OK, raise your hand if you had a Daisey Red Ryder BB gun.

[trof]

I did.

[elleng]

1. Nope, sorry, but

You'll shoot your eye out!!!

[trof]

2. Well damn. You're a GURL!

GURLS didn't GET BB guns.
They got dolls and stuff.

[DURHAM D]

3. I did. I am a girl.

Also had a 22 rifle. 1957.

[trof]

4. Ha. You beat me.

I didn't get a .22 until I was about 18 or 19 and bought my own.
I was born in 1941.

[elleng]

5. HA! No BB gun,

but a real rifle (in summer camp, TAUGHT riflery!!!)

[PoliticAverse]

6. Raise your hand if you shot your eye out? n/t

[Yonnie3]

7. Nope, had a Sears Roebuck one

I still have it. Spring loaded and it could shoot a BB all of 10 feet.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I showed that movie to my dad and he couldn't have one

because he "would shoot his eye out". I quizzed my grandparents separately for confirmation and when I asked them why my dad couldn't have one they both said word for word and matter of factly, "He'd shoot his eye out". We still laugh over it.

What is "a compass, a stalk, and a thing which tells time"? I can't figure that out.

[trof]

11. I think there was a small magnetic compass in the stock (stalk).

The 'thing that tells time' was a sundial?

[Canoe52]

9. no, I probably would have shot my eye out, or my brothers eye!

My dad told me about how he and his brothers would shot their BB guns at each other in little mini battles, which is probably why we never had any.

[demosincebirth]

10. I accidently shot my cousin in the thigh. Boy, did I catch hell!