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Cap guns

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Posted by paktype at 1:36 pm (PDT) on Fri June 24, 2011
I had a few of these. One was called the "Wasp" and another was called "Sarge". They could smell up a room from the sulfur in the caps.
Posted by Duff at 3:24 pm (PDT) on Fri June 24, 2011
I had a couple, too, but I don't recall them having names. Indoors? You used cap guns indoors? My evil twin remembers making smoke bombs by cutting the ends off strike-anywhere matches and putting a bunch of them in a ball of aluminum foil. Then I'd (sorry, he'd) ride around nearby neighborhoods on his bicycle, hurling them to the ground to scare little kids.
Posted by Gunny at 8:48 am (PDT) on Fri July 29, 2011
Had a great cap gun, resembled a .45 cal 'Tommy gun". Spring loaded to simulate automatic fire....it'd eat a roll of caps in under a minute. Yup, I fired mine in the house too.... the day I got (Christmas), down in the cellar. I was 6 or 7 and we had a massive blizzard going on outside, so doownstairs I went. Smoked the cellar out pretty good too!
Posted by Bob Wilson Jr at 9:14 am (PDT) on Fri July 29, 2011
My favorite capguns in the middle 1940's were a long-barrelled Colt 45 in which you had to feed a circular ring of caps onto the back of the cylinder, and also a .45 automatic that took a standard roll of caps. During WWTwo, metal gun toys were not available, so toy revolvers and automatics were made of painted, pressed sawdust. Of course they had no moving parts, so the sound of their being fired was created by one's speech, lips and tongue. I once left one of these out in the rain, and it literally melted away, leaving nothing more than a few curls of paint.
Posted by Balonna at 11:06 am (PDT) on Fri July 29, 2011
I (a girl) would love to unroll the caps, and then hit them with a stone to explode.
Posted by Rivvy at 9:40 am (PDT) on Sat July 30, 2011
My father used to fill cans with firecrackers...until we saw the kid with no hand...they had me fishing in a lake as a tot, snatched a bluegill out of my hand when I'd seen it gasping...then they gave it to me for dinner...headless, scaled...still grieve for it...my grandfather was bow hunting and didn't kill a buck clean, tracked it all day, gave it up then...some birds mate for life, and grieve...not nice...but I was tortured as a tot and recently, so I may be biased...still...
Posted by Sherry47856 at 9:20 pm (PST) on Wed December 19, 2012
We used to spread out the roll and use my dad's hammer.
Posted by RonM at 11:35 am (PDT) on Fri April 5, 2013
I had a Dick Tracy snub nose .38 and I had a rifle like The Rifleman, Lucas McCain from TV.

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