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Old 03-24-2012, 10:29 PM
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Default Awesome Roy Rogers Gun
What's up guys today I was hunting in my yard because it seems to never be hunted out no matter how many times I search it, and it proved to be full of treasure again. I was searching along the edge of my frontyard where and old sidewalk and gazebo used to stand when I hit the + symbol on the F2. Now this usually means iron or big silver (usually iron), but I decided to dig it since I hadn't found much and it was getting dark. As I dug down I popped out the smallest piece of the gun (which you will see in the picture) and thought nothing of it. Rescanning the hole I heard more beeps and continued digging only to find this amazing Roy Rogers toy gun.








It's a sweet find and my first toy gun ever. I don't know the date but my dad said possibly the 1950's since Roy Rogers was popular back then. If you guys have any information it would be much appreciated, so thanks for looking and HH!

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Old 03-24-2012, 10:37 PM
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So the first pic is parts of the gun.
Then you just put the parts together?
nice! I bet the kid didn't care for losing it.
And father wasn't to happy ether.
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Old 03-25-2012, 11:24 PM
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I had a set of toy guns like that in the '50s. Sweet find and you did a good
job putting the pieces back together. Gold Nuggets

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Old 03-25-2012, 11:42 PM
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Sweet looking pistol. I dug one last week, but your is way cooler. Congrats.

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now that is a great find
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Old 03-25-2012, 11:49 PM
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Thats cool,I'll love to find some thing like that. Congrats..

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Old 03-25-2012, 11:50 PM
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Real good that you got it together, real interesting find.

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Now thats a nice find.
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Very cool!

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Old 03-26-2012, 10:41 AM
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It's possibly even older than the fifties. Metal cap guns were practically non-existent during the war years; but the toy market began to be flooded with "pot metal" guns in 1946. The war ended when I was in the third grade; and I had a Roy Rogers cap gun very similar to that while a fourth grader.

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If that ain't cool, then I don't know what cool is... Nice!

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Very cool...
Anything Roy Rogers is a good find..
Wish we had more people like him in this world today.. Congrats..
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