Gunplay

[Eggman]

Just a heads up, I have an article coming out in the new Wild West magazine (out in the next week or so) entitled "Gunplay." It's located in the "Guns of the West" section. It's a nostalgia trip focused on the great cap guns we enjoyed during our youthful days. I'm thinking there is sufficient Maynard content to provide Maynard owners a thrill up the leg. If not a subscriber be sure to run down to Barnes and Nobel and take a look.

[John Holland]

Thanks for the "Heads-up", and yes there were a lot of great cap guns in the days of our youth!

[Bruce Cobb 1723V]

Great memories ........ I had a model 95 Winchester that shot little red plastic bullets. It even fed from a magazine. Don't remember the brand.

[Southron Sr.]

CONGRATULATIONS EGGMAN!!!!

I will get a copy of that magazine your article is in. Looking forward to reading it.

When I was in the 1st Grade, (circa 1951,) my Aunt gave me a Hopalong Cassidy outfit that consisted of a hat, vest, and two cap guns complete with holsters and belt.

I proudly wore that outfit to school and at every recress, my friends and I played "Cowboys & Indians."

Today, if a kid showed up at school wearing that outfit, a teacher or principal would call out a SWAT team to arrest the kid.

[Muley Gil]

Eggie, is it OK if I save and print that picture? I need a new scarecrow in my garden. :D

[Muley Gil]

Yeah us really good looking guys have always had to put up with slings and arrows like this.

Oh Lordy, and a Tennessee fan to boot. Them crows will be bringing back corn from two years ago! :D:D

War Eagle!

[Southron Sr.]

Well back in December of 1972 my brother and I went to Aspen, Colorado. Almost everywhere we went in Aspen, restaurants, grocery stores, bars, the word was: "You just missed John Wayne! He was here until about 5 minutes ago!"

Finally, after a week in Aspen, we decided to leave, so we stopped by a gas station on the outskirts of town and an excited attendant came out and shouted: "You just missed John Wayne AND Lee Marvin!" They filled up their car with gas and left just as you were pulling in.

So, I can proudly say: "I just missed John Wayne AND Lee Marvin!"

Everyone else, eat your hearts out.....

[John Holland]

What a cool photo!

[Southron Sr.]

Yep, I well remember the Rin Tin Tin show. It was one of my favorite TV shows.

By the way, the original Rin Tin Tin was a German Shepard puppy found whimpering in a German Trench recently overrun by American Doughboys in France in the closing months of World War I.

One of the Doughboys adopted the puppy, raised and trained him. After the Doughboy returned home and was released from the army, he migrated to Hollywood and got his trained Rin Tin Tin in the movies in the early 1920's.

I figure that it was the Great-Great Grandson of the original Rin Tin Tin that starred in the TV show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Rin_Tin_Tin

[Jim Brady Knap's Battery]

I'll have to search for it but I have(somewhere) an old silent Run Tin Tin short movie the we used to run when I was a kid. It was old when it and a few others was given to me. I have no way to run it not having a 16 mm projector. Not sure if the old celluloid film with take the strain anymore. If memory serves we often had to fix a break on some of those old movie rolls. No I'll have to look for them.

Yo Rinny!

[geezmo]

Ah, flashbacks to my youth. Rusty, Sgt. O'Hara, Lt. Rip Masters and of course Rin Tin Tin. If only we could turn back the clock.

[Eggman]

Here's the premium gun featured in the article. Not used was an all iron earlier model (not Rin Tin Tin), probably late 40's, also shown.

[Southron Sr.]

Geeze....WHAT A COINCIDENCE....I dated a girl nicknamed "Bang-O" in college!

[John Bly]

Dr. Maynard would be proud to know his invention has lived such a long life even if it was used in toy guns.