YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT !!!!!

[Zonie]

Ho Ho Ho: Here it is Christmas Eve and their running one of my favorate movies (A Christmas Story) in the ground (24 hours non stop)on TNT. Got me thinking about my childhood.


I wanted a Red Rider BB Gun when I was about 10 (1953) and I actually do remember my mothers words which were exactly "You'll shoot your eye out"!!!
Until I saw the movie the first time I thought that phrase was a creation of my mothers.

This brings me to the reason for this Post.
Did any of you ever hear "those" words when the subject of BB guns was being discussed?

Oh: Although my mother was aginst my getting a Red Rider BB gun my dad sorta came thru by buying me the Daisy Pump style BB gun that year and although I never told either my dad or mom, I did shoot at a pine board and the damn BB bounced back and hit me on the forhead.

Waiting to hear from all of you.

 

[musketman]

I have both Daisy Pump and Crossman pump BB guns...

I still have them, wonder if I can convert them to black powder?

 

what young fella who ever had a BB gun of any variety didn't hear those words!

Growing up in the '50's as a lot of us did, things were different than now. Mom and Dad agreed that at the ripe old age of 5 I was old enough to get a JC Higgins .22 single shot bolt for Christmas. Of course I didn't get to use it alone, only under Dad's supervision. I wonder how many kids get a 22 for Christmas at 5 yrs. old today? That Christmas is beyond a shadow of a doubt the favorite of my childhood. Merry Christmas all!!

Vic

 

[RJR]

Hey 'zonie, you sure are an old fart, 10 years my senior.

I got my Daisy Red Ryder at age seven from my grand father, still have it. It's now packed away in a case wrapped in oiled cloth. One of these days I'll find a kid worthy of it, probably my great nephew who is two now. He loves going to the range with me and the old lady and hearing the guns go boom and seeing the smoke. He's going to be one of our next generation trying to keep our sport alive, I wish him all the luck in the world and hope he's successful. Merry Christmas and may you all be blessed with a fine New Year, Rick.

 

[RJR]

I forgot in my last post, yes I did hear from my mother "be careful or you'll shoot your eye out!". All mothers are the same, OVERPROTECTIVE. Won't let us have any fun. Sharps 4590, I've got one of those JC Higgins .22s in the closet in pretty good shape, just needs a firing pin. It's the one you have to manually cock after you close the bolt. Can't remember where I got it or when(CRS), but it's here. Take care, Rick.

 

[graybeard]

"You'll shoot your eye out" is much older than the 1950s. I got my first Daisy (the pump) in the late 1930s and heard the same thing. I had a single-shot .22 before I was 10. You are right. The world has changed. You'd probably go to jail today for giving a boy under 10 a .22 rifle. I got a Daisy BB pistol at a very young age. I've owned many guns and fired many, many rounds over the years and have yet to shoot anyone, or myself. Graybeard.

 

[graybeard]

"You'll shoot your eye out" is much older than the 1950s. I got my first Daisy (the pump) in the late 1930s and heard the same thing. I had a single-shot .22 before I was 10. You are right. The world has changed. You'd probably go to jail today for giving a boy under 10 a .22 rifle. I got a Daisy BB pistol at a very young age. I've owned many guns and fired many, many rounds over the years and have yet to shoot anyone, or myself. Graybeard.

 

[tommy b]

Got my bb gun, a daisy pump for my 8th birthday in 1946. Used to shoot at a target on the coal cellar door in the basement. I'll never forget the shot where the bb bounced off the door and I watched it come back at me and it hit the knuckle of my right thumb. I shoot right handed so as you can see it missed my eye by less than a quarter of an inch. Boy, this post brought back memories!

 

[Zonie]

From what I see, I think Sears really screwed up by getting out of the gun business (at least for .22s).

As a matter of fact, my first gun (which I got a year after the BB gun) was a J.C.Higgins .22 single shot which you had to pull the knob on the back of the bolt out to cock. From your comments, Sears must have sold millions of them.
I could use my BB gun where ever and when ever I wanted but, like many of you, the .22 was only to be used "out in the desert" with my dad standing by my side.
Have a good 'un!

 

[Rick Presley]

I got my first BB gun at the age of 11 in Plainview Texas it was a model 99 with wood stock target sites. The year was 1963. It was destoryed in a house fire in 1965 in Long Grove Oklahoma. It was a great BB bun.