Man" does this bring back memory's"

That's good stuff, Willy. Thanks for sharing.

Collecting 'coke' bottles and turning them in for the nickle they brought was a big thing for a kid that had a BB gun in need of feeding. The yards mowed and money saved for that first pellet gun had meaning, too. Feeding a ($40.00) Sheridan back in the day sure wasn't cheap.

Cheers,

J~

I too have many memories of that style of rifle, trust me that stock is quite robust, and in my dad's hand one hell of an a$$ warmer.

Looks alot like my 102. The main spring needs replaced(after 5 or 6 decades), but back when it was newer, it hit like a hammer.
I used 50# oil to keep it running. Shot it almost every day.
Back when the soda companies had their contests with prizes under the caps, we'd go to every machine in town and use gum and straws to retrieve them from the machines. We peeled tons of them hoping for the mythical $10 cap, but most were either a $1 or a free soda. We still managed to collect enough for BBs and pellets to keep going. The fun about it all was not getting caught. The machine owners seemed to believe that any caps that fell into the catch bin belonged to them, and would raise all kinds of Cain when they found them empty.
Good times.

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I was trying to clean up my gun room off and on for the last 3 days.Any hoot tucked in the corner with a cover half over it,i pulled out a old Daisy bb gun.I can't even remember were i got it?Well anyhoot cocked it and it firied"put a little trans oil in the oil hole on top and loaded it up.Man it fired harder then my co/2 bb and i hit a can too" man that did bring back some memory's?They did have a fancyer model their,i think it was the Red Rider model.Mine was $4.00 and that model was i think was $6.00 bucks.Mine had a plastic stock.I no this is going to sound a little weird to some of ya?but it took me 3 months to get it"i would bring in 25cents to 75cents a week.man when your only 8 years old and no body give's hist" you are a kid so pop bottle's and beer bottles down by the rail road tracks.That was pretty cool that old man would give me a reciept each time i would bring in some money.I think he gave me some bb with it?i wont go into the story about the pellet gun,but i carried buckets of water behind a building to the front to water plants .When i was all done the owner would give in 500 22cal. Benjamin pellets.Id open it up and small the peanut oil.God i hope the spell police are not out??

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my pc has spell check , or i would have many many errors !

That's the gun that started this whole hobby. And helped my son become a "songbird" expert.

Daisy was my first BB gun, I forget the model but it went through a lot of ammo. We collected drink bottles along the road and got a dime each. Kept us busy all summer. I think I still have one of those around here in working condition.

Rick H.