Faulkner
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While digging around in the attic looking for Christmas decorations, my dad found a box that had my old Daisy Model 179 Peacemaker BB pistol. I saved up and bought this one with money earned working on a neighbor's place doing chores after school, hauling and splitting firewood, and doing yard work. I was around 10 or 11 years old at the time. This has to be over 40 years old and I shot the dickens out of back in the day.
Daisy brought out their model 179 BB pistol that was copied after the Colt Single Action Army revolver. A few years later they brought out their first 1894 lever action lookalike that was highly successful. Today the lookalike airgun market is huge. It’s expanding all the time, with more and more realistic models coming out every day but a half-century after the Model 179 was introduced not many people remember the first Spittin’ Image BB gun.
The model 179 exists in four variations, with two of them being primary. The first variation was produced from 1960 until 1981 and is characterized by having no safety. The gun was dropped in ’81 but demand forced it back into production in 1992. This time it had a crossbolt safety that differentiates the second variation from the first. The second production run ended in 1996 and the number of guns made was much lower than what was made in the first run. In 2004 Daisy found a supply of parts in their warehouse that had been returned from a foreign customer. From these parts Daisy assembled the final 700 model 179s they ever made. They put them in special vintage-looking boxes with certificates of authenticity signed by former Daisy employee and museum curator, Orin Ribar.
My well worn model 179 is from the orginal first variation having been made in the early '70's. Still works too.
Daisy brought out their model 179 BB pistol that was copied after the Colt Single Action Army revolver. A few years later they brought out their first 1894 lever action lookalike that was highly successful. Today the lookalike airgun market is huge. It’s expanding all the time, with more and more realistic models coming out every day but a half-century after the Model 179 was introduced not many people remember the first Spittin’ Image BB gun.
The model 179 exists in four variations, with two of them being primary. The first variation was produced from 1960 until 1981 and is characterized by having no safety. The gun was dropped in ’81 but demand forced it back into production in 1992. This time it had a crossbolt safety that differentiates the second variation from the first. The second production run ended in 1996 and the number of guns made was much lower than what was made in the first run. In 2004 Daisy found a supply of parts in their warehouse that had been returned from a foreign customer. From these parts Daisy assembled the final 700 model 179s they ever made. They put them in special vintage-looking boxes with certificates of authenticity signed by former Daisy employee and museum curator, Orin Ribar.
My well worn model 179 is from the orginal first variation having been made in the early '70's. Still works too.
