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John B. · Feb 20, 2013

We were not allowed to have BB/Pellet Guns when we were kids but could carry a pocket knife. Our cousins were allowed just the opposite. So when we got together we would have a Safari Hunt in the woods.

ericlb · Feb 20, 2013

lots of memories, i had one of those as a kid, no need to mention how much trouble that thing got a kid into, all by itself of course

larrystinescorner · Feb 20, 2013

Me too., good thing my dad blamed the hawks for the dissapearance of all my brothers white king pidgeons,
[hope my brothers not reading this) I was a baaaad boy with the bb gun !

Goose · Feb 20, 2013

I had one. I'd spend hours in the chicken house shooting sparrows. Got pretty good at it.

Blackhole49 · Feb 20, 2013

Your gonna shoot your eye out.

60 acre hillside · Feb 20, 2013

My friends had A Daisy Red Rider and I wanted one but they cost $5 I did not have that much money so I bought a Daisy single shot that would break down to charge and then drop a BB in the muzzle.It cost $2. I shot a rabbit with it but the rabbit hopped away unharmed. Shot my sister accidentally but I got more stinging than she did.

jackinok · Feb 20, 2013

Mom wouldnt let us shoot song birds,so we had to use grasshoppers on the side of the old house as our quarry. that old shack had shingles for siding and i bet there was 3000 bb's stuck in it.wasnt all bad though, if you ran low of ammo you just dug a few back out!occaisionally we would even hit a grasshopper.LOL

Wheat Farmer · Feb 20, 2013

My Brother and I wrote to Santa about 1949 for BB guns. He came with his big white sack and the two barrels were sticking out the top. After passing out the gifts with those two barrels sticking out he said that was all for this house. Our hearts dropped. Then he came back and said he forgot something.

Larry NEIL · Feb 20, 2013

My original finally bit the dust about 5 years ago, it was gettin real weak anyhow. So aboujt 3 years ago, I bought myself a new one with all the fancy trimmings!

Stan - Florida · Feb 20, 2013

Got one for Christmas in 1947...still have it.

If anyone is ever around Rogers, Arkansas, Daisy is headquartered there and has a great air gun museum.

Stan

John B. · Feb 20, 2013

One man about 50 that I work with use to shoot sparrows with his bb gun. He was a sharp shooter in the service out of all that was in his group.

Texasmark1 · Feb 20, 2013

Yes. Loved mine and later got the pump kind too. On the RR, once I lost the little spring clip at the end of the barrel adjacent to the threads. The clip holds BBs in the slot ready to fire. If you have no spring and tilt the barrel down, the BB rolls out. I didn't have a way to get a new spring so I just lived with it. A PIA.

Later we moved up to pump up pellet rifles. With only one shot, you became a marksman over night. Great sport.

Mark

SuperHank · Feb 20, 2013

These guns are the reason for the atrocities at Columbine and others. If we did not have BB guns there would be no loss of life in Chicago and Connecticut. They are gateway assault weapons and must be banned. Futhermore the irradication of sparrows is directly related to Red Rider and next it will be the red cockaded woodpecker and snail darters. Ban all but single shot BB guns beause high volume magazines must be bad even if I can"t explain why.

ShadetreeRet · Feb 20, 2013

Dad bought me a Daisy BB gun when I was about ten. The Red Ryder version was a dollar or two more so I had to settle for the plain version. Didn't really matter to me. After I got my axx tore up a couple of times for shooting birds, I would climb in the hay loft of the old log barn and shoot mice. Got pretty good at it too! When it finally broke,being the curious type, I tore it apart and it finally went into the scrap pile. If only I had known then what I know now!

Spook · Feb 20, 2013

My nephew just got one for xmas. Daisy used to be made near Detroit, in Plymouth Michigan. Probably china now.

waltdavies · Feb 20, 2013

I wanted a Red Ryder BB gun but Mother said NO! At 12 they bought me a single shot 22 rifle. I stll want a Red Ryder BB gun but my wife says NO!.
Bummer
Walt

RayP(MI) · Feb 20, 2013

I'd get my mom to piggyback a box of BBs on the order when she ordered from Montgomery Ward. They had a 3 or 4 pound box that kept me in BBs pretty much all the time. Probably went through 2 to 3 boxes a year.

Dr. Walt · Feb 20, 2013

At age 7 I had a pocket knife but Mom & Dad would never allow me to have a BB/Pellet rifle. Got my first .22 rifle at age 12, a Mossburg with the tube feed from the butt-plate, which I still have. A couple years ago a neighbor had a yard sale & I bought a nearly new single-shot, pump-up pellet rifle for $10. - so FINALLY after 65 years I've got the BB/Pellet rifle I always wanted; and I'm having as much fun with it as any kid would (second childhood ???) .

Doc

EJ70 · Feb 20, 2013

Got my daughter her first one when she was 10. It has a pink stock.
Was going to give her a shooting lesson the first time out. I put a quarter up on the fence post 30 feet away. She says dad I can hit that no problem. I says oyeah show me. She nailed it on the first shot. The lesson was over. She is a crack shot. Her mother is to.

Fergienewbee · Feb 20, 2013

My parents got me one for Christmas or birthday, don't remember. I carried it before I was old enough to carry a real gun. Had a pump too. We put oil down the barrel in the belief it made the BB faster. Dad thought the .22 range too far so I never had one until I bought my own in my 20s.

Larry

HillsofTn · Feb 20, 2013

Actually, the "oil down the barrel" trick did indeed speed the bb up - at least in the old, worn-out bb guns that we had (secondhand) as a kid. (Of course, it had to be the genuine "3 in 1 oil".)

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