Daisy 1894 examine and shoot

[Septicdeath]

Daisy 1894 spittin images a examination and 25 ft shoot.
Daisy’s 1894 was the first Spittin’ Image BB gun the company made. They started producing them in 1961 and continued through 1986. Besides the standard model, there were many commemorative guns. Daisy also made variants for Montgomery Ward, Sears Robuck and others.
Daisy did revisit the 1894 design for one year in 1994, when they made a special Commemorative Limited Edition. That gun has a manual safety and is not loaded through the loading gate like the rifle.

 

[chsparkman]

I bought one in 1970 with money I got for my 10th birthday. Loved that BB gun. Sparrows came to fear me. I wouldn't want any of my grandsons shooting sparrows, but things were different 50 years ago.

 

[Septicdeath]

Let them shoot Sparrows. They are a invasive species from England. And fair game for anyone with a bb or pellet gun.

 

[Bwana John]

Let them shoot Sparrows. They are a invasive species from England. And fair game for anyone with a bb or pellet gun.

Not all sparrows are invasive. There are at least 40 species of sparrows native to North America.

 

[Mohican1]

Let them shoot Sparrows. They are a invasive species from England. And fair game for anyone with a bb or pellet gun.

English sparrows are invasive. Many others are not. In Virginia English sparrows are considered a nuisance species and can be taken year around where legal to shoot. They are also eaten in the UK by some folks in a pot pie I've been told. I too took all kinds of birds as a youth that I wished I hadn't. I feed them all now. I will shoot crows and game birds in season

 

[kBob]

When I was a kid Dad worked for a seed cleaning business and sparrows would nest in the machinery if allowed to do so. His boss offered me a dime for a sparrow a dime for a mouse and a quarter for a rat shot with my BB gun. A buck was still a buck in 1966 and those dimes were actually spendable Saturday after noon down town. Sparrows and mice at "the plant" suffered mightily. Rats mostly got mad. My Daisy lever actions were not enough for a cotton rat and Norway's ignored them. Thus began my serious pistol shooting with a Daisy CO2 200 pistol. The rats noted being shot with that, briefly.

The next year I made more money drawing and bagging seed and stacking it in the warehouse or on trucks bound for exotic places like Iowa or the Dakotas ( exotic to a little Florida Cracker kid) to plant the nations bread and feed. Kept the Daisy next to the weigh and sew station for the extra dime on occasion but made much more at real work.

what would 'the gubbermint" do today to folks that left a tween, with a BB gun, to run a grain elevator, giant seed cleaning machine, second elevator, seed drawing and bagging station with built in weight scales, bag sewing machine, and and the job of hand trucking and stacking 85 to 105 pound seed bags?

Odd that I never felt particularly abused or endangered at the time ain't it?

Still have the remains of that Daisy lever action. Now I service a bird feeder about eight feet and outside the window from where I type and my biggest customers are sparrows

-kBob