Reply With QuoteFabulous! More please. Atb: G.
Just been loading the start of a collection of some 1940's....1950's airgun ads from more enlightened times (" dads got an airsporter...its super...I'me getting one for christmas!")......etc......anybody interested please go to; http://www.flickr.com/photos/3122848...7608030264100/
see how the makers sold them as safe fun for the teaching of responsible gun handling etc. ...try this today in kids magazines (these adverts mostly came from boys own paper etc....the target reader age then was 8-16 years old).......and you can see the headlines already "SHOCK HORROR...THEY WANT OUR KIDS TO BE KILLERS" cut to distressed mums and focus groups, stern firearms "specialists" gingerly holding up gat pistols etc, etc,.......signing off now as getting grumpy again!.....(note to self)...a dinnertime of airsporter therapy needed tomorrow I think will get me back to normal.
Retired Mod & Airgun Anorak Extraordinaire
Fabulous! More please
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Done my bit for the BBS: http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....-being-a-mod-… now I’m a game-keeper turned poacher.
Blimey......another insomniac!!!.......I had to giggle earlier on when logging in at the number of guys looking at night vision..do they all post after midnight as well!!..P.S. thanks mate, will get more on as soon as my upload limit on flikr is increased!
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Good stuff. I love it. More please.
Barry
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Excellent photos, nice scans of the old ads too!
Cheers
Retired Mod & Airgun Anorak Extraordinaire
It's called a 14 month old who wouldn't sleep and just wanted to waddle around for a few hours giggling and playing with his new toy fire engine (or was that just meOriginally Posted by edbear2
). Yep, thanks plenty for the pics and more please
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Done my bit for the BBS: http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....-being-a-mod-… now I’m a game-keeper turned poacher.
Lots more added today.....some nice bsa and webley early stuff plus oddities...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3122848...7608030264100/
Had a couple of queries.......firstly, click on the "all sizes" icon on flikr to see the ads full size or bigger, and secondly,they have been scanned/photographed from old boys own mags and similar publications from a time when people were a bit more relaxed about shooting in general and knew the difference between air weapons and powder burners!...there is some great copy in an american outers report on the bsa 1915 air rifle, but you could not print it or even put it on here in this day and age......comparing the bsa to the american bb guns of the same period, the bsa "atmospheric rifle" is described as being built like a quality real firearm, with the accuracy of a .22 rimfire out to 35 yards, whereas the american bb guns are called a name which carefully repeated for todays sensitive climate is "used for taking pot shots at passing ethnic minoritys!"
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Thanks so much for these, they're great!
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I loved the "Alarm Guns". Useful for protecting against trespassers - takes a blank 12 gauge cartridge!
Fantastic - you wouldn't get away with that now!
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Doreen
Most alarm guns are.....sorry, WERE used with live cartridges!
That's why they were made pointing at the ground!
db
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I believe these are still sold and use short 12 bore black powder blanks. A farmer friend used to use these and had them rigged up to a trip wire. The cartridge was pointed down at a can of cow slurry, so you would be able to smell any trespassers from half a mile.
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I am pretty sure Henry Krank still does the short B.P. alarm "mines" as he calls them.......they come as a trip wire or door opening release.......can be made VERY much louder with a effective flash bang effect with some simple use of the imagination and the help of bird deterrent pyrotecnics
Muddled
Some enterprising person used to advertise these alarm mines at increased cost in Motor Cycle News as added protection for garages. The police commented that they dont advice there use because they may give the burglar a heart attack.
Good I say. If the scrotes are that ill they shouldn't be out nicking things. If the mine frightens them to death it saves the courts a job
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Ian
Founder & ex secretary of Rivington Riflemen.
www.rivington-riflemen.uk
Ian, dont even get me started on this subject .....a former garage owner I know had an alarm which was connected to the local police station somehow, he was called out at 3 in the morning to his workshops to find a couple of officers there waiting for him....there were signs that people had got in, so he wanted to send in his doberman first to have a look, but was told if it found anyone and took a bite out of them, he would end up in court and the dog could be destroyed!!!!!...upshot of all is was that the bad guys were long gone and nothing taken, but he was unimpressed to say the least at the concern being given to the people who had broken in and caused about £800 worth of damage!!!!!!.......my humble opinion is that you should lose all rights to anything once you start breaking into peoples houses etc!.....ie. whatever happens to you, you brought it on yourself.
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