Tuning 1919 Daisy

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Hope all you dont mind another Vintage bb gun post. After all they are Spingers, and my winter time passion.

I traded a friend of mine for this working 1919 Daisy 12 model 29. It works good. Well kind of. In need to locate a shot tube for it. I will however do a total restoration to it. It will be waiting for a tube when I locate one. The The boys name is carved in it and the stock shot with bb's. Some say it decreases its value. But I believe it adds to its history. 

Your first thought. that's a toy.
it is small. The overall length of 31″ is about the same as other small Daisy's the outer dimensions of the gun are positively toy looking. Yet, cocking takes adult strength. Daisy had not yet moved the cocking lever screw, which they would in the following years to cut the cocking in half. They shoot as hard as a Red Ryder around 350 or so fps. 


It’s a single-shot that shoots both BBs and darts
This is a single shot. You load it by dropping a BB down the muzzle

The gun weighs 1 lb. 14-5/8 oz.

The length of pull is 11.75-inches. 

The overall length is 30.5 inches.

The butt has a Winchester carbine butt curve describing rifle buttplate shapes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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