[JellyJar]

Mods....I hope this thread is ok. I was reminded about my favorite toy gun by the thread from Salon.com about his playing army when he was a child.

Ok everyone. What was your favorite toy gun when you were a child, providing you were allowed to own one.

Mine was a very accurate toy replica of a Winchester 1873. It was child sized, originally came with spring loaded bullets that would shoot out of metal cases when loaded into the chamber and you pulled the trigger. It had the same ( although plastic of course ) toggle mechanism as the real thing and would load the toy cartridges from the tubular magazine.


i very much loved that gun. One day I was swinging at some weeds that were taller than me with it. I was holding it by the barrel. I did not see a telephone pole there and I broke it just in front of the butt stock. I cried for days afterward.

[chris in va]

I had a lot of cap guns, one of my favorites being the little keychain Luger replicas. Used to drive my mom crazy I'm sure.

We had this game where each of us had a cheap walkie-talkie and our mission was to find each other and 'shoot' with cap guns or water pistols. Even at the tender age of 8 I figured out you could locate the other guys by how much static was on their transmission, and cheap as those things were you could even turn yourself around 360 degrees and get a general idea which direction to head. Ah the days.

BTW it wasn't the 'Shootin Shell' Winchester was it?
http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/7513/winchestersaddlegunandb.jpg (http://img32.imageshack.us/i/winchestersaddlegunandb.jpg/)

[MifflinKid]

Mattel Fanner 50.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qXLxHi9_8

It really was swell.

[BUGUDY]

I had a pistol type gun that shot small round disks, penny sized and flew like a frisbee. Mom didn't like this one at all.

[NC-Mike]

Easy, I already posted this before. :D

Johnny Seven- One Man Army.

Already highly collectible!

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z77/alandhopewell/johnnyseven.jpg

[hmphargh]

http://nerfguns.org/images/nerf_ballzooka.jpg

Nerf Ballzooka

[Deltaboy]

Classic old single action Cap guns.

[JellyJar]

chris in va

That looks just like my old one except mine was all black. Do you own that one or did you just fine a picture off the internet?

[kwhi43@kc.rr.com]

Mine was the "Shootin Shell" Matel single action six shooter.

[cambeul41]

When I was perhaps eight (1949?), while I was digging a hole to China, I found two haves of a toy flintlock pistol. I have no idea what it was made of. Pot metal? It was painted silver and never chipped or rusted. No moving parts remained. I taped the halves together. Since it felt good in my hand, for several years it was my gun of choice for playing "Guns."

I was an army brat. We did not play "Cops and Robbers;" we did not play "Cowboys and Indians;" we played "Guns." This was simulated warfare fought between teams that were for the most part officer's brats versus enlisted brats.

[smince]

The M16 I was issued in the USAF.

[Kleanbore]

Nichols Stallion .45

http://www.toytent.com/Special/8091.html

[TheBookGuy]

My dads Dick Tracy cap gun from the '40s about the size of a PPK

[Sgt.Sausage]

Imagine this: A rifle that shoots racecars across the floor. I was a child of the 70's and this was my absolute favorite "toy gun" as a child:


http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&safe=off&sa=1&q=ricochet+racers&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

[proud2deviate]

I used to have this cap pistol when I was a kid. I remember that it was all black (no orange tip,) and shaped like a typical auto. It took the the plastic strip caps. They loaded into the mag, and when the gun was fired, it would snip off the spent cap and eject it out the top. That thing was killer; I've never seen another one like it.

[paintballdude902]

i had 2 that i really liked, who knows what happened to them now

1 was a double barrel shotgun that would break open and you could put the individual red plastic caps in it (you would have to gut them out of the circles or strips) and then pull back both hammers it was awsome

and i had a 1911 colt that you could drop the mag and rack the slide didnt make any noise except the hammer falling and hitting something metal. gosh my dad hated that toy to this day he says it looked way too real and he tried to hide it several times but i always found it, he said he was worried id get shot

[Blackbeard]

I had a toy lever-action shotgun of some kind -- no idea what brand or model. The lever action would cock some mechanism inside and the trigger would make a large POP. Made for great neighborhood gun play. Also had a plastic model of a full size Beretta 92, without the orange "toy" indicator on the barrel. I swear it looked just like the real one I have now :-)

[Mandolin]

Mine is a Dasiy pop gun that I got when I was about 5 and still have it, 14 years later. The orange cap is long gone, it no longer pops, and I painted it black to stop the rust, and i still like it.

[swiftak]

I had a lever action rifle that had plastic "brass cases" that you had to snap gray plastic bullets into. They were spring loaded and came out of the rifle at a fairly good velocity. They really hurt, at least thats what my sister said. This was 1961 or 1962 or so. I don't remember the make of the rifle. I also had a pair of Roy Rodgers cap guns.

[mesinge2]

I had one like this, I remember that half of the cyclinder slid off vertically to load the cap paper.

106224

[woerm]

When I was perhaps eight (1949?), while I was digging a hole to China, I found two haves of a toy flintlock pistol. I have no idea what it was made of. Pot metal? It was painted silver and never chipped or rusted. No moving parts remained. I taped the halves together. Since it felt good in my hand, for several years it was my gun of choice for playing "Guns."

I was an army brat. We did not play "Cops and Robbers;" we did not play "Cowboys and Indians;" we played "Guns." This was simulated warfare fought between teams that were for the most part officer's brats versus enlisted brats.
cambeul41

Army brat too,

I remember a toy circa 69/70 that was a good copy of an M14. When when you pulled the trigger it literally went 'bang' and had a red cone sprout out of the muzzle.

Many a fine afternoon spent chasing folks all over Fort Lee with that thing.

[DirtyHarry31]

I remember the rifle series with the fake plastic brass shells & siver plastic bullets! They were the Johnny Lighting rifles and you could get a Lever, a Bolt action or a M14 style. Loved the guns :). My brother had the M14 & I had the bolt (Magomba) rifle. We use to flip over the chairs in our basement & shoot at each :neener: other till one of us gave up (or hurt :cuss:). They were fun but a major "lawsuit" waiting to happen.

[Realbigo]

mine were only from the mid '80's but i had a 1911, a 92F and a VP70 strip cap guns that had dropping magazine's, working slides and "Silencers" as part of the package. I even rigged out a set of bootlaces to be a Shoulder Holster and a pleather dart case as a spare magazine carrier. God i was a wierd kid

[Taildragger-J3]

I too had a "Fanner 50" and the "Shootin' shell" 6 shooter and lever action.

I could always out draw Matt Dillon, too by the way

[NC-Mike]

I remember the rifle series with the fake plastic brass shells & siver plastic bullets! They were the Johnny Lighting rifles and you could get a Lever, a Bolt action or a M14 style. Loved the guns . My brother had the M14 & I had the bolt (Magomba) rifle. We use to flip over the chairs in our basement & shoot at each other till one of us gave up (or hurt ). They were fun but a major "lawsuit" waiting to happen.

You're talking about Johnny Eagle guns!

I still have the lever, the six-gun and the elephant rifle but no ammo. I need to hit ebay and buy a couple cartridges!

I wish I had that Lt., M14-M1911 setup! :evil:


http://www.jessedesignart.com/resources/JohnnyEagleLine72.jpg

[Erik M]

I had one like this, I remember that half of the cyclinder slid off vertically to load the cap paper.

106224
Bingo, I couldnt tell you how many rolls of caps and mini peacemakers I went through.

[theotherwaldo]

Johnny SEVENs, Fanner .50s, Daisy "Dirt-shooters", various sucker-tipped dart guns, those were all fun.

Still, my favorite was a Navy-issue hard-rubber 1911. Someone left it in an old chest-of-drawers in an empty lot near my house. Looked real, except fot the broken hammer spur. Somehow, shouting "Bang" was more fun with that one.

[D94R]

Late 80's real early 90's you could find plastic M-16 replicas. Don't remember how big they were, as I doubt they were full size, but you could pull the trigger and it would make the "full auto" noise. Man were those fun. Only down side though was you were guaranteed to drop them or snag them on something and break them in half between the barrel and receiver :( My brothers and I went through many of them.

Looked a lot like these.
http://www.displaystatues.com/images/lgfibmil1513.jpg

[DougDubya]

I had one like this, I remember that half of the cyclinder slid off vertically to load the cap paper.

106224
I had that too.

I had the original, black and wood plastic colored version of this, and it was a favorite:
http://media.costumesinc.com/costumesinc/SKUimages/large/4400.jpg

[Tacbandit]

Mattels "M-16 Marauder"....w/realistic sound and all...

[sfc_mark]

I got a toy Winchester lever gun for Christmas when I was five. It's all I asked for and the only gift I remember. Found a faded, wrinkled B&W print from that Christmas morning just this week (I need to scan it). It must have made an impression because I just bought my third (real) Win M94 on THR last week.

[FFMedic]

I had, have still really my #1 toy gun. It's a M-60, about 3 feet long. It does not shoot anything but it has a plastic ammo belt that it feeds, spade grips on the back and a bi-pod for bunker use. I can't tell you how many enemy soldiers I zippered with that thing :)

FFMedic

[Rembrandt]

The cap firing Luger was my favorite...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/Luger3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Rembrandt51/Luger2.jpg

[rogertc1]

I had a Roy Rogers chrome 6 shooter cap gun first. Then I recall a battery operated Browning machinegun which we would play out the Combat TV show with a bunch of the neighborhood kids.

[jfh]

AR-15s and TMGs around for my daughters to play with. Then, they hit puberty, and their mother got going--and they quit playing iwth them.

When did Noriega go down? That was a hide-and-seek game they played, something about finding him....

Jim H.

[LubeckTech]

As a kid in the early 1970s I had a Daisy air rifle which was just like the entry level spring loaded lever action BB gun except it could not fire BBs. It could however fire Lolli-Pup dog treats and 12 gague shotgun wads with a couple wraps of masking tape around them.:D

[HankB]

I had the Johnny Eagle "Lieutenant" .45 . . . it was a startlingly realistic copy of a GI .45, and had a magazine that held 7 (?) rounds. The rounds were individually spring-loaded, and you could put a Greenie Stick On Cap on the back. Basic mechanical function was just like a 1911, except of course you had to manually rack the slide for each shot. Pull the trigger, the hammer snapped down, and a firing pin hit the back of the spring-loaded case and the bullet went flying out the muzzle. If you were lucky, the cap went off, too.

Also had a "Dick Tracy Power Jet Gun", a toy shotgun that functioned with roll caps if you pulled the trigger, and as a squirt gun if you pumped the slide.

Had a bunch of others that were neat, but these two stood out as my favorites. Looked pretty realistic, too. (The shotgun was small and kid-sized, but the pistol was pretty close to life size.)

(If I were still 7 years old and got one of the neon-colored abominations they sell today, I'd probably spend some time with a magic marker making it look more realistic.)

[tequilayan]

i like this``Johnny Seven- One Man Army.

Already highly collectible!thanks for sharing.http://www.photosnag.com/img/4713/n09x0302vnsn/clear.gif

[mustang_steve]

A blue plastic PPK that you filled with little yellow rubber balls, and everytime you pulled the tigger, a ball would come flaying out.

I used to line up my He-Man figures and shoot them from across the bedroom with that thing. I also used to get my hide tanned because I'd fire it outside my room and they'd find little rubber balls all over the place....sometimes in the spaghetti sauce....oops. :p

[shotgunjoel]

I remember my grandma had these little snub nose revolver cap guns. We never had caps for them and there were some old caps in the cylinder that were mashed in there good.

[roofsc]

+1 for thr johnny 7 oma (one man army). i ruled the creek area from woodmont circle all the way up to scott's lake on altamont dr.
paul


a trillion here and a trillon there an pretty soon we're talking some real money:eek::banghead::eek:

[janedoedad]

Daisy brand lever action Popgun with "Ricochet Sound". Thing was harder to cock than the Daisy BB gun we had. My parents hated that thing with a passion. I can understand that now as I do remember that the sound was pretty obnoxious.

[CajunBass]

I had a Mattell "Thompson" that I liked. Vic Morrow as "Chip Saunders" in COMBAT was my hero. :) I got it with a Mattel "38" snub nose revolver and a shoulder holster for Christmas one year.

I also had, and I have no idea where it came from, or where it went, a cast aluminum(?) or cast iron maybe, Luger. Life sized. No working parts. It fit in an old GI 45 holster that also came from somewhere. It was sort of like the "blue guns" you see today I guess. It had been painted black at one time, but was pretty much down to the bare metal when I had it. I've never seen another one.

Either I or my buddies had all the others mentioned over the years. I remember someone having one of those M-14's. IIRC it needed batteries or at least the one "we" had did.

[swiftak]

All these toy guns, How politcally incorrect. How did we grow up and not be a bunch of wack jobs?

[bannockburn]

What was my favorite toy gun? It was more like what one didn't I like. Christmas was always a lock for some sort of toy gun, from Johnny Eagle M-14s for my brother and I (I seem to remember him getting a Monkey Division mortar one year as well), to some pretty realistic looking M-16s (complete with a sound system which gave you semi and full auto playback). There were also a great many Golden Guns (the Gold Luger with holster, the black M1911A1, and the Colt SAA with the white steerhead grips were my favorites), along with a number of Nichols toy guns; most of which we got at the local Woolworths store in town. But I think my all-time favorite was the Man from U.N.C.L.E. P-38 with all the accessories, including scope, silencer, and shoulder stock. That one was the absolute best.

[Roadkill]

I've got two. One is an Ohio Rapid Fire Gaili and the other is a Red Rock FAL. Neither one will function at all so they might as well be toy guns.

[lilguy]

My Old "RED RYDER". Still use it decades later to off squirrels on my feeders.:what:

I know , not politically correct.:neener:

[Readyrod]

I had the same cap Luger as Rembrandt. Mine was painted black. Someone called the cops on us once and complained we were playing with real guns. My mom wasn't pleased but my brother and I were thrilled.

[JellyJar]

Despite playing army with my friends and having and using toy guns as a child I grew up no liking real guns!!! As a child I always knew the difference between fantasy and reality so I think that helps disprove any theory that aggressive play always leads to aggressive behavior as an adult.

I did not become interested in the issue of gun control and RKBA ( and real guns ) until I was in my twenties and I moved to Houston Texas in the early 1980s. There was just too much crime happening then for me to ignore the issue. Thank God but by then I had learned to mistrust the mainstream news media and learned how to think for my self.

[NC-Mike]

I also remember the little snub-nosed revolvers that use the take caps that came in a ring. These guns seemed like magnums compared to regular old cap guns. If you had one of those, you were really strapped!

Kinda like this one. Boy those were loud and had a nice smoke effect too!

http://www.kapowwe.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/gonher-diecast-cap-revolver-s.jpg

[Zach S]

Seemed like they were lever action daisy's, but cant recall for sure.

My uncle and I used to go into the woods behind the house and play GI Joe, cowboy and indian, ect. We shot each other with BB guns so much that I'm amazed we lived long enough to see how stupid it was...

My uncle is only a year and a half older than I am, so we were more like brothers growing up.

[mustang_steve]

Oh yes, I had one of those snub nosed cap guns too, a black metal body, grey cylinder, white grips. It was great.

Then I had a "flash cap gun" which was clear plastic, swing-down construction...it had tubes where the spark from the cap firing would shoot out the barrel. Me, being the typical 9 year old snot I was would remove the cylinder and stick a second ring of caps in the opposing end of the cylinder....this casused a massive bang everytime I fired it due to both caps firing off and the increased air compression within the area. It also tended to melt the cylinders in short order.

[BaltimoreBoy]

Interestingly, they weren't quite the same. The first one fired caps of course, but the interior of the cylinder was not realistic. The "improved" version had replica cartridges in a finished cylinder.

There was another old west style cap pistol of the same vintage. A little bit bigger than the Fanner, but I seem to recall with black (pseudo ebony) grips rather than the fake "horn" grips of the Fanner. Does anyone remember its name? I can't recall it.

On the more realistic front I had another toy that did not replicate any actual gun. It shot orange colored ping pong balls. The way you worked it was that you pumped the barrel and the pressure built up in the rubber collar just behind where the lead ping pong ball was jammed at the mouth. The rubber collar started to expand until the pressure grew high enough to "pop" the ball out of the barrel. Gray barrel shaft about the size of a vacuum cleaner wand, brown plastic handle.

[mustang_steve]

Yep, I remember the ball launchers.

I had one similar to this, except mine had a clear blue tube and blaze orange ends.
http://www.impexol.cn/Files/UpFiles/Toys/Toy_Guns/Ping-Pong_Gun.jpg

[Joe Demko]

I had a Johnny Seven One Man Army and the Johnny Eagle Levergun/revolver combo. Those were some really cool toy guns. Another favorite was the Star Trek tracer gun (http://www.samstoybox.com/toypics/TracerGun.jpg)that fired the little plastic discs. It didn't look anything like the phaser gun from the TV show, and if not for the picture of Kirk and Spock on the blister card there'd have been no connection at all. What was cool about it was that a little practice allowed one to fire curving shots, kind of like in that recent movie. You can imagine my delight when I found that I could easily resupply myself with ammo for free from my grandmother's bag of bingo chips. They weren't quite as accurate as the tracer discs, but in the heat of close combat with an alien menace they were good enough.

[Skillet]

mine was a daisy pop gun based off of the red ryder-kind of.
it basically looked like a mini lever action shotgun with no loading capability on it (no ejection or any reciever of any kind) and a red cap at the end. when it went off it made a sound resembling a high pitched blender that needs to be thrown away, and a screeching cat mixed. it got on my parents nerves quite quickly and easily.

[Speedo66]

I had a 6 shooter replica that took 2 piece metal "bullets", with a cap inside. Unfortunately, my quizzical mind was determined to see how loud it would be if I took all the powder from a roll of caps and put it in one of the bullets.

Goodbye gun, blew itself apart, luckily not taking my fingers with it.

My son had a battery operated AK that could fire single or auto bursts, along with the occasional ricochet sound. You could also feel the "recoil". Very cool, and had me wishing I had one when I was a kid, rather than saying "bang".

He also had a set of "lazer tag" guns that would sound off if you hit the sensor the other person was wearing. Answer to the age old "I hit you, no you didn't".

[SharpsDressedMan]

"All these toy guns, How politcally incorrect. How did we grow up and not be a bunch of wack jobs? " Speak for yourself! I'm definitely wacked! :D PS: Mattel Tommy gun, and cast aluminum P-38 (a la Man from U.N.C.L.E., modified it myself to look like the TV gun).

[sfc_mark]

All these toy guns, How politcally incorrect. How did we grow up and not be a bunch of wack jobs?

Isn't that what we are - bitter, clinging whack jobs? ;)

[zoom6zoom]

If I were a kid today....probably this full auto belt fed Nerf cannon:
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/02/Nerf%20N-Strike%20Vulcan.jpeg

[middy]

I had a black plastic squirt gun in the shape of a commando Thompson smg with a stick mag... it was scaled perfectly to my size. I loved it so. :D

[NMGonzo]

6 shot revolver carbine

I turned it into a snub nose.