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i still can...can you?

discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
edited October 2019 in General Discussion

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  • SW0320SW0320 Member Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes remember it well. Had a lot of fun playing with those toys.
  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,277 ******
    edited November -1
    ?Jimmy! Put that thing down! We?re trying to watch Rawhide!?
  • diver-rigdiver-rig Member Posts: 6,338 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wish I still had mine. And I love that smell.........
  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    just like forge said, only we wouldn't waste our own, if we were gonna smash a whole role, we usually took em from one of the kids we diddn't really like........
  • dpmuledpmule Member Posts: 6,746 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2019
    And the ultimate was putting a full roll on concrete and hitting it with a hammer,,,,,,,,how did we survive this long ?? :shock:

    Yes I can, And that was likely the beginning of the tinnitus I have now.
    Oh the joys of a misspent youth, wouldn't trade it for anything.

    I just showed this to my Bride and she started grinning and said "Yep, sure do"

    Mule
  • drl50drl50 Member Posts: 2,496
    edited November -1
    I loved the smell of caps in the morning!
    It smells like....Victory! :D
  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,041 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Had a double holster with two chrome six guns with a cowboy shirt. I was a bad * in the barnyard. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,373 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    we spent many hours spent with the neighbor kids playing good guy bad guy cowboys and Indians ( there was a about a dozen of us with in a few years of each other + many younger in a two block area) but caps were a luxury we would round up pop bottles or beg parents for a few cents to buy a box and split up what ever we could get ( we did the hammer rock ordeal but was super rare to waste like that ) mostly the guns were used with good old imagination and sound effects bang bang bang ..pow pow pow .. :D:D:lol::lol::lol:
    I do not recall any of us having a fancy holster set up what we would have given for a have gun will travel or any of the fancy cowboy copy outfits
    funny I still find myself looking sometimes at the old capgun rigs ;) no grand kids so I cant use that as a excuse :(
  • mmppresmmppres Member Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Those were the days when kids played out side until street lights came on . We were out at sun up all day long. New where to go to get grub, Which neighbours left there hose on for water. Never worried about catching anything. We had fun lots of fun. How the heck did we survive.
  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,234 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    diver-rig wrote:
    Wish I still had mine. And I love that smell.........

    OH YEAH!!!!!
  • danielgagedanielgage Member Posts: 10,583 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    thanks for the reminder good times for sure

    my boys missed out on
  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,234 ******
    edited November -1
    oh yes,I remember. And the last time I played with them was just a few years ago. Grandkids !! :D:D:D:D
  • bustedkneebustedknee Member Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Too many misfires.
    I saved my gardening and mowing money and went to Western Auto and bought an RG .22. I was 11 years old.
    It took me 3 years to wear it out.
    I can't believe they misspelled "Pork and Beans!"
  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Do any of you also remember the mallet-like toy that used a cap or two to launch a badminton-like "bird" into the air? The mallet had a metal-lined hole and the bird had a metal-covered tip. You put one or two caps in the bowl, stuck the bird in and whacked the mallet on the sidewalk. BANG and the bird went 20 feet or so high, colored tail feathers whirling.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Mark GMark G Member Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes I can. When my kids were little they had the red plastic ones that looked like little speed loaders. Are caps even available any more?
  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Justdidaqiuck check on amazon . Caps and guns are still available for sale .. in fact I have several rolls of caps in the ammo locker I found at a junk store a few years ago
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
  • wiplashwiplash Member Posts: 7,145 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    And the blackened fingernails and blisters from popping them when the cap gun broke!
    There is no such thing as Liberal Men, only Liberal Women with Penises.'
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I still do have mine. It is a Nichols, made in Hollywood, Texas. Caps stick on the back of faux cartridges. Also have a Nichols derringer.
  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2019
    Weren't those called Greenie StickEm Caps? Little paper circles you peeled off the backing.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And the ultimate was putting a full roll on concrete and hitting it with a hammer,,,,,,,,how did we survive this long ?? :shock:

    Funny, that was exactly what I was thinking. I used to do the same thing. :D


    I was always packing heat back in the old days. :D

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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ok, most kids carried their 6 shooters the normal way in the holster. sometime in the mid 50s a tv gunslinger carried his guns butt forward in the holster. did you change to that style?
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    discusdad wrote:
    ok, most kids carried their 6 shooters the normal way in the holster. sometime in the mid 50s a tv gunslinger carried his guns butt forward in the holster. did you change to that style?

    Nope not me. No butt's forward for me like James Butler ?Wild Bill? Hickok.
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    WOW Smitty, you were a kid before the world had color!!

    That was just before god was born, right? :lol::lol::lol:
  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rocky Raab wrote:
    Do any of you also remember the mallet-like toy that used a cap or two to launch a badminton-like "bird" into the air? The mallet had a metal-lined hole and the bird had a metal-covered tip. You put one or two caps in the bowl, stuck the bird in and whacked the mallet on the sidewalk. BANG and the bird went 20 feet or so high, colored tail feathers whirling.


    Yeah , they didn't last long around us kids....after a couple of good wallops on the sidewalk, we broke the handles.. :D
  • JimmyJackJimmyJack Member Posts: 5,515 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    we also had little bomb like gizmos that you oopened and put a cap in , closed it and threw it and it went off when it landed.
  • JimmyJackJimmyJack Member Posts: 5,515 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    we also had little bomb like gizmos that you oopened and put a cap in , closed it and threw it and it went off when it landed.
  • Smitty500magSmitty500mag Member Posts: 13,623 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He Dog wrote:
    WOW Smitty, you were a kid before the world had color!!

    That was just before god was born, right? :lol::lol::lol:

    Yep older than dirt, my birthstone is lava. My first Christmas WAS the first Christmas. :D
  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    :D :shock: :lol: :roll: :idea:
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    I had a "Texas Jr." faux six gun cap shooter with belt & holster. I had quite a few others growing up but the T\J was the one I kept. Gave it to my 6 year old grandson a couple of years ago. He just turned 8 on the 18th of this month and is about ready for the old Red Rider! :)

    I haven't shopped for any caps in several decades and have heard that the ones available today have a LOT LESS powder in them then the ones we had. Don't know if this is true but with everything shrinking these days except for the prices, it probably is. :cry:
  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,019 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    They had a rocket styled toy you put a cap into and thru it up on the air and when it landed the cap of course went off. I put a whole roll in once and THRU it down on a concrete sidewalk. Damn thing was like a grenade :o
  • Wild TurkeyWild Turkey Member Posts: 2,425 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Still have my "Fanner 50" (needs one grip) and the holster that's been tied back together several times.

    My brother and I defended the old homestead many, many times :lol:
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    I didn't use a hammer to set off an entire roll of caps. I used a wooden base ball bat! A vertical thrust upon the roll on a concrete slab. 8-) K Bloooey!
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He Dog wrote:
    WOW Smitty, you were a kid before the world had color!!

    That was just before god was born, right? :lol::lol::lol:

    Yep older than dirt, my birthstone is lava. My first Christmas WAS the first Christmas. :D


    You and me both brother! :lol:
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    Lava for a birth stone! Now that IS FUNNY! :lol: I'm gonna steal that expression!
  • lksmith03lksmith03 Member Posts: 1,742 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    And the ultimate was putting a full roll on concrete and hitting it with a hammer,,,,,,,,how did we survive this long ?? :shock:

    I'm probably younger than most of you but I can smell it.
    I used to take a butterknife put them between the dresser top and the knife and pull to make it sound like a machine gun. Mom and Dad were none too happy about me using the dresser for that! Mom wasn't too happy about me blackening her butterknives.
    Funny thing is that I still have and use that same dresser about 25yrs later. Followed me to college and not to our bedroom in the "new" house.

    Come to think of it, that was one of the few things that i got yelled at instead of being whipped for after getting into trouble
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    Changing times......we go from JARTS to Corn Hole for backyard entertainment. :o

    Now that didn't come out quite right! :lol:
  • mmppresmmppres Member Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yes I remember them mom took them away as she said we were aiming at our sisters :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:
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