Cap Gun That Shoots Cork Balls
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All on Fri Jan 25 19:05:48 2019
On Thursday, May 27, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Smoking357 wrote:
# I had one of these when I was a kid, and I haven't seen one in years. Boy
# howdy, was it neat. It looked like a Pirate's gun, and you rammed a cork ball # down the barrel. Then, you put a regular cap from ordinary roll caps on the pan
# and fired. The cap released enough gas into the barrel to shoot the cork ball # out the barrel.
#
# It was very cool, and I want another, but I can't find it. Anyone?
Yes, my little brother had a rifle (musket) like that in the early 1960's. It fired round
cork balls and used roll caps for power. It worked well. The caps came in boxes of five or
six rolls for 10 cents.
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