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That's a model of Benjamin, right?

Nope

Two different makers?

At least in the old days. I don't know what company owns who now.

I can't remember how old I was when I got my first Daisy. I do know that to cock it, I had to hold the muzzle between my feet and lean down on the lever. I wore out a number of Daisys during my youth. One of my pastimes was setting up toy soldiers in the dried-out garden plants in the fall and seeing if I could get them all with one load of BBs in the Model 99. I also recovered and reused BBs whenever possible.

LOL. I gave one of my nephews a Red Ryder when he was 5.
His mother, my sister in law, and a Libertard was extremely pissed.
I told her not to worry, he’s such a little shrimp, he won’t be able to cock it for a few years. So I was teaching him to shoot it, and had to cock the action for him.
A couple of hours later, we looked out the window into the backyard where he was playing. He had gotten the B.B. Gun out of the closet where his Dad had stashed it, and was cocking the Red Ryder in the exact manner you described!
Me and the little brother laughed out assed off. He didn’t have any B.B.’s in it, but the sister in law was not amused. 😬

And we used to shoot our little plastic Army men, with ours too, when we were kids. 🤠

Yep. GI Joe, too.

They were .22 caliber. I had one too, don’t remember the Model #, though.

I got a Daisy Pump from my dad that was his BB gun as a kid.I remember having the measles and being stuck in the house for a week.Some kids were playing in front of our house.One kid bent over and I shot him in the ass from the second story bedroom.He ran away yelling Ma,I got stung by a bee.Years later I learned that was a fatal shot inTexas.

Benjamins were 177 and 22. Sheridans were 20.

We must have sold both. Don't they all look about alike?

342? I'd go look but I have a pup snoozing on my lap at the moment.

There was a similarity, but the Sheridan had a longer section of stock on the pump handle.

benjamin had a corncob style pump handle too.

Those were even older. Benjamin switched to a fuller, smooth handle by the mid 70's when I got mine.

Yep.

Gave mine to my little brother years ago. He used it when he lived there in Smithson Valley to chase the deer out of his wife’s flowerbeds. 😬

i remember that the benjamins and sheridans were the rich kids guns. or the kids whose parents had a credit card anyway. i had a crosman 160 until it got stolen in quebec and then a crosman 7600. still got the 7600 but it needs seals. i had this same conversation with my wife when we first got married and i was looking at a blue streak. i was too cheap to buy it but it ended up under the tree on christmas morning. it laid waste to a lot of ground hogs and rabbits when i lived in the 'burbs. now they get the 22. the sheridan needs seals too. been too lazy to look into it. not sure if its an easy job for a non-gunsmith type like me. might need to consult a professional.

Railfie in his golden years ! 😜

Sorry Huntsman, I couldn’t resist. Your probably a lot younger than I am.
Did you just buy that or is that an old original model ?

I’ve still got my Dad’s that he got for Christmas in 1944.

Might have to go by me another one with one of the Academy Gift Cards I got for Christmas. 🤠