Give Me a Gun or Somethin'! The Monster's At the Door!

[Flower]

WOW!  It's amazing!!! More amazing is that it survived and remained in your family .. I'm impressed .. 

[bigbud]

Nice pistol! Built to last!

[Hepcat]

I may do a little Youtube video showing it working, if I can find an old roll of caps.

That would be great! There aren't many things I like better than firing off caps. Well firecrackers maybe....

[Flower]

Nice pistol! Built to last!

Someone finally has something that Buddy doesn't have ... or does he?   

[bigbud]

Need me a skunk gun....

[Mord]

Need me a skunk gun....

I think that cat from the Pepe Le Pew cartoons has one of those.

[Flower]

  I think that cat from the Pepe Le Pew cartoons has one of those.

I'm assuming that you have a death wish.



Happy St. Valentine's Day ... 

[Mord]

 Ouch! Happy V.D. to you, too (maybe I shouldn't abbreviate that).

[Flower]

I take Vitamin D  everyday.  Thanks for reminding me and I've forgotten earlier .. 

[Leeman13]

Thanks for the replies, everyone.

I went searching in the basement, and actually found what I was looking for, for once.  The old brown paper bag contains...



Lots of fun stuff that has been sitting for 30 years or so.  8 ring caps, single caps, smoke bombs, Witch's Cauldron, a Witch Whistle, 2 snakes, and even 2 mostly used "punks" (don't know what they were actually called, but that is what we called them).  But the best is the 2 receipts that were in the bag.  Bruce and Ken Pharmacy, July 5th, 1981.

I am betting that my buddies and I raced over there the day after 4th of July to see what fireworks and caps they would have for cheap (or maybe even just give us).



And more caps, including... yes... red roll caps!!!  Also a cheap plastic "detective" cap gun that uses the 8 shot ring caps, and a strange little round metal thing that you can see just above the gun.





I only remembered that weird round thing as I took a good look at it, and man, did it bring back some memories.

So here is the story.  I'm maybe 10 or so, and I keep asking to get one of those "Cap Bombs" from the store.  I'm at the store one day with my dad, and ask him to buy it for me.  He picks it up, looks it over, throws it down again, and says "I'm not buying that piece of junk.  I'll make you a better one when we get home."  So we get home and we go down into his "workshop" and he grabs 4 metal washers, a bolt and a nut.  He puts it together and says "There.  There's your damn cap bomb."

And the thing was actually better than the store one because I could fit not just one, but six (six!!!) single caps between the 2 center washers.  I would carefully screw it all together tight, and then whip it against the cement walk, or the street, or a tree, and if I threw it hard enough and it hit "just right", all six would go off at the same time.

It looks like a rusty mess all these years later, but man, did I have fun with that thing.


So now that I found some old roll caps, the question is "can I get a 90+ year old cap gun to actually fire off a decrepit roll of 30 + year old caps"?

[Scatter]

We want video!!

[Hepcat]

I went searching in the basement, and actually found what I was looking for, for once.  The old brown paper bag contains...

Lots of fun stuff that has been sitting for 30 years or so.  8 ring caps, single caps, smoke bombs, Witch's Cauldron, a Witch Whistle, 2 snakes, and even 2 mostly used "punks" (don't know what they were actually called, but that is what we called them).

And more caps, including... yes... red roll caps!!!

Oh, man, caps, fireworks! You've got a veritable magazine for a whole arsenal of weaponry!



Hopefully nobody at Homeland Security reads this board. They'd cart you off in chains for being a wild-eyed monster kid of a revolutionary bent on overthrowing the present order and restoring the old days.

I only remembered that weird round thing as I took a good look at it, and man, did it bring back some memories.

It looks like a rusty mess all these years later, but man, did I have fun with that thing.

Great story! So cool to have rediscovered a personal treasure to which you have such strong personal ties.

So now that I found some old roll caps, the question is "can I get a 90+ year old cap gun to actually fire off a decrepit roll of 30 + year old caps"?

Well you know we're all pulling for you to succeed!

[Leeman13]

Hopefully nobody at Homeland Security reads this board. They'd cart you off in chains for being a wild-eyed monster kid of a revolutionary bent on overthrowing the present order and restoring the old days.

Yeah.  If I was still a child, and my buddies and I did even 10% of the silly stuff now that we did "then", I am sure that we would know the local SWAT team intimately.

One thing that I am hoping still to find (but I am pretty sure it got thrown away) is my sky rocket "bazooka".  In my early teens, a few friends and I formed a "bazooka brigade" to terrorize the neighborhood around the 4th of July holiday.  The bazooka's were simply small dia. metal pipes, maybe 18" long, with a wooden block with a cutout attached for a forward-facing handle, and wrapped in tape to keep it together and seal the one end of the pipe.  It was the perfect size to sling over your shoulder and aim the lit bottle rocket toward your enemy while it went off.  "Black Cats" were our ammunition of choice.

Took a quick look around on Ebay and noticed some of their odd selling rules.  It looks like you can't sell roll caps there, but you can sell 8 ring caps.  What the heck is the difference?  Are these old roll caps now illegal here in the U.S.?  And that thing of painting all the old gun toys orange, where is our common sense going?

But I digress.  I will try to put together some type of a video this weekend.

[Flower]

Leeman,

You have retained so many special items from your childhood, I'm impressed and have a question.

Do you live in the same house as you did as a child? 

As every move my parenst or I made, things went 'missing' or were broken or just 'tossed away'  and you seem to have so many of your childhood toys and live in house that is one hundred years old.  I do have friends who have bought their parents or grandparents houses.   

[Leeman13]

Flower - Yes, I do live in the family home.  My parents had me rather late in their lives, and I lost them both somewhat early.  I am an only child, so I just stayed here after the inheritance.  My Grandfather bought this house in 1925, so you can say that there is a lot of stored stuff still here.  I have already sold off most of my childhood toys, so if you see me posting any Star Wars, Micronauts, Megos, G.I. Joe, Hot Wheels, comics, or the like, they are just my photographs of what I have sold off.  But there are always new things I am finding as I go through nearly 100 years of stuff.  Believe me, it's half fun and half maddening.  I just a few days ago found a little collection of still filled Whiskey and bourbon bottles with tax stamps and label seals dating from the 50s.  I'm still looking for my original Star Wars laser pistol and laser rifle, and all my full size Shogun Warriors (had Godzilla too).  Although those may have gone to the neighbor brat 25 years ago.