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I'd like one, you too..

I had one before when I was 5 years old. Been gun crazy all my life.

Perry

This were The Shizit when I was a pup.

We lost 17 kids in 1st and 2nd grade alone to choking on those small parts. They'd see a Shootin' shell bullet and their first reaction was to put it in their mouth and inhale.




Oh wait, no, we didn't. We just a had a lot of fun playing with them....

I had one. Actually I think I had a two-gun set with a derringer in the belt buckle that could swing out and shoot a "bullet" also. Or I might have that confused with another set. Fun stuff either way.

good lord carrying concealed as a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ-h1idHuKA

When I was about 9 or 10 I carried a Dick Tracy Snubnose revolver (Shootin' shell replica of a Colt Detective Special) in a shoulder holster under my coat on a train from Ft. Lauderdale, FL up to Gainesville, FL. Nobody noticed. When the train arrived and my aunt and her family were there to greet us I assassinated my cousin. He never saw it comin'...

..somehwhere I still have my little gold Derringer..wish I still had the whole set...

That’s a nice one. Throughout my childhood I had several SAA cap guns, but not as cool as that.

I liked the commercial with Kurt Russel in it.

If boy Kurt Russel were to do this kind of play in public spaces nowadays, the SWAT team would be called on him.

Be careful calling that cap revolver a pistol; some here might get their panties in a wad.

I had a couple single action cap guns but not one of those, although I remember them.... They were too cool. .... Also recall "Greenie Stick-'em" caps and there were some other guns from Mattel that used them. They really had some cool, interesting toys back then in the "golden age" of classic toys.

Good memories. I had that with the swivel holster, the belt buckle derringer, and a Remington rolling block, all using the greenie stickem caps. All my allowance went to more caps

In the fwiw category: An entire roll of 50 standard red caps, if hit very hard with a hammer while all of them are still rolled up, will blow a decent sized chunk out of a concrete sidewalk.

I'm really glad I was a kid in the 50's and 60's...

“That’s swell!!”

Had cap guns as a boy, and disc thingy throwing guns, but man... that’s tops there.

Can someone familiar please clarify the mechanism? Am seeing a self-adhesive cap paper afixed to a reuseable solid base brass(?) case, and a soft maybe rubber material bullet press fit at the case mouth. How is the enery transfered?

The shootin' shell used a hard plastic bullet with prongs at the base end that fit and locked into a rim just inside the brass case neck. The case itself had a spring inside, that's what propelled the bullet. I'm not sure how the prongs were released, the force of the hammer may have jarred them loose or possibly the energy of the hammer strike was transferred to those long extensions which may have rested against the base.. They didn't have a lot of power to begin with so didn't go far, and with a smoothbore oversize barrel would often tumble as they flew which further limited range. They were still useful since they would definitely irritate a cat or one's sister, or both.

And speaking of Greenie Stik'm caps, there was a muzzle loading pistol made back then - a handgun version of a civil war musket - that used the stik'm caps to propel a hard cork ball which was loaded from the muzzle. The cap actually sent it's force through a flashhole to the back of the barrel somewhat like a real muzzle loader except obviously there was no main powder charge One cap would shoot the cork ball a few feet. However, being an experimental handloader even at a tender young age, I found that 6 of those caps stacked up and fired all at once would propel that ball hard enough to take a patch of skin off of one's victim at ranges of up to 6 or 8 feet, and leave a nice welt to boot.

It was great to be a kid in the 50's...

I had one of those too Jim, but I don't recall ever "magnumizing" it. Wish I had thought of it, I have a couple of cousins who could have stood a welt or two.