• h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social
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    2 days ago

    True but it’s also easier to pretend you’re a grizzled noir detective reloading his snub nosed revolver when you use ring caps

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      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.

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        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

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        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.

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        I may have watched a few too many black and white movies in the 80s, though Eddie Valiant was my hero as well lol