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06-10-2023, 11:31 AM | #1 |
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Anyone have one as a kid?
I had a Marksman air pistol when I was a kid. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. It looked like a 1911 and shot BB's, .177 caliber pellets and darts. Yup - darts! It was a single shot with pellets & darts and a repeater with BB's. It wasn't all that accurate, but at close range it wasn't bad. It was a lot of fun to play with.
My dad had a new truck that he parked in the barn. The English sparrows and startlings used to nest in the barn and poop on his new truck. I got paid a nickel for every one I got. Between the Marksman and Red Ryder carbine, it kept me in BB's. I also used to kill marauding squirrels in the peach tree for mom for .22 ammo. I guess I never realized until now that I was a paid assassin.
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06-10-2023, 10:03 PM | #2 |
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Yes I did. Also a Red Ryder. Forgot all about them.
Thanks for a pleasant memory rman.
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06-11-2023, 09:13 AM | #3 |
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I had one of those Marksman pistols when I was a kid. My dad bought it for me. In N.J. you had to be 18 to even look at BB guns in the stores.
I just shot at cans in the backyard.
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