Bobarino
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gone are the days huh? http://lileks.com/institute/archives/34/index.html
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Bobby
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Ads from days of yore....
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Brass Rain
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Bad trigger discipline.
But yeah, good times...
Wait a minute, I wasn't even alive then.
I missed the good old days.
But yeah, good times...
Wait a minute, I wasn't even alive then.
I missed the good old days.
Kitchen_Duty
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didn't they know that guns hurt people back then. I'm glad that we stopped those horrible campaigns where they show children with guns! Promoting bonding with parents over a little range time, ridiculous! Send that kid to watch some quality TV!
/sarcasm
I think I was born in the wrong era.
/sarcasm
I think I was born in the wrong era.
Sebastian the Ibis
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I found a book at a library sale called the "Amateur Rocketry Handbook" from the 50-60's. It was written for high school kids and told them exactly how to make rockets. I'm not talking potato guns or bottle rockets, I'm talking "mix X,Y,Z chemicals, make a nozzle by lathing A,B,C steel.... " I wouldn't even know where to find this stuff today, I think we really are stupider by living in a nanny state.
1911Tuner
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Neat. Other than the part where he said the he "Pumped up his Daisy" and shot it through...
Daisy BB rifles didn't pump up to different levels of power. They cocked once per shot. Working the lever more than once didn't do anything at all.
Daisy BB rifles didn't pump up to different levels of power. They cocked once per shot. Working the lever more than once didn't do anything at all.
Really liked the post.
Years ago i saw an ad from the Sears catalog from the 30's that was selling a 22 rifle and a bracket that held it to a bike, a young boy around 8 to 12 years old was riding the bike with a big smile on his face. How many cops would be on his ass now and what would his family be charged with.
Years ago i saw an ad from the Sears catalog from the 30's that was selling a 22 rifle and a bracket that held it to a bike, a young boy around 8 to 12 years old was riding the bike with a big smile on his face. How many cops would be on his ass now and what would his family be charged with.
Kind of Blued
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I just wish I could go back in time and buy a bunch of guns for $20 at the hardware store... 
They'd probably just laugh at my purple reflective $50 bills though...
They'd probably just laugh at my purple reflective $50 bills though...
bumm
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I can remember reading ads in "Boys Life" for .22 rifles. No problem, no uproar.
Marty
Marty
Man, oh man. I still remember Christmas morning in 1961 when my grandfather gave me my Daisy Model 25. I carried that gun around his 3 acres like I was a soldier on patrol. Blue jays in the fig tree didn't have a chance.
Wish I still had it. Went off to college and when I came back looking for it, it was nowhere to be found. Dad said he must've sold it at a yard sale.
Wish I still had it. Went off to college and when I came back looking for it, it was nowhere to be found. Dad said he must've sold it at a yard sale.
Wow.
"The Only Submachine Gun Commended by Parents Magazine."
And for only $1.19.
Most people nowadays wouldn't know this, but when you hit some glass with a steel BB, it usuallly makes a tiny hole on the side of the glass where you hit it, and knocks a tiny 1/4" cone of glass out the opposite side, perfectly formed, almost like a little lens.
I remember my brother and I shooting wasps with our Daisies inside our house in Ronkonkoma before the inside was finished off -- no drywall up at all, just framing inside.
Well, we pinked a window once (him, not me) and it left that little coned hole in the glass. Again, where the cone falls out on the opposite side of where the shot hits.
Well, our excuse was that some kids came by outside and shot the window and took off on their bicycles.
My father examined the hole in the window real critical-like and the next day we saw him outside with one of our guns. He was shooting a Coke bottle and looking at the holes.
We knew we were in trouble when he shook the little glass cones out of the bottle and looked at them in the palm of his hand.
He thereupon realized that the cone appeared on the other side of the glass from where the BB hit.
He knew then that we were lying about the kids hitting the glass from the outside.
Boy, were we in trouble.
Not so much for shooting wasps inside the house, but for lying about some other kids doing it from the outside.
We both got some "lessons" in ethics from him.
Ow.
"The Only Submachine Gun Commended by Parents Magazine."
And for only $1.19.
Most people nowadays wouldn't know this, but when you hit some glass with a steel BB, it usuallly makes a tiny hole on the side of the glass where you hit it, and knocks a tiny 1/4" cone of glass out the opposite side, perfectly formed, almost like a little lens.
I remember my brother and I shooting wasps with our Daisies inside our house in Ronkonkoma before the inside was finished off -- no drywall up at all, just framing inside.
Well, we pinked a window once (him, not me) and it left that little coned hole in the glass. Again, where the cone falls out on the opposite side of where the shot hits.
Well, our excuse was that some kids came by outside and shot the window and took off on their bicycles.
My father examined the hole in the window real critical-like and the next day we saw him outside with one of our guns. He was shooting a Coke bottle and looking at the holes.
We knew we were in trouble when he shook the little glass cones out of the bottle and looked at them in the palm of his hand.
He thereupon realized that the cone appeared on the other side of the glass from where the BB hit.
He knew then that we were lying about the kids hitting the glass from the outside.
Boy, were we in trouble.
Not so much for shooting wasps inside the house, but for lying about some other kids doing it from the outside.
We both got some "lessons" in ethics from him.
Ow.
Cosmoline
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What do you mean "gone are the days"? My niece is one of the best shots in Oregon with one of those things.
loneviking
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Did you see the Daisy six-shooter? And the scope? Somehow I missed those two items growing up......
Yeah, good times and if we (all gun owners) work hard enough, and are diligent enough, we might get back to those times again.
Yeah, good times and if we (all gun owners) work hard enough, and are diligent enough, we might get back to those times again.
MachIVshooter
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Like others here, I feel I was born a generation too late for myriad reasons. I was fortunate, though. I spent my pre-adolescent years on the outskirts of Boulder, CO (ironically, our address was Gunbarrel, CO). We had a little over an acre in the middle of a 4 square mile alfalfa field that edged up to the highway. My dad was old school. He believed we should be raised the same way he was, and I got my first Daisy when I was 6. But before I could use the rifle, I had to memorize the ten commandments that were printed on the packaging. That was in 1988. I was upgraded to a model 880 pump at 9. He died before I ever received my first actual firearm, but the seed was planted and watered. My mom and stepdad not being gun folks, I had to work real hard to simply convince them to let my buy the then-new Daisy model 990 (pump or CO2). I paid my way through hunter safety and paid for the airgun with lawnmowing money, and that had to suffice until I was 14, when a neighbor & friend agreed to take my money and buy a Remington model 522 Viper, which would remain at his house. So for the next four years, I would spend my weekends shooting the crap outta that little black rifle behind his house, until the day I turned 18 and splurged on a Remington 700 .25-06 and a Marlin 1895 .45-70. From there it was all over. But it all began with that lever-action Daisy, and my father's careful instruction and nurturing of the hobby.
Guy B. Meredith
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Sebastian the Ibisd,
Who is the author of the rocketry handbook? I believe I have a (somewhat damaged) copy we used in designing our rockets in high school.
The prices of the Daisys don't quite seem to track inflation. Can't be sure of the dates on the ads, but I do believe the current offerings may be less expensive after taking inflation in to account than during past years.
Who is the author of the rocketry handbook? I believe I have a (somewhat damaged) copy we used in designing our rockets in high school.
The prices of the Daisys don't quite seem to track inflation. Can't be sure of the dates on the ads, but I do believe the current offerings may be less expensive after taking inflation in to account than during past years.
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