"Manly sport"...Daisy Air Rifles, choice of clean cut, alert American boys

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/23909.html

[THUNDER HANDS]

1. ahh, kids and guns

they go together like kids and alligators.

[mdmc]

2. I used to love shooting my Daisy BB gun

How in the world did I turn out to be such a leftie?

[EstimatedProphet]

3. I had one too

It isn't anti-left to have arms. It's anti-left to assume they make you a big badass tough guy.

[mdmc]

7. check out this pic, estimated

too cool for school?

[EstimatedProphet]

8. Whoa

that's some trippy shit. I like the angel in the middle that's also a skull.

[Deep13]

12. Skull? That's not what it looks like to me.

:eyes:

[EstimatedProphet]

15. OK

[mdmc]

17. I think that is an estimated prophet in the middle

perhaps...

[mdmc]

18. "like an angel"

in a shaft of light...

[EstimatedProphet]

22. I'll accept that!

[Arger68]

6. My mom wouldn't let me have one.

Luckily, the neighbor kid (also my best friend) had two of them!!

[Call Me Wesley]

4. I had one too,

except the brand name here was 'Diana.' It was pretty powerful.

[Deep13]

5. You mean the choice of clean-cut, American boys' parents.

The choice of the actual boys is probably real rifles.

So who goes shooting in a shirt and tie?

[GOPFighter]

10. You just triggered an epipheny!

The trouble with gun owners today is that they don't wear a shirt and tie when they go target shooting and hunting! I say it's time to bring back the clean-cut, alert, well-dressed, American gun-owner!

[Deep13]

11. I change out of my shirt and tie, ...

...because I don't want to get GSR on my good clothes. Unlike James Bond, the government is not paying my drycleaning bills.

[henslee]

9. I once shot my daisy, the bb ricocheted off three walls and bounced

into my nose. We all laughed pretty hard. I'll never forget that.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. Disgusting.

:puke:

[TrogL]

14. My mother shot me

...with a toy rifle. She didn't think it was loaded.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. My sister did one of the dumbest things

I've ever seen a human do when we were target shooting in the back yard with my Daisy. She must've been 11, since I think I was 9 when I got it, so she should've known better.

Dad had set up a target box against the fence, and one day my sister was getting ready to shoot. The action was cocked, and for some reason she put her eye up to the muzzle and looked down the barrel! Dad and I hollered "GINNY!" at the same time and she lowered the rifle.

Forty years have gone by since. I should ask her sometime what the hell she was thinking. :eyes:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. I think guns are fun.

I also think that they require training and a controlled environment. I also would never own one personally.

[catmandu57]

20. You'll shoot your eye out kid

I can't believe I'm the first to post this.

[Elidor]

21. You just beat me to it

Dangit.

[mitchum]

23. I was delighted when my 8 year nephew found my sister's old...

air rifle and started playing with it instead of those stupid video games.

[benEzra]

24. Advertising from that era was cheesy, period...

I have a bunch of Popular Mechanics from the twenties through the forties, and a lot of the ads are like that. For washing machines, cars, shirts, cigarettes, beverages, household items, etc. etc.

BB guns are still immensely popular today (my 5 y.o. daughter will be getting one soon, my 7 y.o. son already has one), but I dare say the advertising has improved immensely... :D