bang

[yancovitch]

remember capguns? probably only a few here that do.....

[ViperPilot]

We talking strip, or ring?



or



I had both; the strips were much more entertaining, especially when you took a single strip roll and smashed it with a rock, brick or other hard object!

My fascination for them went away though, when I discovered Estes Model Rockets.

[OldAirmail]

The strips were also more "true to life".

Just like the cowboy guns on TV.

[Romulus111VADT]

I remember when you hit that roll with a hammer they'd make one hell of a bang!

It normally would deafen you for several minutes.

[Fozzer]

We were all 7-year-old, gun-slinging Cowboys, with Six-shooter cap guns, protecting our territory against marauding Red Indians with their bows and arrows!

...it was the way the West was won........ after school!

Paul.... ... ...!

[yancovitch]

and i remember the smell....liked that:)

[FoMoCo63]

Take the ole Roy Rogers pistols, flip open the chamber that held the roll of caps, load, and you were set to go. Good memories of a era gone bye.

[H]

We were all 7-year-old, gun-slinging Cowboys, with Six-shooter cap guns, protecting our territory against marauding Red Indians with their bows and arrows! ...it was the way the West was won........ after school.

Hmmn... your side of the pond had already lost it -- but we also continued it in quite inaccurate reenactments of The Swampfox (we didn't always recognize the historical progression from muskets in our journey back in time -- mainly because cap muskets were harder for school kids to come by than authentic muskets).
Strange how youth are attracted to little explosions. We especially did strip cap scene in early grade school. Late grade school escalated to cherry bombs and atom pearls; five atom pearls, each barely larger than a BB, were packed in sawdust in a round, pressed-paper container. A classmate once removed them from the container and put them in his pocket. Forgetting, I believe he was in the school hallway when he later reached into that pocket; his leg and fingers were bloodied as the side of his pants were blown out...

[Rich Sawasdee]

Memories??

I still have two! Ring type - and still (well a few months ago) able to buy refills

Great for scaring the crows off away from my vegie patch in the back yard!

[expat]

remember capguns? probably only a few here that do.....

A chap I know collects them, his house is full wall to wall and the value of the stuff he has

Also the caps of my youth could make your ears ring. The caps my boys have today........I can fart louder.....!

Matt

[ozzy72]

I recently had to get Emi one for school. She decided to go to World Book Day as the new Miss Moneypenny, complete with Walther. Got it on Amazon from Germany along with a few strips of caps.
The neighbour's cat won't come near our garden thanks to the noise

[Bass]

.......
The neighbour's cat won't come near our garden thanks to the noise

Fozzer, do you read this

[Fozzer]

.......
The neighbour's cat won't come near our garden thanks to the noise

Fozzer, do you read this

I've run out of caps...

...I just creep up on them, and throw bricks now... ...!

Paul....Catapult..... ...!

[Hawkeye07]

Does anyone here remember "Greenie Stik-M-caps"? Mattel made them.

http://www.majormattmason.net/633.htm

Hawkeye

[Fozzer]

Does anyone here remember "Greenie Stik-M-caps"? Mattel made them.

http://www.majormattmason.net/633.htm

Hawkeye

An; "In your Dreams" moment...>>>>

The Los Angeles and New York City, and Chicago City Police Department, have confiscated all fire-arms, and provided their owners with Greenie Stik-M -Caps as replacements....

Paul.... .....!