i still can...can you?
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Yes remember it well. Had a lot of fun playing with those toys. 0 -
?Jimmy! Put that thing down! We?re trying to watch Rawhide!? 0 -
Wish I still had mine. And I love that smell......... 0 -
just like forge said, only we wouldn't waste our own, if we were gonna smash a whole role, we usually took em from one of the kids we diddn't really like........ 0 -
forgemonkey wrote:And the ultimate was putting a full roll on concrete and hitting it with a hammer,,,,,,,,how did we survive this long ?? :shock:
Yes I can, And that was likely the beginning of the tinnitus I have now.
Oh the joys of a misspent youth, wouldn't trade it for anything.
I just showed this to my Bride and she started grinning and said "Yep, sure do"
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I loved the smell of caps in the morning!
It smells like....Victory!0 -
Had a double holster with two chrome six guns with a cowboy shirt. I was a bad azz in the barnyard. 0 -
we spent many hours spent with the neighbor kids playing good guy bad guy cowboys and Indians ( there was a about a dozen of us with in a few years of each other + many younger in a two block area) but caps were a luxury we would round up pop bottles or beg parents for a few cents to buy a box and split up what ever we could get ( we did the hammer rock ordeal but was super rare to waste like that ) mostly the guns were used with good old imagination and sound effects bang bang bang ..pow pow pow ..
I do not recall any of us having a fancy holster set up what we would have given for a have gun will travel or any of the fancy cowboy copy outfits
funny I still find myself looking sometimes at the old capgun rigs no grand kids so I cant use that as a excuse 0 -
Those were the days when kids played out side until street lights came on . We were out at sun up all day long. New where to go to get grub, Which neighbours left there hose on for water. Never worried about catching anything. We had fun lots of fun. How the heck did we survive. 0 -
diver-rig wrote:Wish I still had mine. And I love that smell.........
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thanks for the reminder good times for sure
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oh yes,I remember. And the last time I played with them was just a few years ago. Grandkids !! 0 -
Too many misfires.
I saved my gardening and mowing money and went to Western Auto and bought an RG .22. I was 11 years old.
It took me 3 years to wear it out.0 -
Do any of you also remember the mallet-like toy that used a cap or two to launch a badminton-like "bird" into the air? The mallet had a metal-lined hole and the bird had a metal-covered tip. You put one or two caps in the bowl, stuck the bird in and whacked the mallet on the sidewalk. BANG and the bird went 20 feet or so high, colored tail feathers whirling. 0 -
Yes I can. When my kids were little they had the red plastic ones that looked like little speed loaders. Are caps even available any more? 0 -
Justdidaqiuck check on amazon . Caps and guns are still available for sale .. in fact I have several rolls of caps in the ammo locker I found at a junk store a few years ago 0 -
And the blackened fingernails and blisters from popping them when the cap gun broke! 0 -
I still do have mine. It is a Nichols, made in Hollywood, Texas. Caps stick on the back of faux cartridges. Also have a Nichols derringer. 0 -
Weren't those called Greenie StickEm Caps? Little paper circles you peeled off the backing. 0 -
forgemonkey wrote:And the ultimate was putting a full roll on concrete and hitting it with a hammer,,,,,,,,how did we survive this long ?? :shock:
Funny, that was exactly what I was thinking. I used to do the same thing.
I was always packing heat back in the old days.0 -
ok, most kids carried their 6 shooters the normal way in the holster. sometime in the mid 50s a tv gunslinger carried his guns butt forward in the holster. did you change to that style? 0 -
discusdad wrote:ok, most kids carried their 6 shooters the normal way in the holster. sometime in the mid 50s a tv gunslinger carried his guns butt forward in the holster. did you change to that style?
Nope not me. No butt's forward for me like James Butler ?Wild Bill? Hickok.0 -
WOW Smitty, you were a kid before the world had color!!
That was just before god was born, right?0 -
Rocky Raab wrote:Do any of you also remember the mallet-like toy that used a cap or two to launch a badminton-like "bird" into the air? The mallet had a metal-lined hole and the bird had a metal-covered tip. You put one or two caps in the bowl, stuck the bird in and whacked the mallet on the sidewalk. BANG and the bird went 20 feet or so high, colored tail feathers whirling.
Yeah , they didn't last long around us kids....after a couple of good wallops on the sidewalk, we broke the handles..0 -
Anyone remember Lawndarts?
Several friends up North, had a band by that name.
Played quite a few party's for us. Big on the local circuit where we lived. (NY/NJ) Cut several tapes/albums. Very good stuff.0 -
we also had little bomb like gizmos that you oopened and put a cap in , closed it and threw it and it went off when it landed. 0 -
we also had little bomb like gizmos that you oopened and put a cap in , closed it and threw it and it went off when it landed. 0 -
He Dog wrote:WOW Smitty, you were a kid before the world had color!!
That was just before god was born, right?
Yep older than dirt, my birthstone is lava. My first Christmas WAS the first Christmas.0 -
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I had a "Texas Jr." faux six gun cap shooter with belt & holster. I had quite a few others growing up but the T\J was the one I kept. Gave it to my 6 year old grandson a couple of years ago. He just turned 8 on the 18th of this month and is about ready for the old Red Rider!
I haven't shopped for any caps in several decades and have heard that the ones available today have a LOT LESS powder in them then the ones we had. Don't know if this is true but with everything shrinking these days except for the prices, it probably is.0
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