I know what they are, spent pocket money on them, and loathe them. Ring caps are far more reliable (albeit more expensive; always a topic of debate when said pocket money was $3 / month).
The paper cap guns just need to be maintained. You have to clean out the residue that builds up or the paper won’t cycle smoothly through it.
The experience I had was that the hammer wasn’t consistently firing the caps. Perhaps I just had a couple of bad guns? Either way, nothing like those reliability issues with ring caps.
Usually what would happen is the residue builds up on the parts that feed the tape up so it would stick, and lose index. The hammer would land between caps because the tape wasn’t advanced the distance it needed to be.
If you clean all that off so the tape consistently advanced the correct amount you wouldn’t have issues.
Ohhhhhhh damn. Have I been wrongly hating on tape capguns for 40-odd years?
True but it’s also easier to pretend you’re a grizzled noir detective reloading his snub nosed revolver when you use ring caps
I think there was even one more evolution where the plastic caps came in a strip instead of a ring. The strip was put in a magazine that slid into the bottom of the pistol. Most of them just moved the strip up as they fired, but if I recall correctly there were even ones that cut each cap off individually after firing it and ejected it like an empty shell. Awful for litter, but pretty cool for cap gun technology. I am pretty sure all of this stuff has been banned where I live.
I’I forgot about the strips! It seemed like those were for early 90’s gangsta era style cap guns. If I remember correctly. Not the cowboy revolvers that came before.
Oh for sure there will be an archeologist in my old neighborhood in a couple hundred years wondering what the significance of all these round plastic rings they excavated is lol
I wasn’t that into noir when I was a child.
I may have watched a few too many black and white movies in the 80s, though Eddie Valiant was my hero as well lol
NOW you tell me.
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at least he’s putting the hornyposts in nsfw memes
I shit practically every day, so tell me again how old I am?
Joke is flying over my head. Which age group shits poorly?
Those were the newer ones.
I thought they were those peelable candy buttons that you could eat
I’m dum
Can still smell the burnt sulphur
We used to just lay those strips on the ground and throw rocks at 'em. Good times.
I can smell them too.
It was fun to take a hammer and hit the entire roll at once. They actually made quite the noise.
For reference, I was born in 1970 so yeah I grew up with those things.
We used to roll them out like trumps red carpet for maduro, grab some coin and just rip all of them in sequence, wonderful smell
I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip
Cursed fruit of the foot
A friend and I had the bright idea to hit a whole roll of those with a hammer. We also were smart enough to know that it should be on something hard, like a garage floor. We also knew that we didn’t want anyone to see us. So, we made sure all the garage doors were good and shut. I swear, it literally blew his hair back, and my ears have been ringing ever since.
See? Scotty doesn’t know…about toy safety and hearing protection! This is why OSHA would be upset!
We did the same thing, but I was the smart dumbass who knew that’s how you lose fingers, so I had us hide behind a board and drop a bowling ball into it. It cracked the fucking ball! My parents were livid
Thanks for doing my intrusive thoughts
I gave these to my son to play with in a cap *** in 2008 when he was 8. He’s hardly old as shit. But I am.
Thank you for making me feel younger (I’m 26). XD
My childhood was in the 70s and we absolutely loved this caps. Yes we played with them in ***s but also just on the sidewalk with rocks. Did you guys do the rocks method?
Nahh, my thing was Nerf Guns. Sounds fun, though. :D
I loved the smell of gun powder in the morning.
If you’re old as shit, then I’m older than shit, but I’m not old so you’re not old either.
No… we’re vintage.
Did you censor that word or is that an instance rule? To be clear, the word was gun not ass, correct?
Cap gun… this Minneapolis thing has me wanting to never say gun ever again. Just broken about it.
Cap ass hahaa
If you know what these are, your knowledge has capped!
You can still get the plastic revolver style.
even as a kid I disliked the waste
Yeah these rolls were way better though you got a lot more shots too.
Am I on fucking facebook or something? Shitty boomer post
All I know is that they smelled good.
You mean the sulfur?
Yeah.
You’re gonna love farts.
Everyone loves their own brand, but I’ve not really enjoyed them in general.
More for the rest of us!
sulphur from caps. Farts are hydrogen sulfide.
“Anyone who says they hate farts is choosing to have less joy in their life, but the same amount of farts”
Damn, that hit home.
