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Off Topic => Off Topic - Ideas, humor, inspiration => Topic started by: NM_Shooter on January 28, 2010, 07:08:45 PM

Title: mail order "toy" pistol
Post by: NM_Shooter on January 28, 2010, 07:08:45 PM
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-
Title: Re: mail order "toy" pistol
Post by: Pox Eclipse on January 28, 2010, 09:13:29 PM
Ask, and ye shall receive:

Kruger .12 caliber single shot pistol (http://books.google.com/books?id=SC0DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&lr=&rview=1&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q=&f=false)

(near the bottom of page 59 of Popular Science, November 1958)
Title: Re: mail order "toy" pistol
Post by: RainDog on January 28, 2010, 09:36:32 PM
You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

  :D
Title: Re: mail order "toy" pistol
Post by: NM_Shooter on January 28, 2010, 10:17:38 PM
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!)
Title: Re: mail order "toy" pistol
Post by: NM_Shooter on January 28, 2010, 10:22:44 PM
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

Title: Re: mail order "toy" pistol
Post by: glenn kangiser on January 29, 2010, 01:54:05 AM
Not a problem, Frank.  Interesting - I never heard of them.