Mattel Fanner Fifty, anyone remember these?

[wbraswell]

I had one of all of them at one time or another. The early ones that used roll caps, the Shootin-shell kind and the detective snub. Also the Winchesters and the Tommy-burst. I will always remember one Christmas that I got the Shootin-shell model. On Christmas day all the women folk were in the kitchen, fixing Christmas dinner, and I walked in with my Fanner 50 and "massacred" them. I can still hear my aunt screaming. Little plastic bullets were bouncing all over. What great toys. I just wished the Tommy burst was battery operated, so I didn't have to keep pulling the bolt back.

 

[Chromedhearts]

When I was about 6, my Granddad bought me a "Kentucky" rifle that was about as real as it could get. It took regular percussion caps, on a fixed nipple, and fired cork balls. The lock was some kind of cast pot metal and the barrel was thin walled steel tubing. It was all fun and games until my dad saw that I was busting firecrackers and loading the powder under the cork balls. Loaded like that it put good dents in our metal garbage cans.
I wish I knew were it ended up.

 

[walnutred]

While I had a Fanner Fifty at one point a couple of my aunts worked for Kilgore, so most of our capguns and caps were Kilgores. Talking about homemade toy guns, when I was about 7 my Dad made me a toy Thompson. Even had a drum magazine made from a cut down coffee can.

 

[CW Spook]

Yeah, but did you also have a Mattel Buckle Gun? I'm pretty sure that was the last toy gun I ever bought. I was really into derringers about that time.

 

[fanocool]

While I had a Fanner Fifty at one point a couple of my aunts worked for Kilgore, so most of our capguns and caps were Kilgores. Talking about homemade toy guns, when I was about 7 my Dad made me a toy Thompson. Even had a drum magazine made from a cut down coffee can.

Home made guns were cool too,us kids had no money......Artsie Butt ( same guy who put red ants in my pants) used to make the most awesome ones.....his dad owned and operated a home heating fuel delivery business and he and my older brother were best friends...and between all the wood scraps and old pipe and paint we made some good ones....and BTW, Artsie only put them red ants down my drawers that one time, next time he tried,I broke his nose