New Cap Lock Rifle

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Great rifle for hunting flies, butterflies, or just to tick off the wife ! Back in the early 70's my son had one of these and it came with cork balls that would actually shoot the ball using caps that had a sticky backing.
 
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This brings back some memories...

I had some sort of toy Cap Lock Rifle when I was a kid in the 1950s that shot round Cork Balls...I do not remember how it did it...I think it got taken away pretty fast and I never saw it again...
 
I got my first one of those on a family vacation to Gettysburg in 1971. Shot cork balls across a room with ease. Hate to say how many caps I ran through. Still have it, though it does not look that good. Mine was used pretty hard. ;)
 
OMG, I got one of those at Disneyland back in the 1960s.

I was just learning about guns and realized that the breechblock looked just like a real musket's so I dumped the powder from a couple of black cats down the barrel, stuck on a Greenie Stick-'em cap and proceded to shoot the head of a tin soldier right through the door of a car across the street!

Things only went downhill from there...
 
Greenie Stick'em Caps! :D My 92 Winchester shot 'em and these little plastic bullets that inserted into a spring loaded cartridge case. I also had a "Have Gun, Will Travel" rig complete with business cards. :D I went to Walmart looking for roll caps the other day for my "Tap-o-cap", not a cap in the place or a cap gun to go with it. It's a PC world I guess.

There's a place out on hwy 59, a travel stop, that has those cap locks. There was one there with a pink stock I was thinkin' about getting for my grand daughter. I remember the ones that fired cork balls, but don't think these did. I haven't seen a greenie stick'em cap in a while, like, since the early 60s. :D
 
Boy I had forgotten about the shooting-shells, and the Have Gun Will Travel setup. Of course at my age I have forgotten a lot more too. I too went into Wally World looking for caps with no luck. Don't even know if any of the walk in stores even carry cap guns anymore guess they are trying to politically correct??
 
Mattel made those; I had a Colt Detective Special look-alike that was so cool!

I also had a great-looking Colt 1860 type that held 2-piece brass shells and fired red plastic bullets.

Such great toys!
 
I went to Walmart looking for roll caps the other day for my "Tap-o-cap", not a cap in the place or a cap gun to go with it.

I buy 'em for my kids at dollar stores. They still have them as well as roll cap guns.

I had one of those when I was a kid. When my father-in-law passed away, he had 2 in his house and some of the nephews wanted them. They had the hammer on one and the trigger on the other broken in 2 days :cuss:, but they could both break an anvil with a feather.
 
I had a Mattel rolling block rifle that shot the shoot em bullets with the stickem caps, Also had a Hubly revolver that looked like a Colt 1860 cartridge conversion. It was the same size as a real one and looked monstrous to me in those days.
 
I saw the plastic ring style caps at a wallgreen's in Marana last week they work in a tap-o-cap for my ROA
 
McGunner I didn't buy any, just noted their presence. I still have about 80,000 of the roll style paper [american western] left from my Y2K stash. When I got the tap-o-cap I tried all I could lay my hands on, they were so cheap [the ring style] that supplies of them vary from lot to lot, let alone from various manufatures. All I can say is if you find some hot ones buy 100K or so. IIRC some of the plastic ones worked well if you added a pinch of FFFFg and just used them as bought, though some had too soft of a body to work well on C & B guns, and had to be cut from the plastic and mounted in aluminum caps. ROA's don't like plastics, 58 NMA like them better, IMHO because ROA hammers don't go all the way to the nipple and NMA's do. Experiment, next time I'm by a wallgreens I'll pick some up and try them will let you know how it works out.
 
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Can someone post a pic of these ring-style caps. How good do they work in the Cap-O-Tap? I tried roll caps but get an awful lot of paper debris and the caps I've found are unreliable and weak!
 
I would gladly do so for another but for myself parking is free...I have disability plates so I never have to put money in those damn things!! :neener:
 
My Mom was a Constitutionalist, history lover, and appreciated well-made stuff. SHE bought me a set these Paris guns (they were better made back then than today), both a rifle and a pistol, when I was a kid. Paper caps never entered the picture much if at all. But they also let me have one of those big plastic M-16's where you'd pull the charging handle and it'd go "click, click, click" like a machine gun and a little plastic red thing would dart in and out of the muzzle. Vietnam was still going and back then, cowboys-n-indians and WWII were pretty much all we played if it wasn't "killer" football.

Those were the good ole days. Today we have "play (f'ing) dates." Is it any wonder we have the Administration and Congress we got!?

I'm not sure if I had a bigger collection then or now...

Al
 
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My 'collection' back then included a tripod mounted M1919 30cal [plastic with wind up crank] some toy stores don't even sell cap guns or water pistols anymore. Sigh
 
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