mail order "toy" pistol

[NM_Shooter]

Something fired off in my way-back machine of a brain and made me 'member something.

Does anybody remember that back in the 60's, the sporting magazines (Outdoor Life, Sports Afield) used to have an advertisement in the back for a small pistol that used miniature cartridges?  I think they sold for all of $5 or so.

As a kid, I desperately wanted one.  Go figure.  It might be fun to try and find one somewhere now.  I wish I had an old magazine to look at!

-f-

[Pox Eclipse]

Ask, and ye shall receive:

Kruger .12 caliber single shot pistol

(near the bottom of page 59 of Popular Science, November 1958)

[RainDog]

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

 

[NM_Shooter]

Yeah!  That's one of them.  They also had a revolver looking one too. 

I wonder where I can get one?  (auction arms here I come!)

[NM_Shooter]

Apologies for the link to another forum.  Is this against the rules?

Here is a thread on that pistol, and some history...

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=219380

[glenn kangiser]

Not a problem, Frank.  Interesting - I never heard of them.