Having a cork gun...? Yellowbelly's thread got me to thinking about them and I didnt want to hijack his thread . I was probably 4 or 5 when I unwrapped one from under the tree. Didnt take me long to cut the thread on the cork and start sailing them throughout the house and bouncing them off my older brother's rear quarters. Guess now that I think about it, it didnt take long for it was taken away for same mentioned events. I remember it was wood and metal construction...sure wish I had that thing today for keepsake...good memories.

I had one also…it was a double barrel. Good memories!

Yes I had one as well, good times!

I remember the break over double barrel I had. From about 1962 or 3.
Don't even see them at sales anymore.

Yep had one too and lost it the same day for same reason LOL

They still sell and make cork guns. We had cork guns when I was a kid in the seventies. I remember you could shoot the cork gun with the loose cork at fairs and win a crappier cork gun, with a tethered cork as a price. I wanted to win the rubber tipped spear instead, but didn't win one.

Most of the fair games gave you small stuffed animals, cotton candy, brightly colored dowel rod canes, plastic soldiers with a parachute or goldfish.

Keith

Had one that looked like a Kentucky rifle and shot cork balls propelled by caps, for Some reason I had my ammo confiscated the same day

If I remember correctly it had a pitcher of Fess Parker as Daniel Boone on the box it came in

Had a friend who had one shot a wine bottle size cork and was all steel with a lever action, didn’t take us long to figure out if you jammed the barrel into mud or even wet dirt it would shoot it just as well for a good 10’feet or more just enough to give someone a good face full of mud as you cycled past

yup in 60"s

Had one. Had a spring loaded one that shoot suction cup tipped darts also

had that too! Lick em and stick em

That's what I had, a dart gun. I'd shoot bad guys on the tv.

Yep but useless wit string attached lol

Not allowed at our house. We were taught not to point a gun at anything you didn’t intend to kill and if you pointed a gun at something you better kill it. Makes my skin crawl to this day to see the whole paintball wars/laser tag thing.

we were taught
only in war
or bad guys
or.while playing Cowboys n' Injuns

So were the rest of us...thats why you read that most of us had them taken away at some point. We grew up just fine and are not menaces to society....sheeesh

I had one, I also had a gun that shot ping pong balls.

I had one,cut the strings off and ran out of ammo.

Yeah, them corks were surprisingly hard to find considering their size

BB gun vs Bottle Rocket wars were more Exciting

Ohhh yeah, remembered and was an owner of one. A lot of good times back then.