My first ‘gun’ was a Model 25 Daisy pump BBgun. Got it for my birthday. Didn't have to shake it like those lever guns as it had a spring fed magazine/internal barrel that screwed in the outside barrel. Think it held 25 BBs. Had a plastic stock but I built a pistol grip for it.  I could shoot that critter. My first new .22 rifle was a Remington Fieldmaster pump. Like a pump.

Howdy Toy Fans,

I and a friend had fanner fifties and the rolling blocks that fired the spring-loaded plastic bullets. What great gun fights and fast draw shoot outs we had. In addition to numerous cap guns that my memory has lost there is one that still stands out. I remember it as an 1860 conversion, nickel plated with "ivory" grips. The best part was that it had "real" bullets with shells that slid off the pot metal bullets so you could put a cap in each and then reload the gun.

On a similar note, my friends and I were FORCED to attend dance lessons. We would have a competition to see how many "guns" we could hide on our bodies.

During our WW2 phase, I had a cool, plastic Thompson sub machine gun that let you pull a charging handle to the rear and would then make "full auto" sounds when the trigger was pulled.

Only slightly similar, I was 12 -14 and when my mother went grocery shopping, she would drop my buddy and me at the dump with our .22 rifles to shoot rats. Can you imagine that happening today. I would have been removed for the house and my sainted Mother would have been jailed.

We built forts on the ground. Anything in a tree was a "tree house". I don't know why.

Rev. Chase - still a kid at heart

Jesus, that's a little aggressive. I paid all of $1400 for mine, nine months ago and nobody bid against me.

CraigC, Yours, too, is a superb looking Henry Nettleton revolver, and you were fortunate enough to have acquired it at a bargain. Like Dave T had I seen it I might have bid against you as well. 

T.J., the APP of old had a lot of fines and dust, which is hygroscopic, so there were stories of it gumming up and/or rusting powder measures if not cleaned out well after reloading.  I mostly dipped it, though I have run 3F APP through a Dillon powder measure with no problems.  I am told that APP, and the subs made by them for other companies, are much better these days about the dust.  I'm sure Coffinmaker can verify that.

County fair is also fair game.