SASS to the Bones

[Seven]

back in my teens, when we still rode dinosaurs. I was a SASS shooter!   I had a daisy lever action rifle. a Daisey SxS. and a SAA hand gun.  Then dad gave me his old pump rifle.  I made enough money shooting locust and mice to keep me in ammo.  Any wonder I shoot SASS now ?  Dreams do come true.

[Dantankerous]

My first BB gun was a Daisy lever action and I shot thousands of BBs through it.

 

 John Wayne movies, Marty Robbins' songs, Louis L'Amour books and a Daisy lever action BB gun. No wonder I have so much fun in cowboy action shooting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rip Snorter]

Still have the Red Ryder I got at 7 or so, still works well.  An enormous number of BBs went through that gun, and it will still encourage deer to exit the flower garden.

[Abilene, SASS # 27489]

My Daisy was a pump, and I don't think I ever hit a single thing with it, never figured out where it shot.  However, unscrewing and removing the magazine/bore, rolling some marbles down the barrel, laying it flat on the floor and firing to knock over a bunch of little green army men was a lot of fun. 

[Itchy Trigger]

My Daisy lever action shot many a sparrow off of the purple mountain house.

[Captain Bill Burt]

My buddy and I used to get tired of trying to pour BBs out of the old style cardboard cylinders into our Daisy's.  We learned that if you took a big mouthful of BBs and pursed your lips against the hole you could spit all the BBs into the gun without spilling any.  Needless to say years later we had rust problems, but it was fun while it lasted. 

[Reverend P. Babcock Chase]

Howdy Red Ryders,

 

My buddies and I shot our Red Ryders so much that there was no rifling left in them.

 

Rev. Chase

[Eyesa Horg]

I had the one with a yellowish stock. Countless tubes of BB's went thru that thing. Cops took it, something to do with Xmas lights  IIRC 

[Rip Snorter]

11 hours ago, Captain Bill Burt said:

My buddy and I used to get tired of trying to pour BBs out of the old style cardboard cylinders into our Daisy's.  We learned that if you took a big mouthful of BBs and pursed your lips against the hole you could spit all the BBs into the gun without spilling any.  Needless to say years later we had rust problems, but it was fun while it lasted. 

Your dentists loved it! We would make a little trough with thumb and index finger of the off hand and pour in a tube at a time.  Who is old enough to remember the Red tubes?

[Mister Badly]

If someone ever uses a metal detector in my parents backyard they are going to be so mad.

[Rip Snorter]

Mom kept a very clean house, but was finding BBs for several years after I went away to College.

[Hoss]

On 9/27/2022 at 7:04 AM, Captain Bill Burt said:

My buddy and I used to get tired of trying to pour BBs out of the old style cardboard cylinders into our Daisy's.  We learned that if you took a big mouthful of BBs and pursed your lips against the hole you could spit all the BBs into the gun without spilling any.  Needless to say years later we had rust problems, but it was fun while it lasted. 

Loaded many thousand BBs just like that. Probably swallowed a few along the way! 

[Hoss]

15 hours ago, Mister Badly said:

If someone ever uses a metal detector in my parents backyard they are going to be so mad.

My son and his buds had airsoft guns.  Many a battle in our yard. I still find the plastic airsoft ammo whenever I work in the yard. Still bright green, red, yellow.  I suspect they will be there long after I am gone. 

[watab kid]

sometimes we just have to go back to our roots - SASS has allowed that with the real bang ta-boot , this has been fun and i hope to continue into the future