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Posted on 12/25/2008 8:59:35 AM PST by Soliton
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To: MHGinTN
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posted on
12/25/2008 11:18:57 AM PST
by
Soliton
(This 2 shall pass)
To: pfflier
We used to smash the whole roll with the fat end of a baseball bat. What a racket.
To: Venturer
63
posted on
12/25/2008 11:21:03 AM PST
by
Soliton
(This 2 shall pass)
To: Soliton
I was given a Mattel Tommy Burst "Dick Tracy" model in the early '60's by an indulgent aunt & uncle, and I quickly "lost" the sticker on the stock so that it would look more like an "Army machine gun." When I first played with it, the thing worked like a charm and went through caps like crazy, but it quickly began to malfunction, and it didn't last all that long when compared to the older die-cast "cowboy" cap pistols I had started out with (I went through toy guns at a prodigious rate from roughly 1958 - 1967).
Still, it was the high watermark of my cap gunning while it lasted.
Mr. niteowl77
64
posted on
12/25/2008 11:21:04 AM PST
by
niteowl77
(You wanted him, and now you have got him. I say, "Good day to you," America.)
To: niteowl77
I went through toy guns at a prodigious rate from roughly 1958 - 1967So 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.
65
posted on
12/25/2008 11:24:43 AM PST
by
Soliton
(This 2 shall pass)
To: gorush
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.
To: Soliton
I think that was the smell Chavez claimed to be smelling at the U.N. podium the day after Bush was there.
67
posted on
12/25/2008 11:36:38 AM PST
by
gusopol3
To: supremedoctrine
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!
68
posted on
12/25/2008 11:45:10 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. ~Henry Allen)
To: Soliton
Yep...and they were still the ‘good old days’...
69
posted on
12/25/2008 11:49:31 AM PST
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
To: MHGinTN
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.
70
posted on
12/25/2008 11:50:40 AM PST
by
supremedoctrine
("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
To: HungarianGypsy
Heck, I had one when I was a kid and I was a girl!
71
posted on
12/25/2008 12:08:12 PM PST
by
3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)
To: 3catsanadog
To: rockrr
>>>
I did have one of these (I wish I still had it!):<<<
Great video....that cap pistol was after my time. What year would that have been?...I think I need one!!!
73
posted on
12/25/2008 12:15:34 PM PST
by
HardStarboard
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule - Mencken knew Obama)
To: Publius6961
Is the Red Rider BB gun (rifle) still available somewhere? Yes. Check your local sporting goods stores. My local Walmart even carries them.
This year I even saw retro 50's style packaging somewhere.
74
posted on
12/25/2008 12:27:47 PM PST
by
Domandred
(Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.)
To: eCSMaster
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.
75
posted on
12/25/2008 12:41:01 PM PST
by
mono
To: HungarianGypsy
If the boys didnt have a gun available, they would just use a rock.Or a hammer. Or a magnifying glass.
To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Oh yeah! The magnifying glass.
To: HungarianGypsy
If the boys didnt have a gun available, they would just use a rock 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!
78
posted on
12/25/2008 12:47:33 PM PST
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
To: pfflier
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.
79
posted on
12/25/2008 12:51:15 PM PST
by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
To: flushing_kenny
Used to enjoy cap guns a lot. Probably too much so my parents stopped buying the caps.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.)
80
posted on
12/25/2008 1:11:32 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
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