50+ Year Wait For This Gun

[doc540]

My dad, at 92, finally handed down to me his Daisy Model 40 Defender BB gun. I think he got it in 1932.

Sling and bayonet are long gone, but it still shoots hard.

 

[BigBore44]

Now that is an heirloom. Very cool. I've honestly never heard of that model. And a BB gun with a bayonet? My how times have changed.

 

[doc540]

Yessir, they made them from 1914 to 1932.

He's hung on to it for over 80 years.

 

[DNS]

Very nice!

I watched one like that sans rubber tipped bayonet and cloth sling go for over $500.

My grandfathers Red Ryder he bought used in '46 hangs above my front door. Still makes the dogs run for the hills. I distinctly remember killing many an Indian with it on weekend visits to his house.

 

[El Viejo]

That thing is beautiful. It must make you quite proud to have it to display.

 

[doc540]

thanks

been shooting it all afternoon

 

[MattShlock]

Wow, really!?

Dad is 92, so, you're...

 

[shiftyer1]

I didn't know there was a bb gun made with a bayonet, that's just cool.

 

[Deaf Smith]

I wonder how many kids got their eye put out with that pig sticker on the end?

Dea

 

[doc540]

It was really blunt and had a rubber cap on it.

 

[bobinoregon]

I've got my grand dads .45 SAA I'd be just as proud of your gun if it was mine, congratulations and enjoy.

 

[303tom]

That is so beautiful, we should all be so lucky..................

 

[doc540]

Thanks

This is the real treasure: 1944 Winchester

I mowed yards in 1963 so my dad would order it through the NRA for $23 delivered. It was in cosmoline.

He passed it down to me last year

 

[yzguy87]

^^^ Man that is awesome! Thanks for sharing!

 

[CZguy]

I wonder how many kids got their eye put out with that pig sticker on the end?

None, we were tougher back then.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

This must be BB gun day. I was sitting sipping an iced tea and trying to hit grasshoppers this afternoon with the kids red Ryder....
Those are two very nice pieces of history that you have doc.

 

[200Apples]

Those are two very nice pieces of history that you have doc.

Indeed!

Thanks for posting those!

 

[BigBore44]

Shooting bugs with BB guns. My grandfather, my hero, (passed away last year) used to do that all the time. He would sit out on his back porch and shoot wasp after wasp off his hummingbird feeders. He was a master. Didn't mean to interrupt the thread. Just a memory I had of the greatest man I will ever know. Beautiful Winchester btw. The stories those two guns could tell......

 

[Dr.Rob]

Awesome old Daisy!

 

[scaatylobo]

WOW

I never saw one of those even at gun shows,and I have gone to them for well over 40 years.

I got my uncles Red Ryder that he bought "upstate" [ Tannersville ] when we all resided in NYC [ 1947 ] the year I was born.

I shot that a million times [ ok,so almost ] when I was a youth and doing summers in the Catskills mountains at his place.

It still shoots very hard,and I love it.

Thanks for sharing you wonderful old timer,and really = how old are you if your dad is 92 ?.

btw = we were tougher and yes I never even heard about a kid "shooting his eye out".

 

[Potatohead]

Great thread. Thanks for sharing.

 

[doc540]

Thanks

Not many of these guys left.

When he was in his 20's he was running down a checklist and lighting off four, Wright Cylones!

 

[MattShlock]

Wow - that musta been something.

One other thing... If YOU mowed lawns to pay $23 so dad would order that gun for you why did you have to wait so long? Get a five-decade "time out"!?

 

[doc540]

Good question!

He "adopted" it as his home defense gun when his snot-nose son went chasing "tactical" things made of plastic.

 

[JoeMal]

Great thread going here, thanks for sharing all