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

[S&WIowegan]

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.

 

[BigBill]

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

 

[TLG]

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.....

 

[MP1983]

Look out Black Bart!!!

 

[Babalooie]

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.

 

[DWalt]

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.

 

[sunnyd]

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.

 

[mauser9]

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.