Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun

You'll shoot your eye out!!

L.W.

I love that gun. I still have mine, after 35 years, and it still shoots. Although it's a smoothe bore, it is very accurate. I used to shoot the wick on lit candles to blow them out. Any youngster will cherish the gift and hopefully appreciate safe handling as well.

I got one for my son last year. He loves it. We treat it just like any of my other firearms. He likes to "Clean it" after every outing and he puts it in the gun safe. He is 8

We used to shoot snakes with them. Never killed a snake with one, just distracted it long enough for my cousin's lab to kill it. Well, the lab didn't need the distraction I guess. The smooth bore was pretty predictable.

My wife thought I had a screw loose when I bought 2 at a Ft. Worth gun store when my boys were 2 and 1 (now 14 and 13) but I just put them away till about 2 years ago. The younger loves it, the older is more interested in gameboy, (go figure). This Xmas, I'm upping the younger to a pellet rifle w/ scope. He's going to love it (I feel so pitiful, he has been dragging a Daisy pellet rifle around he traded one of the neighbor kids a pair of rollerblades and $5 he earned mowing the yard for with no butstock and no front sight) although he has gotten pretty good out to 40-50 feet without a sight. He cleans the "Hulk" we call it every week or so and takes care of it, so I think he's ready.

I went to the Daisy museum in Rogers AR, hoping to find a copy of the first BB gun I ever had. After describing it to a staff member, they told me it was a model 99, and had be discontinued for some time. I bought a variant of the Red Ryder, and not to knock any previous poster, it was not even a pale reflection of the model 99. A plastic cocking lever, mushy trigger and a real knuckleball pitcher to boot.

I googled up someone selling a 99 much like my old one, and cheerfully paid the $65. I'm whole, again.

Hutch, you took the words right outta my mouth...

All except for the needing to find one... I never got rid of the ol' model 99 Daisy...

it is ALL metal and wood, no plastic, comes with a peep rear sight, and a hooded interchangable front aperature peep, and holds one helluvalotta bb's in the barrel-shroud...

I love mine... my Father got it for me when I was all of 3 and a half years old... he used it to teach me accuracy and safe gun handling... I still have it , and it is sure hell on small game... even to this day!

I bought Red Ryder a couple years ago for a kid I know. The accuracy is terrible; about 8" at seven yards. The thing is generally very poorly contructed, nothing at all like the BB guns of my youth.

Red Ryder is not just for kids. I have used these for a long long long time to teach new shooters, including shotgun, as Brister shares in his book.

LOTs of folks, from kids, to teenagers, to adults, to senior adults I have started them off with a Red Ryder BB Gun to learn shotguns.

Back when , down in TX, I and another person made a Red Ryder run. We bought 50 of these things, part of something a group of us wanted to do. We gave these away to folks from 2 years old to over 80. Just a seat of pants whim over coffee one morning. "Bet you two a steak you cannot buy 50 in one day".
Money on the table and we hit the ground running.

"How many you want?"
"All of them, and all your BBs too".

Might explain a shortage down in TX once upon a time...

Now all that you have to do is get him the outfit to go with it...



Mac

I bought two of them last year for my twin sons. They don't know about them yet. They are not quite ready.

Anyway I took one out of the box a few months ago for a test drive. I only fired a few BBs, but the accuracy seemed fine to me. Maybe they are inconsistent.

The Red Rider is not the same gun I got 45 years ago, that's for sure. My first was a Daisy Cub, that you pulled the end piece out (along with a tube), and poured 3-400 BB's in. It was all metal. Second was a Winchester 94 look-a-like, and third was a Rem 22 pump look-a-like. My little brother "inherited" the last one each time I got another, and he was hard on them. (The Rem. 22 looker shot out my older sisters B&W tv in about 69'). We went to Wally world the other night, and I picked up a Daisy Winchester 1000SB LR, supposed to be 1000 fps with .177 pellets, we'll see. It has a composit stock though, and feels like a real piece of machinery. I think he'll be impressed.

Wow, I must be the only guy in America that didn't start on a Daisy. I believe they are an American icon. My first gun was a Crossman 760. I wonder how many BBs and pellets went through that thing. I have seen them in the stores and they don't appear to be quite the same as my old one, but nostalgia may be influencing that recollection. On the other hand, they seem to cost not much more than what my parents paid, almost for--, well a few years ago.

we just did christmas story on stage at our local college. i was an elf.

Accuracy may not be up to par, but it's still the most fun BB gun in the history of ever. It's a great aid to shooting fundamentals just because it's dirt cheap to shoot and relatively inconsistent, so it makes you really, have to try, but it's still forgiving and fun enough that you never just say "Screw it, I'm getting a Playstation." I've got a Drozd, and I still feel that the Red Ryder is the best BB gun ever invented.

heck, i got one for myself the last time they were on sale, and dunked it in a molylube! slicker'n snot on a doorknob.

I'm watching Ralphie and his Red Ryder right now....!

On my gun rack in front of me as I speak (type) is my Crosman 760 Powermaster.
Metal and real wood.
I've seen the new ones and they have a sort of plastic/composite stock.
I'm glad I kept mine...