Airguns you shot as a kid

[Dan Jefferies]

you hit the target... all a kid wants....)

[besk]

My dad brought a Diana 27 back from Germany at the end of WWII as a "war trophy".  My brothers and I shot it a good bit.  We mostly shot steel BB's.  My brother still has it. 
That is the only air gun we ever had.   

I mostly shot with a home made slingshot as a boy.

[Rcdyna]

It was the early 1960s,  I answered a full page add on the back cover of a comic book.  There were a large choice of toys available if you sold 12 boxes of all occasion cards. The boxes of cards were $1.25 per box. I sent away and received a large box with the 12 boxes of cards enclosed. I sold maybe 6 boxes to family. Grandparents. Aunts & Uncles etc. I told everyone that I was getting a gas powered model airplane. This was all part of my plan to get the BB gun. No family member would have bought a box of cards if they knew I was going to shoot my eye out. I still had to sell 6 more boxes of cards. I walked many a mile and knocked on a lot of doors. At last I found six housewives that felt sorry for me and bought the cards.  I sent in my $15.00 and got my first high powered weapon, a Daisy pump action BB gun. I slept with it under my bed, I loved that gun. I would pay anything to have it today. I don't even know what model it was. It was a pump but it was not a Model 25. The bar on the pump handle did not break in the middle, it came straight back. With a 10 cent tube of BBs I was ready for anything. What a different world it was.

[WesBob]

I wish I knew what brand  my springer was, but never paid attention. It was my Christmas present when I was 10. Was the best present ever! 177 but powerful and very accurate. Shot piles of sparrows and barn swallows with it. Rabbits grouse and ground squirrels too😊
My next airgun was a co2 pistol, Crosman 357 with 4" and 8" barrel. Lots of fun, but not enough power to kill anything, lol or much accuracy. Was more for playing quick draw, and that's about it. I bought it to take along hunting deer so I could shoot grouse but it was a wimp and didn't work for the purpose.
I ruined my springer putting wd40 down the barrel. Wrecked the leather piston. My Dad got me a replacement piston eventually but it never had the power like it had before. Wish I knew what happened to the gun, disappeared over the years somewhere.  that barrel was amazing!

[desmobob]

It was the early 1960s,  I answered a full page add on the back cover of a comic book.  There were a large choice of toys available if you sold 12 boxes of all occasion cards. The boxes of cards were $1.25 per box. I sent away and received a large box with the 12 boxes of cards enclosed. I sold maybe 6 boxes to family. Grandparents. Aunts & Uncles etc. I told everyone that I was getting a gas powered model airplane. This was all part of my plan to get the BB gun. No family member would have bought a box of cards if they knew I was going to shoot my eye out. I still had to sell 6 more boxes of cards. I walked many a mile and knocked on a lot of doors. At last I found six housewives that felt sorry for me and bought the cards.  I sent in my $15.00 and got my first high powered weapon, a Daisy pump action BB gun. I slept with it under my bed, I loved that gun. I would pay anything to have it today. I don't even know what model it was. It was a pump but it was not a Model 25. The bar on the pump handle did not break in the middle, it came straight back. With a 10 cent tube of BBs I was ready for anything. What a different world it was.

That brings back some old memories!  I remember selling those greeting cards, too, but I can't remember just what it was that I wanted to earn credit for.  Maybe it was X-Ray Specs...   

Tight groups,
Bob

[Matchstickshooter]

I wish I knew what brand  my springer was, but never paid attention. It was my Christmas present when I was 10. Was the best present ever! 177 but powerful and very accurate. Shot piles of sparrows and barn swallows with it. Rabbits grouse and ground squirrels too😊
My next airgun was a co2 pistol, Crosman 357 with 4" and 8" barrel. Lots of fun, but not enough power to kill anything, lol or much accuracy. Was more for playing quick draw, and that's about it. I bought it to take along hunting deer so I could shoot grouse but it was a wimp and didn't work for the purpose.
I ruined my springer putting wd40 down the barrel. Wrecked the leather piston. My Dad got me a replacement piston eventually but it never had the power like it had before. Wish I knew what happened to the gun, disappeared over the years somewhere.  that barrel was amazing!

What does WD40 do to it?   I've put it on my cleaning patches,but always a dry patch at the end.

[WesBob]

"What does WD40 do to it?   I've put it on my cleaning patches,but always a dry patch at the end."

Well, maybe nothing with synthetic pistons, though it could cause dieseling if you don't clean it out good enough I suppose. My springer still had the old style leather piston and I must have got enough wd40 in the barrel and into the air hole that it ran back and ate the leather enough to lose seal. That was my dad's verdict anyway ☺️

[Matchstickshooter]

Okay,gotcha now. Made it into the piston chamber.  Thanks.

[CCCP1999]

First BB gun was a single pump at age 10 and in 1976 i got a 760 i think.  It was a 10 pumper. Seems i had to leave it in the sun so it would pump up a year or so after i got it.

[GumpIsrael]

Unfortunately I grew up in a family where guns were not looked fondly upon... in Texas no less!  Luckily my best friend had a very venerable Daisy Red Ryder that we did tons of stupid stuff with

[the fuse]

It was the early 1960s,  I answered a full page add on the back cover of a comic book.  There were a large choice of toys available if you sold 12 boxes of all occasion cards. The boxes of cards were $1.25 per box. I sent away and received a large box with the 12 boxes of cards enclosed. I sold maybe 6 boxes to family. Grandparents. Aunts & Uncles etc. I told everyone that I was getting a gas powered model airplane. This was all part of my plan to get the BB gun. No family member would have bought a box of cards if they knew I was going to shoot my eye out. I still had to sell 6 more boxes of cards. I walked many a mile and knocked on a lot of doors. At last I found six housewives that felt sorry for me and bought the cards.  I sent in my $15.00 and got my first high powered weapon, a Daisy pump action BB gun. I slept with it under my bed, I loved that gun. I would pay anything to have it today. I don't even know what model it was. It was a pump but it was not a Model 25. The bar on the pump handle did not break in the middle, it came straight back. With a 10 cent tube of BBs I was ready for anything. What a different world it was.

It was a Daisy 107 Trombone. It was very similar to the earlier Buck Jones pictured here. .

[gangwise]

It was the early 1960s,  I answered a full page add on the back cover of a comic book.  There were a large choice of toys available if you sold 12 boxes of all occasion cards. The boxes of cards were $1.25 per box. I sent away and received a large box with the 12 boxes of cards enclosed. I sold maybe 6 boxes to family. Grandparents. Aunts & Uncles etc. I told everyone that I was getting a gas powered model airplane. This was all part of my plan to get the BB gun. No family member would have bought a box of cards if they knew I was going to shoot my eye out. I still had to sell 6 more boxes of cards. I walked many a mile and knocked on a lot of doors. At last I found six housewives that felt sorry for me and bought the cards.  I sent in my $15.00 and got my first high powered weapon, a Daisy pump action BB gun. I slept with it under my bed, I loved that gun. I would pay anything to have it today. I don't even know what model it was. It was a pump but it was not a Model 25. The bar on the pump handle did not break in the middle, it came straight back. With a 10 cent tube of BBs I was ready for anything. What a different world it was.

Grew up in the 1950's and 60's, had a Daisy 102 Cub &  1894. We used to  have BB gun fights. Only rule.....you could only shoot one another from the waist down. Lots of shooting in the butt!    Great fun....  I too sold greeting cards from the Wallace Brown Co. from an ad in Boy's Life magazine.

[Rcdyna]

It was a Daisy 107 Trombone. It was very similar to the earlier Buck Jones pictured here. .

Yes Stuart, that looks very close to it.   Thanks

[Hoosier Daddy]

It was the early 1960s,  I answered a full page add on the back cover of a comic book.  There were a large choice of toys available if you sold 12 boxes of all occasion cards. The boxes of cards were $1.25 per box. I sent away and received a large box with the 12 boxes of cards enclosed. I sold maybe 6 boxes to family. Grandparents. Aunts & Uncles etc. I told everyone that I was getting a gas powered model airplane. This was all part of my plan to get the BB gun. No family member would have bought a box of cards if they knew I was going to shoot my eye out. I still had to sell 6 more boxes of cards. I walked many a mile and knocked on a lot of doors. At last I found six housewives that felt sorry for me and bought the cards.  I sent in my $15.00 and got my first high powered weapon, a Daisy pump action BB gun. I slept with it under my bed, I loved that gun. I would pay anything to have it today. I don't even know what model it was. It was a pump but it was not a Model 25. The bar on the pump handle did not break in the middle, it came straight back. With a 10 cent tube of BBs I was ready for anything. What a different world it was.

That brings back some old memories!  I remember selling those greeting cards, too, but I can't remember just what it was that I wanted to earn credit for.  Maybe it was X-Ray Specs...   

I REMEBER THAT!
 Think I actually went for the Cox control line airplane!

Bob
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[the fuse]

It was a Daisy 107 Trombone. It was very similar to the earlier Buck Jones pictured here. .

Yes Stuart, that looks very close to it.   Thanks

If you have an interest in picking one of the 107's up there are at least two on ebay right now. I have nothing to do with either of them.

[G-37]

Was fortunate enough to keep both eyes through out the early years despite mom's continuous warning that with all the BB and pellet rifles being shot in and around the neighborhood, all of us kids would be wearing eye patches and looking like pirates...
Had several Daisy BB guns that were lever cockers and one that cocked under the barrel.... the magazine came out of the end of the barrel and was spring loaded for maybe 20 or so BB's.
Got a Sheridan Blue Streak .20 cal around '63' .... oh man, was that gun accurate.... bottle caps at 45/50 feet. That was back when the eyes were really sharp. Eventually over pumped it and damaged the plunger.
Funny thing though.... I did get shot in the knee with a .22 Benji pump about the age of 14. Target practice in a clay pit with some buddies.... yeah, some buddies ! And you know, Mom never said, "I told you someone was going to get shot".   
That kinda ended my pellet gun days as I was really getting more interested in girls than guns about that time. Well, bring it full circle now. 

[redhawk44357]

A model 25 Daisey pump. I got it around 1962.  It was made at the original plant before the move.  Many soup cans and a few pollywogs gave their lives for my enjoyment. And by the way.........I still have it!!!

[Whirligig]

Daisy Buck, then a Daisy 880, then a Crosman 357, then a Webley Vulcan II, then a Webley Tempest, then a Beeman P1, then a Beeman R10, and the rest is pure addiction. Except for http://the Gat air pistol, which I hated.

-Whirly

[Racer X]

I have a buck jones from 1934. It is missing some parts but it is in great shape. I will get it going soon. The gun of my youth was a Daisy 1894. I spent many hours plinking and having fun with it. I would fill jars with gasoline and put them in a fire. Then shoot the jar to make a big explosion.

 I had two of them one was a NRA comemeritive the other had a hexagonal barrel. I called it my buffalo gun. Both got lost over time. Just before I moved from Maryland two years ago a member of DIFTA gave me a broken one. I have since gotten it all fixed up and shooting again.

[Bimota]

My friend and I had Crosman 761XL's back in the mid 70's