I bought one several years ago to pop dogs with. The sights are off and since they are not adjustable for windage, I had to jury rig a peep sight from a piece of plumbing pipe hanger. It now shoots better than I can hold it at 20 yards!
So here is something I find kind of odd here in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. My daughter did an 8th grade science project on ballistics using an FHN .308 sniper rifle, DPMS AR-15, Springfield Armory XD-40 handgun, Ruger 10/22 and a RWS Diana Magnum 350 air pellet rifle. She shot them all and got an A on the project. Not only was it cleared by the school she got a deserving grade. That was two years ago...now my Son is doing something similar and got the okay too. My point is that it struck me as odd given the anti-gun environment in schools that they would allow something like that. This is a Conservative county though...
Anyone remember the Daisy VL rifle that fired .22 caseless rounds? I fired one about 46 years ago.
NO thanks.
They had a BB plant here in town for a short time. They got some type of tax deal or something. Then they left in 2006 most likely to move to China.
Besides it is illegal to use one in town, not that has stopped anyone.
My youngest brother had several Daisy BB guns as a kid and developed superb aim that carried over to shooting with rifles. Years later, when my brother was an adult, I saw him pick up a WW II era carbine for the first time at a rifle range and rapid fire a full clip onto a distant target.
I got my first Daisy BB gun as a birthday present when I was 9 or so back in the ‘50s. Bought one for my daughter when she turned ten-years-old, 13 year ago. She was a dead shot with it and even better with a .22.
My nine year old son is on his second red ryder. The lever broke on the first last year
Yep. They’re still around. I think you can get them in pink now.
I wish they still made the saddle carbine one with the big loop cocking handle.
Growing up, the bb gun was necessary to protect your neighborhood. Kids on the other side of the bayou were the enemy. Many a battle occurred when the enemy attempted to advance across the train trestle.
Also. What about cap guns that used roll caps?
You can buy them for adults, too! Hubby got one for me for Christmas last year, since I never got one when I was young :)
Got mine from sixty years ago in the cellar - not used in years, all rusty, and with all the restrictive gun laws in Jersey, probably illegal to even own - and yes, they really did tell you “you’ll shoot your eye out with that thing”......
I bought one this summer. Lots of cheap plastic in it and made in China.
My first Daisy looked like a Winchester lever action. You ‘cocked’ it, pulled back the hammer, buckhorn sights. It was accurate.
Daisy started out making water windmills for farmers. They would throw in an airgun. (Autocorrect wants airgun to read virgin or origin. That’s awkward.)
Anyway, the airgun was a big hit so they phased out windmills.
Yes, this is on the final exam.
So’s the 1938 Daisy Red Ryder BB gun -
I still have mine form 1938 and it still holds a full charge!
When I was little, I didn’t make snowmen, I made “snow” horses with a snow Little Beaver” on the back -
http://www.basspro.com/Daisy-Model-1938-Red-Ryder-BB-Gun/product/25938/