BBs were fed into that smaller barrel underneath the main barrel. You had to slide the lid to the smaller barrel off to the side, pour the bb's into it, and then slide the lid back to closed. A trick my dad taught me was to make a funnel with my hand by grabbing the top of the barrel with just my pinky and hand with the funnel top being between your thumb and index finger. You could pour the bb's into that part and they would funnel down through my hand and into the barrel. That way you didn't have to spill them trying to pour them directly into the system.

Ah it's a bb gun lol, I just watched the movie Revenge and thought you lived in Texas and this was an actual gun :D

Great Scott! I had that same BB gun. If I recall you have to unscrew the end of the barrel and pull out the magazine to fill with bb's one at a freaking time. One day it got lodged putting it back in and it accidentally discharged with my had over the barrel. Had a black welt in the palm of my hand for a month.

That's pretty cool!

I've got posters on the walls...

That cat is thinking, "aw shit, why?"

like the KISS poster

Cats been lazy since the beginning of time

You'll shoot your eye out

I remember a kind of cardboard platform you could buy to hold the figures when they came out.

I don't temper exactly, but I think only a few figures were available by Christmas '77, but you could order them and they'd give you a cardboard certificate of sorts that promised the toy was coming. Something like that?

I grew up in southwest Missouri, not too far from the Arkansas border. When I was young, my dad took me to the Daisy HQ in Rogers, AR to pick out a Daisy BB gun.

I couldn't figure out who the guy in the sport coat was supposed to be but now knowing it's Huey Lewis it makes perfect sense.

Well, I guess you’ll have to wake him up now, won’t ya?

Good lord, I remember that poster.

came here to say you're gunna shoot your eye out :)

Kiss🤘🏿🤘🏿

They do still sell them to this day! I've jokingly asked for one every Christmas for decades, and my wife finally got me one this year.

FWIW, I didn't shoot my eye out, but I am wearing my old glasses. Those icicles have been known to kill people!

The gimp's sleeping

Too bad I didn't have the fore"sight" to photoshop an eyepatch into the picture.

That look, "you know I only have three legs to run with, be careful where you point that thing!"

Yeah, terrible costumes. Front three are Springsteen, Huey Lewis, and Lauper. No idea about the rest.

I was thinking Ralph Macheo

Destroyer was my first ever LP, circa 1981.