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Anybody Have These Guns Growing Up?
Frogdog
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These were my Dad’s, and I played with them all the time. The cartridges (one shown on the sheet of paper in the photo) were fun. Actual lead bullet and brass case. You could put paper caps down in the cartridges, snap the bullet in, and load up your cartridge belt. As you played, you could reload the revolver like a real single action, cock and fire. Hammer would hit the case, which would smash the cap against the back of the bullet and make it go BANG. I loved toting them around…. So much better than the plastic ones my friends had.
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I had one of those,and a Mattel Fanner 50.
I don't remember those, but very cool.
I had the cheaper ones that the roll of paper caps was hanging out of them if I remember correctly…
Cap guns of the 50s are worth a little something to day, wish I still had mine.
When we were kids we use to take a roll of caps and hit it with a hammer on cement driveways or cement walks. Not the best for your hearing I will agree, but made a nice bang. Lol
A stick of firewood was my toy gun.
Most all young boys in my area growing up had a cheap cap gun, and it was a prized possession. we would "find pop bottles " and beg parents for change to buy caps and split them up to play . if not just yelling bang bang was as good as it got
I won a Mattel shooting shell rifle in a county fair when i was about 8 or 9 yr sold in potato sack race if you old timers remember them .
It was only way I would ever had one, but my dad and uncle lost all the plastic bullets in short order
But It loaded, cycled , and fired just like a real lever action. A small round cap as stated, fit the back of the cartrage and simulated the noise of shooting
Some years back I looked on flebay to find one just as a fond memory and we'll I had to pass even the small "bullets and shells " were crazy prices the guns even more so so I just have to rely on memory of the fun it gave me
Will have to add yes we wasted a lot of " ammo " not a wise thing when limited funds and hard earned cash to buy them by hitting a roll at a time with a rock on concrete just fot that split second lound bang
And if some how we managed to get a firecracker or two that were rare as hens teeth we were set
One of the rights of passage, hitting the roll of caps! Loved it! but may be reason I can't hear good these days….
Had many cap guns, pistols and long kentucky rifles.
Yep, roll of caps and a hammer.
Then came the plastic caps that fit in the cylinder of the new style cap guns.
So much fun
Nothing like the smell of a burnt cap. Shifff. aaaahhh.
Never had one but I want one now.
Still have my Nichols .45. Stick-on caps to the back of the cartridges. Worth about $150 these days. I paid $5.00 plus a few mills tax. But that was more than 60 years ago.
Had a pair that used a brass case with a spring inside that shot a grey plastic bullet you clipped in. Had a Winchester 92 that shot the same rounds. The lever had a little tab you flipped up that hit the trigger every time the lever came up. I thought I was as fast as the Rifleman. My Mom couldn't figure out why I always volunteered to clean the vacuum out. It was to get all my lost bullets back for reloading.
I learned real fast to swap the hammer for a baseball bat when detonating a full roll of caps on a concrete surface!!
Being a middle child from a big family, I got a few hand me down cap guns from brothers who went on to bigger and better weaponry!
That real sounding Thompson machine gun got me into portraying Sgt. Saunders just about every time we were playing Combat out in the back woods. Before that, all I had for weapons were derived from Willow branches. I was finally in high cotton!