Since Friday happens to be Christmas Day, and I don't plan on being anywhere near my computer, I figured I'd post my Friday Gun Pr0n a day early. I was racking my brain trying to think of a suitable picture; I wanted something that tied in with the holiday, and was coming up blank for a gun that I could relate to Christmas. I thought about posting a picture of a firearm I'd like to get for Christmas, when out of the blue I thought of the perfect thing:
Red Ryder .177 Caliber Carbine
Yes, that is an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle you see under our Christmas tree (although to be truthful I bought it for TheBoy a while back). I couldn't think of a more fitting gun to have under the tree for the Friday gun picture for Christmas (Eve) Day.
Just don't shoot your eye out, kid.
That is all.
6 comments:
That looks like the 650 shot model. The 200 shot range model had a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time. :)
Seriously, even as a kid I guess I was a bit of a gun geek, 'cause I never wanted a red ryder. I remember knowing even back then that it's low fps spring piston made it a rather week choice for my $20 (or whatever it cost). My first air rifle was a crosman 760. As I remember, it was about the same price as a red ryder, but being it was a pump style (really, who actually followed that "never more then 10 pumps!" warning?) it had a lot more power then the red ryder. It could also shoot the more accurate pellets, but they were a lot more money then BBs for a kid to buy (remember when the corner 5 and dime sold BBs to 10yr old kids?) so those were only used for "competition" against other kids.
Watched that movie with my daughter last night while wrapping presents - one of our mandatory Christmas movies, along with "Elf", "Christmas Vacation" and "It's a Wonderful Life". I'm a new visitor to your blog, and I really enjoy it. I used to live in the communist republic of New Jerseystan, but now enjoy the gun friendliness of Missouri. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
HankH
Heh. My first was a Crosman 760, too. I figured I'd drop the $30 on the Red Ryder for the tip 'o' the keyboard to "A Christmas Story" and then get him a real air rifle down the road.
Or just move him up to .22s...
Oh, and whe I went to buy the kid his first BB gun, the Crosman 760 (and just about every other starter bb gun) has a plastic stock now instead of wood, blah. Sadly, the only inexpensive BB guns with wood stocks I saw were made in China. He ended up with a Daisy 880 which is still plastic but multipump and a rifled barrel, which is something my crosman didn't have.
Started on a 760 myself. Dad turned it over to the PD when he moved out of state (why?!). 10 years later I bought my first home, and maybe 3 years afyer that I was poking around in the rafters over the shed. There sat a 760 with a belly full of BBs :-)
careful you'll shoot your eye out...
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