[supremedoctrine]

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”.

[Soliton]

I can also still smell the acrid but exciting gunpowder smell whenever you “got a shot off”.

I read it and smelling it now. Strange but wonderful!

[HungarianGypsy]

I love that smell too. If the boys didn’t have a gun available, they would just use a rock. I should get a cap gun for one of my boys on his birthday.

[19th LA Inf]

I went through a lot of those cap rolls, but the pistol I really wanted, never owned, was a 6-shooter with a working cylinder that took round paper loads with 6 caps. I guess they came out just before Pearl Harbor. Wonder what one would bring from collectors today?

[pfflier]

My mother wouldn't let us have toy guns so we bought caps and smacked them with a hammer. Sooner or later we would lose patience with the singles so we would whack a whole roll. Invariable my mother would come running out of the house hysterically asking "what was that!!"

Later in life, I helped her get familiar with my father's .38 S&W. She was better than an OK shot.

[bert]

.....I can also still smell the acrid but exciting gunpowder .....

Beside me I have three red and one blue cap balls. They are about 1” in diameter and very hard. They have tiny caps embedded.

When you throw one in the air and let it impact with the other as you catch it, it explodes with a good bang and the smoke and smell you noted.

[MHGinTN]

Do you recall the shiny cap gun shaped like a 1911 .45, where the cap holder popped up on a hinge and a roll of caps was placed in on a post then the ‘magazine’ was snapped back down and you could fire away?

[ovrtaxt]

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!

[wolfcreek]

“I can also still smell the acrid but exciting gunpowder smell whenever you “got a shot off”.”

Stop it now. You’re starting to scare us. LOL!