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Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Christmas Suggestion

 



If I had grandkids… I’d go down to Home Despot and pick up enough sheet metal for a good sand-filled BB trap. Then I’d go to the toy store and pick up a couple small bags of green plastic army men…and I’d set ‘em up in that sand box for Christmas morn…

Or maybe if the kids were older I could hand off a couple of my .22’s… but I suppose people don’t do that anymore…

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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous29 November 2022 at 02:21

    Ah, you played the enemy army sniper game too ? Yeah, putting those figures in a rumpled blanket on the floor and shooting at them with a single pump from my trusty Daisy 880 was fun. I'm actually surprised to hear they still have those green army figures still for sale. I haven't seen a crowd of neighborhood kids playing 'Army' in a very long time, at least in my neighborhood.

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  2. Anonymous29 November 2022 at 04:27

    I dont know where you live, but I bought my sons AR15s for Christmas, I am a single mom, the boys were 15 and 13.

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  3. Bigus Macus29 November 2022 at 04:43

    A long time ago in the last century, my father bought us a Diana air rifle. He set up a steel trap plywood backer in the basement and would spend hours shooting there.

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  4. patrick fowler29 November 2022 at 05:44

    yeah we used to set them up on the side of a large dirt pile with tanks jeeps etc. 22 shorts for infantry 410 was the bazooka ... Pat

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  5. Anonymous29 November 2022 at 06:36

    Still have one. Ah the green army men, and the one or two that would never stay up right.

    Bear Claw

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  6. Anonymous29 November 2022 at 06:52

    I visited the Daisy Museum in Arkansas last summer. Quite a place. The company started in the mid 1800s a a builder of metal windmills for farms. At some point they built bb guns and gave them to farmers as a thankyou for buying the windmill. The bb guns got more popular than the windmills, so they stopped selling windmills and concentrated on bb guns.

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    1. Greg29 November 2022 at 08:47

      Thanks for the reference. I have relatives about a half hour from there, and I'll be asking them about it.
      I still have my Crossman v-350; well over half a century old. I bought a Daisy Red Ryder from Wallyworld just to be able to say that I did, and it's NIB, have yet to fire it.

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    2. Fido29 November 2022 at 14:48

      Fascinating...

      That explains the name "Daisy". Thank you for that!

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  7. ayetter200330 November 2022 at 01:04

    I use my FWB 300 and Walther LGR at 25-40 yards to shoot army men. Lots of fun.

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  8. Skyler the Weird1 December 2022 at 12:38

    You'll shoot your eye out. Just ask my cousin Patch Pete

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