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Atomic Pearls? I don't recall anything by that name.

SRH

An unusual Daisy SxS with British proof marks...

BB size explosives. Had to sort them to determine which ones would work in my Red Ryder. This link is to a 1957 article (when I was using them).

https://www.fireengineering.com/1957/11/01/203034/atom-pearls-dangerous/#gref

I spit coffee all over the keyboard when I saw this. Damn your hide. LOL. Gil

OK. What's an Atomic Pearl?...Geo

Oh, saw your post above.

No serial number so regret to say Reilly only engraved and retailed it. It has 277 instead of 315 so post November 1881. No rue Scribe, Paris address so likely post August 1885. 277 closed in 1903 so pre-1903.

That's a really good one Rob!

This has been an educational thread for me. I had never before heard of a SxS Daisy, atomic pearls, or seen British proof marks on an air rifle.

I got one of the model 94 copies for Christmas when I was 6. I treated it like a gun in every way and wouldn't have dreamed of intentionally shooting someone with it. I wore it out and owned a couple of other models over the next few years. None were powerful enough to kill a squirrel, but I did some serious bird hunting with them.

Whatever I killed, I cleaned it and my mother would fry them along with whatever else she was cooking. I was usually the only one who would eat my kills, but I remember the whole family once joining in and eating a bunch of migratory robins I had taken. They were just as good as doves.

As I remember, a woodpecker doesn't have a very good flavor, but I ate them. This was all back in the early 60s and the world was very different from today.

Coosa, your post saying your mom would cook your BB gun bounty reminded me of my BB gun hunting in the '50s. I had a great Aunt who lived with my grandparents next door. She had been born in the 1860's just after the WBTS and grew up on a family plantation in Clark county Alabama. She was the greatest story teller ever, and her recollections of reconstruction in the deepest South have guided my thoughts on history ever since.

Aunt Carrie would cook our songbirds for us like your mother did. She broiled them somehow that they were delicious...Geo

Glad you appreciated it! Those photoshop lessons finally paid off.

I remember those doubles but never had a desire to own one. I had a model 572 that looked like the Remington it was modeled after. A small tube of BB's was 10 cents and a large tube was 25 at the local hardware. It was a pretty powerful BB gun. I really liked it and wore it out. Thru the years I learned that BB'S have a magnetic attraction for eyeballs. I never took part or had a desire to partake in BB wars. A family of brothers on the next street over from me and their friend would play Vietnam in the overgrown field near my home. The one brother recently home from the Nam started it and they used 12ga shotguns with rabbit loads! The rule was you had to yell Vietnam before you shot someone! No one lost an eye surprisingly. It was cold so they where wearing heavy clothing that protected them. As a kid I thought it was absolutely crazy and I steered clear of those guys. Most, if not all of those guys unsurprisingly succumbed to alcohol and drugs. Want to live reckless lives and you are not likely to make it to long.