Found “treasure”, it’s a Smith!

[olfart]

Could that have been Mattell Shoot'n shells?View attachment 761454

Not quite. Mine was a SAA replica, full size, and the bullets were metal. The case got smashed against the rear of the bullets to pop the caps.

 

[JohnRippert]

Cool beans!


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This was a saying my best friend of 30+ years used all the time. My brother by another mother who died in 2017 and who I miss so very much.

 

['79 Magnum GT]

Not quite. Mine was a SAA replica, full size, and the bullets were metal. The case got smashed against the rear of the bullets to pop the caps.

Ahh!! ok

 

[glenwolde]

Wow, it even has diamond stocks!

...and it's a Pinto!

 

[Retired W4]

Showed this before. My brother and yours truly at Christmas long ago.

 

[DWalt]

My favorite cap gun when I was a kid was a double barreled pirate type, Barrels were O/U. I liked it because you could drop lighted firecrackers down the metal barrels and it was like shooting a real gun. Barrels were about 5” long. You couldn’t drop firecrackers down most cap gun barrels then.

 

[45Smashemflat]

I recall when the plastic caps on a ring started coming out. They were much louder than the red paper caps on a roll. That started the one-upmanship in my neighborhood. (The paper rolls were still better for making homemade firecrackers)

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

There’s no way I would have been able to keep any of my toy guns in that kind of shape! Nice find. I only have two “toys” that I can think of that are still usable. An old hatchet and a two-sided fishing knife. ( Legal inches and Dishonest fishermen inches).

My only "indestructable toy is my old Tonka dump truck from the early 50's........It sits on a shelf in my shop along with my sons idestructable Tonka dump truck and End loader from the late 70's........All metal.......No cheap plastic.

IF ONLY they could make REAL trucks that would last longer than it's payment book...........

 

[olfart]

ShView attachment 761752owed this before. My brother and yours truly at Christmas long ago.

Good heavens! Don't tell me those are LEAD icecicles on that tree! Call Child Protective Service! Call EPA! Call OSHA! (Can't expose Santa to lead poisoning) And call the NRA to report the poor muzzle discipline!

 

[clipper1]

I rode the bus to downtown Dallas at about the age of 12 to buy a gun at the Adolphus Hotel gift shop. I don't remember the name of it, but it came with 6 two-piece cartridges. Remove the "bullet", place a cap in the case, put the bullet back in, and load the cylinder. I thought that was the neatest thing since peanut butter. That would have been in around 1953 - 54.

We lived in Dallas at that time as well! The Wynnewood apts. on Pratt St. The flying red horse was the brightest light on the skyline at night, lol

 

[olfart]

We lived in Dallas at that time as well! The Wynnewood apts. on Pratt St. The flying red horse was the brightest light on the skyline at night, lol

Yep! I could see it from our back door. Then came the Mercantile Bank with its neon tower.

 

[jeffrefrig]

That flying red horse: was it the last of the ghost riders in the sky?

 

[olfart]

That flying red horse: was it the last of the ghost riders in the sky?

It was atop the Socony Vacuum Mobile Building in downtown Dallas.