Alpo Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 Had a weird dream where a guy was being a jerk with a BB gun and the hero of the dream, who may or may not have been me, took the BB gun away and unloaded it. And after I woke up I wondered if you could unload a BB gun. Because I don't know how they work. You pour the BBs down a hole by the muzzle, and then you work the lever and pull the trigger and a BB comes out. I think you have to shake it every once in awhile. But I never had a BB gun. I have had, and still have some single shot pellet rifles, but that ain't the same. 1 Quote
PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 Go back to sleep and pay attention to how "the hero" unloaded it. Depends on what model...Daisy Red Ryder?? Search for the online manual (which should have directions for unloading). 1 3 Quote
Windy City Kid Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 You'll shoot yer eye out kid! 2 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 (edited) On the old Red Ryders you can pour the BBs out the same place you pour them in. You do have to shake it and may have to fire the last one or two out. Still have the one I got at 7 years old and it still works uncountable BBs later! Edited December 19, 2024 by Rip Snorter 4 1 Quote
Alpo Posted December 19, 2024 Author Posted December 19, 2024 That's what I was thinking. If you dump the magazine, but there's still one in the chamber, it's not unloaded. Is the only way to unload it to fire off the one that's in the chamber? Quote
Rip Snorter Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 2 minutes ago, Alpo said: That's what I was thinking. If you dump the magazine, but there's still one in the chamber, it's not unloaded. Is the only way to unload it to fire off the one that's in the chamber? I suppose you could do it by unscrewing the whole barrel assembly from the front and removing the BB from under the spring - always just shot out - wastebasket with papers in it works if indoors. 2 1 Quote
watab kid Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 i can my single shot webley mkI , but not sure i could get all of them out of my 1911 or DPMS FA rifle , Quote
Sedalia Dave Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 12 hours ago, Rip Snorter said: On the old Red Ryders you can pour the BBs out the same place you pour them in. You do have to shake it and may have to fire the last one or two out. Still have the one I got at 7 years old and it still works uncountable BBs later! One Thanksgiving, my Grandpa tried that with a Daisy Red Ryder. Shook it several times and fired it a few more to clear out any remaining BBs. Satisfied it was empty, he took it in the house and proceeded to show us grandkids how it worked inside where it was warm. Let's just say that us grandkids were really really glad that it was Grandpa that shot a hole in the kitchen ceiling with an empty gun instead of one of us. Pretty sure Grandpa slept out with the dogs that night. 1 2 Quote
Eyesa Horg Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 Better the ceiling than the fish tank. 2 Quote
Cypress Sun Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 The first BB gun I owned was a Daisy with a lever loading mechanism and had a 50 - round magazine that was spring loaded. It screwed into the muzzle of the gun. IIRC, it kind of reminds me (now) of a Ruger MKII magazine. It was easy to load/unload. My brother had one also. Had a Crossman 760(?) that when loaded with BB's, it wasn't so easy to unload. When the Daisy guns quit working, we just left the magazine out and used them as play shotguns when we played "Army". The first time I discovered that sliding glass doors had safety glass in them was with a pellet gun. I had never seen safety glass before that. My a** is still sore from that one. 2 1 Quote
Black Angus McPherson Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 13 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said: One Thanksgiving, my Grandpa tried that with a Daisy Red Ryder. Shook it several times and fired it a few more to clear out any remaining BBs. Satisfied it was empty, he took it in the house and proceeded to show us grandkids how it worked inside where it was warm. Let's just say that us grandkids were really really glad that it was Grandpa that shot a hole in the kitchen ceiling with an empty gun instead of one of us. Pretty sure Grandpa slept out with the dogs that night. Not a BB gun, but a Benjamin .22 air rifle. My dad had loaned it to my granddad to take care of some squirrels that were eating his tomatoes. When we got together for Christmas my grandfather returned it. It is a single shot rifle. Pump it up, load a pellet and fire. I'd swear my dad checked the barrel for a pellet, then, for some unknown reason, and completely out of his character, my dad started pumping it a couple times and firing the "empty" gun into the fireplace. About the fourth or fifth time of firing the rifle just to hear the Phhhfffft of the compressed air, something came out of the barrel and hit a log in the fire. It surprised the heck out of all of us. The rifle was then quickly put away before my grandmother walked back into the room. I've got a couple other stories about "unloaded" guns that can still raise the hair on the back of my neck, but I'll save those for some other time. It really reinforces the rule about not pointing a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy. Angus 2 Quote
Pat Riot Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 2 hours ago, Cypress Sun said: When the Daisy guns quit working, we just left the magazine out and used them as play shotguns when we played "Army". My Dad took the BB tubes out of a couple of old BB guns and let us kids have them. This was before the new ones we got for Christmas that he took away a month or so later. Anyway, you could cock the gun then poke the barrel into mud then fire it. The 1”x3/4” plug of mud would leave the bore at a pretty good clip. Fast enough to stick little mud balls all over the garage doors. We were very impressed by this. My Dad was not. We were not very impressed with getting 3 cracks with the belt and standing in the corner for an eternity (in kid time that’s about 30 minutes) 3 Quote
Alpo Posted December 20, 2024 Author Posted December 20, 2024 Something I discovered in my teens. You get you a pump up gun, like a Benjamin or a Crossman 760. You pump it up, then you stick a kitchen match down the barrel. The match stick goes down the barrel but the head won't. Then you shoot the house. When that match hit the wall of the house at however fast it came out the barrel it went POW! Probably a good thing nobody was home when we were doing that. 3 Quote
Cactus Jack Calder Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 On 12/20/2024 at 7:42 AM, Eyesa Horg said: Better the ceiling than the fish tank. That reminds me. Came home one day and found the fish had been “rescued” into a kitchen bowl. The boys story was that they were fooling around and one threw a book at his brother. Missed the brother and hit the fish tank. When I examined the tank there was this curious little round dent in the plastic framework that held the glass. It was just where the crack in the glass met the framework. After being confronted with this anomaly they confessed that they tried the BB Gun “just once, honest injun”. Anyway I acquired a trigger lock for the BB Gun. Sometime later I lost the key for the lock and it is still locked today 40+ years later. That shows how important the BB Gun was to everyone. The older boy spent 21 years as a Security Specialist in the USAF before retiring. He knows about firearm safety, even taught weapons handling as part of his job. So I guess a lesson was learned even if we never got to shoot that BB Gun again. I probably should get out a dremil tool and cut the lock off the trigger guard. I expect the gun won’t work as the rubber parts are probably dried out. CJ 2 1 Quote
Alpo Posted December 22, 2024 Author Posted December 22, 2024 2 hours ago, Cactus Jack Calder said: So I guess a lesson was learned even if we never got to shoot that BB Gun again. Maybe that was the lesson he learned - screw up and you never get to shoot the gun again. Quote
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