Me want one!
Used to enjoy cap guns a lot. Probably too much so my parents stopped buying the caps.
Was that Otis from the “The Andy Griffith Show” playing the bad guy?
Cap guns! My favorite toy from childhood in the late 50s!
I can still remember saving my pennies so I could buy the little box that had the roll of red paper with tiny explosive “dots” on it, that you could feed into the gun.
I can also still smell the acrid but exciting gunpowder smell whenever you “got a shot off”.
You’ll shoot yer eye out kid!
My wife and kids gave me a Daisy Red Rider BB gun for Christmas! I have not had this much fun in years!
You are under arrest by the spelling police....you have the right to remain silent..
I bet I can still scrape up the $7...at least until January 20th...
The other was a 155 howitzer that you compressed the ball onto a shell, loaded the shell into the breech and pulled a lanyard. the ball would fly about 50 yards. I wound up in trouble the first time I shot it, Christmas morning, because I didn't know how far the ball would go. I think I broke 4 or 5 things with the first, and last, shot.
I did get that one back a few days later
I still remember playing in the woods, the boys all running through the woods with Davy Crocket coon skin caps on. Forts and Red Riders the pride and glory of the boys.
Watch out Indians and squirrels!
I did have one of these (I wish I still had it!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR9ojNddiSI&NR=1
As kids, we used to take an entire roll of caps, put it on the sidewalk and whack it with the end of a baseball bat shoved down hard vertically onto it. The blast was phenominal, like a cherry bomb. Kids will find a way....
I remember this one. IIRC, we all thought it was pretty awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuvqPMWv8YU&feature=related
Cool! : D
I've tried to find one in the last couple of years so I can replace it but they aren't available anymore.
I'm looking for an Armalite AR 10 & a .38 special instead. ; )
Wow! Does that bring back past Christmas memories! I used to have one of these when I was a kid. My oldest brother bought it for me when he was on Christmas shore leave with the Navy. My friends and I would play cops and robbers during school recess. Try that today and they will throw the book at you!
I had one of those. Greenie stickum caps were great. I also had the belt buckle derringer that fired the same plastic bullets. That was lots of fun!
I had a chemistry set. Mix a little Potassium Nitrate, Powdered Charcoal and Sulfur and you get ... gunpowder!
Add some powdered Aluminum and it burns red or pink. Add some powdered Magnesium and it burns blue-white.
I had the snubnose as a kid. It was a great little gun for playing cops and robbers or cowboys and indians. Always scrounging for rolls of caps.
Merry Christmas
I’ll bet there is no plastic on that pistol either! Remember those die cast metal guns from back then? Hell there aint that much steel in a car any more.
Had a “burp gun” cap assult rifle back in the 50’s . Wound it up on the side and ran through a roll of caps in about 10 seconds .Awesome!! I think it was made by Mattel also .
Lordy those were great toys.