Bear with me.

[MartynBannister]

When I were a boy, my mate and I were playing in the local farmers hay barn and found an air pistol. No doubt hidden there by a local lad whose parents wouldn't approve. My memory is that it looked like a colt 45 automatic and was cocked by pulling back the "slide"? Not sure about that bit. One thing I definitely recall was that, to load the pellet, the very short barrel was hinged at the front and flipped up for the pellet to be loaded from the rear. Of course we didn't have my pellets, so we tried to shoot bits of twig.

Any experts on here who can ID this beast? I have been looking online over the years and find out what it was. I have half a mind that it was made by webley. This would have been in the mid 60's. Now that I have found my interest in air guns again thi s is really starting to bug me!

[sunndog]

iirc its sounds like a g10 bb gun...it should've had a space adove the breech for you to tip bb's in

*edit...just read the mid 60's bit so maybe not....that'll teach me to read the whole post lol

[sbd]

...sound like a G10

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=g10...w=1280&bih=620

[MartynBannister]

...sound like a G10

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=g10...w=1280&bih=620

Don't think it was a G10. On that one, see where the logo is on the slide? The one we found, the barrel incorporated the blade foresight, but only extended back to where the logo is. The barrel flipped up from the logo forward, hinged at the muzzle end. This is driving me nuts!?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=smk...nbbzPhL_MiUOM:

Looked the images a bit closer and this one might be it. Were these available mid 60's?

[blooregard]

Certainly sounds like a G10 to me and they have been around since the mid 60s.

http://www.gunstar.co.uk/Air-Pistols...e-gs68526.aspx

[sunndog]

[QUOTE=blooregard;5535878] they have been around since the mid 60s.

i'll stick with g10 as my guess then....would never have said they were that old tho, i had one in the early 90's and
thought it was the latest thing lol