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In the 1983 movie A Christmas Story, nine year-old Ralphie Parker has but one item on his Christmas list: a Red Ryder BB gun, "with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time." But ...
The Red Ryder BB Gun is a BB gun made by Daisy Outdoor Products and introduced in the spring of 1940 that resembles the Winchester rifle of Western movies. [6] Named for the comic strip cowboy character Red Ryder (created in 1938, and who appeared in numerous films between 1940 and 1950, and on television in 1956), the BB gun is still in ...
The "Red Ryder" model BB Gun was manufactured in Plymouth, Michigan, by Daisy, beginning in 1938; it was never manufactured in the exact configuration mentioned in the film. The Daisy "Buck Jones" model did have a compass and a sundial in the stock, but these features were not included in the Red Ryder model. [34]
"A Christmas Story" is set in 1940s Indiana and follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker (portrayed by Peter Billingsley) in his quest to get his dream Christmas gift: a Red Ryder BB gun, which is ...
The Daisy Model 25 pump-action BB gun typically achieved 350 ft/s (110 m/s). [6] However, the 25's capacity was only 50 BBs, in comparison to the 1000 BB capacity of some leverguns. The 25 does have an advantage in ammunition feeding, however, in that its feeding is spring-loaded, as opposed to many gravity-fed guns which require a shift in gun ...
“The Christmas parade scene that opens the movie was filmed just outside of Cleveland’s legendary Higbee’s department store — where Ralphie spies the Red Ryder BB gun through the window ...
There was some confusion decades later with the release of the film A Christmas Story, due to author Jean Shepherd's erroneous recollection that the Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun had a compass and sundial in the stock; the BB gun never had them except for the two specially made for the film. [8] [9]
In this 1979 stop-motion animated film, the wizard Winterbolt is trying to make The North Pole his evil wonderland. ... You'll shoot your eye out with a Red Ryder BB gun! (Oh, and mothers are ...