Your favorite toy gun.

[Erik M]

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

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Bingo, I couldnt tell you how many rolls of caps and mini peacemakers I went through.

 

[theotherwaldo]

Johnny SEVENs, Fanner .50s, Daisy "Dirt-shooters", various sucker-tipped dart guns, those were all fun.

Still, my favorite was a Navy-issue hard-rubber 1911. Someone left it in an old chest-of-drawers in an empty lot near my house. Looked real, except fot the broken hammer spur. Somehow, shouting "Bang" was more fun with that one.

 

[D94R]

Late 80's real early 90's you could find plastic M-16 replicas. Don't remember how big they were, as I doubt they were full size, but you could pull the trigger and it would make the "full auto" noise. Man were those fun. Only down side though was you were guaranteed to drop them or snag them on something and break them in half between the barrel and receiver My brothers and I went through many of them.

Looked a lot like these.

 

[DougDubya]

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

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I had that too.

I had the original, black and wood plastic colored version of this, and it was a favorite:

 

[Tacbandit]

Mattels "M-16 Marauder"....w/realistic sound and all...

 

[sfc_mark]

I got a toy Winchester lever gun for Christmas when I was five. It's all I asked for and the only gift I remember. Found a faded, wrinkled B&W print from that Christmas morning just this week (I need to scan it). It must have made an impression because I just bought my third (real) Win M94 on THR last week.

 

[FFMedic]

I had, have still really my #1 toy gun. It's a M-60, about 3 feet long. It does not shoot anything but it has a plastic ammo belt that it feeds, spade grips on the back and a bi-pod for bunker use. I can't tell you how many enemy soldiers I zippered with that thing

FFMedic

 

[Rembrandt]

The cap firing Luger was my favorite...

 

[rogertc1]

I had a Roy Rogers chrome 6 shooter cap gun first. Then I recall a battery operated Browning machinegun which we would play out the Combat TV show with a bunch of the neighborhood kids.

 

[jfh]

Around 1990 I had kid-sized plastic replicas of

AR-15s and TMGs around for my daughters to play with. Then, they hit puberty, and their mother got going--and they quit playing iwth them.

When did Noriega go down? That was a hide-and-seek game they played, something about finding him....

Jim H.

 

[LubeckTech]

As a kid in the early 1970s I had a Daisy air rifle which was just like the entry level spring loaded lever action BB gun except it could not fire BBs. It could however fire Lolli-Pup dog treats and 12 gague shotgun wads with a couple wraps of masking tape around them.

 

[HankB]

I had the Johnny Eagle "Lieutenant" .45 . . . it was a startlingly realistic copy of a GI .45, and had a magazine that held 7 (?) rounds. The rounds were individually spring-loaded, and you could put a Greenie Stick On Cap on the back. Basic mechanical function was just like a 1911, except of course you had to manually rack the slide for each shot. Pull the trigger, the hammer snapped down, and a firing pin hit the back of the spring-loaded case and the bullet went flying out the muzzle. If you were lucky, the cap went off, too.

Also had a "Dick Tracy Power Jet Gun", a toy shotgun that functioned with roll caps if you pulled the trigger, and as a squirt gun if you pumped the slide.

Had a bunch of others that were neat, but these two stood out as my favorites. Looked pretty realistic, too. (The shotgun was small and kid-sized, but the pistol was pretty close to life size.)

(If I were still 7 years old and got one of the neon-colored abominations they sell today, I'd probably spend some time with a magic marker making it look more realistic.)

 

[tequilayan]

i like this``Johnny Seven- One Man Army.

Already highly collectible!thanks for sharing.

 

[mustang_steve]

A blue plastic PPK that you filled with little yellow rubber balls, and everytime you pulled the tigger, a ball would come flaying out.

I used to line up my He-Man figures and shoot them from across the bedroom with that thing. I also used to get my hide tanned because I'd fire it outside my room and they'd find little rubber balls all over the place....sometimes in the spaghetti sauce....oops.

 

[shotgunjoel]

I remember my grandma had these little snub nose revolver cap guns. We never had caps for them and there were some old caps in the cylinder that were mashed in there good.

 

[roofsc]

favorite toy

+1 for thr johnny 7 oma (one man army). i ruled the creek area from woodmont circle all the way up to scott's lake on altamont dr.
paul


a trillion here and a trillon there an pretty soon we're talking some real money:banghead:

 

[janedoedad]

Daisy brand lever action Popgun with "Ricochet Sound". Thing was harder to cock than the Daisy BB gun we had. My parents hated that thing with a passion. I can understand that now as I do remember that the sound was pretty obnoxious.

 

[CajunBass]

I had a Mattell "Thompson" that I liked. Vic Morrow as "Chip Saunders" in COMBAT was my hero. I got it with a Mattel "38" snub nose revolver and a shoulder holster for Christmas one year.

I also had, and I have no idea where it came from, or where it went, a cast aluminum(?) or cast iron maybe, Luger. Life sized. No working parts. It fit in an old GI 45 holster that also came from somewhere. It was sort of like the "blue guns" you see today I guess. It had been painted black at one time, but was pretty much down to the bare metal when I had it. I've never seen another one.

Either I or my buddies had all the others mentioned over the years. I remember someone having one of those M-14's. IIRC it needed batteries or at least the one "we" had did.

 

[swiftak]

All these toy guns, How politcally incorrect. How did we grow up and not be a bunch of wack jobs?

 

[bannockburn]

What was my favorite toy gun? It was more like what one didn't I like. Christmas was always a lock for some sort of toy gun, from Johnny Eagle M-14s for my brother and I (I seem to remember him getting a Monkey Division mortar one year as well), to some pretty realistic looking M-16s (complete with a sound system which gave you semi and full auto playback). There were also a great many Golden Guns (the Gold Luger with holster, the black M1911A1, and the Colt SAA with the white steerhead grips were my favorites), along with a number of Nichols toy guns; most of which we got at the local Woolworths store in town. But I think my all-time favorite was the Man from U.N.C.L.E. P-38 with all the accessories, including scope, silencer, and shoulder stock. That one was the absolute best.

 

[Roadkill]

I've got two. One is an Ohio Rapid Fire Gaili and the other is a Red Rock FAL. Neither one will function at all so they might as well be toy guns.

 

[lilguy]

My Old "RED RYDER". Still use it decades later to off squirrels on my feeders.

I know , not politically correct.

 

[Readyrod]

I had the same cap Luger as Rembrandt. Mine was painted black. Someone called the cops on us once and complained we were playing with real guns. My mom wasn't pleased but my brother and I were thrilled.

 

[JellyJar]

Despite playing army with my friends and having and using toy guns as a child I grew up no liking real guns!!! As a child I always knew the difference between fantasy and reality so I think that helps disprove any theory that aggressive play always leads to aggressive behavior as an adult.

I did not become interested in the issue of gun control and RKBA ( and real guns ) until I was in my twenties and I moved to Houston Texas in the early 1980s. There was just too much crime happening then for me to ignore the issue. Thank God but by then I had learned to mistrust the mainstream news media and learned how to think for my self.

 

[NC-Mike]

I also remember the little snub-nosed revolvers that use the take caps that came in a ring. These guns seemed like magnums compared to regular old cap guns. If you had one of those, you were really strapped!

Kinda like this one. Boy those were loud and had a nice smoke effect too!