Daisy Model 25 for my 10th birthday in 1948. I dearly loved it and spent every penny I could on BBs for it.Most of my friends had Red Ryders. I once shot a Robin and cooked it (I was taught to eat what I killed) and it tasted awful. No more of that!Blackbirds were pretty tasty a couple of times.I recently purchased a somewhat vintage model 25 and shoot it regularly.
Steelontarget - Hey! That handle hints of the Field Artillery.... so does "Redleg".Anyway. Never ate a skunk! I had heard of such, even back then but my mom wasn't up for that. One year, someone in the family killed a raccoon and we decided to eat that. So, my grandma and mother teamed up and roasted it up. It look sorta like a Thanksgiving dinner except instead of a turkey, we had that! Ugh!So dinner came and the family is all at the table when my Aunt suggested that "It looked a lot like "Old Shep" (our border collie). That triggered a early end to the "great raccoon dinner".My personal take on it was greasy, dark meat. Not pleasant at all. Never again ate a carnivore!This was circa 1949 or so.........
At about age 6 in the Philippines, my dad got us a Daisy pump bb gun. He then got me a more powerful locally built air gun a few years later branded Eskupeta. It pumps like a floor pump and the BB is dropped at the end of the barrel. I remember hunting birds with it then barbeque it.
Quote from: travelbike on February 02, 2017, 08:09:09 PMAt about age 6 in the Philippines, my dad got us a Daisy pump bb gun. He then got me a more powerful locally built air gun a few years later branded Eskupeta. It pumps like a floor pump and the BB is dropped at the end of the barrel. I remember hunting birds with it then barbeque it.I'm in the Philippines responding to your post. I know the airgun you are talking about as I have seen it recently at a department store. The salesman show me how to pump the airgun by placing your foot on a lever and pumping the airgun up and down. I'm thinking about bring one back when I return back to the u.s. Next month.