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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 lever-action rifle was the first type of BB gun, and still dominates the inexpensive youth BB gun market. The Daisy Model 25, modeled after a pump-action shotgun with a trombone pump-action mechanism, dominated the low-price, higher-performance market for over 50 years (1914–1978). Lever-action models generally have very low velocities ...
The Targeteer was designed as a low-power BB gun for indoor target shooting. The weapon originally used a smaller-sized BB. The first models had the box designed to be folded into a backstop with a revolving target in the box. After World War II, Daisy redesignated the weapon the Targette that now was made with a silver chrome finish. It ...
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 movie's fictional BB gun, described as the "Red Ryder carbine-action, two hundred shot Range Model air rifle with a compass in the stock and a thing which tells time", does not correspond to any production model in existence nor even a prototype; the Red Ryder featured in the movie was specially made to match author Jean Shepherd's story ...
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The earliest airgun pellets are actually small round lead shots similar to those used in muskets.First popularized by the Daisy BB Gun in the 1890s, a spring-piston airgun that shot "BB"-size birdshots, the .180-caliber lead shots were later replaced by the lighter .175-caliber steel shots modified from bearing balls, and remained popular as a plinking/pest shooting projectile due to the ...
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