bud and I brewed up huge amounts of gunpowder, too. Bought everything from the friendly neighborhood druggist who never blinked an eye at what we were buying. Also loved those real cherry bombs and silver tnt bombs you could buy at the fireworks stand at Christmas.
Or a hammer. Or a magnifying glass.
Oh yeah! The magnifying glass.
As a youngster living in Michigan, where all fireworks except snakes and sparklers are banned, we would smash an entire roll at once to simulate a firecracker.
One fourth of July we were kneeling on the side of the street so intent on banging the cap rolls we didn't notice a State Police cruiser pull along side us.
We finally looked up and the trooper smiled, told us he was just making sure we didn't have real fireworks, told us to be careful and drove off.
Scared the crap out of my friend and I!
We’d take a pin, and skewer each the cap centers on the pin, then remove the pin and tape that mass together with a matchhead on one end. Light it, and when the matchhead went off, the whole roll would BANG at once.
Cap guns! Loved 'em! My brother and I had cap guns to go with our cowboy and cowgirl outfits. (I called myself little Annie Oakley.)
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