My dad gave me this gun when I was 4 and 3/4s (the 3/4s was very important back then to me). He had to cut the spring down to make it so I could cock it. I remember standing on the barrel trying to cock it. When I was 6 I put a new spring in it and hunted rabbits and pheasants. It's hanging on my wall. It still works after 55 and 1/4 years.
hello there, I'm looking into simple spring airsoft gun and would want your opinion on this one: is it durable and reliable, and you can actually hunt rabbits with it? -thanks
My red Ryder was in the garage for 2.5 years, I picked it up a few days ago and it worked first try. No maintenance, old slightly rusted BBs and it shot perfectly. I don't collect or often shoot airtime but I could mess about for hours with a Red Ryder
My grandmother hates guns my dad would go with his friend's and go to bb gun marksmen composition and he interned with his friend's gun he won and won a red rider in 1999 my grandmother found out about 6 month's later I was going through her closet and it was there I loaded it and shot it first time after 19 years
Nice Red Ryder video... I bought my 7 year old grandson one last year... he was hitting a 2 inch target @ 10 meters.. About 5 out of 10 hits... I JB welded a rail on it and mounted a cheap red dot on it for him... Now he hits 10 out of 10... these are the best guns for a kid ...
The saddle ring on the side is a from the western era where the ring and leather were used to loop the leather around the horn on the saddle so the horse rider could hang the carbine when riding.
I answer a person's question and look at the smart A$$ responses.. Why didn't any of you other commenting experts offer up an answer to a legitimate question rather than responding in an condescending manner? I'll wait..
Don't know if others have mentioned it, but if you track down a copy of the American movie "A Christmas Story", you'll get a little bit of a feel for the nostalgia for the Red Ryder BB gun. And leg lamps, getting your mouth washed out with soap, and cursing fathers, and a lot of other things. Trust me. Just part of our mission to turn you into an American, a little bit at a time. :)
+AirgunGearShow I Recommend use in a piece of Plexie glass (acrylic) is a strong transparent plastic that is used in bullet proof glass so put it in front of the camera when it is in the down range or direction of aim
an my dad bought me one in 1955 when I was six years old (yes six) I had to cock it with muzzle on the ground and push down with body weight on lever, great little gun, next had Diana 16 then BSA Cadet Major at aged eight, I must have walked hundreds of miles over the fields with this great Brit. classic until I bought an Airsporter at 18. Good old American Red Ryder though sowed the seed that is still with me. Always look forward to your posts.
Just about to get my boy one right now....hes 6 too. His mother wont be pleased....good job were not an item any longer so I can allow him to do real boy stuff instead of him being told it's ok to ware a girls dress if he wants😳😳I'm bringing my boys up the way i was baught up! I'm not letting this leftist agenda get into my childrens heads. Boys should be allowed to be boys🙋🏼♂️let the good times roll. I may have to buy two because il only be ripping it out of his hands saying "my turn, my turn" otherwise😂😂😂
$29.99 at Tractor Supply and Gander Mountain. ;-D Wish I still had my original Daisy, 200 shot, lever action... Shot many a Green Army man with it, and not too few varmints.
@@franciscoescobedo1482 90???? Eso es muy poco, recuerdo haber visto una alla, ahora me vuelvo a encontrar con otra en USA y planeo calarla. Es de caza?? O solo para practica?
@@franciscoescobedo1482 Oh bien, la verdad no soy un fan de la caza pero me gustaria aprender a disparar, solo para defenderme en el caso de un intruso. Supongo que tendre que buscar otra arma para entrenar.
what kind of Vermin? Concidered the power of it, maybe cockroaches? Because if you want to shoot, let's say, a mouse, you have to tie it down, shoot every one of the 200 bullets at it and then kill it by hitting it with the gun.
I remember drooling over this gun when I seen it in the back of comics when I was a kid. Just bought a 10 year old Red Ryder BB gun and a Pioneer .177 pellet gun in mint condition for my grandson, going to wait a bit before I give them to him, he's 5 lol. Stoked to give him something that gave me so much pleasure and taught me so much respect as a kid.
I just bought my girls 10 yr old son that same bb gun as a starter gun. He already knows that if hes safe and responsible w it ill get him a better one. I always wanted one of these as a kid. It will be perfect for when we go camping.
Got one for my son a couple of years ago. He has since moved on to pellet rifles and passed the daisy down to his younger brother. Excellent tool for initial training for marksmanship and weapon handling.
the little leather bit is a thong attached to a saddle ring, it really serves no functional purpose. when the Red Ryder was introduced in the 1930s this feature was added as a cute little nod to real cowboy rifles of the late 1800s, which often had a real saddle ring to tie the rifle to a horse's saddle while riding, because a rifle falling in the dirt could easily render it useless in a gun fight. i love that they still include this nod to history, but nevertheless i still immediately took the leather string off, as it does get in the way while shooting. the Red Ryder is the definition of a perfect youths' gun that is also endless fun for adults. it costs about $1 per 1000 bbs with no CO2 costs (aka basically free to shoot), has no recoil, and is utterly nonlethal, so when you're training the young ones in gun safety you have an extra level of security that you don't have with a .22 or any real gun. for me, the Red Ryder is insanely fun to use with weird stances i would never use with a rifle. i shoot from the hip, with one hand, from above my head, behind the back, all manner of bizarre positions. it makes for a good laugh when i connect with a target while holding the gun 3 feet above my head after spinning in circles for a minute. i'm not terribly excited that the gun is made in China, but at $25 US, with real wood forestock and buttstock and a nearly all-metal construction, the build quality is excellent, and it has enough penetrating power to make for some satisfying hits with cans and bottles. there's basically no reason not to buy not just 1, but 3 or 4.
+Michael Erskine... Exactly, and that's why they changed it so you can't pull the trigger when the lever is open, or even partly open. I don't like that feature very much. I mean, if you snap it back on your fingers, you only do it once, then learn not to do that . lol
I got one of these for Christmas when I was 7, I'm 15 now, I have the youth size but I like it because it is more compact. I just took it apart yesterday, sanded down the wood, and re-stained it. Then I hung it above my bed. Mine sometimes doesn't shoot but the majority of the time when it does its super powerful.
I live in the United States and remember my very first BB gun being the Red Ryder and I don't remember it having that kind of power BUT now I just have to pass that little beauty on to my kids and let them know the fun for hours like I did when younger . Thannks for the great videos .
I love hearing nothing but nice things about this rifle, shes nice and hefty being real metal and wood, shes inexpensive, she packs a punch, shoots straight as a board, whisper quiet for late night plinking. all i hear about is how reliable the quality is. First day with mine, i shouldve thought of this years ago 👍 Don't shoot yer eye out, kid!
This was my first gun when I was like 7. Been into shooting ever since. I am 23 now and I still have it and it works perfectly fine. I plan on passing it down.
Red Ryder was 30's comic, 40's radio and a 50's TV series and the BB gun was marketed as a product tie in, has been a big part of a lot of peoples childhood ever since. The little piece of leather would have been tied to the saddle ring on the real gun, and yes it gets in the way on the Daisy. If you get the chance you should try the Daisy model 25 pump action which was my favorite...thanks for the video
That was a fun video, and I liked it. Well done. I remember owning my Daisy Red Rider as a boy, but it went missing many years back. Since then, I've acquired Umarex's Ruger 10/22 replica and their Thompson M1A1 replica. Both use CO2 cartridges, and they are fun air-powered air rifles.
It must be the ultimate fun gun. I've had thousands of rounds though mine and it still works perfectly. Another advantage is that BBs rust away where as lead pellets stay on the ground for ever. Also see my video on how to get windage adjustment.
I bought this same rifle at Wally world for less than $25 plus tax. I had one when I was a boy in the seventies and remember having so much fun with it. I have a small collection of rifles including a couple of lever action 22, but this little cheap bb gun was just as much fun now as I remember it being some 40 yrs ago.
My uncle purchased me one when I was seven years old. We shot it at my grandmas house at cans and milk jugs😀happy memories😀now we go hunting with my beatiful cross man Co2 12 shot semi automatic pellet gun hunting squirrels,rabbits,and bird. Great starter rifle for any youngster. Great video
For loading, I use the smallest of a set of silicone funnels I bought. I don’t use the small one for anything else and it fits nicely with very few jam-ups. If they DO clog the funnel, a gentle squeeze shifts them enough to loosen them so they fall in.
6:17 yes no recoil when you have that little bbs In the gun however if it’s fully loaded you will feel a little bit harder recoil from it but otherwise-it’s great I love plinking cans great vid keep it up! 👍
I got one to replace the Anniversary version that was stolen. These newer versions with the plastic cocking handle is sad at best. The cocking handle broke the first shooting session. And for the trolls, say what you want but the fun to dollar ratio combined with nostalgia makes this a great rifle to have fun with. The accuracy is not great, but thats part of the fun. Anyone can shoot a scoped super accurate gun well all day but the chance to miss is part of the fun when shooting cans.
I grew up with this gun. 43 years ago, after lots of practice and shooting thousands of BB's, I could consistently hit plastic red checkers the size of a dime at 30 feet, 10 yards. Shot at lots of birds, rarely hit any, but when we did, it was nearly orgasmic in our excitement.
The leather strap is supposed to represent the strap that they would use to loop around the horn of the western saddle when riding. Not always convenient to sheath the rife when riding and hunting. Or to carry in your arms. This was kind of having the rifle at the ready. This bb gun was to represent a full size cowboy's rifle. There was a great comic series called "Red Ryder".
Great video Giles, I've got a 1940s daisy pump action rifle in with my local gun Smith for a complete rebuild. my dad saw it on a pub wall and bought it off the land lord for me about 30 years ago !
Why this costs $70 or more in Canada is beyond me. Just has to cross the border. That said, I absolutely love mine. First one disappeared when we hired movers. Got another one. Stripped and refinished the wood, added a white diamond on the rear sight, brass bead on the front. Installed sling swivel mounts. Great little shooter. Take care.
The leather and ring is for attaching the gun to your saddle horn. That's why the gun is known as a saddle ring carbine. See you folks across the pond would know this stuff if you weren't confused all the time thinking about how to convert your measurments to something sensible. :-) In the United States this gun as a bit of a cult following, with basically every boy born before 1995 being given one Christmas. Now? Every other boy gets one for Christmas. LOL. If you have ever seen "A Christmas Story" you will understand.
Good video, I'm thinking me buying one for my niece for Christmas that's right around the corner was not a waste. She's still a bit young, by most standards, but that's the age I myself started getting interested in anything for more than 30 seconds in a row, and when my love for firearms started to bud. Hope she likes it. If not, oh well.
I bought the new Adult model yesterday, was excited that Daisy got their heads out of the clouds and started making BB guns suited for adults. I openned the box today and ran 10 shots through my chronograph to see if the gun actually did anywhere near the 350 feet per second as they falsely advertised. 10 shots were between 250 and 255 feet per second. It seems the Chinese manufacturer put springs suitable for kids, not adults. I returned the gun to BiMart and exchanged it for another one. The second one averaged 255 feet per second after 10 shots. I guess they got a good deal from Daisy. They got hosed.
For 43.99 that is a great deal ngl look pretty real aswell, very powerful aswell made out of metal , I was planning on getting an m16 BB gun for 100 bucks but now that I have seen this I’m totally going to get this
I must have one of the last that were made with a genuine American walnut stock - bought it around 1990 - already changed to the side loading port and plastic cocking lever though. BTW, they don't offer a windage adjustment on the rear sight, but it can be bent a bit either way. Just get a heavy piece of leather or rubber to press on the thin metal edge at the back, and gradually move it farther each time until it takes a set - the welds are strong, but start small, even though you will end up pressing harder and bending it further than you might expect before you get the result you need. Looks like this one could use a little tweak to the right. Another cool thing I found is that these shoot BB's more accurately than the Daisy and Crosman pellet/BB rifles with rifled barrels for the pellets. I think they need to be a touch larger for the pellets, and can't match the BB accuracy of the Red Ryder with the BB-specific barrel size. Of course, once you experience the accuracy of pellets through the rifled barrels, it's hard to appreciate the Red Ryder on paper - hence the cans and bottles (and plastic army men!), where it shines!
my first gun was a red ryder i was maybe 8. good times as a kid.. i can only imagine how many kids grew up with this gun.. tons. :) yes im in the USA. we grew up with this. :) and the other gun we grew up with a crossman 10 pump gun. about 60.00 and we all over pumped he thing after seals were broken in. :D well in the 80s they were all metal.. plastic had to creep in :(
Had one of these as a nipper and had hours of fun and pence for bbs was paper round friendly compared to the cost of .22l (that my dad had to go buy for me cos I was too young) back then it would shoot through an empty cola can and collect your bbs inside.
Kind sir, I have THREE of these, each a bit 'different'... the third being the 80th anniversary edition.✨🤗✨ ALL THREE SHOOT AT AROUND 220-TO-240 FPS. This, of course, is NO WHERE NEAR 350 FPS. Love ya!😘
I shot one that was 30 to 40 year old and that thing still preformed grate and I had to shoot atleast 1200 rounds that day and the plastic thing broke a bit but could still use it like normal though those things are amazing planking air guns
I have one and when I took my first shots from 25 feet I missed terribly. I went to the extreme of raising the sights to the maximum. Guess what...I still missed. I went to the other extreme and lowered the sights to minimum and hit my target over and over again. This is an adult version of the Red Ryder air rifle, but I believe that it is accurate if you compensate for eye relief. We all look though scopes and sights differently to some degree. The daisy Red Ryder will help get you centered but it needs some help with elevation. I did not find windage as a problem with this air rifle just the up and down. I have found that depending on the size of your target requires more concentration as the target size gets smaller.
Okay, so a few years ago i got a Red Ryder for Christmas and I still have it and it works perfectly. Just as a warning tho, if you put the gun on its side or are shooting at an angle when the gun is tilted to the left or if you are just pointing it down, the BB's may come out. O.o Oh, and the trigger *IS* plastic but the cocking mechanism isn't.
I'm buying one of these today brand new so excited it's exactly what I want... It's just like the one from fallout even the name an box make me just want it even more !
Try not sitting down when you shoot, stand up and fire from a standing position. I grew up with one of these, pellets were smaller, barrell was cracked, and I couldn't hit a target that was 5 metres in front of me, but when my friend from a farm stayed with us, he shot a rat through the head and killed with one shot.
I just bought one at Walmart with a big bottle of Copperhead 6000 count BB's for about $35... the bottle says "Easy Pour Container"... took me several attempts to cut the pointed end... well actually, I drilled a hole, starting with a 5/32" bit... no way that worked... kept going up until I got to an 11/64" bit... and then I was able to shake some BB's out of the bottle, and all over my basement floor... will be picking them up probably until the day I die... I'm sure I will step on a few when I'm in my bare feet, and I will be hopping and swearing... finally I took a razor knife an cut the end off so I could still close the cap. Easy Pour Container my ass ! :) I think part of the problem is the bottle is too full to shake any usable number of BB's out... so I pried the top pointy cap off... laid a folded towel on the floor, laid the barrel down on the towel so the barrel would tilt back, as I held a funnel with a nozzle end hole of about 1/2" wide, over the loading square hole, poured a bunch into my hand, and then slowly dropped them into the funnel... worked pretty good... I should probably do a TH-cam video ! So I did finally get to go outside and shoot it, using a box packed with rags with a paper target taped to it... doesn't shoot too bad, seems to shoot to the right, so I aim to the left. I have a couple dozen of nice, older, high quality air rifles, spring-piston mainly, although I do have one PCP, a Shin-Sung Career 707 Mk2 carbine in 5mm, but it's a pain the ass to pump up... so this is my first BB gun. Decided to get one, after watching your video... plan to keep it in my garage and plink with it when I'm out barbecuing, and draining some beer can targets. Enjoying your videos... you have a great sense of humor !
Like your show, Canada Texas talkin, most people are right-handed, the reason they have that leather strap on the left hand side of that gun, they were mocking the 94 Winchester,, you know the gun that won the West and all that jolly rot,it's so you can tie that leather strap down on a ring that was on your saddle so you wouldn't lose your gun after slide it in the holster, and riding very hard I believe that was the purpose, excellent show carry-on 🤙🇨🇱
I recommend upgrading the spring a little to get it shooting around 400/500 still shouldn’t go through the fence but will be less likely to be affected by the wind also that bit of leather is to help you mount a sling
With my old one from the 60's, when I was 13, I used to shoot bubble bees at 25 ft. Makes a good bat when you miss and piss one off. Doesn't do much to a rat though. P.S. I also noticed it is geared in the lever cocking, the old model had no stop and if you released it during cocking.before going all the way, it would fly back and smack your fingers.
The leather string is when you harness the rifleit is then tied to the saddle so with no horses running the bouncing up and down the harness you could bounce it out of the harness
So exited my dad just came home yesturday and said "hey, lets buy an airgun for our summerhouse!" and the next day he came home with the Daisy Red Ryder :DD
I lost it when you talked about the box, I just got mine from cabelas (aka bass pro shop basically) and the box was F Up and the other box had 1500 BB Splitted up at the bottom of it (3rd time ordering 3rd time packing sucks)
I am a 67 year old grandmother and bought one for myself in an effort to keep rabbits out of my garden. I don't want to kill the rabbits, and I don't want to make them bleed, but I want them out the garden. Now as far as a gun for two legged intruders well lets just say there will be some blood shed if intruding on an old lady that still has her 101 year old Mother at home.
Love mine. Only problem is the drop rate of the BB. Drops about a foot once it reaches 3/4 the way up my yard. Can't snipe cans easily. Other than that, amazing. (A 12 year old that target shoots with BB guns and my air rifle)
My dad gave me this gun when I was 4 and 3/4s (the 3/4s was very important back then to me). He had to cut the spring down to make it so I could cock it. I remember standing on the barrel trying to cock it. When I was 6 I put a new spring in it and hunted rabbits and pheasants. It's hanging on my wall. It still works after 55 and 1/4 years.
hello there, I'm looking into simple spring airsoft gun and would want your opinion on this one: is it durable and reliable, and you can actually hunt rabbits with it? -thanks
@@LtAzariel It's too light to hunt.
Amazing how these little things are huge to us . Look it getting my kid one
@@rlbadger1698wouldn’t say that, you could probably kill a pigeon with it
My red Ryder was in the garage for 2.5 years, I picked it up a few days ago and it worked first try. No maintenance, old slightly rusted BBs and it shot perfectly. I don't collect or often shoot airtime but I could mess about for hours with a Red Ryder
My grandmother hates guns my dad would go with his friend's and go to bb gun marksmen composition and he interned with his friend's gun he won and won a red rider in 1999 my grandmother found out about 6 month's later I was going through her closet and it was there I loaded it and shot it first time after 19 years
Nice Red Ryder video... I bought my 7 year old grandson one last year... he was hitting a 2 inch target @ 10 meters.. About 5 out of 10 hits... I JB welded a rail on it and mounted a cheap red dot on it for him... Now he hits 10 out of 10... these are the best guns for a kid ...
I learned to shoot with one of those, that learning helped me much during my military service.
+Michael Cleveland They are an ideal starter rifle. Military personal are extremely important in all of our lives, Thank you for your service. Giles
Micha-el Cleveland thanks for ur service
thanks for you service dude!
i grew up on a red rider and got one recently. i ship out in a few days. i hope it helps in basic
Thank you for your service sir
The saddle ring on the side is a from the western era where the ring and leather were used to loop the leather around the horn on the saddle so the horse rider could hang the carbine when riding.
Ah, I see. Thanks!
Saddle ring explains it all....
@Christofer Napper well I didn't fucking know m8
ok boomer
I answer a person's question and look at the smart A$$ responses.. Why didn't any of you other commenting experts offer up an answer to a legitimate question rather than responding in an condescending manner? I'll wait..
It blows a dent in a fence. But nothing very noticeable and it is a nice quiet gun. I use it a lot.
Smoke Harry blew a bunch of holes into the siding of my neighbors garage by accident
I use this in my 35 acres, frogs and birds easy targets
@@Dragon228833 accident lol
Don't know if others have mentioned it, but if you track down a copy of the American movie "A Christmas Story", you'll get a little bit of a feel for the nostalgia for the Red Ryder BB gun. And leg lamps, getting your mouth washed out with soap, and cursing fathers, and a lot of other things. Trust me. Just part of our mission to turn you into an American, a little bit at a time. :)
+Craig Christensen Or wait for Christmas Eve, I think TNT or USA run a 24hr marathon of that movie, LOL.
And don't shoot your eye out
Great movie, all 'round! Now just wait for the stupid 'bleeding hearts' to try to ban this one too,.....OMG!
Nice video of the little Red Ryder. It shows that sometimes, simple is better.
+Tal Arden Agreed Tal, its a blast for the back yard......excuse the pun. Thanks for watching. Giles
+AirgunGearShow I Recommend use in a piece of Plexie glass (acrylic) is a strong transparent plastic that is used in bullet proof glass
so put it in front of the camera when it is in the down range or direction of aim
Yo no entendereishon mucheishon
an my dad bought me one in 1955 when I was six years old (yes six) I had to cock it with muzzle on the ground and push down with body weight on lever, great little gun, next had Diana 16 then BSA Cadet Major at aged eight, I must have walked hundreds of miles over the fields with this great Brit. classic until I bought an Airsporter at 18. Good old American Red Ryder though sowed the seed that is still with me. Always look forward to your posts.
Just about to get my boy one right now....hes 6 too. His mother wont be pleased....good job were not an item any longer so I can allow him to do real boy stuff instead of him being told it's ok to ware a girls dress if he wants😳😳I'm bringing my boys up the way i was baught up! I'm not letting this leftist agenda get into my childrens heads. Boys should be allowed to be boys🙋🏼♂️let the good times roll. I may have to buy two because il only be ripping it out of his hands saying "my turn, my turn" otherwise😂😂😂
im 13 years old and this gun IS my childhood i love this gun. ive hade it since i was 4 and its perfectly fine and works great after 9YEARS!
I just got one of these on a whim here in the UK and instantly fell in love. Just a perfect little backyard plinker!
When I was a kid, the end of the barrel unscrewed and that's how you loaded the BB's. Little trap door is new to me.
that would suck in an airsoft battle
Baconcatboy this shoots metal bbs that would hurt so bad.
@@poison2285 i have this gun, i was talking about the old reload and how slow it would be
Baconcatboy you wouldn’t be using this bb gun in an airsoft battle so you have no point lol
@@poison2285 true i only like using this for target practice
$29.99 at Tractor Supply and Gander Mountain. ;-D
Wish I still had my original Daisy, 200 shot, lever action... Shot many a Green Army man with it, and not too few varmints.
This toy gun selling for $90 in Mexico, it is not a joke.
@@franciscoescobedo1482 90???? Eso es muy poco, recuerdo haber visto una alla, ahora me vuelvo a encontrar con otra en USA y planeo calarla. Es de caza?? O solo para practica?
@@diegoalonzodavalos6185 El precio aproximado fué de $ 90.00 USD ( $1,700.00 MEX). No es de caza, yo la uso como diversión de tiro al blanco.
@@franciscoescobedo1482 Oh bien, la verdad no soy un fan de la caza pero me gustaria aprender a disparar, solo para defenderme en el caso de un intruso. Supongo que tendre que buscar otra arma para entrenar.
what kind of Vermin? Concidered the power of it, maybe cockroaches? Because if you want to shoot, let's say, a mouse, you have to tie it down, shoot every one of the 200 bullets at it and then kill it by hitting it with the gun.
I just bought one at Walmart for $25! So much fun for so cheap!
Thanks for the great video! I subbed!
Cheers from USA
-Duane
+XDM50 i have two question 1. can i use pellets on this gun? 2. are this air gun dangereus? can it kill bunny?
+Zombie Indo
1. No pellets, only steel BBs.
2. It would not be good for hunting. I don't think it would kill a bunny even close up.
Zombie Indo it can kill birds I KILLED ONE BUT..... It was half dead
Brazilian Price!
@@kennethvazquez7966 is it powerful enough to kill pigeons?
I remember drooling over this gun when I seen it in the back of comics when I was a kid. Just bought a 10 year old Red Ryder BB gun and a Pioneer .177 pellet gun in mint condition for my grandson, going to wait a bit before I give them to him, he's 5 lol. Stoked to give him something that gave me so much pleasure and taught me so much respect as a kid.
I just bought my girls 10 yr old
son that same bb gun as a starter gun. He already knows that if hes safe and responsible w it ill get him a better one. I always wanted one of these as a kid. It will be perfect for when we go camping.
Got one for my son a couple of years ago. He has since moved on to pellet rifles and passed the daisy down to his younger brother. Excellent tool for initial training for marksmanship and weapon handling.
Got my red Ryder when I was 9 for Christmas. Haven't fired it since. Still sitting in it's sleeve, cocked and loaded with copperhead bb's
Little dangerous but still cool 👍🏽
Leaving it cocked for a long period of time will ruin the power. It won't have the same power it used to. Bad idea to leave it cocked... :S
@@salesmcsaleson9285 duh
the little leather bit is a thong attached to a saddle ring, it really serves no functional purpose. when the Red Ryder was introduced in the 1930s this feature was added as a cute little nod to real cowboy rifles of the late 1800s, which often had a real saddle ring to tie the rifle to a horse's saddle while riding, because a rifle falling in the dirt could easily render it useless in a gun fight. i love that they still include this nod to history, but nevertheless i still immediately took the leather string off, as it does get in the way while shooting. the Red Ryder is the definition of a perfect youths' gun that is also endless fun for adults. it costs about $1 per 1000 bbs with no CO2 costs (aka basically free to shoot), has no recoil, and is utterly nonlethal, so when you're training the young ones in gun safety you have an extra level of security that you don't have with a .22 or any real gun. for me, the Red Ryder is insanely fun to use with weird stances i would never use with a rifle. i shoot from the hip, with one hand, from above my head, behind the back, all manner of bizarre positions. it makes for a good laugh when i connect with a target while holding the gun 3 feet above my head after spinning in circles for a minute. i'm not terribly excited that the gun is made in China, but at $25 US, with real wood forestock and buttstock and a nearly all-metal construction, the build quality is excellent, and it has enough penetrating power to make for some satisfying hits with cans and bottles. there's basically no reason not to buy not just 1, but 3 or 4.
The leather thin also helps to prevent the metal ring from damaging the receiver, too
That ratcheting mechanism was not in the earlier ones. When we had steel cocking levers sometimes they could snap back on our fingers.
+Michael Erskine... Exactly, and that's why they changed it so you can't pull the trigger when the lever is open, or even partly open. I don't like that feature very much. I mean, if you snap it back on your fingers, you only do it once, then learn not to do that . lol
I heard the old Daisy were alot more powerful than the modern ones, people actually use it for pest control.
@@trevorjameson3213 ... I, and everyone I have asked who had one, said they did the finger snap ONCE!
I got one of these for Christmas when I was 7, I'm 15 now, I have the youth size but I like it because it is more compact. I just took it apart yesterday, sanded down the wood, and re-stained it. Then I hung it above my bed. Mine sometimes doesn't shoot but the majority of the time when it does its super powerful.
I live in the United States and remember my very first BB gun being the Red Ryder and I don't remember it having that kind of power BUT now I just have to pass that little beauty on to my kids and let them know the fun for hours like I did when younger . Thannks for the great videos .
I love hearing nothing but nice things about this rifle, shes nice and hefty being real metal and wood, shes inexpensive, she packs a punch, shoots straight as a board, whisper quiet for late night plinking.
all i hear about is how reliable the quality is. First day with mine, i shouldve thought of this years ago 👍 Don't shoot yer eye out, kid!
I had mine in a closet of a motorhome for 4.5 years and it works great.
This was my first gun when I was like 7. Been into shooting ever since. I am 23 now and I still have it and it works perfectly fine. I plan on passing it down.
Red Ryder was 30's comic, 40's radio and a 50's TV series and the BB gun was marketed as a product tie in, has been a big part of a lot of peoples childhood ever since. The little piece of leather would have been tied to the saddle ring on the real gun, and yes it gets in the way on the Daisy. If you get the chance you should try the Daisy model 25 pump action which was my favorite...thanks for the video
That was a fun video, and I liked it. Well done. I remember owning my Daisy Red Rider as a boy, but it went missing many years back. Since then, I've acquired Umarex's Ruger 10/22 replica and their Thompson M1A1 replica. Both use CO2 cartridges, and they are fun air-powered air rifles.
It must be the ultimate fun gun. I've had thousands of rounds though mine and it still works perfectly. Another advantage is that BBs rust away where as lead pellets stay on the ground for ever. Also see my video on how to get windage adjustment.
I bought this same rifle at Wally world for less than $25 plus tax. I had one when I was a boy in the seventies and remember having so much fun with it. I have a small collection of rifles including a couple of lever action 22, but this little cheap bb gun was just as much fun now as I remember it being some 40 yrs ago.
My uncle purchased me one when I was seven years old. We shot it at my grandmas house at cans and milk jugs😀happy memories😀now we go hunting with my beatiful cross man Co2 12 shot semi automatic pellet gun hunting squirrels,rabbits,and bird. Great starter rifle for any youngster. Great video
Great video!! Buying one for my son this Christmas
hes gonna shoot his eye out
Still have mine 20 years later it's never failed me.
That red Ryder is amazing for kids my nephew uses it all the time and it teaches him gun safety in a safe way
enjoyed your video, took me back to my child hood, 50 years ago, there are a lot of adventures in a little gun like that.
I still have my Red Ryder from about 1992. The only gun I've never had to clean and still shoots today.
For loading, I use the smallest of a set of silicone funnels I bought. I don’t use the small one for anything else and it fits nicely with very few jam-ups. If they DO clog the funnel, a gentle squeeze shifts them enough to loosen them so they fall in.
I really enjoy my Red Ryder. Be carful you’ll shoot your eye out😆 BB will bounce back even off a empty plastic water bottle.
My Grandpa bought me one when I was about 8-9 I still have mine and I love it
6:17 yes no recoil when you have that little bbs In the gun however if it’s fully loaded you will feel a little bit harder recoil from it but otherwise-it’s great I love plinking cans great vid keep it up! 👍
I got one to replace the Anniversary version that was stolen. These newer versions with the plastic cocking handle is sad at best. The cocking handle broke the first shooting session. And for the trolls, say what you want but the fun to dollar ratio combined with nostalgia makes this a great rifle to have fun with. The accuracy is not great, but thats part of the fun. Anyone can shoot a scoped super accurate gun well all day but the chance to miss is part of the fun when shooting cans.
I grew up with this gun. 43 years ago, after lots of practice and shooting thousands of BB's, I could consistently hit plastic red checkers the size of a dime at 30 feet, 10 yards. Shot at lots of birds, rarely hit any, but when we did, it was nearly orgasmic in our excitement.
The leather strap is supposed to represent the strap that they would use to loop around the horn of the western saddle when riding.
Not always convenient to sheath the rife when riding and hunting. Or to carry in your arms. This was kind of having the rifle at the ready.
This bb gun was to represent a full size cowboy's rifle.
There was a great comic series called "Red Ryder".
Great video Giles, I've got a 1940s daisy pump action rifle in with my local gun Smith for a complete rebuild. my dad saw it on a pub wall and bought it off the land lord for me about 30 years ago !
Wasting bb's is a sin. I never dropped or lost a BB in my life.
Lol true
dropping one of these bastards breaks my heart
seriously they dont even cost 1 cent
I belief the same
Charles Foster it’s not a sin if you lose one it’s an accident
My old Daisy Red Ryder would hold 1000 BBs. but it had a plastic stock. I got it in 1952., and it came with a telescopic sight.
Why this costs $70 or more in Canada is beyond me. Just has to cross the border. That said, I absolutely love mine. First one disappeared when we hired movers. Got another one. Stripped and refinished the wood, added a white diamond on the rear sight, brass bead on the front. Installed sling swivel mounts. Great little shooter. Take care.
I own one, it’s kinda rusty and hard to open the hatch but still works perfectly, it has been with me for four years all it needs is some oil!
I built a 24" x 18" target box based on the instructions. Set it up at 5 meters which the instructions say to do. Makes a 1 inch hole at that range.
The leather and ring is for attaching the gun to your saddle horn. That's why the gun is known as a saddle ring carbine. See you folks across the pond would know this stuff if you weren't confused all the time thinking about how to convert your measurments to something sensible. :-)
In the United States this gun as a bit of a cult following, with basically every boy born before 1995 being given one Christmas. Now? Every other boy gets one for Christmas. LOL. If you have ever seen "A Christmas Story" you will understand.
I got one for Christmas from my youngest Daughter and Husband. I think that is awesome!
absolutely love your channel. The Red Ryder was my very first, and I'm glad that I'm not the only one who has no idea what the leather lace is for!
I bought a lever action Daisy when I was 8 years old. I'm 63 now. I still have it. Cost a whopping 5 dollars then.
Good video, I'm thinking me buying one for my niece for Christmas that's right around the corner was not a waste.
She's still a bit young, by most standards, but that's the age I myself started getting interested in anything for more than 30 seconds in a row, and when my love for firearms started to bud.
Hope she likes it. If not, oh well.
I bought the new Adult model yesterday, was excited that Daisy got their heads out of the clouds and started making BB guns suited for adults.
I openned the box today and ran 10 shots through my chronograph to see if the gun actually did anywhere near the 350 feet per second as they falsely advertised.
10 shots were between 250 and 255 feet per second.
It seems the Chinese manufacturer put springs suitable for kids, not adults.
I returned the gun to BiMart and exchanged it for another one.
The second one averaged 255 feet per second after 10 shots.
I guess they got a good deal from Daisy.
They got hosed.
For 43.99 that is a great deal ngl look pretty real aswell, very powerful aswell made out of metal , I was planning on getting an m16 BB gun for 100 bucks but now that I have seen this I’m totally going to get this
I must have one of the last that were made with a genuine American walnut stock - bought it around 1990 - already changed to the side loading port and plastic cocking lever though. BTW, they don't offer a windage adjustment on the rear sight, but it can be bent a bit either way. Just get a heavy piece of leather or rubber to press on the thin metal edge at the back, and gradually move it farther each time until it takes a set - the welds are strong, but start small, even though you will end up pressing harder and bending it further than you might expect before you get the result you need. Looks like this one could use a little tweak to the right. Another cool thing I found is that these shoot BB's more accurately than the Daisy and Crosman pellet/BB rifles with rifled barrels for the pellets. I think they need to be a touch larger for the pellets, and can't match the BB accuracy of the Red Ryder with the BB-specific barrel size. Of course, once you experience the accuracy of pellets through the rifled barrels, it's hard to appreciate the Red Ryder on paper - hence the cans and bottles (and plastic army men!), where it shines!
my first gun was a red ryder i was maybe 8. good times as a kid.. i can only imagine how many kids grew up with this gun.. tons. :) yes im in the USA. we grew up with this. :) and the other gun we grew up with a crossman 10 pump gun. about 60.00 and we all over pumped he thing after seals were broken in. :D
well in the 80s they were all metal.. plastic had to creep in :(
Chris c not plastic lever anymore
Trashy Gamer
thats good to hear, it really is a great first bb gun.
Buy a Daisy Model 25 Pump-Action BB Gun. Way cooler and way older design from 1913. The pump action is hugely gratifying and mechanically interesting.
Had one of these as a nipper and had hours of fun and pence for bbs was paper round friendly compared to the cost of .22l (that my dad had to go buy for me cos I was too young) back then it would shoot through an empty cola can and collect your bbs inside.
To clean stock and forearm use pledge. It works great and makes the stick look a shiny reddish color. Though the wood will smell like lemon.
Even shooting videos when on holiday. Now that's commitment!... Thanks for another good video Giles..
Just to let you know, there is an updated model of the Daisy Red Ryder that does come with a metal cocking lever.
We used to hit the the power line insulators from 400mtrs.
Make a nice ting sound.
Kind sir, I have THREE of these, each a bit 'different'... the third being the 80th anniversary edition.✨🤗✨
ALL THREE SHOOT AT AROUND 220-TO-240 FPS. This, of course, is NO WHERE NEAR 350 FPS.
Love ya!😘
Super helpful video, I just ordered one of these for my younger kids to introduce them to shooting.
I shot one that was 30 to 40 year old and that thing still preformed grate and I had to shoot atleast 1200 rounds that day and the plastic thing broke a bit but could still use it like normal though those things are amazing planking air guns
I have one and when I took my first shots from 25 feet I missed terribly. I went to the extreme of raising the sights to the maximum. Guess what...I still missed. I went to the other extreme and lowered the sights to minimum and hit my target over and over again. This is an adult version of the Red Ryder air rifle, but I believe that it is accurate if you compensate for eye relief. We all look though scopes and sights differently to some degree. The daisy Red Ryder will help get you centered but it needs some help with elevation. I did not find windage as a problem with this air rifle just the up and down. I have found that depending on the size of your target requires more concentration as the target size gets smaller.
A must have for any air gunner and lots of fun..
Okay, so a few years ago i got a Red Ryder for Christmas and I still have it and it works perfectly. Just as a warning tho, if you put the gun on its side or are shooting at an angle when the gun is tilted to the left or if you are just pointing it down, the BB's may come out. O.o Oh, and the trigger *IS* plastic but the cocking mechanism isn't.
I'm buying one of these today brand new so excited it's exactly what I want... It's just like the one from fallout even the name an box make me just want it even more !
Try not sitting down when you shoot, stand up and fire from a standing position. I grew up with one of these, pellets were smaller, barrell was cracked, and I couldn't hit a target that was 5 metres in front of me, but when my friend from a farm stayed with us, he shot a rat through the head and killed with one shot.
we use to shoot baseball cards and GI Joe toys with this gun. My wife just got me the 35th special edition from the Christmas story movie museum.
I want that red Ryder since its lever action it feels more comfortable unlike pump action rifles which take more time to reload.
22 dollars at my walmart
This toy gun selling for $90 in Mexico, it is not a joke.
17 at mine
lucky american
Hilbert Podcast do I need any permission to buy it
I just bought one at Walmart with a big bottle of Copperhead 6000 count BB's for about $35... the bottle says "Easy Pour Container"... took me several attempts to cut the pointed end... well actually, I drilled a hole, starting with a 5/32" bit... no way that worked... kept going up until I got to an 11/64" bit... and then I was able to shake some BB's out of the bottle, and all over my basement floor... will be picking them up probably until the day I die... I'm sure I will step on a few when I'm in my bare feet, and I will be hopping and swearing... finally I took a razor knife an cut the end off so I could still close the cap.
Easy Pour Container my ass ! :)
I think part of the problem is the bottle is too full to shake any usable number of BB's out... so I pried the top pointy cap off... laid a folded towel on the floor, laid the barrel down on the towel so the barrel would tilt back, as I held a funnel with a nozzle end hole of about 1/2" wide, over the loading square hole, poured a bunch into my hand, and then slowly dropped them into the funnel... worked pretty good... I should probably do a TH-cam video !
So I did finally get to go outside and shoot it, using a box packed with rags with a paper target taped to it... doesn't shoot too bad, seems to shoot to the right, so I aim to the left.
I have a couple dozen of nice, older, high quality air rifles, spring-piston mainly, although I do have one PCP, a Shin-Sung Career 707 Mk2 carbine in 5mm, but it's a pain the ass to pump up... so this is my first BB gun.
Decided to get one, after watching your video... plan to keep it in my garage and plink with it when I'm out barbecuing, and draining some beer can targets.
Enjoying your videos... you have a great sense of humor !
Like your show, Canada Texas talkin, most people are right-handed, the reason they have that leather strap on the left hand side of that gun, they were mocking the 94 Winchester,, you know the gun that won the West and all that jolly rot,it's so you can tie that leather strap down on a ring that was on your saddle so you wouldn't lose your gun after slide it in the holster, and riding very hard I believe that was the purpose, excellent show carry-on 🤙🇨🇱
Solid review picked one up myself tonight at Wally for $22 shoots insanely good I'm I pressed
Good old video on this Daisy BB rifle. Good grouping on your shooting.
I recommend upgrading the spring a little to get it shooting around 400/500 still shouldn’t go through the fence but will be less likely to be affected by the wind also that bit of leather is to help you mount a sling
I had one when I was little, i going to get one again just for nostalgia.
Pretty sure it's the one Kevin has in home alone lol
My cousin has this bb gun and it got me into airsoft/bb guns. So i love this bb gun
That piece of leather is looped through a saddle ring. It’s a type of sling used in the US cavalry
Got two of these and they’re great for back garden and even indoor target practice. Okay, their not Weihrauchs, but they cost about £60!
I pluck the ring and U that holds it on with pliers. nice video!
As an American yeah I can confirm it's a classic and I have one my dad even has an older version
With my old one from the 60's, when I was 13, I used to shoot bubble bees at 25 ft. Makes a good bat when you miss and piss one off. Doesn't do much to a rat though. P.S. I also noticed it is geared in the lever cocking, the old model had no stop and if you released it during cocking.before going all the way, it would fly back and smack your fingers.
The leather string is when you harness the rifleit is then tied to the saddle so with no horses running the bouncing up and down the harness you could bounce it out of the harness
So exited my dad just came home yesturday and said "hey, lets buy an airgun for our summerhouse!" and the next day he came home with the Daisy Red Ryder :DD
Still have mine from when i was a kid and got one for my nephew from walmart less than 20 bucks
Nice dovetail mount available for the Red Ryder now.
I lost it when you talked about the box, I just got mine from cabelas (aka bass pro shop basically) and the box was F Up and the other box had 1500 BB Splitted up at the bottom of it (3rd time ordering 3rd time packing sucks)
I had 1 dad bought in 1948 it got lost in time
+David Wagner David, that would be a classic........wish I had all the airgun bits from my childhood too. Thanks for watching. Giles
I got a 105 buck when I turned 10. I feel that would be better for a young kid because of its stock.
I got one in April , $17.96 + tax from Walmart . Mind you I am only 53 .
looks like a lot of fun.and you look like you are enjoying it.
+hal barnes Yes Hal, great fun, bit warm though was upper 90's when I filmed. Thanks for watching. Giles
I am a 67 year old grandmother and bought one for myself in an effort to keep rabbits out of my garden. I don't want to kill the rabbits, and I don't want to make them bleed, but I want them out the garden. Now as far as a gun for two legged intruders well lets just say there will be some blood shed if intruding on an old lady that still has her 101 year old Mother at home.
i had one when I was a lad
The leather was to tie it down to the stalled ring so when riding on horse back , it won’t fall out of the scarab
Love mine. Only problem is the drop rate of the BB. Drops about a foot once it reaches 3/4 the way up my yard. Can't snipe cans easily. Other than that, amazing. (A 12 year old that target shoots with BB guns and my air rifle)
this was my first bb gun and I love it