At the Ducks Unlimited banquet last night and bought a pick of the litter ticket.....AND WON
I could not pick the Browning gun of the year or the Kimber handgun of the year but everything else of the table was fair game. I walked past the pictures, the decoys and all the other DU "stuff" that I had bought in numerous shapes and forms over the years and there she was..begging to be taken home and it was love at first sight.
I picked the Daisy Red Rider BB gun!!!!!! I have made the promised land-after 60 years I finally HAVE one.
And YES I WILL shoot it!!
Life is good.

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What more could a man ask for?

I used to keep one in the rod locker of my bass boat. It was a hoot for plinking at "stuff" floating in the river.

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John 3:16 .

Congrats on your good fortune.
I'll be 61 in Jan and have never had a Red Ryder. I have owned the typical BB guns as a kid and have bought RR's for the g-kids but personally yet to own one. Maybe someday...

Shoot my Red Ryder nearly every day, my target, at 38 yards is a twelve inch piece of black plastic. I receive an audible "Hit". I then set the old Red Ryder back in its place of honor and ready for the next day. My wife bought this for me over 20 years ago. I always shoot till I hit.

terry

Congrats...........I always wanted one of the Daisy "Spitten Image" BB guns patterned after the Win. 94..

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Be careful you don't shoot your eye out.

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Don

Be careful there, you'll shoot your

Never mind, you've probably heard it before.

Congratulations on your new toy. Last week, my mom gave me her Red Ryder, that she was given when she was ten years old. I grew up shooting it, now it's going on my wall. She's had it in storage for years, so a little cleaning is in order before I do.

Is your childhood now repaired?

Put me down for another smart a that lost on the draw to SandyRI.

I spent too much time typing, or I'd have been the first to make that reference!

I guess now there will be a BB shortage in LA.

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Doesn't hasta call me Johnson

Good for you. Never had a Red Ryder myself but my Daisy 25 pump gun is still with me since 1962. Yeah it still works. Just wish we would have had these 1200 F.P.S. jobs back in those days!

Congratuations. At 73 I would like to share a tip Caj. Up around Ruston, La. ca.1949/50 a young tyke shot his RR with lever in down (half cock). Only did that one time. Talk about a life long lesson. Still have raised knots on middle and ring finger.

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Bill
Dis B. Leaf

Congratulations please enjoy the heck of it. I have owned several red Ryder bb guns through the years and I love them.

It's funny what some people treasure. My Dad was a poor depression era kid that had to share his sisters (girl) bike with her and 3 other brothers, and never had one of his own. After retiring we bought him a Pee Wee Herman style classic Schwinn, He wept. & so did we.

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Back to back World War Champs.

I bought one for my son way back when he was about 10, and kept it well maintained after he left home and got married, then at Christmas when his son was 10 (I still had the original box) I included it with all the Christmas presents being sent out. It made a big hit.

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H Richard
SWCA1967 SWHF244

Amen. I wonder what ever happened to my Daisy 25? Mom probably sold it at a yard sale when I was off to college. Billions of BBs went down that barrel.

I had a Daisy BB pistol, and I found that the pump barrel would screw into the pistol, so I had myself a long barreled pistol. Worked great!

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Keep on Chooglin'

I got a Red Ryder for my Confirmation from my sponsor. Can't remember what happened to it, but I sure had lots of fun with it.

I got a Red Ryder for Christmas in 1949 when I was five years old. Cocking it was a major two handed and two footed operation. I pretty much wore it out over the years and have no idea what ever happened to it. Reading all the above makes me think I need another.

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Keep Shootin' and check 6

That's just DUCKY!!

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Bob.
SWCA 1821

I think I'm going to get mine out of the basement.

Way to go.....................
Ammo is every where............. and real cheap!!

Mine gets a workout trying to keep the Pigeons of the bird seed for the other birds.

Enjoy.

I went to a DU banquet several years ago where a guy won one of those, then donated it back on the spot for resale at auction. The guy that bought it at the auction did the same thing. That Red Ryder went through about 10 iterations of this, and by the time it was all done and someone decided to keep it, they'd earned about $5,000 on it. Pretty good return on investment!

Just remember....you'll take yer eye out!

Yessir, good job, great fun!

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I am a 65 yr. old firearms nut. The oldest "gun" in my collection is a well worn Model 25 I got for Christmas in 1955 that passed through a number of family hands till it boomeranged back to me. 60 years old and it still shoots! What a treasure! I noticed at the Davis Museum in Claremore, Ok. that Daisy is applying custom monograms to Red Ryder and new Model 25 buttstocks. Yes, they're made in China, but still introducing new generations of kids to the joys of safe gun handling and plinking.

There's nothing like relaxing on the front porch swing on a hot summer's day, sipping a tall glass of ice cold lemonade and with Daisy Red Ryder at port arms, waiting for the fat little annoying neighborhood kid to ride his bike across the lawn....

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Pack light and cinch tight.

YOU WILL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT !!

Cool! Now you should get a Radio Flier wagon to go with it.

I was 40 before I purchased one, nominally for my own children. My mother would not let me have one when I was a kid, said it was dangerous. The first gun I purchased when old enough was an AK47. The neighbors complained when I shot that in the backyard. Shrug.

I had pellet rifles, and pistols when I was a kid, but didn't know the joy of a Red Ryder till I bought one for my son, all my kids ended up with one. They are a lot of fun. Literally load it in the morning and shoot all day.


I have a saw horse set up in the back yard with spinners and room for cans on top, and clips for a hanging target bellow. It makes for some real fun.

One of these days I'd like to set up a dueling tree.
My dad was a poor kid, and my kids got a laugh out of the story of his Red Ryder when he was little. Seems the loading gate was busted, and if he forgot and held the muzzle down all the bb's fell out, and he had to pick them up and reload.

My first BB gun (late 1960's) was the Daisy model that resembled a SxS double barreled shotgun. The barrels were not regulated to hit the same POA, but through endless shooting, I had it down pat.
I understand that that model is a sought-after collectible now.

Next air gun was a 5mm Sheridan Silver Streak. No squirrel was safe after that. Still have it.

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SWCA #2275

I got one of these for Christmas in 1965 or 66. My dad, grand pop and I shot burned out Christmas lights stuck out in the yard. The gun broke and sat in my parent's basement for decades. A few years ago, I found a craftsman who repaired and restored it. it looks like new and is as much fun to shoot as it was 50 years ago. I also still have the box, though it has some water damage.
I expect one of my grand children will learn to shoot on it in a few years.

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Mike SWCA 2865 NRA Benefactor

Last Christmas we got Red Riders for all the boys/men in the family and spent the afternoon not shooting our eyes out. My wife uses mine to keep the squirrels off her bird feeder.

I got one for each of my three grandchildren for this Christmas. They are 3, 1 and 3 months. Can't wait to see the shoot them someday.

Congrats on getting your Red Ryder. I inherited my Dad's when he passed away. Lots of good memories. tom.

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I have a friend who is in his 80s and has the Red Ryder rifle that he received in the 1930s. Some time ago, he woke it from it's sleep and h
sent if off to have it refurbished. The restoration people restored the internal workings and removed any rust on the metal but pretty much left the exterior as it was. He still shoots it and plans to pass it on as a family heirloom.

Yep these guns were often our first and bring back great memories. Held onto my Model 25 and recall popping off a starling or two. Also had a Sheidan 5 M/M with the pointed pellet. Powerful but those 8 pumps for max. velocity were not much fun!

Dad gave me one for Christmas when I was maybe 8 and I shot it until it died. Farm sparrows were my prey. My Red Ryder had a plastic stock. I had to hook the stock behind my right knee to get leverage to cock and eventually that stock just tore right off the gun. Oh well.

I graduated to my Dad's Winchester 62(1939 made). I was getting paid for farm work by then so I could buy ammo. Pigeons became the preferred target.

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Bob.
SWCA 1821

I just purchased 6,000 bb's can I come and play too?

I have a co2 semi auto bb mag fed pistol. And a bb red Ryder too.

I felt like Clint Eastwood one day with the red Ryder there was mice at my camp. The man with no name with his red Ryder saved the day.lol

I am 68 years old. I feel like a big kid also. I always wanted a Red Ryder bb gun when I was little. I mentioned it to an old friend the other day. Looks like I will get one for Christmas.

I feel just like Ralphie.....Glad I never grew up.....

Look out Black Bart!!!

Mine was the Daisy Trombone. Don't remember the model number. It was a pump that slid straight back, unlike the other pump model that was hinged. When I went off to the Air Force, my mother gave it to a relative and I haven't seen it since. A few years ago, I went looking for a replacement. I learned they are scarce and, if you can find one, very pricy. I'm still looking for one off and on.

I used to paste my targets onto a closed cardboard box. When I was done shooting, I'd open the box and collect the BB's. I rarely had to buy ammo.

Cass Hough, who was the CEO or Chairman of Daisy Manufacturing was one of the true unsung heroes of WWII, but not for BB guns. As an Army Air Corps Colonel, he almost singlehandedly developed the product and sold the idea of using drop belly fuel tanks for the P-51, allowing round trip fighter escorts for allied bombers to go far into Germany and back. And virtually no one but him thought it would work - until it did.

When I was a kid we didn't have paintball guns, so we had BB gun wars. I still remember the pain from being shot in the "privates"!!! Of course that was everyone's favorite target.

Good to hear so many stories of our often first gun. Amazing how they still work after 50-60 years. Never will forget buying the Daisy Bullseye BBs int the cardboard tube for 10 cents or the mega tube for .25 cents. Can't recall a better Christmas present in my youth.