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My childhood gun I used to kill alot of bad guys (Original Post)
packman
Jun 2021
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Ray Bruns
(4,117 posts)1. I totally had a couple of these.
Then I found out if you hit a whole roll of caps with a hammer, It makes a much bigger bang.
CrispyQ
(36,538 posts)3. LOL. We ditched the gun for Granddad's hammer, too!
Good memories.
Aristus
(66,474 posts)11. The origin of the term "Bustin' caps".
I loved that gunpowdery smell.
One of the reasons I loved tank live-fire exercises so much...
ironflange
(7,781 posts)14. We'd do a whole pile at once
That would make a really satisfying bang.
Chainfire
(17,659 posts)5. I did that in the carport of my house in 1963 and my ears still ring from it.
eppur_se_muova
(36,302 posts)2. Talk about high ammo capacity !! nt
HUAJIAO
(2,405 posts)4. :)))))))))
Oh, how I remember !!
iwillalwayswonderwhy
(2,603 posts)6. My brothers had them.
I was a girl, I only got dolls.
Looking at this picture instantly brought that sulfur smell to mind.
Sneederbunk
(14,310 posts)7. Back in the days when the Sears and Montgomery Wards Christmas catalogs
had several pages for toy guns.
Archae
(46,356 posts)8. I had one of those too.
It ended up rusting out after being left in a sandbox.
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,634 posts)9. No match for my Fanner Fifty!
ironflange
(7,781 posts)10. Here's mine
onethatcares
(16,192 posts)13. I see that's a semi-
semi make believe.
But we were so poor we could only afford twigs.
HubertHeaver
(2,522 posts)12. Millennials, deprived of their childhood guns,
are now obsessed with the real thing.