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Ever note that toys are being soundly rejected?
I can see why some toys are collectable. I was not allowed to have toy guns.
Glock – My uncle worked for Nocona Boots and one Christmas he made me a vest, chaps, belt (with name engraved) and two holsters. My parents provided the cap pistols and hat, making me the best dressed cowboy in the neighborhood. I still have the belt and one holster, but have no idea what became of the rest of it.
BTW – I also got my first shotgun for Christmas a few weeks after my 7th birthday. You missed a lot of fun by not being allowed to have any guns when you were a kid. I developed an addiction that has continued for more than 60 years.
Nice and amen on the gun addiction.
I am quite jealous and THAT is what I think pushes prices on collectables. At least some collectables.
Jealousy and money.
Firearms are an excellent long term investment too.
Thinking I was about 5 the 1st time my dad took me shooting cans. That was around 1960. There was a small quarry down by the old paint mill. It’s now a nature conservancy. I’m sitting here looking at the rifle as I type; a made for Sears JC Higgins/Marlin 80. My kids learned to shoot with it too. I got some brake-kleen on the stock finish & it looks like shit now. Will refinish it over the winter. My daughter came to visit in August & my grand daughter started shooting with it. The rifles that didn’t get lost in the boating accident will all go to my daughter then likely to the grand daughters. The circle of shooters is still unbroken.
But yeah I had a couple of those cap guns too & did all the dumb stuff kids do with the caps. Does anyone remember blowing up empty spray paint cans? Match bombs? Buying saltpeter at the drug store & melting it 50/50 with sugar (dont do this over an open flame) to make really good smoke bombs? We’d all be classified as terrorists today.
Just go down to any hardware store and find the Testors chemical rack. From there you get little glass bottles of charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter aka Potassium Nitrate. Made great firecrackers.
I had all the toy guns I wanted growing up, and I remember the smell of the caps…and later on the smell of the fire crackers we threw at one another, and later on the smell of the cordiate after a firefight.
But, no guns in my boygood home. My Father had a close boyhood friend killed in a hunting accident, and when I brought a 4/10 home to buy from my buddy (in a hunting family) at 12, as he was moving up to a 20 gauge, my Dad went ballistic. NO!
Then he told me why. The accident was his boyhood’s friend’s fault, and I was clumsy, and accident prone.
I told him I had been shooting it…loved it…and he got even madder I had without telling him.. Years later I realize he was just flashing back to a one in a million tragedy.
He was a WW2, 17/18 year old Navy Aircraft carrier 20mm gunner in late 44/45…but missed the pacific combat crescendo by the hairs of his chinny chin chin.…but he never, ever, had a gun in the house when he or I were growing up.
In his old age…he asked me to get him a hand gun. He said “My body is shot”, and it was…but he wanted to be able to defend my Mom and himself…worst case.
Got him a small revolver…and we went over and over it…but he only loaded and unloaded it, dry fired it. He did not want to live fire, no matter what I said, and he never had to.
Your father honored the memory of his friend. I am glad he never had to live fire it.
Me too.
I’m a different story.
God what a story! The sheer flashbacks are chilling.
Setting of whole rolls at once with a hammer ?
Lighting them with a match and watching the chain reaction of ffft,ffft,ffft…
lol Cow Doc! Once got an entire box of caps, balanced a a brick on it and walloped it with a sledge hammer. Ears rung for hours lol
Ha!! Someone out there nearly as dumb as me. One day I got the BIG roll of 500 caps and sat outside my Granddads house in Decatur IL. Placed the roll vertically on their concrete driveway and hit it with my Grandads sledge. Cops showed up and I nearly went deaf. Brilliant.
Setting them off with your thumb nail.
I used to do it with a brick – good times. I grew up in NYC so no guns, but my mom let me carry a pocket knife since I was 7 or 8. At one friends house, his mom found out and went ballistic! She took it away from me and called my mother who told her to give it back to me. She walked me to the door and gave it to me outside and told me to never bring it there again. Amazingly, that was 50 years ago, and just now I realized which way that family voted.
Does Avalon know you’ve been watching FFF?
I’m sure he only goes for the memes and food porn.
Yeah, I’m sure…..:^)
That’s why I add those to the mix. I don’t want to get Admin in trouble.
You’re a good egg, Noonan..
Had two just like it, and a holster to carry them in. Cap pistols of a smaller variety were a staple in the “toys” section of our local market. Lot of the cap “impact grenades” too. The late 60s were great.
These were the ones I loved the most. The trick was to cram as many caps between the metal head and the impact plate as you could. Do that enough times and eventually you could actually crack the metal. Fun times.
Oh hell yeah…definitely remember them.
Wow – these picture reminded me that I had all of them, and I haven’t thought about them even once since the 60’s.
Thanks!
I had one of these. Never had enough caps, though.
My dad gave me a Colt Single Action .45 cap gun and a Daisy Trail Boss air rifle for Christmas. He said I wasn’t ready for a BB rifle. Caught my thumb in the cap gun hammer by accident messing around. Boy, that hurt like hell. That was 1970 and seems like yesterday.
Also had the Johnny West and Geronimo action figures along with the “Six Million Dollar Man” with bionic arm and the engine block. Stretch Armstrong, too.
Visible V-8!
Started with that then progressed to a ‘70 Chevelle SS with a 396.
Badass. I love the 69 Chevelle SS.
My brother had the same car in red and wrecked it.
Do they still make cap guns? Remember the actual 6 shot revolver cap guns? They were early 50’s.
Greenie Stick’em Caps! Yes!
I still have a couple of boxes of caps. I turned by son onto the excitement of a cap gun when he was about 8 or 9. Video games won out.
I once owned the complete Roy Rogers outfit, with chaps, a belt, and 2 six guns.
Oh hell yeah.
I had many different cap guns but my favorite was a Mattel that looked like an M3 Grease Gun. It was less than a Dollar which is wild to think of these days. The “stick magazine” had a flip up cover and you loaded the roll of caps in there. I had the time of my life turning the crank as it really sounded like a machine gun. I fired a number of rolls of caps fairly quickly and then all the pot metal parts failed. Stainless steel probably would have held up but they would have had to raise the price by 10 cents or something like that. LOL!
I was happy to get some cap guns and plenty of caps for my kids. That making them go off with a thumbnail, memorable.
I had the Johnny eagle cap guns. Very realistic looking. Fired caps and a spring loaded plastic bullet. The one rifle looked like an M14 , magazine and all.
I had many different cap guns, but my favorite was the WASP. It was black metal and looked very much like a real snub nosed 38. The cylinder opened like a real revolver and it held special caps that were in little red plastic cups that fit into recesses in the cylinder. It was SA/DA and the caps were LOUD!
Now THAT’s a memory you triggered in the long lost recesses of my brain, doc.
I remember the little plastic caps being yellow, though, but yeah, the WASP was a fun toy gun.
What’s really cool is when you stumble upon some relic from your childhood past, while
browsing through barn and garage sales.