Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

I wish I had not got rid of all my cap guns,would have been a rich man now.

 

I remember shooting them , and the one that had the longest string of shot caps hanging out of the gun was the coolest one.

 

She's hooked.

 

That's my fanner 50.
Ya know , I was even conservative with caps then .
On our block we played cow boys and Indians and cops and robbers all the time I even had a pop gun too ..
Wood burning sets ,fire crackers, carbide cannons and a whole bunch of other toys ,

 

How about the speed loader caps in the plastic ring?

 

How many times did you wear them to grade school? Steve McQueen was WAY COOL popular. Once bro and I got plastic "mare's leg" cap guns. Reason I don't got any cap guns now is we wore 'em out. The we went too corn cob pistols. Bang, Bang, Bang. Ya' know I don't remember anybody being bad guys though.

 

I liked putt-putt boats. Fire, steam, hot metal.

 

Yep, I had one too. Lots of fun on Saturday, watching the TV Cowboys, helping them shoot the "bad guys and injuns".

 

Yeah, and our toy revolvers had real leather holsters too!

 

Yep, but the cap pistols available now have cheap plastic holsters. Typical Chinese crap. Another memory of our past now tarnished with modern mediocrity.

 

So... you all had plastic pop guns growing up?....

Thats cute....
I had a horse and (real) bow/arrows....

 

Cap guns are part of childhood IMO. My boys loved them. One can still get the gun and roll caps at Bootbarn or Western stores.

 

I used to make bow and arrows out of sticks and limbs. Used the old kite sticks a few times. You couldn't get a lot af range with them but you could make a pretty sharp arrow out of those lightweight sticks. Some where between 8-10 years old , I was entrusted with one of those daisy one cock BB guns. That was the ultimate weapon to learn elevation and windage with. Made some pretty amazing shots with that thing. I shot at and killed a little sparrow at an unbelievable distance one time . That taught me a lesson about respect for life and firearms. That was my first kill , and a wasted life. Years later I bought an ex girlfriends son a BB gun. Saw him shoot at a bird one time. Told him if he killed anything , I was going to make him clean it and eat it. As far as I know , he never shot at anything else that was alive. The kid wouldn't eat anything meat , so I know he didn't want to start out with a little bird.

 

Posted on FB by a relative - nice to know that a few others think along the same lines

 

I had bows and arrows, BB, pellet, and cap guns. No horse cuz we we in the suburbs, but I started reloading ammo at 12.

 

I had a few of those in different types , Cap guns , taught me well till BB / pellet tend the 22

Mine were metal , plastic and ball points were not out yet !
Im the side rule age and fountain pens

 

Mine were all die cast, but looked pretty realistic. I got pretty good with a Daisy 118, and later a Crosman 760, but the Daisy Cub was my favorite. Fast enough to make practice fun and not so powerful that you had to worry about skipping one off the barn and breaking a window. I mastered hip and point shooting on moving targets with the cub.
Being able to see the BB in flight made the learning really fun.

I was over 50 before I got a new Red Ryder and a mid 1930's Daisy Model 25 pump.