Age 60 and I finally got one!!!!!

[CAJUNLAWYER]

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.

 

[CajunBass]

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.

 

[jack the toad]

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...

 

[raisedin99]

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

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

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

 

[Salty RI]

Be careful you don't shoot your eye out.

 

[RobertJ.]

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.

 

[Gamecock]

Is your childhood now repaired?

 

[lowriderfxr]

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

 

[RobertJ.]

Be careful you don't shoot your eye out.

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

 

[labworm]

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

 

[mauser9]

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!

 

[Biginge]

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.

 

[mg357]

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

 

[hangnoose]

YOU'RE A LUCKY DUCK.

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.

 

[Comrad]

 

[H Richard]

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.

 

[Gamecock]

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.

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!

 

[snubbyfan]

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[bgrafsr]

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.

 

[galena]

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.

 

[S&WIowegan]

That's just DUCKY!!

 

[joe44va]

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

 

[Nevada Ed]

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.

 

[Wyo]

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!

 

[ISCS Yoda]

Watch out!

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

Yessir, good job, great fun!

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[ggibson511960]

Treasure It!!

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.

 

[Mule Packer]

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....

 

[jimmyj]

YOU WILL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT !!