D.B. Cooper
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Y'all ain't going to like hearing this, but...when I saw that "Gung Ho" commercial, the first thing I thought was "I wonder how many of those kids died in Vietnam."
Shot the heck out of the red caps. The round and straight ones. Loved the smell after shooting themRemember the red rolls of caps. A couple in your cap gun and you could shoot all day.
No more. Cap gun control.
I had to make an emergency trip to my pediatrician cause I tried to empty the powder from a 22 rimfire by snipping the rim off with wire cutters. The powder ignited and put a piece of shrapnel in my finger.Meanwhile, back at the department of bright ideas...
My buddy took the powder from some firecrackers and loaded it in a 22 LR. This was not black powder, it was in small pale green flakes. He had a bolt action 22, nothing special, run of the mill. After firing the stock was cracked and the magazine damaged. He wasn't. Makes one wonder how we survived childhood.
Back in the mid 1960's or so, I had and all plastic toy M16 with the original charging handle design. You'd pull the charging handle back, which wound a spring, and you'd get a *brap* *brap* *brap* *brap* sound every time you pulled the trigger until the spring wound down.
ETA: Whoops! Just realized it was a toy AR-10, not a toy M16/AR-15.
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After inheriting a real Luger about 21 years ago I came across a Luger squirt gun on E-Bay and jumped on it. Here's my pair of Lugers...View attachment 1152130..
Can't believe that nobody recognized the young actor in the 2nd video about the bazooka that shot a blast of air? A very young "Snake" Plissken.
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After school we sometimes engaged in squirt gun battles; I wore out a few of those back then and also discovered the "pointability" of the German Luger design when I had several Luger squirt guns. After inheriting a real Luger about 21 years ago I came across a Luger
Why? That thought never occurred to me.Y'all ain't going to like hearing this, but...when I saw that "Gung Ho" commercial, the first thing I thought was "I wonder how many of those kids died in Vietnam."
or motion pictures)
I think just saying “gun” nowadays may be grounds for expulsion.My kindergarten teacher would make us toy guns by cutting an old garden hose into 6" lengths and nailing them into little blocks of wood cut from a 2x4.
Video games weren't a thing yet, so Cops & Robbers, and Cowboys & Indians were our games of choice.
I had one of those. We also used to buy those colorful translucent 1911-style squirt guns and paint them black with model paint.This thread reminded me of the best dart gun I ever had. It looked just like a Colt 1911 and fired suction cup darts.
Had plenty of toy guns, but none of those specifically. I still have a Hubley "Dick" (Tracy) special around somewhere that I found in a gravel pit, half encased in concrete from the broken-up slab of our old elementary school. I can only surmise the pistol was thrown in the original foundation when it was poured and mummified there for 50 years. I carefully chipped away the remaining concrete, gave it a thorough clean/oil job and it still functions with roll caps. Original springs too!
I remember as a young kid Disney sold those musket style cap guns in Frontier Land and Pirates of the Caribbean. My folks bought me a pistol one when I was like 5. I remember seeing all the rifles, some in gold. I wanted so badly back then. Now they don't exist.