mine was a really cool gun from a dollar store kinda like a airsoft gun but it had a detachable mag and fired plastic bullet shaped projectiles using a spring loaded pin. I'll see if I can find it so I can take some pictures.
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I had this old wood stock from a disassembled bolt-action .22 rifle. It was the kind that extended all the way up to the forward grip. It had the trigger mechanism on it, but the barrel, firing pin, everything else was gone.
I took a steel pipe & I took this old busted up scope, it was just the steel frame leftover, used a kind of pipe/hose clamp to hold it together. Then, I mounted the whole thing where the barrel would be. Drilled through it & put some screws through the barrel into the stock to hold it.
Then I hollowed out the back end of where the barrel hit the stock and pulled apart one of those old metal cowboy-style paper-cap guns and mounted the hammer in there. I don't remember how I mounted it, but it never fell out so I did it somehow...
I loved it...it wasn't the plasticy, lightweight feel. It was heavy, like a real gun, and was just fun.
I was about 8 or 9 at the time, if I remember correctly.
My other favorite was a 1911 .45 replica with a removable mag & shot those plastic linear caps you could load them into the mag.
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The toy pistol I remember most fondly was one of a pair cut out of a piece of 1x12 pine board by my father, to keep my brother and me out of his hair one day while he was building something. We had them for several years, and he periodically made them a little fancier and more detailed; they started out as just flat silhouettes. Eventually he converted them to rubber-band guns.
when I was a little older, my grandmother bought me a set of shiny "engraved" cap revolvers in fancy tooled and fringed holsters (with a big concho on each holster), along with a red cowboy hat. I thought I was Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers all rolled into one.
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My Dad bought me a replica soft metal 1911, he got my brother a replica luger. Working action fake bullets magazines worked. Man oh man we had fun playing Army.
My first gun was a large rubber pistol that fired ping pong balls, me and my younger brother each got one for Christmas, My mom was sick in Bed with the Flu and my dad was working double shifts at the mine so I was taking care of the house..I was 7 years old, and when I would go check on Mom and take her some soup, My little Brother would shoot the Glass balls off the Christmas tree then he would go hide, so I had to clean up broken glass in between....That was the year We voted Christmas out of the house because it traumatized me...
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When the A-team was a big show, they had this A-team Gun kit that had a removable stock, scope long barrel. The long barrel was convertable to a grenade launcher and had a tripod on it for that or using as a full auto sniper rifle. Also, with everything off the main piece, it was a pistol. I had a joy with that thing. Superglued and duct taped that gun many times.
I suppose the earliest toy gun I had was a cap gun revolver. Bought rolls of caps which popped and left smoke. Now that was big time fun. Later, I got a Red Ryder BB gun which was a big transition from the cap gun to my current collection of guns.
I suppose the earliest toy gun I had was a cap gun revolver. Bought rolls of caps which popped and left smoke. Now that was big time fun. Later, I got a Red Ryder BB gun which was a big transition from the cap gun to my current collection of guns.
Ahh I loved thoese paper cap cap guns.
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I had an old bolt action rifle. I guess now that I think about it, I think it was made after a M-1 Grand. Anyway, wood stock with metal barrel. Even had a spring loaded plastic bullet that would "show up" when you pulled back the bolt.
I had the then-standard "engraved chrome" capgun Colt revolver, and still have two 1:1 Luger models, the 4" model and the 6" Artillery Model - one is missing one grip panel. One day, I'll put real wood P08 grip panels on it. I had the Walther P38 too, but it got lost along the line. The have the working magazine, toggle action, the 'bullet' s even 'fired' out the barrel, and the gold-chrome casing is ejected by manual opertion. Very cool for a plastic gun.
But when I was young, I was a COMBAT junkie - loved that Tommygun Vic Morrow carried. I finally got one for Christmas one year - I was THE MAN in our Army games. Spring action with the red bit that ran in&out the muzzle to simulate firing. Very cool when you are nine years old!
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Actually come to think about it that 1911 was my "favorite" gun. My first toy gun was a cap gun based on the old Colt single action. Great memories there to.
My dad got me a Stallion 45. It had bullets that came apart, and you could load a round cap where the primer goes. There was a hole up the bullet so the gases could escape out the barrel. Yeehawww!
It also had a very sophisticated gun belt and holster.
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I had a lot of cap guns back then, but most of them were junk and wouldn’t reliably fire the caps. The best Shooter was a Pocket Colt look alike, with nearly 100% Bang rate. We felt rich when we bought the Big Box for 20 cents, the normal box was a Nickel. Later on we got frustrated with the cap guns and smashed entire boxes with big rocks. The rock particles would sting our faces. I can’t hear so good no more, I can still see.. Maybe that’s when my hearing went downhill.
The all-time most beautiful toy gun I had, was a near full size replica of a Colt single action 45 with real brass shells you could put a round cap into, then the bullet. Nothing came out the barrel though. We were safe. It came in a beautiful leather holster. The manufacturer put an N where the Colt emblem was. My Mom thought it was too real, and it disappeared one day. That REALLY warped me for life. It brings big bucks at the collector shows now.(Edit:Same one as Father Times below?)
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When i was a kid we had a vast selection of toy guns,some had bullets that you took apart and inserted small round caps,put them back together and loaded them into the cylenders and shot,some even shot caps and were water guns at the same time.
We had single action guns that took the cap loaded bullets through the swingout gate just like real single actions,revolvers that had top break and cylenders like some old American and English guns,and swing out cylenders like more modern revolvers.
We also had the full moon caps earlier mentioned tha fit in top break revolvers and swing out cylenders.
My favorite was the single action,loading gate that took the bullets that we charged with small round caps,so real,at the time.
Of course later there were roll caps guns that were more convenient to load,a whole roll of shots between loeadings,but they lacked the reality of the previos toys.
Now we have a bunch of guns that are far more advanced including air-soft,the old ones can;t compete with them,but in their day the oldies were a lot of fun.
Favorite toy gun as a kid. 
so I had to clean up broken glass in between....That was the year We voted Christmas out of the house because it traumatized me...
