Gun Thread: Sunday Before Christmas Edition!

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Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Sunday before Christmas? Have you finished your Wish List and distributed it to all of your gift givers? What are you hoping to find under the tree come Christmas morning? Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?

Q: Weasel, may we please get a break from your stupid fundamentals for Christmas?
A: No. No you may not.

No watch, but this guy is a professional shooter! whatever that means.

More one vs. two eyes open.

Here's a fun look back at the guns of Christmas from yester-year.

Thanks Santa!!

Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun

Introduced in 1940, the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun quickly captured the imagination of red-blooded American boys and girls across the country. Developed and marketed in conjunction with Dell Comics and the Western hero by the same name, the Red Ryder fires a .177 cal BB at 350 fps with a maximum range of approximately 195 yards. Careful! You'll put an eye out!

In the era before electronic distractions and overly protective parents raising impossibly overprogrammed children, the Red Ryder was often at the very top of a young person's Christmas wish list. A mainstay of backyard ranges, the BB gun was frequently their first introduction to shooting; teaching responsibility, safety and marksmanship. These were the days when stay-at-home moms told their kids to go outside and play in the morning and to be home before dark, never worrying about life-changing social injustices suffered on the playground, or worse. The fact that the Daisy Red Ryder is still in production today is frankly a little surprising, having somehow not yet succumbed to the rabidly hysterical anti-gun mob and toy fun-police.

For nearly 140 years, the company now known as Daisy Outdoor Products has been manufacturing air guns. Originally a steel windmill manufacturer, the company began making air guns in 1880 as a premium offered to farmers purchasing a windmill. Eventually the rifles were in such demand the company discontinued its main product line to concentrate on the air gun business. Today, the company actively promotes gun safety through a series of online programs and printed material and has an extensive competitive shooting program holding matches since 1966.

Daisy is but one of many manufacturers offering these types of programs. Do you know a young person who might benefit or otherwise enjoy participating?

Did you have an air gun, and was it a Daisy Red Ryder? Was it a surprise from Santa, or did you have to beg Mom and Dad for it? Were you allowed to roam with it at will, or were you more closely supervised?

Do you still have both eyes?

How they're made for those of you who need to know this kind of thing.

Want to track Santa? The official Santa tracking site of the North American Aerospace Defense Command has you covered.

Origins of this annual service (wiki)

Bonus FUNdamentals!!!!!

Fun Size Joe and Gertie in Holiday Madness!

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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?

posted by Weasel at 07:00 PM

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