Daisy Red Ryder BB gun still a big draw during the holidays

bostonherald.com ^ | 25 December, 2010 | Ted Gregory

[marktwain]

The Chicago Tribune requires exerpting, and the article is originally from them.

[lowbridge]

, more than 9 million of them have been sold

Thats alot of eyes shot out.

[the invisib1e hand]

"You'd better be careful or you'll put out someone's eye!"

Hah! IB4that!

[the invisib1e hand]

Damn crowded connection.

[calex59]

My Brother had one when we were kids, I had to settle for a single shot Daisy. It served me well however. The air rifle I own now is made by Winchester and looks like a .22 but is a .177 pellet rifle, with scope and has taken down a lot of black birds, rats on wings actually.

[marsh2]

I got one for my son when he was smaller. I now have a small hole in a double paned window to remind me - lol. Also, don’t try and “off” skunks with a BB gun at close range.

[bill1952]

I am so old that when I was a child it actually good to get toy guns and Army uniforms for gifts.

Now, the gelding of the American Male continues unabated...

[JRios1968]

[Ed Condon]

In the article they mention a wooden stock. I’m sure the Red Ryder I got in 1954 or ‘55 had a plastic stock.

[Ev Reeman]

Some channels run this movie all day long.

It’s an okay movie but really, do we have to have it run all day long.

Must be a bunch of cheap unimaginative bastards.

What they should do is run a steady variety of Christmas movies all day long and there are a lot to choose from.

Such as

WHITE CHRISTMAS
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
THE MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS
HOME ALONE
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
A CHRISTMAS STORY
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
MR. MAGOO’S CHRISTMAS CAROL
SCROOGE ALISTAIR SIM
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER
BEN=HUR

[KoRn]

"Also, don’t try and “off” skunks with a BB gun at close range."

Don't use a shotgun either....

[pepperdog]

We have a movie night at home each Christmas season. We have popcorn, cokes, theater candy and watch The Christmas Story. It is one of our most cherished traditions. We love it.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I had a Daisy when I was a kid and now have moved up to a Gamo Varmint gitter with telescope, laser pointer and flashlight. Boy have times changed. LOL!!

[yldstrk]

Ruger 22 tens good traditional gifts also

[KeyLargo]

I'm still waiting for Santa to deliver this BB gun:

Umarex Steel Storm Full Auto CO2 BB Gun

[ResearchMonkey]

Our 7y/o got her Red Ryder this year, her first rifle. All of our girls got new rifles this year.

[mad_as_he$$]

A couple of hours ago I was in Cabela’s with one of the offspring. Daisy RR’s are on sale. I stood for a good five minutes thinking I should buy one for memories......sigh.

[Still Thinking]

I had a Daisy bought for me in the late sixties when I was six, but it wasn’t a Red Ryder. It was a pump and it had this spring follower mag you screwed out of the front of the barrel and loaded the BB’s one at a time. I think it’d hold like 50.

[KeyLargo]

[Cloverfarm]

My older son has a Daisy, a sort of semi=auto looking BB gun and a pistol.

From various relatives he received about 4,000 BBs this Christmas.

Now THAT’s a lot of eyes put out ;-)

Younger son is more cautious but will start 4-H shooting sports this spring.

The boys are teaching me to shoot left-eyed, like I always wanted.