Your first toy gun as a kid...

VaTom · #51 09-26-2020, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by timjake

I can't remember if this was the first one, but it's the one I always remember:

The old Johnny Seven - Seven Guns in One! My brother and I both got one for Christmas one year. We ruled the neighborhood war games with these. My first were probably those in this picture from about 1957.

jmr986 · #52 09-26-2020, 08:07 PM

Don’t remember if it was a SA cap gun or my air rifle. Loved shooting that cap gun. We used to shove the muzzle of the rifle in the lawn and put a perfect sod plug in the barrel. Cock that lever and shoot “sod bullets” at each other. Nobody lost an eye, and our parents didn’t have to sign waivers.

J. R. WEEMS · #53 09-26-2020, 08:14 PM

If I recall, it was a '03 training rifle my Mom got somewhere. Bolt and trigger worked and it was bigger than I was for awhile.

First handgun was a copy of the the gun Alan Ladd used in 'SHANE' carried it everywhere, caps at the ready. One day I decided to take it apart to see how it worked.

I am still doing that

Camster · #54 09-27-2020, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by J. R. WEEMS

If I recall, it was a '03 training rifle my Mom got somewhere. Bolt and trigger worked and it was bigger than I was for awhile.

First handgun was a copy of the the gun Alan Ladd used in 'SHANE' carried it everywhere, caps at the ready. One day I decided to take it apart to see how it worked.

I am still doing that

If it was a toy '03, I may have had that same one. Wood stock and a bolt that could be operated. The interesting thing about it, was that while definitely a kid's toy gun, it did have a real M1 carbine sight,(fitted into a stamped steel part which attached to the gun with one wood screw) as well as a real GI surplus sling.

mtgianni · #55 09-27-2020, 12:26 PM

We were not allowed toy guns as children as my parents believed that pointing toy guns at others would lead us to pointing real guns at others. I started shooting a 22 bolt at age 5 under controlled conditions and was allowed cap pistols at age 8 as noisemakers.
My Father, who served as a Marine in WWII was dead set against handguns. He believed their only use was in killing people.
He was tolerant of my fascination with them and somewhat respectful of what I would do accuracy wise with one. He never wanted to shoot one.

dave1918a2 · #56 09-27-2020, 12:51 PM

Mine was a two barrel pirate type cap pistol. I shot a lot of things with it.

Deceasedeye · #57 09-27-2020, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

Are they pre- lock?

DWalt · #58 09-28-2020, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by dave1918a2

Mine was a two barrel pirate type cap pistol. I shot a lot of things with it.

Did you see my #35 posting? Could be the same cap gun.

bigwheelzip · #59 09-28-2020, 06:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

Oh, you had trees where you grew up, suhweet!
No fancy armory like that for us, just thumb and forefinger.

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Texas Star · #60 09-28-2020, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by DWalt

It wasn't my first cap gun (I had many of them when I was a kid), but the one that stands out in my mind was different from most, and I have never seen another. It was a "Pirate" pistol that resembled an 18th Century flintlock pistol, except it had a double O/U barrel. The stock was brown plastic. You put a single cap in where the hammer could hit it. At that time you could get caps in perforated sheets, and could tear them off one at a time, like the way postage stamps used to be sold. My favorite way to use it would be to put a 1-1/2" firecracker in the muzzle and light the fuse. Just like shooting a real gun. That was back when firecrackers were more powerful. The barrel never blew up after hundreds of firecrackers had been used in it. Great fun.

Back in my old southern Ohio home town there once had been, back around the early part of the 20th Century, a factory that made toy cap guns and caps. There was an explosion in the cap manufacturing area which destroyed much of the building and killed several women workers, actually young girls.

Sounds like an O/U flintlock I had. I saw a similar pistol in a movie set duuring the French and Indian War.

DWalt · #61 09-28-2020, 02:04 PM

I looked on eBay and found a pair like the one I had. They are described as being from the 60s, but mine was definitely from the mid-50s. VINTAGE 1960S HUBLEY FLINTLOCK DIECAST CAP GUNS PIRATE PISTOLS 9.5" (2) | eBay

max · #62 09-28-2020, 02:30 PM

I had one of those double barrel pirate pistols also.

ericrlarson · #63 09-28-2020, 03:07 PM

I remember having one that was S&W 41 clone with a suppressor. I remember my dad’s friend coming over and telling him “Eric is jumping on the trampoline with a pistol and silencer!” It looked pretty darn real. I guess this was 1980 or 81.

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Eric300 · #64 09-28-2020, 03:10 PM

The very first toy gun that I can remember is this Mattel 'Winchester' lever-action that shot the old red rolls of bang caps. Had to be around 1962 when I was 4 years old.

After that, there were so many others; Defender Dan, Mighty Moe, Johnny Seven, Screaming Meemiee, Ricochet Rifle, Dart Guns, Cork Guns, Squirt Guns, Roy Rogers 2 Gun Kit....Now that I thing about it, I can't remember a time when I didn't have some kind of gun!

Salty RI · #65 09-28-2020, 03:22 PM

I had so many, I can't remember the first one.

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Healeydays · #66 09-28-2020, 03:35 PM

I still have mine. It was a Buck Rogers, XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol.

Chubbo · #67 09-28-2020, 04:41 PM

Hi, All,
My first, was a very basic, chrome plated, single shot cap gun, with accompanying real leather holster. It shot caps that you tore off a roll of caps. It was my constant companion. I remember one fateful episode, where I lost it, and it's leather holster into my Mom's washtub of wash water, and I had to wait several days for the holster to dry out, so that I could wear it. I can still picture that little chrome cap gun in my mind, and would recognize one like it, if if I saw one like it again, but haven't seen one pictured. I'd also recognise the leather holster that I carried it in, That little leather holster had a rearing horse tooled into it. It's amazing how vivid one remembers some things, Ninety+ years ago, and can't remember others that happened a week ago.
Chubbo

31FordA · #68 09-28-2020, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Healeydays

I still have mine. It was a Buck Rogers, XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol.

I’ve got one of those. It was my uncles originally.

Texas Star · #69 09-28-2020, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by DWalt

I looked on eBay and found a pair like the one I had. They are described as being from the 60s, but mine was definitely from the mid-50s. VINTAGE 1960S HUBLEY FLINTLOCK DIECAST CAP GUNS PIRATE PISTOLS 9.5" (2) | eBay

That's the one in my posts, and I had another flintlock shown above. I played pirate, Daniel Boone, and Davy Crockett, and Revolutionary War with those.

Texas Star · #70 09-28-2020, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Healeydays

I still have mine. It was a Buck Rogers, XZ-38 Disintegrator Pistol.

Some cereal boxes held a red plastic cosmic ray gun that fired puffs of flour. It somewhat resembled that Buck Rogers gun, which was very unlike the 1970's TV series guns.

raljr1 · #71 09-29-2020, 12:08 AM

Seriously???? Two Engraved Colts and a double holster rig....wait till I find the picture....

BAM-BAM · #72 09-30-2020, 09:07 AM

Not my first but...... in 1961 at the ripe old age of 7.... for christmas I got a........

Remco Johnny Reb (?) 3ft long civil war cannon that shot 2-2 1/2" plastic shot. ($11.98)

Spring loaded ..... rammer used to compress the spring.

We had a neighbor that had a large pile (15ft high) of topsoil at the back of their wooded lot ..... that we dug "forts" into........ need artillery!

See TV ad on You Tube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My favorite was no toy but a 60+ year old Steven Favorite .22 that helped me explore the Hills of the Eastern Continental Divide at the age of 10-11.

VaTom · #73 09-30-2020, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by BAM-BAM

Not my first but...... in 1961 at the ripe old age of 7.... for christmas I got a........

Remco Johnny Reb (?) 3ft long civil war cannon that shot 2-2 1/2" plastic shot. ($11.98)

Spring loaded ..... rammer used to compress the spring.

We had a neighbor that had a large pile (15ft high) of topsoil at the back of their wooded lot ..... that we dug "forts" into........ need artillery!

See TV ad on You Tube!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My favorite was no toy but a 60+ year old Steven Favorite .22 that helped me explore the Hills of the Eastern Continental Divide at the age of 10-11.

I had the Johnny Reb cannon also!!! It would shoot those hard plastic cannon balls quite a ways! Also had a musket that would shoot round cork minee balls when you put a stick on cap on it.

There were so many baby boomer kids in the neighborhood back in the early sixties we would divide up and take sides and play all sorts of war (when not playing football or baseball). Whenever anybody came back from the beach in SC they would bring black cat fire crackers and bottle rockets. You couldnt get fireworks in Va. at the time. A black cat firecracker stuck in apples off the neighbor's apple tree made a hell of a grenade. Good old days when kids played outside. Every once in a while someone would get a minor scrape or cut but nothing serious. Got shot in the stomach by a BB gun one time by the kid across the street! Broke the skin and left a welt. Mom freaked out took me to my great uncle who was a doctor and served in WWII in field hospital. He must have thought she was overreacting! We didn't wear shirts in the summer - no sun screen!

glowe · #74 09-30-2020, 09:54 AM

I have no idea what kind of cap guns I got that Xmas, but they went nicely with the outfit!! . . . not to mention the curtains!!

BAM-BAM · #75 09-30-2020, 11:40 AM

Another good one was a Mattel "Shootin-Shell" Detective Special..... shot reloadable plastic bullets........ w/ shoulder holster

Buddy had a Shootin-shell "Colt" .45 with fake stag grips ......

DWalt · #76 09-30-2020, 12:28 PM

I remember in my earlier childhood I had some sort of hand-cranked toy "machine gun" on a tripod that fired some kind of bullets in a belt. I probably wasn't much older than maybe 7. Also around that time I had a friend who had a real MG, a M1919. Great for war games, I think it may even have been operational. Not sure where it came from or what happened to it.

joe44va · #77 09-30-2020, 07:07 PM

Hop along Cassidy outfit. Silver guns, black everything else. Gone about 1953.

since 61 · #78 10-01-2020, 09:02 PM

Hopalong Cassidy guns and outfit too. Loved Hopalong. BTW "Restless Gun" was one of those 30 minute weekly westerns on TV.

peterdeb · #79 10-01-2020, 10:27 PM

They are long gone, thanks to Mom spring cleaning. Boy if she only knew what they are worth today.
1st gun....Mattel Fanner 50
2nd gun...A working cap Luger
3rd gun....A full size replica of a Thompson MG. Pull the bolt and it would rip off about twenty firing sounds.
sigh.........

BLACKHAWKNJ · #80 10-01-2020, 10:44 PM

The earliest one I can remember was a plastic copy of an S&W M&P snub by, I think it was tie in merchandise for the original Dragnet series.