Peterkin Gonher Diecast Metal 8 Ring Shot Cowboy Gun,20.5cm

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Read next: The Many Lives of Olive Oatman, Tattooed Captive of the West 2. The Colt Paterson Revolver was the first of its kind. Source: Wikimedia Commons Anybody familiar with 1950s Westerns would be familiar with the Colt Single Action Army Revolver, A.K.A. the Peacemaker. Two separate Winchester rifles need to be treated as one entry because of how they are inexorably linked. Oliver Winchester designed the first repeating rifle in 1866, known as Yellow Boy for its yellow gunmetal casing. It was called the Navy because as noted in Weapons of the Civil War Cavalryman, the cylinder was engraved with a scene from the May 16, 1843 victory of the Texas Navy over Mexico at the Battle of Campeche.

This carbine was used by Buffalo Bill Cody in his frontier days and in his Wild West Show. It was said that many a western baby cut his first teeth on the sling ring of a Winchester Model 73 carbine. A cap gun, cap pistol, or cap rifle is a toy gun that creates a loud sound simulating a gunshot and smoke when a small percussion cap is ignited. Cap guns were originally made of cast iron, but after World War II were made of zinc alloy, and most newer models are made of plastic. Real guns that used caps first appeared around the Civil War era, when faster firing weapons were needed. The Springfield Model 1855 musket was fitted with a Maynard tape primer. A roll of paper impregnated with fulminate served as the detonator, but it was found to be impractical in wet or muddy conditions and the Union army reverted to using the conventional copper percussion cap. After the demand for caps declined, firearms companies experimented with toy cap guns modeled after real percussion cap guns. [1] An enduring image of the Old West is that of a lonely stagecoach trundling over the prairie with a surly looking driver clutching a large double barrel shotgun to guard the coach’s strongbox.

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Plastic strips, similar to disks, but arranged in a line, often with means of attaching singular strips to one another Cap guns became especially popular when the heroes of cinema and television rode through the West, ridding the territories of villains. Many cap guns were named after or endorsed by leading matinee idols like Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy, The Lone Ranger, Tonto, Dale Evans, Marshal Matt Dillon, or any of countless others. Caps are cool. The guns we make that fire the caps are even cooler! For example, the Lawman from Replicas by Parris comes with an attractive holster that can be attached to your belt or to the belt that comes with the gun. The Lawman makes an excellent stage prop! More importantly, the Lawman and all of our toy guns are very safe, but cap products should always be used under the supervision of an adult.

Children all over the world emulated their heroes by collecting and playing with these toy guns. However, when the Western television shows began to fade away and the heroes retired, the cap gun continued to be produced in military and secret agent modes until the popularity of the tie-in toy guns also diminished, and eventually all of the famous cap gun manufacturers either sold out to other toy companies or started manufacturing other types of toys. There were many types of cap guns, including guns from small Derringers to larger rifles, and even working miniatures of most of them. One of the last famous ones to sell widely was a toy rifle named after the television show, The Rifleman, which aired from 1958 through early 1963. Other shows lasted longer, such as Gunsmoke (which had 20 seasons lasting through 1975), but these did not have as much 'kid-appeal' as the earlier shows, and the sales of toy cap guns began to decline.Closer to home, this revolver was wielded by Pat Garret, Billy the Kid’s killer, and was called the Russian because of the large number of units that were sold to Imperial Russia. At, Replicas by Parris, you can expect that all of our toy guns, both rifles and pistols, are designed to replicate original models. Our guns are typically made with die-cast metal and plastic parts, such as the handles, which are made from hard plastic and designed to look wooden. These add to the rustic quality and give the guns in the Cowboy Collection a real look. Our Cowboy guns are hand-crafted to look antique. Related read: 8 of the Most Famous Cowboys & Figures in Wild West History 9. The Gatling Gun was hardly used, but boy was it effective. Source: Wikimedia Commons