Do You Remember Your Very First Toy Gun?

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 6:50 pm

I remember this one well

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 6:56 pm

My very first lever gun.
Christmas 1962.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 6:59 pm

Summer 1965.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:02 pm

Christmas 1967.

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:09 pm

Dang CAS, you were a spoiled child.

That's OK, I was too.

Is that "Rabbit Hunt" set up a recent pic? What a rarity to have it like that 50+ years later. Looks perfect.

Can I have it?----6

walks with gun · Post by **walks with gun** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:47 pm

Heck, I can't remember if I just ate supper, I do remember I had a lot of them, it was the 60's and we weren't odd disturbed children yet, I think playing cops and robbers and soldiers was still PC then.

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:49 pm

No way do I remember my first toy gun, but my first BB gun was a Ted Williams lever action (Daisy) with gold colored receiver. It held 40 in the mag and another 10 in the "ready" position. No telling how many BBs I shot through that thing. Got in in 72 or 73 and always had packets of BBs stuffed in my pockets.
My first new gun was an Ithaca single shot lever action (it was cheaper than a Sheridan Blue or Silver Streak) my Dad gave $39.95 for at the pawn shop somewhere around 76-78. I finally got to graduate up to LR when Daddy figured out how expensive shorts were.

Gary · Post by **Gary** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:01 pm

Somewhere around 1957, I had a chrome, roll cap "Peacemaker" with faux ivory grips. Coincidentally, today I stopped at the LGS after work and looked at a stainless Ruger Vaquero in 45 with... faux ivory grips.

2571 · Post by **2571** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:04 pm

A Singer 1911 when I was seven. Dad thought toy guns were silly.

Lassiter · Post by **Lassiter** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:11 pm

A Mattel Fanner 50. A single action style cap gun that shot a plastic bullet out of a spring loaded case and you put greenie stick em cap on the end of the case for a real shootin' sound.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:14 pm

Sixgun wrote:Dang CAS, you were a spoiled child. That's OK, I was too.

Is that "Rabbit Hunt" set up a recent pic? What a rarity to have it like that 50+ years later. Looks perfect.

Can I have it?----6

I wish I still had that 'rabbit hunt' set 6.
The picture was a Google search find.
If I still had it I'd for sure be driving Ms. J nuts running it across the
living room floor and doing some shooting and missing.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:24 pm

And yes I indeed have a picture of my first Colt & holster cap gun.

I think this picture was from around 66 or 67.
I have no clue what my sister and I were all decked out for.

GonnePhishin · Post by **GonnePhishin** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:31 pm

Nice pictures!

vancelw · Post by **vancelw** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:32 pm

casastahle wrote: I have no clue what my sister and I were all decked out for.

Season premier of Gunsmoke?

ollogger · Post by **ollogger** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:53 pm

I remember my first BB gun in 1960 at the ripe old age of 5, I also remember it getting taken
away for awhile until it sunk in on what I could & couldn't shoot at, also remember some of the lesson
getting sunk in on the bottom end

ollogger

GonnePhishin · Post by **GonnePhishin** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:58 pm

Season premier of Gunsmoke?

hahahahaha

BB gun, "You'll shoot yer eye out kid"

salvo · Post by **salvo** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:05 pm

I think this was one of my first cap guns! 1964 + or -

This is a Crossman 1911 pellet/bb gun, still have in the safe. Christmas 1966

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:25 am

A little bit newer than the one I no longer have...

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:00 am

When I was 3 years old I got up early one morning and got a large butcher knife and tried to slice an onion with it like I had seen my dad do the night before. I cut my index and middle finger on my right hand, cutting the tendon in the index finger in the process. A surgeon friend of ours fished the tendon out of my hand and reattached it. As physical therapy my dad bought be a western two gun rig so I would be forced to use both index fingers to run the guns.

walks with gun · Post by **walks with gun** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:33 am

Sure is a lot of old folk on this forum. Love the matching shirts, I remember my mom wanted us all to match for certain family photo's. With all this early gunplay I cant believe the majority of us didn't turn into homicidal maniacs.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 7:37 am

walks with gun wrote:Sure is a lot of old folk on this forum. Love the matching shirts, I remember my mom wanted us all to match for certain family photo's. With all this early gunplay I cant believe the majority of us didn't turn into homicidal maniacs.

You mean I'm NOT?

Golly.

I better go tell the Media because they diagnosed me decades ago...

2571 · Post by **2571** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:41 am

vancelw wrote:
casastahle wrote: I have no clue what my sister and I were all decked out for.
Season premier of Gunsmoke?

I used to wait for Gunsmoke each week so I could participate in the lead-in gunfight on main street. I always lost and died a writhing death on the floor in front of the TV set.

TedH · Post by **TedH** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:42 am

casastahle wrote:I remember this one well

I had that exact same set! I forgot all about it until I saw the picture of the rabbit. Didn't the rabbit wind up and move across the ground in circles? Wow, good memories.

Booger Bill · Post by **Booger Bill** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 9:27 am

I am not sure if this was my first or not. I was born in 1941. I well remember a uncle coming home from the war. That evening he dumped out his war bag on the floor and he had a lugar, radom, browning 32 and a walther P-38. Dad told me to pick one and for whatever reason I picked the polish radom. Dad traced it on a board and cut it out. He also embellished it a little with I think the checkered grips penciled on etc. I recall taking it to school the next day. Some older boys got a kick out of me calling it my "Pisso". They put me up to showing it to the teacher and to be sure to tell her it was my "Pisso". That would have been in 1945 or possibly 1946? Here is another picture of me and my sister sitting on uncles car, a 1936 ford coup he bought soon as he came home and he lived with us for a year or so. I see I am holding some sort of pop gun. Uncle Eldon was with the 82nd AB and with the gliders. He saw a lot of action, was well decorated. He stayed a bachelor. I guess the combat affected him and he later committed suicide. I had at least 8 or 9 uncles in counting aunts husbands etc. I was the closest to him. (Moms brother)

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:29 pm

The picture of you and your sister on the car is awesome.
Looks like it could have been from an old LIFE magazine cover.

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:35 pm

walks with gun wrote:Sure is a lot of old folk on this forum. Love the matching shirts, I remember my mom wanted us all to match for certain family photo's. With all this early gunplay I cant believe the majority of us didn't turn into homicidal maniacs.

Heck our guns even went to school with us over hunting season.
They seemed to behave themselves all day in trunks of cars and trucks.

piller · Post by **piller** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:32 pm

My first toy gun was a double barrelled pop gun that you had to push the lever to the right and cock it by opening the action and cocking the springs. It weighed about as much as I did. I still have it, but it is badly beat up from the rough play it received.

1894 · Post by **1894** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:41 pm

First toy rifle was a Kadet trainer . Similar to http://www.gunauction.com/buy/12668027/ ... -tennessee with no but plate , or at least not now. The short section of barrel is missing , the sling is gone ,still has the wood "bullet " though.
We got pulled over in some state park on a trip to Maine , no firearms and all that and this was in the gunrack in the back window

Cop was great , saw what it was and told me to be careful with it and we went on our merry way.

Post by **Chuck 100 yd** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:09 pm

Growing up on the farm in northern Iowa,poor folk, we had very few toys so we made our own.
Of course I was born with two finger guns. They can also be used in many different ways.
Have you ever tried to pick your nose with a Colt???

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 4:19 pm

1894 wrote:First toy rifle was a Kadet trainer . Similar to http://www.gunauction.com/buy/12668027/ ... -tennessee with no but plate , or at least not now. The short section of barrel is missing , the sling is gone ,still has the wood "bullet " though.
We got pulled over in some state park on a trip to Maine , no firearms and all that and this was in the gunrack in the back window
Cop was great , saw what it was and told me to be careful with it and we went on our merry way.

Things sure have changed.
Nowadays if you eat a pop tart into something that resembles a gun shape
or point a finger, you're slapped with a record that follows you through
school and given time on the street.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Sep 16, 2014 5:30 pm

All I remember is that was a plastic sixgun, left grip rotated to reveal a spot for a roll of perforated caps... I could shoot, without reloading, as long as the TV cowboys could!

rossim92 · Post by **rossim92** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:21 am

a daisy levergun, just the run of the mill one where you twist the end of the barrel and load bb's in the hole. I still have IT a s a keepsake, it needs a new spring in it. won't even a SPIT bb out anymore. ( anybody know where i can get a replacement spring?) Or any information how to change it out. I never really looked at it since i don't think you can get a spring for it.

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 6:47 am

don't remember my first toy gun, but it was metal and was a cap gun.

This was my first bb gun, the Daisy '94 clone

Bloodhound · Post by **Bloodhound** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 3:12 pm

My first toy gun was a set of cowboy cap guns in a double holster rig...came with a hat too...wore the outfit all day every day for a month after I got them for my 5th birthday!

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 5:19 pm

I still have a King BB gun my father gave me (it used to be his) when I was four. My first cap pistol was a disappointment to me as it looked nothing like the guns I saw on the silver screen, it was made of tin and looked more like the end of a golf club.
Later when playing with friends we often had to go home to change our cap guns as we couldn't play soldiers with shiny cowboy guns ( never heard of Gen Patton then) or play cowboys and indians with Tommy guns and Lugers......

jd45 · Post by **jd45** » Fri Sep 19, 2014 10:41 pm

My first handgun was a Stallion 45 made by Nichols out of Kilgore, Texas. It had cartridges you could take apart & put a round cap in the bottom half. Mt first rifle was some wierd-lookin thing, a nickel-plated
1873 Winchester with a pistolgrip stock. I didn't like it too much. Guess what,........now I got a real one, a beauty made by Uberti & the only way you'll get it away from me is to pry it from my cold dead fingers!

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 10:53 am

I had a Paladin cap gun and holster with the knight chess piece on it. Wore it to the Oregon Centennial Exposition in 1959 when Dad took me to see Roy Rogers. OH, BOY! High times indeed for a 6-year-old.

7.62 Precision · Post by **7.62 Precision** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 2:29 am

First one I remember was when I was three. We were living in a little one room cabin in Petersburg, AK, with a couple of chairs, a table, a barrel stove, and not much else. Very clean, nowhere to hide anything.

I had a plastic 1911 and a rubber bat (flying mammal type). I was throwing the bat up and "shooting" it by hitting it with the pistol. I hit it one time and it flew into the corner near the stove and completely disappeared. My mother helped me search for it for a long time, but there was never a trace found.

It is one of the great mysteries of my life.

Panzercat · Post by **Panzercat** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 2:06 pm

I was looking for a picture of my first toy gun but found this gem instead...

That's just so wrong.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Mon Sep 22, 2014 2:12 pm

Panzercat wrote:I was looking for a picture of my first toy gun but found this gem instead...

That's just so wrong.

Made in SanFran no doubt...

(Bat Man and Robin - the Ambiguously Gay Duo...)

2X22 · Post by **2X22** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 2:33 am

I wasn't allowed a toy gun. My father told me he would never have me pointing anything resembling a gun at anything I didn't want dead. He was a Korean veteran of some horrific battles.

Instead, when I was 7 years old he gave me my first rifle, a .22 singleshot and I got to shoot it under his watchful eye only for the next 5 years. Then I was allowed to roam the valleys and mountains around our home with my rifle from daylight until dark!

firefuzz · Post by **firefuzz** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 9:08 am

My Mom's got a black and white pic of me at less than two years old, sitting in the floor at my grandparents wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and a diaper, holding a wooden revolver my Dad had made when he was about 12. No, I don't remember it, but I sure wish I knew what happened to that gun.

Rob

Topside · Post by **Topside** » Wed Sep 24, 2014 1:17 pm

I don't have any pics handy without digging them out of storage. Man I love this thread. Brings back lots of memories. I remember being given the toy "Rifleman's rifle" for Christmas around '59 or '60. Yep, I was ole Lucas McCain for at least a year.

I also had a Mattel Fanner 50. Heck of a nice leather holster came with that.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Sep 25, 2014 10:14 am

Somewhere there is a pic of me in a diaper and holstered cap Colt.......NO it was not taken last week

JNG · Post by **JNG** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 8:39 am

I had a Rifleman toy rifle, loved it. Broke to stock on a fence while fighting bad guys. I thought it was a trash. My Grandpa fixed it! Had it for years, no idea what happend to it. My Grandpa was the best!
Reading over this, it is funny that I still think of my Grandpa (other one passed when I was very young) and now I am a Grandpa, I hope and pray, I can live up to his standards.

Joe

firefuzz · Post by **firefuzz** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 7:11 pm

JNG wrote:, it is funny that I still think of my Grandpa (other one passed when I was very young) and now I am a Grandpa, I hope and pray, I can live up to his standards. Joe

Hard shoes to fill now-a-days, I know......I'm in the same boat. I'm pretty sure that as long as we love 'em and do the best we can by them our Grandpa's will smile at us, slap us on the back, and say "job well done" one of these days.

Rob

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Fri Sep 26, 2014 9:25 pm

I don' remember it, though I have seen pictures of me with it. A nickel coated Peacemaker, ala "The Lone Ranger".

Wish I still had it...