Cap Gun That Shoots Cork Balls
Smoking357
howdy, was it neat. It looked like a Pirate's gun, and you rammed a cork ball
down the barrel. Then, you put a regular cap from ordinary roll caps on the pan
and fired. The cap released enough gas into the barrel to shoot the cork ball
out the barrel.
It was very cool, and I want another, but I can't find it. Anyone?
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Pete
I would bet some LEO on a stat attack would consider such a toy as a handgun.
Imagine the cry from polititicans when this hit the press. That would give
the ATF full authority to raid all toy stores for these illegal handguns that
shoot untracable wooden bullets. I know I'd sleep more soundly at night
knowing these useless assault weapons were no longer available.
mountai...@webtv.net
much like the one your asking about (I had one
to) but I dont think it shoots the cork balls !?
call @ 1-800-487-2684 for catalog or go to www.pantherprimitives.com to
see what their about and order a catalog (full catalog not available on
the site!!!)
Bing
Robert R. Hollingsworth
I missed the original post but....
The folks that made the KADET toy drill rifles, I believe this was a
company named Paris, made both a pistol and a long gun in the early
1960's that fires a cork ball with a "Greenie" stick-em cap. The cork
bal fit loosly down the barrel and was loaded from the muzzle. The cap
was stuck to the place the hammer strikes on the lockwork. It did not
have much "umph" but was neat.
Several toy companies made toy guns that launched hollow plastic
"bullets" that resembled a bullet jacket with the force of a paper cap.
I had a Marx (I believe) that looked like a .45 auto that took a paper
cap in a holder in the breech and the bullet was loaded from the muzzle
over a spiget. The breech had a small hole leading to the spiget and if
the cap was correctly placed the gas from the detonation of the cap
launched the "bullet" with a good deal more force than the Paris guns.
Another kid I knew had a "winchester lever action" that was actually a
single shot that "fired" a cartridge that had a cap holder on one end
and a spigot on the other one loaded with a hollow plastic "bullet".
I suspect that such toys left the market when some Mom turned out to be
right when she said "You'll shoot your sister's eye out," and then got a
lawyer to sue the company that made the toy she let her kid have. Or it
could have been a Dad.
-Bob Hollingsworth
David Steuber
potato spuds. You stuck this thin in the potato and put it in the
cylinder (which didn't revolve) and a cap would launch the bit of
potato some 15 feet!
Cap guns used to be such wonderful toys. Are they still available?
I've had several types during my child-hood, but only one that fired
anything. What would the liberals think? Toy guns. What about toy
serin? Oh, wait, we had stink bombs! Heh heh heh.
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#I had one of these when I was a kid, and I haven't seen one in years. Boy
#howdy, was it neat. It looked like a Pirate's gun, and you rammed a cork ball
#down the barrel. Then, you put a regular cap from ordinary roll caps on the pan
#and fired. The cap released enough gas into the barrel to shoot the cork ball
#out the barrel.
My mother still has mine, purchased at Walt Disney World
in the summer of 1975. It wouldn't be too difficult to make your
own, I wouldn't think, but I've not seen one since at least 1980.
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What the09
From: smoki...@aol.com (Smoking357)
Date: 5/27/99 4:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time
Message-id: <7ikh1a$5t$1...@xring.cs.umd.edu>
I had one of these when I was a kid, and I haven't seen one in years. Boy
howdy, was it neat. It looked like a Pirate's gun, and you rammed a cork ball
down the barrel. Then, you put a regular cap from ordinary roll caps on the pan
and fired. The cap released enough gas into the barrel to shoot the cork ball
out the barrel.
It was very cool, and I want another, but I can't find it. Anyone?
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Picked up 2 of them at a local gun show, $ 15 with the cork balls !! The guy
even threw in a " kntucky pistol" same deal with the cork balls .
Got one for x-mas 1974>> I couln't shoot my eye out with that !!
hunt...@gmail.com
# I had one of these when I was a kid, and I haven't seen one in years. Boy
# howdy, was it neat. It looked like a Pirate's gun, and you rammed a cork ball
# down the barrel. Then, you put a regular cap from ordinary roll caps on the pan
# and fired. The cap released enough gas into the barrel to shoot the cork ball
# out the barrel.
#
# It was very cool, and I want another, but I can't find it. Anyone?
The last time i saw mine was while dodging it after using my mothers backside as a
sighting board. It was a Kentucky pistol style as well but i have never seen another like it.
Simeon Nevel
# On Thursday, May 27, 1999 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Smoking357 wrote:
# # I had one of these when I was a kid, and I haven't seen one in
# years. Boy # howdy, was it neat. It looked like a Pirate's gun, and
# you rammed a cork ball # down the barrel. Then, you put a regular cap
# from ordinary roll caps on the pan # and fired. The cap released
# enough gas into the barrel to shoot the cork ball # out the barrel.
# # It was very cool, and I want another, but I can't find it. Anyone?
# The last time i saw mine was while dodging it after using my mothers
# backside as a sighting board. It was a Kentucky pistol style as well
# but i have never seen another like it.
#
#
If you do a Google search for "cork ball cap gun" you'll find that there is
considerable nostalgia for these devices. There does not appear to be any
place to buy one however.
They're a product liability lawsuit waiting to happen.
Simeon
R.L. Horn
<hunt...@gmail.com> wrote:
# On Thursday, May 27, 1999 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Smoking357 wrote:
Well, that took a while. :D
Gunner Asch
<ne...@eastcheap.org> wrote:
#On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 10:01:13 +0000 (UTC), hunt...@gmail.com
#<hunt...@gmail.com> wrote:
#
## On Thursday, May 27, 1999 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Smoking357 wrote:
#
#Well, that took a while. :D
Better late than never....
TimR
like a muzzle loader rifle.
I haven't seen roll caps in a while, do they still make them? Seems like they were
replaced by those little plastic things that look a bit like a percussion cap, dunno
what they're called.
We used to take a whole roll of the roll caps and hit it hard with a hammer. When
they all went off at once it was decently loud.
R.L. Horn
# I haven't seen roll caps in a while, do they still make them?
I'll have to look the next time I'm at Woolworth's.
Actually, walmart.com claims that my local store has them in stock.
They were awfully puny when I was a kid, and they became punier still.
I can't imagine getting much motive power out of them these days. Heck,
the new ones I've seen photos of online even *look* wimpy. To
paraphrase Eddie Murphy, they ain't got no bulge.
Juergen Nieveler
# I haven't seen roll caps in a while, do they still make them? Seems
# like they were replaced by those little plastic things that look a bit
# like a percussion cap, dunno what they're called.
The plastic things are called amorces. But the paper roll caps are
still made as well, I often see them at toy shops.
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Juergen Nieveler
Lee Gleason
wrote in message news:m20258$ji1$1...@news.albasani.net...
On Thursday, May 27, 1999 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Smoking357 wrote:
#backside as a
#sighting board. It was a Kentucky pistol style as well but i have never
#seen another like it.
Does anyne recall the toy pistols, circa 1965 or so, shaped like Walther
PPKs, that used spring power to propel silver pea shaped projectiles? Just
spring powered, not pneumatic-spring. We had a ton of them in school at the
time, got in lots of trouble. Wish I could find one now....
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Mike Beede
# wrote in message news:m20258$ji1$1...@news.albasani.net...
#
#
# #backside as a
# #sighting board. It was a Kentucky pistol style as well but i have never
# #seen another like it.
#
# Does anyne recall the toy pistols, circa 1965 or so, shaped like Walther
# PPKs, that used spring power to propel silver pea shaped projectiles? Just
# spring powered, not pneumatic-spring. We had a ton of them in school at the
# time, got in lots of trouble. Wish I could find one now....
#
This will probably find a couple:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?LH_PrefLoc=2&_nkw=sekiden+toy+gun
I remember them fondly, though I haven't thought of them in forty-five
years. Apparently they were made by Sekiden, though that's just
what I found on the web--I've never heard of the company otherwise.
Mike Beede
martyk...@gmail.com
# I had one of these when I was a kid, and I haven't seen one in years. Boy
# howdy, was it neat. It looked like a Pirate's gun, and you rammed a cork ball
# down the barrel. Then, you put a regular cap from ordinary roll caps on the pan
# and fired. The cap released enough gas into the barrel to shoot the cork ball
#
cork balls and used roll caps for power. It worked well. The caps came in boxes of five or
six rolls for 10 cents.
Pavel Svinchnik
My son had a cork shooter in the mid-70's that was styled like a flintlock
rifle. We bought it at Disney World. On the drive home, we stopped at a firecracker
store and bought a few packs of the little "Lady Finger" firecrackers. No fireworks
were sold in our home state of Ohio at that time.
Back home, I drilled a hole down the center of a broomstick segment just large enough
to fit one of the little firecrackers. I counterbored one end to fit my son's cork balls.
You can probably guess the result; put a firecracker in the small hole with the fuse
sticking out, put a cork ball in the larger hole at the other end, and light the fuse.
We ended up with a mini cannon that could knock down toy soldiers from across the living
room.
tgdo...@gmail.com
rifle. It was the early 70s. They were all made by the same company.