Anyone remember 'Black cats'?

[Nige]

Just daydreaming really about the good old days back in the 60's when I was in my early teens. All we could afford to buy pellet-wise for our Gats and Diana's were Marksman, Black cats if we were really skint. Anyone remember those Black Cats? They had no waist at all, just a pointed tubular bit of lead. Rubbish as well if I recall

[Kes]

Anyone remember 'Black cats'?

Are'nt they the one's that are getting relegated from the premiership this season?

[Peter Dunkley]

Yep I remember them well, we used to call them "cup slugs" I think they were all we could get just after the war. First joker to ask "which war" gets______

[robinghewitt]

I remember shooting those with a wood handled Gat, it was pot luck as to whether the pellet actually moved in the bore when you fired

[GATMAN]

I remember using them in the early '70's. A mates old man had an ancient Gem smooth bore. We "killed" a fair few of his mums clothes pegs with that old gun

Paul.

[Troubledshooter]

Lane's cat slugs - for Daisy and King Air Rifles - British made.
Sold in card boxes of 100 or 500, with a picture of the man in the moon looking down on a screeching moggie.
Still have a couple of part used boxes.
Those were the days.

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

T'ony black Cats ar can remember were ciggies. They were roobarb as well.

[bullsmilk]

who shoots black cats? thats it ime telling the rspca and the racial equality bureu lol

[Mof]

Wernt they called slugs? Some used to drop straight through the barrel.

[Nige]

Too true they were called slugs, I'd forgotten that bit. Weren't they absolute rubbish?

[Supermick]

Cat slugs were about all I could afford, waisted pellets were what the rich kids bought.

( Cat slugs ? You were lucky, we melted down church roofs and........)


Mick