Musings in the Toy Aisle

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Remember the smell? That's what I recall being the best part about my old cap guns. I loved that smell.

I had a revolver cap gun that took those little red 6 "shot" rings of caps. Or there were those guns that used a paper strip of caps and automatically fed them with through with each pull of the trigger. I guess at one time in the 80's I owned a high capacity, semi-automatic, assault cap gun.

Ah, those were the days. I'm not exactly looking forward to the boring toys my children (when I have some;)) will have access to in the future.
 
I had a revolver cap gun that took those little red 6 "shot" rings of caps.
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Now those had a heavy DA trigger! I remember when an aunt of mine was trying out for the police academy. She borrowed one of my cap guns so she could work on her hand strength by pulling the trigger. The trigger pull on the toy was heavier than the service revolver!
 
Now that everyone mentions it, I DO remember having a few of those... specfically, the revolver looking cap guns.. both the paper strip feed, and the red plastic "speedloader" kind, where the cylinder would actually rotate out...

Just last weekend, I saw a toy gun so real that I just had to have it. Its a G17 replica, 1/1 scale, and shoots little plastic BBs. The mag ejects like normal, holds 17 BBs, and you have to rack the slide each time to charge the spring. The mag even has the exact same size and shape notch that engages the mag release. It has a guide rod, takedown lever which is a safety on the replica, and get this: a working slide catch! It actually locks open if you rack the slide with an empty mag! The ejection port is open, and if you remove the mag, you can look down the magwell, just like on a real one... then you put the loaded mag in, hit the slide catch like you would to chamber a round, and it loads the next BB. It has a slit in the trigger where the trigger safety on a real Glock is.

Ok, I think you get the point. It looks very real, except for the orange paint on the muzzle.. doubly so, since a real Glock frame is plastic anyway. It has all the ergonomics of a brick.... reminded me why I don't own a real G17. ;) The thing is a ton of fun though. Wish I had one when I was a kid.
 
I had one of those ratcheting M-16's eccept it had an additional clear plastic area near the "chamber" that had the sandpaper and flint so it would make sparks inside.

Born in the 70's, and a child of the 80's I also had the Han Solo Starwars blaster, that was the Mauser Broomhandle with all the ersatz knobs fins and flashider on it.

My folks divorced in '75 when I was only two, so I shuttled back and forth on the airlines a lot between Milwaukee and Wash D.C. Returning home to Milwaukee at the end of one summer, I packed the Han Solo blaster in my carry-on backpack, and luckily, airport security was a bit more tolerant back then. Mom had to take it back to her house in her purse, and mail it to me later.

Having moved to the D.C. metro to persue her more left-coast arts scene lifestyle, she was suitably humiliated. :D The gaurd running the X-ray was very cool to me though, and even recognized it as being from Star Wars.

Just last weekend, I saw a toy gun so real that I just had to have it. Its a G17 replica, 1/1 scale, and shoots little plastic BBs. The mag ejects like normal, holds 17 BBs, and you have to rack the slide each time to charge the spring. The mag even has the exact same size and shape notch that engages the mag release. It has a guide rod, takedown lever which is a safety on the replica, and get this: a working slide catch! It actually locks open if you rack the slide with an empty mag! The ejection port is open, and if you remove the mag, you can look down the magwell, just like on a real one... then you put the loaded mag in, hit the slide catch like you would to chamber a round, and it loads the next BB. It has a slit in the trigger where the trigger safety on a real Glock is.
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Oh ohhh! Looks like ttbadboy has discovered Airsoft. :D Wait until he learns about the full-auto AEG (Automatic Electric Gun) MP-5's, FN-P90's, M-4's/M-16's, AK's, Steyr AUG's, that take real optics and tac lights, and the semi-auto gas-blowback Glocks, 1911's, HK's.... And that people get together and play with them just like paintball.
 
It is still easy to find cap guns around here -- both the red plastic ring type and the strip of paper type.

My boys thought that cap gun paper and a magnifying glass should have made a fun combination, so we had a fairly scientific discussion about why it didn't make the same loud noise after all. You can, of course, set the cap gun paper on fire with the magnifying glass and it makes a satisfying hissing noise, but most of them don't have the patience for that anyway.

A hammer is much more fun! ;)

pax
 
pax's boys are lucky...

LOL...

Ever play "cap chicken" as a kid?

It goes something like this:

"Watch me hit a cap with a hammer!" bang...

"That's nothing! Watch me hit a pile of five caps with a hammer!" Bang!

"You wimp! I'll hit a whole roll of caps at once!" BANG!

"Chicken! I'll smash a whole box" BOOOM!

"Dude, where'd your eyebrows go?"

:D
 
I recently saw a college-freshman neighbor of mine in the courtyard of the apartments spray-painting some neon-camoflauge (in case you need to hide in front of a hippie van) silver and some black.

I asked him if he realized that an officer would assume they're real until he was face down on the pavement and he replied "I know, but they're just toys."

I just walked home and locked my door.

-Colin
 
I had a huge pile of toy guns. In the neighborhood, all the boys would get together and have huge war games for hours. I had a drawer full of very realistic toy pistols and revolvers, and I had Winchester 92s and M16s, etc., Great fun. Had BB guns too, but those were not for playing war. I knew the difference.
 
I had a ton of cap guns as a kid. At least three or four of the revolvers that fired the plastic ring caps. I think I still have one somewhere... most of them broke but I do have one in a drawer somewhere.

Also had a Beretta that fired the plastic strip caps, the kind you loaded in the magazine and then it cut off each cap and ejected it. I remember my friend down the street and I both bought one, but his mom made him paint it white so that it couldn't be mistaken for a real gun.

These days all we can find are flourescent rubber dart guns at Wal-Mart... and Nerf stuff, but it costs too much.
 
In college, me and some buddies used to play "gotcha" where we would carry water guns in our belt and if you saw the other guy, whoever drew first won (OK, it was a boring school, but hey, it was better than getting stoned).

So, I had the coolest of all toys: a lifesize replica fullsize UZI submachinegun. I got my good buddy Mike with it several times, and he moped, so I let him borrow it and he carried it under his jacket....

One day we had some prospective students at our school, 12th graders IIRC, having lunch in the upstairs portion of the cafeteria. I sat down a few tables away. Unbeknownst to me, my buddy Mike came up the stairs behind me.... he saw me (yeah, I was bad -- I had my back to the stairs).... he sat his tray down and pulls the UZI out....

Mike was about 6'2" tall and black....

All I saw was some 12th grade girls eyes get HUGE, she can't breathe....

then finally she screams BLACK MAN WITH A GUN!!!
and dives under her table......

Everyone else knew the game mike and I played, so once we figured out who she was referring to, we laughed till our bellies hurt.

I didn't see that girl in next years incoming freshman class, so I guess she thought our school was a little TOO exciting for her :neener:
 
Wanna be the kewlest kid on your block?
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*SIGH* Good times, good times...

Heck, even up into High School, my friends and I used to play our own version of run-n-gun!!

Admittedly, we were hoodlums and horrible children, who've all gone on to fester in careers like MD, Business Owner, Dell, and what-not. But what do you expect from kids who play with guns?!?

:evil:

I still remember the fun we had...we got several of those Tec-9 clones that shot rubber Air-Soft bullets. Single shot, you had to pull the bolt back to cock it each shot, but it had a magazine that held about ten or twelve shots. Good out to about ten feet, and hella fun!

Of course, being the good gearhead that I was already on my way to becoming, I took that sucker apart, and was APPALLED to find the spring on the piston was only about six inches long!!

"Well, to Hell with THAT!" I thought to myself. I stretched that sucker out until it was about THREE FEET long, and compressed it back until I could rebuild the gun. It came as quite a SHOCK to my opponents, one day, when I levelled that thing at them from about sixty feet away. Fingers pointed. Laughter erupted. Some of them doubled over at the thought. It was as if I were threatening the High School Quarterback with a Spork. An untrained Spork, at that!

Then I shot that first, glorious round. It hit my friend Travis squarely in the midsection. Eyes snapped open. Mouths formed horrified "O"s as the implication set in. I had created the run-n-gun equivalent of the Barrett .50!! Sure, the bolt cracked under pressure after about twenty-five shots, but who cared?!?

For those twenty-five shots (taken carefully from an assortment of roofs, trees, and gutters)...I was GOD. I knew better than to shoot it at anyone closer than twenty-five feet, of course (hey, EVERY weapon has its drawbacks, eh?), but nothing short of a full-bore rush by five or six of my friends stood a chance of getting that close, anyway.

:D

Remind me to tell you about the tracer-gun fights we STILL occasionally have, when we all can get together and out of our respective offices!!
 
My favorite toy gun was a 3/4 sized 1911 look alike made of shiny pot metal. I had that thing for years. It looked real enough that I'm sure that if I had pointed it at a cop there might have been problems. Of course when I got it my parents told me not to do that or I might get shot. Being raised around guns I knew what real guns were capable of so I was smart enough to do do that.

The only toy gun I have left is a little cap firing derringer that I got at a hospital gift shop. It was the last thing my Grandfather ever gave me. It's my most valued possession. I thought I had lost it forever but I found it a few weeks ago. Boy, you should have seen the tears. Manly tears, of course. :D
 
I had this cool plastic M4 squirt gun as a kid. It had a bayonet lug, and grenade launcher mounting cuts on the barrel and everything. It was bright green and pink, but a little black spray paint solved that problem. The magazine was detachable, and you filled it with water, slapped it home, and you were good to go! It took several batteries in the buttstock to operate it. Man, I miss that thing.

I also had a wicked little Uzi when I was a youngin'. Observe!

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