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I guess none of you had cap guns at the time your parents were buying you trains? Very sad.

I liked seeing the Greenie Stick em Caps.We only got those at Christmas cause they cost a lot more.

I think a box of 5 rolls was like 10 or 15 cents.Boy those were the days.

Do they even make Caps anymore? I figure with the noise mandates the new ones would go sush instead of bang

David

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Originally posted by DPC:
I liked seeing the Greenie Stick em Caps.We only got those at Christmas cause they cost a lot more.

I think a box of 5 rolls was like 10 or 15 cents.Boy those were the days.

Do they even make Caps anymore? I figure with the noise mandates the new ones would go sush instead of bang

David

Yes you can still buy the caps. The cap gun on the left is a Fanner 50 and a Hubley Colt 45 on the right.

I had one of those, complete with the firing bullets and "Greenie Stick-em Caps." Didn't fan it because my father (an engineer) pointed out the mechanical folly in doing so with a target. Try getting a toy like that made today. Between the chocking hazard, the projectiles, and political correctness, it wouldn't happen.

Years ago, I modified a Lionel exploding boxcar to 'explode' a cap when the mousetrap tripped. Piled 3 on top of one another and BANG! Flash of light and gunpowder smell like a real explosion!

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Originally posted by Chuck Sartor:
Years ago, I modified a Lionel exploding boxcar to 'explode' a cap when the mousetrap tripped. Piled 3 on top of one another and BANG! Flash of light and gunpowder smell like a real explosion!

Now that's what I'm talking about.

I had the Hubley .45 when I was a kid, I remember the bullets had a brass casing that slipped over the bullet. You'd slip-in a greenie cap or a carefully cut cap from the red strips that were so easy to buy back then. I also had a Daisy lever action pop-gun, and a rather futuristic-looking hand gun (with a rocket ship embossed on the grips) that used strips of waxed paper instead of caps. Don't know how it worked, but it snapped a hole in the paper and produced as loud a bang as a cap gun. Thanks for bringing back those memories.

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What does my little collection have to do with toy trains?

Hmmmm, that Daisy is made of stamped tin, just like a tinplate toy train?

My brother got a chrome plated, plastic snubnosed .38 pistol for Christmas one year. I think it was the year after my brother and I got our Lionel train and Marx play set. The gun had a working 6 shot cylinder that you fed with shells. The shells were brass, with a spring inside, and a gray plastic bullet that you snapped in place to load it. You stuck a round greenie cap on the back where the primer would go. Flip open the side of the gun at the back of the cylinder, and load it one round at a time. My uncle said you could not tell the difference between it and the real thing. Sadly, I don't know what became of it. We always used our toys hard.

Chris
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Originally posted by handyandy:

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What does my little collection have to do with toy trains?

Hmmmm, that Daisy is made of stamped tin, just like a tinplate toy train?

Close but no cigar. I picked up the cap guns at this months TCA meet in Seattle, WA. I had a Fanner 50 [made 59-65] but only dreamed of having the Hubley Colt 45. My Red Rider was a birthday present when I turned eight. I did not shoot my eye out but my brother did. I have a bb in my hand to this day.

Chuck Sartor you beet me to it I did the same with my exploding box cars, used greenies as I remember.

When I first got an allowance I saved up for a cadet Rifle, we had a pet cemitary by the side drive, while the rifle didn't shoot each Memorial day I would go out to the Pet Cemitary and fire over the graves.

I'm shure I used my allowance at other times to buy train stock.

I still have my Nichols .45 revolver. The bullets were lead with brass casings. I would use the greenie stickem caps two or three at a time. At night there was a great flash around the cylinder when it was fired. Great stuff! This was before I got into trains.

The snub nose .38 was a Dick Tracy kit that came with a shoulder holster. I had one and the Fanner 50. Did you know if that you sell one of these antiques that you have to permanently mount an orange plug to the barrel that can not be removed?

My kids have a RR BB gun, and a Colt 45 cap gun that looks amazingly realistic (I took the orange tip off of the cap gun). The RR BB gun shoots pretty accurately. The boys set up plastic bottles and hit them pretty easily at 40 feet.

Don't mess with my train set or I'll shoot you!



Doug

Had the Fanner 50, the Nichols 45 - oh, I still do! Had a BB gun; 2, actually,.
and I still have one of them. No horses' head, though; very Godfather-ish. The BB gun still used
for the occasional armadillo digging up the yard. Can't hurt them - they're, well, armored.

The BB guns were not "stamped tin"; tin is a very expensive metal used to plate
steel to retard rust, as in "tin can". The Daiseys were stamped, painted sheet steel.

Almost fell out of my chair when I read this thread. My brother and I were just talking about the Mattel snub nose .38 police special this past Christmas while reminiscing about our "favorite presents." We both really wanted that gun one year. I think it was '61 or '62.

I got it, but he didn't.

Great memories.

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Did you know if that you sell one of these antiques that you have to permanently mount an orange plug to the barrel that can not be removed?

Given my uncle's comment about how real it looked, I'm not at all surprised. The only issue I would have with doing that is ruining the collectability. That said, the law is the law.

Chris
LVHR

PS It must have been the Dick Tracy special, as I do remember a black plastic/rubber shoulder holster, now that you mention it.