Yes, that is an actual, honest-to-goodness Red Ryder BB Gun, the same one made famous in "A Christmas Story"
There are a few subtle differences between my son's Red Ryder BB gun and Ralphie's. On the plus side, in today's day and age of everything being bigger and stronger and faster, the Red Ryder Carbine now holds 650 shots. On the minus side, no compass in the stock.
Many tin cans will meet their demise at the muzzle of this beast. And, with any kind of luck, my son will not shoot his eye out (please note the safety glasses!). He has demonstrated to me that he knows the Four Rules of Gun Safety by heart; he has shown consistently good gun-handling skills with his toy guns; after the Cub Scout weekend last month I am confident that he will be a safe and careful shooter. He will, of course, only be allowed to use the BB gun under my supervision, at least for the time being.
And another gunnie is born in the Volksrepublik of Massa-fucking-chusetts. That sound you hear is John Kerry sobbing like a little girl...
That is all.
13 comments:
AWESOME! I bought one for my son a couple of months ago and he loves it. The whole "aim" thing isn't happening, but there's nothing better than his face lighting up in the backyard when he makes a milk-jug full of water pee everywhere.
Just ... no steel soup cans. BBs bounce. Heh. Nearly shot my OWN eye out!
Before you know it, your son will be re-loading his own ammo, cleaning his .50 BMG, and doing a bayonet charge on annoying children's television toys just like dear ol' Dad. Maybe that's why the anti-folk are so terrified!
Heh heh heh...
When I saw "tin" cans I of course mean aluminum cans like what soda comes in... I will, of course, have to sight in the rifle first... ;)
It shouldn't be long before he's coming to the gun club with me - heck, he wanted to come to the Bloggershoot! That's when the Ithaca Arms Model M-49 I showed a couple weeks back comes in. Figure I'll move from that to the Marlin 39A lever rifle to the Remington 66 semi-auto.
Then I guess I'm just going to have to step up and get an AR-15... So the boy can move up, of course. It's for the children and all.
Heh.
The most interesting thing I noted about my son's Red Ryder (which he graciously allowed me to shoot once in a while), was that one can follow the flight of the pellet visually. This allows adjustments for the rather steep drop the pellet experiences at longer ranges, and can lead to impressing the lad with hits on soda cans wayyyyy out there.
I suggest that after any significantly good shot, you look satisfied, hand the Red Rider back to him, and let him try. This will improve your reputation as a deadeye shot over time, as he will only remember the hits, not the sighting shots.
"John Kerry sobbing like a little girl..."
There's no simile in that sentence. That's like saying, "The apple tasted like an apple."
Let me be the first to offer Kerry a xtra large crying towel.
JayG,
I know where you can get the companion Leg Lamp. CHEAP !!!
Let me know . . .
- Brad
"no compass in the stock."
They should come with a GPS receiver these days...
"I know where you can get the companion Leg Lamp. CHEAP !!!"
You have to watch out for the cheap ones. My sister-in-law got one for my brother for x-mas and it turned out to be a 1/4 scale miniature. :(
Nah, that can't be legal in the PRM, is it ?!
I would figure a FID would be needed for posession of a single BB, and the 650-round capacity would pust it up to a class A LTC ?
I can get a 40% discount on this 20" tall leg lamp. Any takers?
http://www.catalogfavorites.com/itemdy00.asp?c=&T1=V64303&SKW=+leg%20lamp&GEN1=&PageNo=1
That's awesome Jay, my Dad got me one when I was a kid growing up on the North shore. I spent many a day shooting targets of all sorts from my bedroom windows which faced the backyard. Ahhhh...the early 70's! Those were the days when your neighbors thought nothing of a kid with a gun harmlessly plinking around the yard; these days?...I hate to think about it. It's depressing.
It must be said:
Mmmmm .... Lever Gun!
My sister now proclaims herself to be from Massachussetts. My husband and I hunt. We also hike. We hike and hunt at the same time (First time I've ever seen 13 deer in one day!). She made the commment to me, "I can't believe you hunt. What do you do, stand in a tree all day?"
She goes hiking. Just to hike. Never hunted anything a day in her life. Never fired a gun. Ah, the uninformed...
There never was a compass in the stock of the Red Ryder BB Gun. It was in the Buck Jones model. The writer of the movie or the writer of the book that the movie is based on was either confused, or just added this line to make it more fun. It never came with a "think that tells time" either. LOL.
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