Throwback Thursday: Best Toy Gun

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Not familiar with those, but sounds fun! :+1:

Not a toy gun, but my Dad used to have sort of a propane gun that in retrospect looked like a mortar. It went off at preset intervals to scare birds and rabbits from eating his crops.

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The Tommy Gun, helmet, grenade, etc. we’re among our toys in the60s. We also had double holster cowboy cap pistols complete with the outfit. Those were my favorite.
http://www.jeffs60s.com/armytoys.php

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When I finally could afford to buy “ammo” for my cap guns, here’s how I moved up my game.

If you remove the nut that holds the valve seat washer, there’s a hole where you can put as much gunpowder as you can.
All you need is a nail with the pointed tip removed so it serves as a firing pin.

You want double the boom :boom:, remove the nut that holds the handle and do the same on the other end.


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Yes @Robert_M3, this!!!

I recall mine had round discs on either side of the grips.

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My current favorite toy gun. Yes, I will turn off all the house lights, and shoot my family with Nerf for fun.

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Daisy Red Ryder.

*Picture credit goes to icollector.com

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Ironic that Walmart no longer sells “real” guns, but:

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I can’t believe there isn’t one reference to the Wasp Gun.
The caps were like little primers that were near 100% reliable.

We had no rules as they didn’t shoot a projectile.
Back then we didn’t have the stupid red nose cap on the end either.

We used to put on a neighborhood cops and robbers show.
We’d basically chase each other around the houses shooting each other and acting out getting hit/killed.
We’d charge the other neighbor kids 5 cents each to watch us.
Loved the late early 70’s

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We forgot Greeni shootin she’ll stik.M.cap guns. Stick a cap on the back of a real looking brass case and push a plastic bullet into the spring loaded case, loaded like a real six gun. The cap would fire and the spring loaded bullet would come flying out of the six gun. :us::us::us:

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Hi Tim- good to hear from you.
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Roy Rogers would visit little kids in hospitals and give out cap guns to the little
Boys and girls at Christmas time. I saw a black & white video of him doing it. Back in the day he was the bees knees.
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We had rocks.

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Born in 1966. Rules? None! In the 1970’s one of our favorite TV shows was SWAT. They carried what looked like M16 rifles. We all had the plastic M16 knockoffs, I think they might have been made by Mattel. We sure saved countless hostages and knocked off a bunch of bad guys …

And a cap-gun revolver, with the red paper cap strips. I can still smell the gunpowder.

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Same as the “real” ones… :rofl:

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That feeling when trying to open a fresh red roll of caps with your fingernail and it ignites. That was some of the worst pain I knew.

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Looks like the second column, second one down and the bottom one, right column are the same- different caliber and finish, though…

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We would very carefully Scrape off the gun powder from the caps to do dangerous things with the gun powder. A lot of the times the gun powder would ignite and goodbye eyebrows. ( Pain without eyebrows ) nothing like the smell of sulfur and burning hair.
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Scraped paper match heads, 2 large bolts & large nut to fit surprised no one got hurt back in the day. Oh & a hoop & a stick…

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Dave - maybe we


should make a new topic called ( DEATHE WISH Junior ) to tell all the things we did for fun when we were kids that could have killed us.

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