Your favorite toy gun.

[JellyJar]

Mods....I hope this thread is ok. I was reminded about my favorite toy gun by the thread from Salon.com about his playing army when he was a child.

Ok everyone. What was your favorite toy gun when you were a child, providing you were allowed to own one.

Mine was a very accurate toy replica of a Winchester 1873. It was child sized, originally came with spring loaded bullets that would shoot out of metal cases when loaded into the chamber and you pulled the trigger. It had the same ( although plastic of course ) toggle mechanism as the real thing and would load the toy cartridges from the tubular magazine.


i very much loved that gun. One day I was swinging at some weeds that were taller than me with it. I was holding it by the barrel. I did not see a telephone pole there and I broke it just in front of the butt stock. I cried for days afterward.

 

[chris in va]

I had a lot of cap guns, one of my favorites being the little keychain Luger replicas. Used to drive my mom crazy I'm sure.

We had this game where each of us had a cheap walkie-talkie and our mission was to find each other and 'shoot' with cap guns or water pistols. Even at the tender age of 8 I figured out you could locate the other guys by how much static was on their transmission, and cheap as those things were you could even turn yourself around 360 degrees and get a general idea which direction to head. Ah the days.

BTW it wasn't the 'Shootin Shell' Winchester was it?

 

[MifflinKid]

Mattel Fanner 50.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qXLxHi9_8

It really was swell.

 

[BUGUDY]

I had a pistol type gun that shot small round disks, penny sized and flew like a frisbee. Mom didn't like this one at all.

 

[NC-Mike]

Easy, I already posted this before.

Johnny Seven- One Man Army.

Already highly collectible!

 

[hmphargh]

Nerf Ballzooka

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Classic old single action Cap guns.

 

[JellyJar]

chris in va

That looks just like my old one except mine was all black. Do you own that one or did you just fine a picture off the internet?

 

[[email protected]]

Mine was the "Shootin Shell" Matel single action six shooter.

 

[cambeul41]

When I was perhaps eight (1949?), while I was digging a hole to China, I found two haves of a toy flintlock pistol. I have no idea what it was made of. Pot metal? It was painted silver and never chipped or rusted. No moving parts remained. I taped the halves together. Since it felt good in my hand, for several years it was my gun of choice for playing "Guns."

I was an army brat. We did not play "Cops and Robbers;" we did not play "Cowboys and Indians;" we played "Guns." This was simulated warfare fought between teams that were for the most part officer's brats versus enlisted brats.

 

[smince]

Favorite Toy Gun?

The M16 I was issued in the USAF.

 

[Kleanbore]

Nichols Stallion .45

http://www.toytent.com/Special/8091.html

 

[TheBookGuy]

My dads Dick Tracy cap gun from the '40s about the size of a PPK

 

[Sgt.Sausage]

Imagine this: A rifle that shoots racecars across the floor. I was a child of the 70's and this was my absolute favorite "toy gun" as a child:


http://images.google.com/images?gbv...cers&btnG=Search+images&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

 

[proud2deviate]

I used to have this cap pistol when I was a kid. I remember that it was all black (no orange tip,) and shaped like a typical auto. It took the the plastic strip caps. They loaded into the mag, and when the gun was fired, it would snip off the spent cap and eject it out the top. That thing was killer; I've never seen another one like it.

 

[paintballdude902]

i had 2 that i really liked, who knows what happened to them now

1 was a double barrel shotgun that would break open and you could put the individual red plastic caps in it (you would have to gut them out of the circles or strips) and then pull back both hammers it was awsome

and i had a 1911 colt that you could drop the mag and rack the slide didnt make any noise except the hammer falling and hitting something metal. gosh my dad hated that toy to this day he says it looked way too real and he tried to hide it several times but i always found it, he said he was worried id get shot

 

[Blackbeard]

I had a toy lever-action shotgun of some kind -- no idea what brand or model. The lever action would cock some mechanism inside and the trigger would make a large POP. Made for great neighborhood gun play. Also had a plastic model of a full size Beretta 92, without the orange "toy" indicator on the barrel. I swear it looked just like the real one I have now

 

[Mandolin]

Mine is a Dasiy pop gun that I got when I was about 5 and still have it, 14 years later. The orange cap is long gone, it no longer pops, and I painted it black to stop the rust, and i still like it.

 

[swiftak]

I had a lever action rifle that had plastic "brass cases" that you had to snap gray plastic bullets into. They were spring loaded and came out of the rifle at a fairly good velocity. They really hurt, at least thats what my sister said. This was 1961 or 1962 or so. I don't remember the make of the rifle. I also had a pair of Roy Rodgers cap guns.

 

[mesinge2]

I had one like this, I remember that half of the cyclinder slid off vertically to load the cap paper.

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[woerm]

When I was perhaps eight (1949?), while I was digging a hole to China, I found two haves of a toy flintlock pistol. I have no idea what it was made of. Pot metal? It was painted silver and never chipped or rusted. No moving parts remained. I taped the halves together. Since it felt good in my hand, for several years it was my gun of choice for playing "Guns."

I was an army brat. We did not play "Cops and Robbers;" we did not play "Cowboys and Indians;" we played "Guns." This was simulated warfare fought between teams that were for the most part officer's brats versus enlisted brats.

cambeul41

Army brat too,

I remember a toy circa 69/70 that was a good copy of an M14. When when you pulled the trigger it literally went 'bang' and had a red cone sprout out of the muzzle.

Many a fine afternoon spent chasing folks all over Fort Lee with that thing.

 

[DirtyHarry31]

I remember the rifle series with the fake plastic brass shells & siver plastic bullets! They were the Johnny Lighting rifles and you could get a Lever, a Bolt action or a M14 style. Loved the guns . My brother had the M14 & I had the bolt (Magomba) rifle. We use to flip over the chairs in our basement & shoot at each other till one of us gave up (or hurt ). They were fun but a major "lawsuit" waiting to happen.

 

[Realbigo]

mine were only from the mid '80's but i had a 1911, a 92F and a VP70 strip cap guns that had dropping magazine's, working slides and "Silencers" as part of the package. I even rigged out a set of bootlaces to be a Shoulder Holster and a pleather dart case as a spare magazine carrier. God i was a wierd kid

 

[Taildragger-J3]

I too had a "Fanner 50" and the "Shootin' shell" 6 shooter and lever action.

I could always out draw Matt Dillon, too by the way

 

[NC-Mike]

I remember the rifle series with the fake plastic brass shells & siver plastic bullets! They were the Johnny Lighting rifles and you could get a Lever, a Bolt action or a M14 style. Loved the guns . My brother had the M14 & I had the bolt (Magomba) rifle. We use to flip over the chairs in our basement & shoot at each other till one of us gave up (or hurt ). They were fun but a major "lawsuit" waiting to happen.

You're talking about Johnny Eagle guns!

I still have the lever, the six-gun and the elephant rifle but no ammo. I need to hit ebay and buy a couple cartridges!

I wish I had that Lt., M14-M1911 setup!