Something a little different or Gun-a-holic Part II

[Major 2]

Way back when, I was probably the best armed KID in my neighborhood range.

I recall, Mattel Shoot'n' sixes and a Fanner 50,
Daisy 1894 Spittin' Image BB Rifle, & several other Daisy BB Rifles
I had a Mattel Babiy Rolling Block that shot the shooting shell bullets.
Numerus other Mattel, Nickols, Hubley and Marx guns of all shapes and sizes including Tommy Guns, Burp guns. I even recall a Double Barrel SXS cork firing shotgun.

I suppose somewhere about 6th grade or 7th. grade Jr High, or maybe puberty, they were regulated to the back of a closet.
The fate of most of them, packed off to the Salvation Army for some new up and coming little neighborhood terror.
Now gone but fondly remembered, I'm quite sure embedding my lifelong fascination in all things shooting.

Well, I ran across this little GEM tucked away some 62 years.
It is a Hubley Colt 1911 (no Idea what arrangement, Hubley had with COLT for the branding)
It was made in 1960 and in remarkable original condition, though the removeable magazine had gone missing, but the plating finish is rust free with no corrosion.
Just a relic from my childhood, it's refreshing to see it was made in the USA (you won't see that anymore).
And while I was at it, I discovered my old Cub Scout pocketknife, I carried IN SCHOOL as a scout was always prepared... circa 1956 made by AMERICA IMPERIAL here in the good old USA 
with real bone scales and carbon (holds an edge) steel.

I might also mention my Remington Model 341 22 long Rifle, I had it since Dad gave it to me in 1957.

Just some treasures from my by-gone era. 


   

[Abilene]

Cool!  I've never seen one of those 1911's.  I assume it is sized for a kid's hand.  Is it a cap gun?

[Major 2]

Yes and yes ...the removable magazine is missing, it carried the caps and the spring contact connection to the hammer...
Compared to today's toy gun it was miles ahead in quality.

[Baltimore Ed]

Nice 'Colt' there Major deux. My favorite childhood toy was an Erector set in the red steel box with an electric motor. Had a neat set of reversible gears built on the motor where I could build a working draw bridge. A great toy. Wonder I didn't become an ironworker. Had an Uncle Otts who was an ironworker who said he worked on the Bromo Seltzer building in Baltimore.

[Major 2]

Cool memories 

[Coffinmaker]

  How Cool 

As a teenager growing up, I wanted very badly to be a Duck Hunter with my Uncle, who had a California Duck Club.  My Mom bought me a Winchester M12 so I could go Duck Hunting with said Uncle.  Many years ago, I had a Vent Rib added and Trap Wood with a complete re-blue.  Have no intention of ever selling it.

Play Safe Out There

[RRio]

Way back when, I was probably the best armed KID in my neighborhood range.

I recall, Mattel Shoot'n' sixes and a Fanner 50,
Daisy 1894 Spittin' Image BB Rifle, & several other Daisy BB Rifles
I had a Mattel Babiy Rolling Block that shot the shooting shell bullets.
Numerus other Mattel, Nickols, Hubley and Marx guns of all shapes and sizes including Tommy Guns, Burp guns. I even recall a Double Barrel SXS cork firing shotgun.

We must be the same age, Major. I grew up with the very same stuff, and watched "horse operas" with my Dad on Saturday and Sunday nights. Born in '52.   

[Major 2]

That'd make you 70 or so... I'd have tad few more on you.
Mr. Truman had just come-from-behind to win an upset victory. 

[Mogorilla]

I had a Hubley Luger.   I am guessing the Dime Store in town had little turn over as i got it when I was seven in 1973.   It was a prop when my sister was in the sound of music.  It came back in pieces.   Grrrrr.

[Major 2]

I had/have one of those, now that you mention it.
I moved to this property in 1987 from Miami, and I still have a sealed box or two packed back then, unopened in all these years.  35 years
I believe there is a Luger in that box, not sure if it a Hubley though.
It's out in the Garage, Ill go look tomorrow.

[Froogal]

Apparently I am a wee bit older than some of you. When I was a kid, there were plenty of Hubley toy guns in the Woolworths store, but those guns were nearly ALL  of the cowboy variety, with a few semi-autos of the WW2 variety, along with helmets and such.

I remember one time being in the store and a good friend of mine was also there. We looked at the WW2 guns, and both of us, almost at the same time, said "who would want one of those"?

[RRio]

Those were the days.

[Baltimore Ed]

I remember having a revolver, probably Mattel, that had potmetal bullets with brass 'cases' that slipped on them. A Greeny Stickum Cap went on the bullet and under the brass. Load them in your revolver and shoot some bandits. When you reloaded you would scrape the cap remains off the bullet on the curb. Repeat as necessary. My first adventure in reloading.

[Buckaroo Lou]

Like many of you I had cap guns that used the caps that came in a roll. You would shoot several times and tear off that part of the roll that had the expended caps and continue shooting.

My only BB gun was a hand-me-down Daisy that had no front sight. I could see the BB when it was shot so I learned to judge the distance to my target by watching the arch of the BB. The same principal used when shooting a basketball. I became very proficient with that BB gun and could shoot it as well as my friends could theirs with sights.

As far as war games was concerned I did not have any of the weapons other than an old WWII bayonet, but I did have a steel US infantryman helmet that made your neck sore if you wore it for very long, a belt that held a canteen, a canteen, and a backpack.

[Russ T Chambers]

I remember having a revolver, probably Mattel, that had potmetal bullets with brass 'cases' that slipped on them. A Greeny Stickum Cap went on the bullet and under the brass. Load them in your revolver and shoot some bandits. When you reloaded you would scrape the cap remains off the bullet on the curb. Repeat as necessary. My first adventure in reloading.

Ed
I had one of those!  If I remember right it was bright silver, with a gold cyclinder and ivory grips.  I was big and heavy and would've made a great club if I ran out of caps, and I could muster the strength to swing it.

[Abilene]

I had the Mattel Fanner 50, with "shootin' shells" that shot out the plastic bullet.  Mine had the stag grips.  And of course, we had lots of the others, the cavalry carbine, the belt buckle derringer, etc.

[Froogal]

Like many of you I had cap guns that used the caps that came in a roll. You would shoot several times and tear off that part of the roll that had the expended caps and continue shooting.

My only BB gun was a hand-me-down Daisy that had no front sight. I could see the BB when it was shot so I learned to judge the distance to my target by watching the arch of the BB. The same principal used when shooting a basketball. I became very proficient with that BB gun and could shoot it as well as my friends could theirs with sights.

As far as war games was concerned I did not have any of the weapons other than an old WWII bayonet, but I did have a steel US infantryman helmet that made your neck sore if you wore it for very long, a belt that held a canteen, a canteen, and a backpack.

I also had the cap guns that used the roll caps. I remember one time squeezing the trigger as fast as I could, and used up an entire roll of caps without stopping. I learned that a cowboy should NOT touch the hammer after doing such a thing. OUCH!!!

[Crow Choker]

Major---That Hubley Colt 1911 is an interesting piece. Never heard of them before, would be interesting to handle and examine one to see how the innards work. If they were made after 1960, they would have been available after my paper cap gun days, but sure is neat. I'll have to search the internet and see if any info is there.

Regards to 'my cap gun' days, I had a number of them back 'in the day'. The only ones I can really recall is a Roy Rogers double set (chromed pot metal of course) that had a double buscadero belt, light tan color with alot of concho's and trim. Pretty fancy rig in the day. My cap gun days were around the 1955-60 era. I recall it was a big deal to get ahold of the 'big box' of rolled caps vs a box that maybe only had 10 rolls or so. Simple pleasures. All of us elementary school kids brought our cap guns to school alot, strapped them on at recess and refought the west and Dodge City. Now poor kids would be sent home, expelled, and the parents probably sent to some reeducation location.

Had several lever Winchester style rifles back then, one that shot caps. Had a double barrel 'sawed off' shotgun that ya cocked by breaking it like a real one, it shot corks but many times when lacking corks, I made my own ammo by using whatever soft rigid material I could find and that would work in the scattergun--early reloading days. 

All those Western firearms disappeared with time, but back in the nineties when going through a building my Dad used as a weld shop on the farm, I found one of the Roy Rogers 45's on a shelf. Grips missing, some chrome missing, but still functional. Had a genuine Daisy Red Rider BB gun when cap guns lost their appeal, had a saddle ring. It's MIA---those were the days. Fond memories. 

[Major 2]

Mid 50's for me too, CC
Mattel, Ideal, Marx, Nickols, & Hubley were the big shots in the industry as I recall.

I had a "Have Gun Will Travel" single gun set the gun had wood grips and the holster was reasonable quality leather.

[Tascosa Joe]

I had a Stallion .45.  I believe they were made by Nichols.  It was the size of a real Colt SAA.  I got a 2 gun set for Christmas about 1955.  It had 6 bullets like the ones Balt Ed talked about in his above post.  I completely wore out the first set and got another one when I 12 or so.  2 many moves and 2 many family disruptions for me to have a clue where they are today.  Probably in one of Amarillo's landfills.