Whats The Best BB Guns For Christmas?
In the movie, “A Christmas Story'” the best BB gun in Ralphie’s eyes was the Daisy Red Ryder. And that particular Daisy BB gun has been around for many years. It’s still popular today. The Red Ryder is a lever action model, designed to approximate the look of the 1890″s Winchester rifle. The boy with his BB gun could sport his small version of Daddy’s big deer rifle. It was about pretending, but more than that – because the air gun really could shoot its own “bullets”. It was a lot more than a pop gun. The early BB guns were smooth bore, meaning no rifling in the barrel. This meant spherical ammo, and less accuracy than air rifles that shot pellets. But for small boys, it was accurate enough for tin cans and cardboard targets. And powerful enough to deal a death blow to pest birds like house sparrows. A well placed shot could even bring down a starling. I know, because I did it as a youngster. These little spring air guns don’t have the punch of the pneumatic air guns, like Crosman and
