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I have the DVD,but just prefer to run it on the boob tube looped for 24 hours .
I am of the FIRM belief that the 'shoot your eye out' line is overplayed as is the actual showing of him hitting himself.
I tried that exact gag with the Red Ryder [ mine is a 1947 model ] and I cant get one to come back at me .let alone my face as that means it would come off the backstop [ target ] with the same force it left the barrel = NOT POSSIBLE.
When I was a kid, I took a pot shot with a Daisy at my kid brother (we lived in the country, circa 1950's). I hit him BETWEEN the eyes. Needless to say, we didn't do that stuff again. I have also had stuff bounce back at me, so I'm a believer. I've never told a soul about that incident before.
With enough rounds downrange, yes indeed you can get a BB to come back at you. When I was teaching my son (then in single-digit age) to shoot with a BB gun in the basement, firing into a cardboard box full of crumpled newspapers, we had one come back and land on the table next to us, spinning like a top. It was totally cinematic. I have no idea what it ricocheted off of, since, unlike Ralphie, we were not using a metal sign as a backstop.
He immediately and forever quit complaining about my insisting on eye protection. (He's now 18 and shoots real stuff with me all the time.)
I wouldn't miss it.
I also have the DVD but always watch it on TV.
I am always disappointed that Ralphie is a drama queen when he breaks his glasses. Instead of just admitting that his glasses fell off, he couldn't see and as a result he stepped on them he blames it on the BB gun. Then he leaves his gun outside Why ????
Jean Shepherd is fantastic. I was tuning around shortwave a week or two ago and a station in Maine was playing one of his shows and it was the show where he told the story about his friend Flick sticking his tongue to the pole.
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