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Daisy Defender air rifle
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Curious as to the pic of the shotgun shell box.
Is #4 shot what he used in the bb gun?
Is #4 shot what he used in the bb gun?
DWalt
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When I was a kid I had a Daisy BB gun very much like it, except I do not remember its having the molded-in "seals" on the plastic buttstock. But it did have a peep sight.
You will shoot your eye out.
robvious
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the Daisy can be quite valuable depending on which version they are and if they have everything... I knew nothing about them until the mother of my best man gave me her's... her one and only gun and none of her children had any interest and she wanted me to keep it... ended up an early model with xxxx'd out info on blued barrel... only made a few months from old model... it sits proudly in my living room propped in the corner next to my grandfather's cane and ashtray...
DWalt
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I have an old "Red Ryder" type Daisy (which is not a Red Ryder) I keep so my 8-YO grandson can shoot tin cans in the back yard when he visits. That's what he always wants to do.
HOUSTON RICK
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I had a mid 1960s Daisy.....
...that was a copy of the 1895 Winchester. Man I loved that gun and shot the dog mess out of it buying those 1000 rd. 'tubes' at the rate of about 2 each month. I got to be a real 'deadeye' it to the point that I hit a finch at 20 yards that I thought I could never hit. Poor little guy was stunned. I just had to leave him and hope for the best. That's the very last time I aimed at something alive because it was unlikely I could hit it.
...that was a copy of the 1895 Winchester. Man I loved that gun and shot the dog mess out of it buying those 1000 rd. 'tubes' at the rate of about 2 each month. I got to be a real 'deadeye' it to the point that I hit a finch at 20 yards that I thought I could never hit. Poor little guy was stunned. I just had to leave him and hope for the best. That's the very last time I aimed at something alive because it was unlikely I could hit it.
I decided to use PawPaw's old gun cabinet( no safes then) when I found the bb gun (model 141).
The interweb said the butt plate had a trap door to store extra ammo inside the stock. Also said the trap door was a poor design that was easily lost and rare to be with the gun. Guess what the black tape on the stock was doing there? I was pretty sure it was covering the hole left from the missing door....it was holding the rare trap door in place!
Way to go Gramps, you hit a home run this time!
I know this gun hasn't been handled in over twenty years and never been fired by me. I did pump and dry fire it once to check condition. I'm gonna clean, oil and shoot it when I can remember to buy some ammo.
The interweb said the butt plate had a trap door to store extra ammo inside the stock. Also said the trap door was a poor design that was easily lost and rare to be with the gun. Guess what the black tape on the stock was doing there? I was pretty sure it was covering the hole left from the missing door....it was holding the rare trap door in place!
Way to go Gramps, you hit a home run this time!
I know this gun hasn't been handled in over twenty years and never been fired by me. I did pump and dry fire it once to check condition. I'm gonna clean, oil and shoot it when I can remember to buy some ammo.
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DWalt
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I know there is at least one collector-type book that provides most of the information about Daisy BB guns, as I have seen it at the local Half-price Book Store. In fact I think there is a copy of it there right now. HPBS usually has quite a few gun-related books, most of which I have no interest in (like the Daisy BB gun book), but occasionally I find a prize there at a very good price.
I don't know how many know this, but (Col.) Cass Hough of the family that owned Daisy (I think he was also the CEO of Daisy Manufacturing for many years) developed the droppable fuel tank for the P-51 Mustang that allowed the B-17s and B-24s to have fighter escorts all the way into Germany. It was a far more complex development project than it seems today, and was instrumental to the defeat of Germany during WWII.
I don't know how many know this, but (Col.) Cass Hough of the family that owned Daisy (I think he was also the CEO of Daisy Manufacturing for many years) developed the droppable fuel tank for the P-51 Mustang that allowed the B-17s and B-24s to have fighter escorts all the way into Germany. It was a far more complex development project than it seems today, and was instrumental to the defeat of Germany during WWII.
DeathGrip
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Land speed records were set with surplus drop tanks. My Dad used to run one at the drag strip with the flathead V-8 that's still in my garage. Here's a pic of my dads engine. I can't find the drop tank pictures. Look up the SoCal Speed shop for the most photographed one. Sorry for the sideways pic.
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Cool flathead. I think the drop tank time trials racers were almost their own sub-genre of hot rod. All but forgotten today. Thanks for the history.
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