kBob
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I understand these are back on the market, but made in China. Are these much like the originals at all? The originals had a spring feed magazine that was part of the barrel assembly which unscrewed from the front of the gun. Other Daisy BB guns of the time had gravity feed and that spring loaded magazine made the Model 25 much more reliable though holding fewer shots and something of a pain to load. I note that Modern Daisy air rifles tend to have a sealed barrel unit that is permanently fixed in the gun and a huge loading port of a plastic sliding door on the side of the barrel housing.
I will admit this new loading gate causes less dropped BBs than my old guns that just have a 1/4 inch hole in the side of the housing kept closed by a spring on the removable barrel housing.....they just look like junk.
When I was five and got my first Daisy just before I turned six my Dad would remove the barrel unit when I was unsupervised to allow me to have basically a sound pop gun. I had a 94 with the faux magazine tube under the barrel housing and the barrel front had a tab that rotated in front of that faux magazine to close it. The Faux magazine had a small ramp inside it to guide BBs into the housing for gravity feed. My Daisy had a front hand guard of plastic and a butt stock of the same that was made to look like figured wood. There was a faux hammer atop the small of the stock at the rear of the housing and a metal stock/barrel band out on the fore stock with a leather strip looped in it. It had gold colored decals on the "receiver" area and was the object of much pride for me and much admired by the boys in the neighborhood. I still have the ghastly remains of it. It had an oath for air gun owners on the butt plate I was required to memorize before being turned loose with it.
By the time I was seven I had the barrel unit installed at all times and was seldom supervised. The worst that came of it was that Mom would get peeved about finding a BB or three in the washer after doing a load of my clothes. Can you imagine four or five seven to nine year old boys wandering the neighborhood with functional BB guns today?
How about seven year olds with BB "pistols" or eleven year olds with semi auto CO2 BB pistols?
We used to be a nation of riflemen....now a nation of video gamers....
-kBob
I will admit this new loading gate causes less dropped BBs than my old guns that just have a 1/4 inch hole in the side of the housing kept closed by a spring on the removable barrel housing.....they just look like junk.
When I was five and got my first Daisy just before I turned six my Dad would remove the barrel unit when I was unsupervised to allow me to have basically a sound pop gun. I had a 94 with the faux magazine tube under the barrel housing and the barrel front had a tab that rotated in front of that faux magazine to close it. The Faux magazine had a small ramp inside it to guide BBs into the housing for gravity feed. My Daisy had a front hand guard of plastic and a butt stock of the same that was made to look like figured wood. There was a faux hammer atop the small of the stock at the rear of the housing and a metal stock/barrel band out on the fore stock with a leather strip looped in it. It had gold colored decals on the "receiver" area and was the object of much pride for me and much admired by the boys in the neighborhood. I still have the ghastly remains of it. It had an oath for air gun owners on the butt plate I was required to memorize before being turned loose with it.
By the time I was seven I had the barrel unit installed at all times and was seldom supervised. The worst that came of it was that Mom would get peeved about finding a BB or three in the washer after doing a load of my clothes. Can you imagine four or five seven to nine year old boys wandering the neighborhood with functional BB guns today?
How about seven year olds with BB "pistols" or eleven year olds with semi auto CO2 BB pistols?
We used to be a nation of riflemen....now a nation of video gamers....
-kBob
