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Trev's Airgun Scrapbook

                                         To the manor born?Stunning murals by Arthur Spencer Roberts at Aspinall Wild Animal Park,Port Lympne,Kent,UK.

                                                            Yale Engineering Co., Sydney,Australia made the CRACAJAC Airgun.

                                                            To cock,the  barrel was pushed inward  until the piston engaged the trigger sear.The barrel was then pulled forward again.

                                                            Photo below shows the barrel pushed in.

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Acvoke Air Pistol

ABAS Major Air Pistol

Ampell Air Pistol and Rifle

Anschutz Air Rifle

Air Arms TX200 Air Rifle

Apache Air Rifle and AirPistol

Armigas Air Pistol

Benjamin Air Rifle and AirPistol

Barakuda Air Rifle

BSA Air Rifle

Brocock Air Pistol

Bonehill Britannia Air Rifle

Boone Air Pistol

BSF Air Rifle

Bussey Air Rifle

Bulls Eye Rubberband Pistol

Crosman Air Pistols

Crosman Air Rifles

Crosman Model 600

Crosman Model 1100Trapmaster CO2 Shotgun

The CRACAJAC Airgun

Challenger Arms Corp

Chicago Air Rifle

Daisy Air Rifle and Air Pistol

Daystate Air Rifle

Diana Air Rifle and Air Pistol

Dolla Air Pistol

Dong Ki Air Rifle

El Gamo Air Rifle

Eusta Air Pistol

Excellent Air Pistol

Falke Air Rifle

FAS604 and CU600 Pistols

FWB Model SPORT Air Rifle

The GAT Air Pistol

Gallery Guns

The Giffard CO2 Rifle

General Airgun Articles

Haenel Airguns

Hammerli Air Pistol

Healthways BB Pistols

Hubertus Air Pistol

Hy-score Air Pistols

Johnson Indoor Target Gun

Kentucky Pioneer BB Rifle

Kessler Air Rifle

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 CRACAJAC's had the date of manufacture on the stock.

AR shot was stocked by all hardware shops.We(the kids,the shooters)erroneously referred to CRAC SHOT as "BB's".Hazardously,one would put a dozen rounds in one's mouth.Then, after cocking one's ri�e,one spat a round down the muzzle! YEP!That's what "one" would do!

LARC BB Machinegun

Milbro Air Pistol

Marksman

Pneuma-tir Air Pistol

PRODUSIT Airguns

Quackenbush Airguns

Rochester Air Rifle

Record Air Pistols

Saxby and Palmer Airguns

Schimel Air Pistol

Schmidt Airguns

Sheridan Airguns

Sharp Airguns

SHARK Airguns

Slavia Airguns

Smith and Wesson Airguns

Steyr Air Rifle

Targ-aire Air Pistol

Tell Airguns

Theoben Air Rifles

Titan Airgun

Toys for Big Boys

The care and nurturing of aPARKER-HALE DRAGON

Walther Air Pistols

Warrior Air Pistol

The Webby Air Rifle

Webley Air Pistols and AirRifles

Weihrauch Airguns

Westley Richards Air Pistol

Zenit Air Pistol

Ammo

Boxes

Old Catalogues

sundry-airguns

Interesting Adverts

Toy Guns and interesting-things

Toy Guns 2

Replica DAISY Ephemera

Links

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CRACAJAC Air Guns were advertised extensively in Australasia from 1946-56.They were easily the most successful airgun made in the colonies. 

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1948 advert...a mite misleading?

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 As far as I'm aware,the only BB or slug gun made in New Zealand,was the "CeeBee"(Chester & Barclay Ltd.,the tubular steel furniture people). An immediate post-WW II phenomenon,this wee gun was �rst made at an Onehunga workshop. The "CeeBee" was a bit of a toy. In the tradition of many BB guns,it was a muzzle-loading,shot-shooter. Locally made,AR "Crac Shot",worked just �ne in it.An under-lever mechanism was used to cock the mainspring. The "CeeBee" was a robust and rather unattractive gun that,as is said,"did the job".

                                                                                                                   The only marking on the otherwise anonymous "Cee Bee"".

 How about this!Ron Young's three "Cee Bee"'s.

Another contemporary of the CRACAJAC was the  Hornet. Made in Australia,this BB shooter was cocked by retracting a lever that lay parallel to the under-edge of the butt-stock when at rest. When pulled down and forward this lever retracted a rod attached to the gun's piston-until the trigger sear engaged with a notch. The Hornet did not sell well-maybe because the lever system was prone to pinch little hands.

Apologies for the rotten photos-the only ones I have! 

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