Never Too Many Toys

[del]

this was the gold standard in my neighborhood, with greenie caps lol

Wow! That one is much more realistic than my Roy Rogers cap gun.

What are "greenie caps?"

I see. Interesting.

Round peel-off caps were stuck on the end of the realistic cartridge casing. Very sophisticated design -- and much more advanced than the paper roll of caps. I'll assume the gun had a fully functional, rotating cylinder. I never even saw those superbly realistic toy guns or I would have had one. I guess by the time they came out I was playing with my S&W .357, etc.

My cap guns were circa 1940s, early '50s. Do you recall when yours was released?

late 50's, early 60's would be my guess

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

this was the gold standard in my neighborhood, with greenie caps lol

Wow! That one is much more realistic than my Roy Rogers cap gun.

What are "greenie caps?"

I see. Interesting.

Round peel-off caps were stuck on the end of the realistic cartridge casing. Very sophisticated design -- and much more advanced than the paper roll of caps. I'll assume the gun had a fully functional, rotating cylinder. I never even saw those superbly realistic toy guns or I would have had one. I guess by the time they came out I was playing with my S&W .357, etc.

My cap guns were circa 1940s, early '50s. Do you recall when yours was released?

late 50's, early 60's would be my guess

Shootin' Shells/Greenies were late 50's.

 

[del]

i was born in '54, and i just remember wanting one

 

[rightwinger]

this was the gold standard in my neighborhood, with greenie caps lol

Wow! That one is much more realistic than my Roy Rogers cap gun.

What are "greenie caps?"

I see. Interesting.

Round peel-off caps were stuck on the end of the realistic cartridge casing. Very sophisticated design -- and much more advanced than the paper roll of caps. I'll assume the gun had a fully functional, rotating cylinder. I never even saw those superbly realistic toy guns or I would have had one. I guess by the time they came out I was playing with my S&W .357, etc.

My cap guns were circa 1940s, early '50s. Do you recall when yours was released?

I always had caps on paper rolls

Those and pop guns where you pumped it, stuck the barrel in the dirt and fired a dirt plug at your friends

 

[del]

caps on paper rolls were good too.

put the whole roll on a rock and drop another rock on top

repeat

 

[rightwinger]

caps on paper rolls were good too.

put the whole roll on a rock and drop another rock on top

repeat

We couldn’t buy firecrackers

We would buy paper caps, carefully remove the gunpowder and make a small firecracker

 

[MikeK]

i was born in '54, and i just remember wanting one

I'm an old fart so I guess I just outgrew that stage of cap-gun evolution and moved into the big stuff. Otherwise I'm sure I would have had one of those.

 

[del]

i was born in '54, and i just remember wanting one

I'm an old fart so I guess I just outgrew that stage of cap-gun evolution and moved into the big stuff. Otherwise I'm sure I would have had one of those.

and a coonskin cap