I bought my share of these.
By the time I laid my BB gun aside for the .22 … they packaged BBs in
cardbtube that looked like a toilet paper roll.
But… even the .22 shells I bought are long gone now too…
I can remember the sweet smell of shotgun shells.
I can remember the smell of
Centrefire rifle stuff and that burn the extruded powders.
But I can’t remember the smell of .22 shells…
I need to get the .22 out again.
I used to get bbs for my Daisy lever action in red cardboard tubes
ReplyDeleteI was nine years old when I got my first .22 rifle; an Ithaca Model 49 lever action with an external hammer, single shot. I fed it .22 CB cartridges as they were cheapest, but it would eat anything up to .22 long rifle - or 'longs' as the old timers called 'em.
ReplyDeleteI have a 1934 Mossberg target stocked bolt action with patent pending Mossberg, proprietary peep sight, that has four sizes of peeps in a rotating drum and hooded, multi front sight. It's It's not ammo sensitive, more accurate than me.
ReplyDeleteNext fave is a 1st gen Ruger Charger, with a quality red dot. I've settled on Remington 36gr. HP, Golden boolets (bucket o 1400). Happily those and CCI Velocitors hit same point of aim out to 50-60 yards. Velocitors hit significantly higher at 100 yards.
Who thought that a package of 152 bbs was the right choice?
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The humble .22 has reliably taken all killable creatures on this planet. You just have to know how.
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I used to buy BBs in milk cartons of a thousand or so.
ReplyDeleteMan, I remember those BB plastic envelopes too. Awesome for pocket carry (when closed). Daisy 880 pneumatic and 1894 Spittin' Image rifle use was covrered.
ReplyDeleteThat sharp smell of burnt gun powder is INTOXICATING ...
Okay - now someone talk me down ...
When I was a kid, you could buy a milk carton of a few thousand bb's. My genius cousin decided to pour some into his Red Ryder right from the carton while he was in my grandmother's living room about a week after she'd just got new carpet installed.
ReplyDeleteHe managed to get two or three in the bb gun and about a thousand on the carpet. Grandma never got all of them vacuumed up until they replaced the carpet years later.
Yup the milk cartons came out after my time. But I remember the younger kids using them… I wonder how many BBs are scattered around my old farm stomping grounds…?
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