Thanks everyone for watching the video and for all the great comments. I am glad it has triggered good memories for some of you. To all of you telling me that the Gat isn't an air gun, yes, I was aware of the controversy around that - Wikipedia and several other sites refer to it as an air gun, but I know some of you will have different thoughts and be better experts than me. I left 'air pistol' in the description to try to guide more people to the video. Thanks again.
Yep... I had one... Pellets, chunks of spuds (potatoes for you Yanks, though I ALSO had a 'Spud Gun' too), darts, toothpicks, I used to experiment loads with it 😏😉. Since, I've owned a Gamo PR-45 (UNDERRATED air pistol), and a Sig Sauer P320 (Co2, round mag for 6(?) 177 pellets), pretty good air pistol. I also got into 'Airsoft' and had a 400FPS 'Desert Eagle', and a JG M4 'S-System' 'Assault rifle' with a scope and torch mounted (pretty good range and accuracy with 360 FPS muzzle velocity). 😎🇬🇧
Kid you not,in high school a student ran into the crush hall with it pointed to his temple for a laugh,he forgot it's barrell popped out and knocked himself clean out!
How is it not an airgun? The main motive force comes from air forced behind the pellet, compressed by the sudden release of a spring. Sure, the weird popout barrel maybe helps shove it forward but not much. A gat without a breech seal won't shoot the pellet at all.
The gat was my 1970s entry point into a lifetime of shooting. Memories. Kids could walk around with air pistols and rifles without anyone losing their mind and calling an ARV. Good times to be a kid.
Yep all sorted and no-one blinked an eyelid. The old Bill only said "you be careful with that". Walking around with the sheath knife on the belt, those were the days
The same kit for British school boys from the late fifties 😂 endless fun in the garden with the gat,sheath knife for scouts and whittling.The past is a different country
I owned a Gat in the early 1980s, my one certainly never had a safety catch. I also quickly learned that if you were aiming at anything further than 10ft away you had more chance of hitting it if you threw the pistol at it. It was still fun and introduced me to shooting air guns, which I still do at 54 years of age.
My first air pistol in the seventies. It was impossible to hit anything with one. Got a Webley 1.77 air rifle when I was about 9 years old, tin of pellets in the pocket, rifle over the shoulder and down to the cowfields for some target practice, which was 3 streets away. Happy days, could you imagine doing that today, there would be armed police all over you lol. We also carried Bowie knives, no one got shot, no one got stabbed.
Well we shot each other in the legs with the Gat… and yes the Bowie knives were for making dens. A skill lost on today’s youth by overprotective parents…
I remember well the time a copper caught me shooting in the local fields, can I have a look at your gun....nice rifle boy be careful bye bye. My Gat had by this time had been taken to bits to see how it works.
@@jwillk42 I bought one from school for 10 Players number 6. I had several of them, black ones and a couple of chrome plated ones. Gats were hard currency at high school.
@@martinhambleton5076 ha ha, yes fella, had a few welts on me body back then. These modern co2 powered pistols are shockingly powerful. 63 an I still have an airgun FFS.
FFSK !! I can still taste the smell of firing it in my mouth.....What a blast from the past. Had a Gat when I was 9yrs old. Never took an eye out or hurt anything apart from next doors windows. Having recently taken early retirement and going through some nostalgic hobby phases of buying every Airfix model I could never afford as a child. I could never understand why my need to own a Air Gun kept slipping into my head as well. I now have two .22 air pistols 1 x telescopic .22 rifle and a 4.5mm Umarex M1A1 Thompson. Now I understand. It was the bloody Gat Gun memory. How cool... TY
I remember a friend of ours after the summer holidays we were about 13 or 14 came by back from the holidays and he had shot his eye out with one of these and delighted showing us the whole that was underneath the patch. His name was Martin May, Yam Nit Ram to friends.
Nooooooooooooooooo…….. my first introduction to weaponry. What memories this brings back… Just come back (summer 2023) from Arizona on a Route 66 road trip and popped into a good old USA firing range and fired two magazines through a “45 calibre sword”; The trusty 1911 ACP. All those memories condensed and magnified. Thank you RUclips algorithm 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I remember some-one telling me that he once managed to hit a balloon with a Gat from all of 4 feet away and if the dart had been a bit sharper, it would actually have burst the balloon ...
There were always these kids telling the most monstrous of lies back when we were in school. Nobody in their right mind would aim a Gat dart at a balloon anyway - there's a good chance the dart would bounce off and hit you in the face.
we used to play a game after school with 2 people with gats and they had to seek out and shoot the others .we had 3 each pellets and if you ran out or hit someone you had to give the gun to them and run.we only aimed for the body but with the instinct to duck when you face being shot ,one guy got shot in the head .a nice white bump and a little blood but he was ok. my gat seemed to be stronger than the other one though so maybe the spring was crap on the 2nd gun.
I fondly remember one of these purchased with a tin of lead shot and some feathered darts. So much fun I had setting up copies of pictures of daring-do in 'Look and Learn' where I got to join in. Swapped this wee gem with a friend for Heaven knows what. I wish I still had it.
This brought back memories, Im coming up to my 72nd birthday and had a Gat gun when I was in primary school, my parents wouldnt allow me to have it so I had to hide it in the back of an old valve radio I had in my bedroom. I was also a boy scout and had a sheath knife that I carried around with me without anyone worrying that I might stab someone, how times have changed since the 1950's/60's.
I owned a Gat in the early '70s and have fond memories of it. A great little schoolboy plinker. I also owned a Webley .177 break-barrel rifle. The pistol was a bit of an "indoor" gun, the rifle was for the garden. Still shooting 50 years later with offerings from Air Arms, Weihrauch and Umarex...
This must be the posh version. Mine didn't have a 'safety' or a rubber/leather sealing washer. The front was just plain without the cork attachment. Even when I got older, it took most of my body weight to press the barrel in. Used to try shooting wasps with it in the summer and failed every time.
I had exactly the same pair!!! Well, I had a gat , and my uncle had the break barrel 177 which he thought he had hidden but I used to pull it out of hiding when he wasn't around.!! Years later I asked him what came of it and he had simply thrown it out in the bin.!!
@TheRealWindlePoons Hiya Thinking of indoor shooting I went on to have a section 1 license and had several guns back when that was allowed and I used to shoot at Bisley and I also reloaded with a press. Bisley was over an hour away though so not saying I did of course but I could have loaded an old .357 revolver by pressing a 38sp case into a pencil rubber making a rubber bullet. I could then power it with just a boxer primer and no powder allowing me hypothetically to practice indoors at home (Only when the wife was out obviously ) Those were the days 😇
I had so much fun. You brought back so many wonderful funny childhood memories. You had a gat you,we’re the man lol. We Loved shooting the darts too. So much fun. Thanks for the video
I had the Diana SP50. It worked the same as the Gat, but looked much nicer. In my humble opinion. The Gat may not have been a very good air gun, but it was many people's first air gun.
The sp50 was way better , and there was another with a repeater function , You could load single pellet like a sp50 or 10 BB s into nose section . Can't for life of .e remember it's name .
I must admit I never really compared the SP50 to The Gat in any real way. I just loved the fact that The SP50 looked so much better than my friend's Gats.@@toritori4430
Yer my first pistol was a silver Gat, many a happy hours plinking in the back garden, target's was match boxes, cigarette packets, Great day's and lots of safe harmless fun. Wonderful introduction into air pistol shooting.. 👍🏻
That's the exact same gun I had in the 90's. I remember I was constantly stretching the spring cos it would loose it's tension all the time. Had lots of fun with it though.
I’ll never forget when I took my gat down to Bisley at age 11 (Dad took me shooting for the first time) and it never ceases to amaze me that how all the lifetime shootists down at the ranges kept straight faces as I proudly demonstrated my gat pistol 😂 ps. I was raised in Walton on Thames and know the company quite well and by the mid 1990s, Germany was manufacturing the gat pistol on behalf of Harrington’s.
That was my fist airpistol i got for my 7th birthday. You could shoot everythinh that was small enough to fit the barrel. And its still in my air rifle/pistol collection. For almost 53 years.
awwww the legendary Gat pistol. This brings back some fond memories from my youth. This was a superb tool for teaching kids about airguns and firearms safety. It was strong enough to be scary but weak enough to mitigate serious injury. Harks back to a better time, when me and my mate were annoying his mum whilst she was cooking dinner, so she "punished" us by banishing us to the garden to shoot the gat for a few hours.
I managed to keep my old 1970s .22 Meteor even through several house moves :) It's lost the sights and the trigger guard over the years but still fires v powerfully the last time I used it
Wow this brings back a lot of great memories. My brother and I persuaded our dad to buy us both GATs way back in the 70's during a dull, wet holiday in Millport. They were sold in a newsagent shop and though they were crap, did introduce us to the wonderful world of airguns. That was then of course, now things have been nanny stated to hell and gone.
From a Gat gun pistol- 45 years later- to an Air Arms S510 TR , and all the happy memories and Squirrels that have been sent to the promised land in between😉
I remember my brother buying one of these from a fishing shop in Ramsbottom in the late 80's. We would have hours of fun shooting cans off a wall. Great times.. I'd love to own one now.
My Dad bought me one in the early to mid 60's, don't recal exactly when but as he died in 65 it was before then, obviously. He had a .22 BSA airsporter, under lever model with auto tap, which I still have.
OMG I remember them from my childhood too. The GAT gun. I had about 5 of those. Kept on loosing the pin lol eventually I upgraded to a .22 break barrel air rifle with a scope and it was way way more power so my GAT ended up in the Bin. First things to loose were the darts because those went the furthest and did the most damage. I don’t have any Air rifles or pistols now due to my brother and his now ex having children I wanted rid of them. Now that they are all grown up I would not mind investing some serious cash in Air Rifles. Thanx for the happy memories 👍
I worked for T. J. Harrington and son from 1983 to 1988. The factory was actually in Hersham Surrey. I worked as a setter in the multi-spindle auto shop and we produced some of the components for the Gat gun amongst other things. While I was there the Gat rifle was developed but I think it didn't sell well.
I concur with every comment here and I loved reading every one of them , so many good memories of meeting up with my school chums in the woods , yes with our Bowie knives on our belts , I was once stopped by a local Bobby “ what are you doing with that knife “ he shouted , “ I’m going too the woods and I need it to make a den and make some arrows and a bow “ I replied, he just shrugged his shoulders and bid me on my way ! Thanks so much for posting this Vlog , happy , happy childhood memories .😊
Had a Milbro Mod 2 in the mid ‘70s - had so much fun with it! As a kid I shot at a pigeon once, and by some miracle I hit it… but thank god I actually saw the pellet bounce off - I was so relieved, and have never again fired at any living thing 😊
In the seventies in east London nearly every kid had a black gat at the time u thought they were great but they really were useless as far as air pistols were concerned ( they were just entry level pistols in reality ) we soon moved on to the pump action pistols ( which I think could have been made by webly not sure though it was a long time ago ) but that said to c an old gat does bring back some great memories of being a kid in the seventies in east London great times
Dad was born in 1942, he got his Gat gun late 50's, i used to plink with it in the 70's, zero maintenance at all, we found it in his garage around 2005 and my son played with it every time we popped over to nanny and grandads, i think its still sitting on his workbench right now, mums got a habit of throwing stuff away if they're not getting used, I'll have a look next time I'm over there, see if its still laying around 😉
I had one in the 1980s, if i remember it came in a blue box. It came with corks and coloured darts and a yellow fly swatter you plugged in the end. I used 177 pellets which came in a red box made by marksman. Amazing what you can remember as a kid. I also was given a Diana pistol which was like the gat pistol.
Good video mate. I remember my friend had one of these in the 1990's. In my opinion they are closer to toys than an air pistols but still better than nothing!
Thank you for reminding me of my childhood ( good times ) me and my cousin, R.I.P mike I miss you everyday, we had brilliant times, we even tried to make it more powerful by removing the spring and trying to stretch it, after that it wouldn't hit a wall from 2 feet away but that wasn't the point, we had a gun and that sound will never leave me, so thank you for reminding me that life use to be fun 👍
Great video, I love those little pistols, I’ve a handful of those, their were quite a few different makes back in the day! I’ve a German Diana, British Diana, Gat (no safety)! & a Briton! fun things to shoot 😊
The Gat is definitely an air gun. The barrel has a small hole in it. Loading the Gat with a pellet pushes the pellet past the hole so that when the gun is fired the air in the cylinder surrounding the barrel is compressed and powers the pellet along the barrel until it exits the muzzle.
I got home from school one afternoon and my mum told me that the kid from the house opposite ours had been shooting at our cat. I went upstairs and loaded my Gat that had a more powerful spring (so the person I bought it from had told me), and from my bedroom window I shot at the neighbour's back downstairs window, a distance of about 80 feet and cracked the window. I didn't know I had cracked it until the neighbour came around and to complain. My dad told him to eff off, and that was the last we heard from him.
I remember my first Gat - well it was really a Diana, fired so many rounds the trigger mechanism became liable to not latch properly, or could sometimes just fire all by its self lol The guns I remember we had were Diana SP50, Diana Scorpion, Webley premier (.177 and .22), Relum T-200, Relum Tornado, Air Arms(?) Jackal and an ASI Paratrooper. God, how sad were we.
The Gat, works by throwing the pellet out of the end. It has so little power . Fun to use in the hallway with paper targets, or sitting in the porch with the door open plinking tin cans when it's raining.
I had a sliver one without a safety. It was far better for shooting corks at your mates as the reload time is much faster. 2-3 of us used to play like this with a Gat each inside the house with no damage done at all. Great fun !
Every home in England should have one. My dad's stopped an intruder in his garage. Dart right in his leg 😂😂😂 cops arrested him and said nothing to dad. Today dad would be in jail and the culprit would be given care 🤬
I had one when I was young and I used to prop it against the bottom corner of the top part of the window frame so I could stand and pivot it around from my bedroom window. I would find ways to do this so that the "recoil" I suppose you would call it for lack of a better term wouldn't jolt the gun so much when the barrel shifts on firing, that way having it propped against some kind of frame would mean the accuracy was somewhere between actually fairly decent and at the very least, usable.. My school was literally right behind my house so there were some trees for cover with adequate gaps in the leaves and branches to lock on to the distant targets from either the bedroom window or the back wall. It actually had some decent power! picking off bullies from quite a distance! I remember one time one kid falling and crying holding his knee that a bee had stung him and I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the day! Death to all bullies!
I had a Diana Bob Cat. 177 rifle which my Dad bought me for a birthday present. . Was awesome. Went handgun shooting with my Dad in the 80s when it was still legal in the UK. Now living in Switzerland, I have a nice collection of handguns, various calibres from 22, 9mm, 357/38 and 45 ACP.
I got one of those in the early 70s along with my mates. We run around cars in the street firing at each other with pellets. Until an adult/neighbour informed our mum's and the battle quickly came to an end and the weapons were surrendered and peace was declared and duly paid Reparations was administered. "ouch" Imagine that happening today we would probably be shot by the SFO.😂
Same here. My mates and I used run around our local area shooting each other….loadsa fun. After a few feet couldn’t break and egg…do more damage with a pea-shooter 🤣🤣👍
same here! Surprisingly though one time i did shoot at my mate deliberately aiming at the ground some way in front of him as he was fairly close to me. Obviously these guns had ZERO accuracy past 6 inches and instead of innocently thudding into the ground at his feet i instead shot him straight in the thigh haha! It hurt him, not badly but still enough to leave a bruise a day or so later haha! Had another mate that went one step further to a friend annoying him. He was pointing a .177 air rifle at his back, literally muzzle against his T shirt. The annoying friend carried on being annoying in spite of having an air rifle held against directly against the middle of his back, so my mate just shot him haha! The victim was only around 10 at the time and kinda luckily was quite a bit overweight, as i think it was his layer of flab that stopped that little pellet going straight into the skin some distance that and the air rifle being a cheapie! I remember reading in the paper in the 90s (i think?) about an English professional football team messing around with air rifles in the changing rooms. One of them got shot in the thigh and unfortunately for him this WAS NOT a cheap n cheerful gun but instead a full power 12ftlb rifle. The pellet is supposed to have buried itself 6 inches into his thigh if memory serves me right? The shooter might have faced criminal charges? Or certainly football club or league issues? So its not just kids that love messing around shooting each other!
@@davekennedy6315 we used to play in our local woods using various full powered air rifles…BSA, Weirhuech (?) ect….one rule never aim at the face. We used to wear very thick clothing or a couple of layers. It still hurt when you got shot but no more than when players paintball 😁. One time I was holding an empty can on the flat of my hand while a friend took aim with my BSA, it had a scope. I was roughly 20ft from him when he shot at the can on my hand that I was supporting it against a tree so my hand wouldn’t move. He ended up shooting me in the side of my little finger 😣🤬…I was wearing fingerless gloves at the time and I believe that’s what stopped the pellet from doing more damage. The pellet was embedded in my finger but it was easy to pull out because of my glove, it didn’t break the bone…it bloody hurt for a while and I still have a scar nearly 50yrs later 😆. To this day I don’t know whether he did it on purpose or if it was an accident 🤔…he said it was an accident but he must be a really bad shot if so 🤣. The stupid things we used to do when we were kids 🙄
One of my elderly neighbours gave my son a Gat about 5 years ago. Never been used , still in the box with pellets. He bought it over 40 years ago and put it in the attic.
my first projectile gun was a daisy red ryder bb gun. then i got a crossman 760 and thought i held the power of Armageddon in my hands. nowadays i plink with a .22 gamo magnum with damn near 30 ft/lbs of power. wow.
Love the GAT Gun. Remember going with my Dad to buy a GAT from our local gun shop. I think they retailed for around £15. I would have been around 10 years old, so quite a few years back now. I upgraded to a BSA Meteor a year or two later.
I had a GAT in the 70's, but it never had power. Upgraded to a BSA Scorpion with Tele sights. BSA Scorpion was on the AD for the Octopussy James Bond Film. A stylish - looking Pistol.
@@peterduxbury927 yeah the GAT really lacked on power an accuracy. Although I loved to shoot the darts. You could watch them leave the gun and stick in the garden gate 25 feet away, much to my mothers dismay 🤣 Oh the fun we had.😁
Was that the SLR/SMG or the SA80? I don't remember the SLR being called 'Gat', but I do remember the SA80 being called 'Gat', I knew it was called so because of this pistol, but I attributed it to the L85A1 being cheap and nasty, just like the 'Gat'.
As a kid in England back in the 1950's I was given one of these pistols. It was made by a company called Dianna. It was probably the worst air gun I have ever owned. Very inaccurate due to the barrel moving forward when fired. It was still fun to use even so.
Yours is a slightly later one, it has a safety catch and a plastic sleeve at the end. The ones we had in the mid 70s had no safety and bright steel sleeve at the end.
I had a GAT back in the 1970's - I had darts with different RED and YELLOW strands , I think everyone shot the tins at some time or other LOL... takes me back , as you say it was my first and Introduction to Air Pistols (mine was made by Harrington)...
Had one as a kid in the seventies. I remember shooting at a glass bottle and the pellet bounced off it from about 2 feet away. So I pushed the barrel in and shot it point blank without a pellet. The bottle smashed when the barrel popped out. I thought to myself, what a piece of crap and went back to a catapult!
Ditto. I did exactly the same with my Gat... It wouldn't break a bottle with anything but the barrel. Saved up my pocket money to buy this boyhood crushing disapponitment of an Air Pistol. Can't understand peoples affection for it - You're right, they were and are crap 🤓
I had a Gat gun as a kid, I liked using the darts. Upgraded at some point to a Webley Junior at some point which I still have. Great video brings back some memories!
I had a Diana SP50, when I was a kid in the 80's, which worked on the same principle - the barrel springing out the front. Sadly, it ended in tears. Me and my mates were always trying to copy movie scenes, using fake blood etc. One day, I filled the barrel up with red food colouring, and fired it at my glasses, which, luckily, I held in my hand. I was trying to copy a scene in the Godfather, where a man gets shot in the eye, through his glasses. I misjudged the distance from the gun, and the end of the barrel exploded my glasses all over the kitchen, along with the red food colouring. Stupid kid 🙂
nice , i moved from gat to diana sp0 in early eighties too . someone mugged it from me as i was 9/10 yrs old . my brother got it bk and shot the guy with it too lol .
I had several Gats as a kid, always wondered why it was called a air pistol when there was no air involved. But it was good for indoor target shooting in my bedroom, not powerful enough to damage anything.
The "Gat" style "pop-out" barrel pistols certainly were powered by air, although powerd is a relative term. The air cylinder surrounds barrel and the air is forced through the transfer port at the breech plug end.
The whole reason you push the barrel in at the front, is to compress air so it can be released to fire your projectile. It works similar to a break barrel air pistol, only instead of snapping the barrel down to compress the air, you push it in like a hand pump... Don't tell me you think just the force of the spring being released could fire that projectile out at the speed it does?
@@AD270479 Not quite... No air is compressed as you push the barrel in, it just compresses the spring. Only when the trigger is pulled is air compressed to fire the pellet.
Most peoples first air gun. Progressing to Webley Tempests, Hurricanes, target pistols and then onto rifles like The Jackal and the BSA Meteor etc. Sound familiar?
I had one of these back in 1993, it went everywhere with me. Loved it, i shot the hell out of it. However i did aquire one that was my uncles when he was younger and was given to me my my grandad and was in great condition. It was at least 2 or 3 times as powerful as my first one. It was a glass breaker. I could tell because when i fired my first GAT, and i used to shoot it into the sky, you could easily see the pellet going upwards but my uncles you couldnt see the pellet after a millisecond. I used to take it campin n everything. Unfortunately it was confiscated by the police when i was 13 year old. Late one evening i had it in my pocket, which i should not have done, but was not doing any harm. I was walking home with my sometime nervous best mate at the time and as a police Maestro came by, my friend took it upon himself to bolt like a horse touching an electric fence straight up a back alley one terrace away from home. So the WPC who was just patroling as usual, now became very suspicious and took to chase on foot. Myself as cool as a cucumber i didnt run but i calmly placed it at the back gate at the rear of somebodies house. However when retrieving my friend the police officer, unintentionly caught the sight of the gun in torchlight. The WPC was startled by the the profile of the gun in torchlight and called for immediate back up. Another police vehicle pulled up with a much larger male officer and began to question us. Naturally the gun "wasnt mine officer." However the tin of bloody .177 pellets in my pocket when i was patted down unfortunately was. Oh shit, said i, and a dickhead is what i called my best friend. Luckily it was only a caution, but it could be worse these days i believe. For at least a week, when it got around, we were like celebrities at school and i referred to my friend atvthat period as... "That pillock!" All the best from Lancashire UK.
I had one of these, great little air pistol, I then went on to own another pistol which the front popped up and you could load a dart and a number of ball bearings and recock the spring at the back to keep firing bearings, then i had a ratcatcher in .22
Had one in the late '60's, it'd been my older brothers (no safety!) ... Never, ever, ever, unscrew the spring retaining nut when under tension 🤣 Much later I had a Webley Tempest: a much more serious target pistol PS flat bullets, and pellets, are called wad cutters, and principally used for paper target shooting
I purchased one new, a chrome one back in the early 1970s,, It cost about 32 shillings (£1.60), i bought one at a ploughing match last year for £2, Not at all accurate or very powerful, but great fun.
It’s Great. I still have my Crosman target pistol that my brother gave me for my 13th birthday 55 years ago. I still shoot it. The memories are priceless.
Me and my mate owned the later 90s versions that had a different, more semi auto handgun look. Being destructive youngsters we were shooting up an old caravan park with these and my lovely scoped HW77K (certainly an upgrade to these haha!) When we found the pistols wouldn`t break glass my mate instead just used the flying out barrel instead! Now that certainly DOES break glass haha!
Luck, the Gat was underpowered. I got shot in the face by cousin with a gat .it was more dangerous if you threw the pistol at someone. Great memories 😊
O meu pai ofereceu me uma igual quando tinha 16 anos, hoje com 46 anos ainda a guardo com muito carinho, eu adorava essa pistolinha os meus amigos, também comparam outras iguais belo vídeo e abraço forte de 🇵🇹.
Thanks everyone for watching the video and for all the great comments. I am glad it has triggered good memories for some of you. To all of you telling me that the Gat isn't an air gun, yes, I was aware of the controversy around that - Wikipedia and several other sites refer to it as an air gun, but I know some of you will have different thoughts and be better experts than me. I left 'air pistol' in the description to try to guide more people to the video. Thanks again.
Yep... I had one... Pellets, chunks of spuds (potatoes for you Yanks, though I ALSO had a 'Spud Gun' too), darts, toothpicks, I used to experiment loads with it 😏😉. Since, I've owned a Gamo PR-45 (UNDERRATED air pistol), and a Sig Sauer P320 (Co2, round mag for 6(?) 177 pellets), pretty good air pistol. I also got into 'Airsoft' and had a 400FPS 'Desert Eagle', and a JG M4 'S-System' 'Assault rifle' with a scope and torch mounted (pretty good range and accuracy with 360 FPS muzzle velocity).
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Kid you not,in high school a student ran into the crush hall with it pointed to his temple for a laugh,he forgot it's barrell popped out and knocked himself clean out!
How is it not an airgun? The main motive force comes from air forced behind the pellet, compressed by the sudden release of a spring. Sure, the weird popout barrel maybe helps shove it forward but not much. A gat without a breech seal won't shoot the pellet at all.
what ever they say every kid always classed this as an air pistol
I agree @@asafoetidajones8181
The gat was my 1970s entry point into a lifetime of shooting. Memories. Kids could walk around with air pistols and rifles without anyone losing their mind and calling an ARV. Good times to be a kid.
I’ve had to move over to crossbows as Scotland is so strict on air guns🤷♂️
@@Man_fay_the_Bruditto
Got an adder and vlad but had a gat in the 90s. We used to shoot each other in the woods lol.
I have fire arms convicted charge for one these at age eleven how bad was police back then FFS
gat gun...sheath knife...catapult and a box of matches and you were good to go in the early seventies.
Yep all sorted and no-one blinked an eyelid. The old Bill only said "you be careful with that". Walking around with the sheath knife on the belt, those were the days
The same kit for British school boys from the late fifties 😂 endless fun in the garden with the gat,sheath knife for scouts and whittling.The past is a different country
You forgot the darts
@@philmulrooney7020 pellets only....."Diablo"
@@lapisredux I loved the darts, had to be careful not to snag them in the threads. I remember my Dad bringing me home a Webley Tempest😲
I owned a Gat in the early 1980s, my one certainly never had a safety catch. I also quickly learned that if you were aiming at anything further than 10ft away you had more chance of hitting it if you threw the pistol at it. It was still fun and introduced me to shooting air guns, which I still do at 54 years of age.
A safety what?😂
The one I had never had a safety must have been a later design
I remember back when my mates and I used these to play gun fights, shooting each other with a Gat 🤣🤣..bloody useless things but fun.
My first air pistol in the seventies. It was impossible to hit anything with one. Got a Webley 1.77 air rifle when I was about 9 years old, tin of pellets in the pocket, rifle over the shoulder and down to the cowfields for some target practice, which was 3 streets away.
Happy days, could you imagine doing that today, there would be armed police all over you lol.
We also carried Bowie knives, no one got shot, no one got stabbed.
Well we shot each other in the legs with the Gat… and yes the Bowie knives were for making dens. A skill lost on today’s youth by overprotective parents…
Used to take the gat to school, we used to shoot each other in the leg as well 😂
aye good times, we used to shoot each other in the arse for smokes@@peterbalac1915
I remember well the time a copper caught me shooting in the local fields, can I have a look at your gun....nice rifle boy be careful bye bye. My Gat had by this time had been taken to bits to see how it works.
but this is spring-loaded
Everyone who was a 1970s kid had a Gat.
Absolutely. It was a great gift.
@@jwillk42 I bought one from school for 10 Players number 6.
I had several of them, black ones and a couple of chrome plated ones.
Gats were hard currency at high school.
Yes we did.. Until we found the Wembley Tempest.
@lesscotford1419 I then had an Original mod 5, and my friend had a BSA Scorpion.
Great times.
@@martinhambleton5076 ha ha, yes fella, had a few welts on me body back then. These modern co2 powered pistols are shockingly powerful. 63 an I still have an airgun FFS.
Wow im 60 years old and i haven't seen a Gat gun since i was a young boy! Thanks 👍
Good memories 🙂🙂🙂
FFSK !! I can still taste the smell of firing it in my mouth.....What a blast from the past. Had a Gat when I was 9yrs old. Never took an eye out or hurt anything apart from next doors windows. Having recently taken early retirement and going through some nostalgic hobby phases of buying every Airfix model I could never afford as a child. I could never understand why my need to own a Air Gun kept slipping into my head as well. I now have two .22 air pistols 1 x telescopic .22 rifle and a 4.5mm Umarex M1A1 Thompson. Now I understand. It was the bloody Gat Gun memory. How cool... TY
😂😂
I remember a friend of ours after the summer holidays we were about 13 or 14 came by back from the holidays and he had shot his eye out with one of these and delighted showing us the whole that was underneath the patch. His name was Martin May, Yam Nit Ram to friends.
Nooooooooooooooooo…….. my first introduction to weaponry. What memories this brings back…
Just come back (summer 2023) from Arizona on a Route 66 road trip and popped into a good old USA firing range and fired two magazines through a “45 calibre sword”; The trusty 1911 ACP. All those memories condensed and magnified.
Thank you RUclips algorithm 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I remember some-one telling me that he once managed to hit a balloon with a Gat from all of 4 feet away and if the dart had been a bit sharper, it would actually have burst the balloon ...
Worked if blew up the balloon to almost bursting point though 😂
There were always these kids telling the most monstrous of lies back when we were in school.
Nobody in their right mind would aim a Gat dart at a balloon anyway - there's a good chance the dart would bounce off and hit you in the face.
🤣😅 too true. Don't get hit at 2 feet though. Hurts like hell and leaves a nice black & blue spot.
we used to play a game after school with 2 people with gats and they had to seek out and shoot the others .we had 3 each pellets and if you ran out or hit someone you had to give the gun to them and run.we only aimed for the body but with the instinct to duck when you face being shot ,one guy got shot in the head .a nice white bump and a little blood but he was ok. my gat seemed to be stronger than the other one though so maybe the spring was crap on the 2nd gun.
I fondly remember one of these purchased with a tin of lead shot and some feathered darts.
So much fun I had setting up copies of pictures of daring-do in 'Look and Learn' where I got to join in.
Swapped this wee gem with a friend for Heaven knows what. I wish I
still had it.
As a schoolboy in the 70s I loved these guns !!!!!! Great to see one again !! Thank you 😀😀
This brought back memories, Im coming up to my 72nd birthday and had a Gat gun when I was in primary school, my parents wouldnt allow me to have it so I had to hide it in the back of an old valve radio I had in my bedroom. I was also a boy scout and had a sheath knife that I carried around with me without anyone worrying that I might stab someone, how times have changed since the 1950's/60's.
I owned a Gat in the early '70s and have fond memories of it. A great little schoolboy plinker. I also owned a Webley .177 break-barrel rifle. The pistol was a bit of an "indoor" gun, the rifle was for the garden.
Still shooting 50 years later with offerings from Air Arms, Weihrauch and Umarex...
Did you ever use yours to send the hot wheels cars back up the track .
Very effective. Didn't do the cars much good though.
This must be the posh version. Mine didn't have a 'safety' or a rubber/leather sealing washer. The front was just plain without the cork attachment. Even when I got older, it took most of my body weight to press the barrel in. Used to try shooting wasps with it in the summer and failed every time.
I had exactly the same pair!!!
Well, I had a gat , and my uncle had the break barrel 177 which he thought he had hidden but I used to pull it out of hiding when he wasn't around.!!
Years later I asked him what came of it and he had simply thrown it out in the bin.!!
Had a Wembley 22 break barrel for many years.
@TheRealWindlePoons
Hiya
Thinking of indoor shooting I went on to have a section 1 license and had several guns back when that was allowed and I used to shoot at Bisley and I also reloaded with a press.
Bisley was over an hour away though so not saying I did of course but I could have loaded an old .357 revolver by pressing a 38sp case into a pencil rubber making a rubber bullet. I could then power it with just a boxer primer and no powder allowing me hypothetically to practice indoors at home (Only when the wife was out obviously )
Those were the days 😇
I had so much fun. You brought back so many wonderful funny childhood memories. You had a gat you,we’re the man lol. We Loved shooting the darts too. So much fun. Thanks for the video
I had the Diana SP50. It worked the same as the Gat, but looked much nicer. In my humble opinion. The Gat may not have been a very good air gun, but it was many people's first air gun.
The sp50 was way better , and there was another with a repeater function ,
You could load single pellet like a sp50 or 10 BB s into nose section .
Can't for life of .e remember it's name .
Me to my first air gun
I must admit I never really compared the SP50 to The Gat in any real way. I just loved the fact that The SP50 looked so much better than my friend's Gats.@@toritori4430
@@toritori4430I had an SP50 too, great fun
I used to have SP50 to
Yer my first pistol was a silver Gat, many a happy hours plinking in the back garden, target's was match boxes, cigarette packets, Great day's and lots of safe harmless fun. Wonderful introduction into air pistol shooting.. 👍🏻
That's the exact same gun I had in the 90's. I remember I was constantly stretching the spring cos it would loose it's tension all the time. Had lots of fun with it though.
Talk about a blast from the past!! 🤠
I’ll never forget when I took my gat down to Bisley at age 11 (Dad took me shooting for the first time) and it never ceases to amaze me that how all the lifetime shootists down at the ranges kept straight faces as I proudly demonstrated my gat pistol 😂
ps. I was raised in Walton on Thames and know the company quite well and by the mid 1990s, Germany was manufacturing the gat pistol on behalf of Harrington’s.
That was my fist airpistol i got for my 7th birthday. You could shoot everythinh that was small enough to fit the barrel. And its still in my air rifle/pistol collection. For almost 53 years.
awwww the legendary Gat pistol.
This brings back some fond memories from my youth.
This was a superb tool for teaching kids about airguns and firearms safety. It was strong enough to be scary but weak enough to mitigate serious injury.
Harks back to a better time, when me and my mate were annoying his mum whilst she was cooking dinner, so she "punished" us by banishing us to the garden to shoot the gat for a few hours.
The shot to target transition is hilarious I don’t know why 😂😂
Had a couple of Gat’s , prize possession was a .22 BSA meteor though 👌🏻😎
I managed to keep my old 1970s .22 Meteor even through several house moves :) It's lost the sights and the trigger guard over the years but still fires v powerfully the last time I used it
Have my Meteor still. Had it over 40 years now. Very good nick. Still have the box etc. Should I be admitting to being that sad🤔
Thanks man, brought back some childhood memories.
Wow this brings back a lot of great memories. My brother and I persuaded our dad to buy us both GATs way back in the 70's during a dull, wet holiday in Millport. They were sold in a newsagent shop and though they were crap, did introduce us to the wonderful world of airguns. That was then of course, now things have been nanny stated to hell and gone.
From a Gat gun pistol- 45 years later- to an Air Arms S510 TR , and all the happy memories and Squirrels that have been sent to the promised land in between😉
I remember my brother buying one of these from a fishing shop in Ramsbottom in the late 80's. We would have hours of fun shooting cans off a wall. Great times.. I'd love to own one now.
My Dad bought me one in the early to mid 60's, don't recal exactly when but as he died in 65 it was before then, obviously. He had a .22 BSA airsporter, under lever model with auto tap, which I still have.
OMG I remember them from my childhood too. The GAT gun. I had about 5 of those. Kept on loosing the pin lol eventually I upgraded to a .22 break barrel air rifle with a scope and it was way way more power so my GAT ended up in the Bin. First things to loose were the darts because those went the furthest and did the most damage. I don’t have any Air rifles or pistols now due to my brother and his now ex having children I wanted rid of them. Now that they are all grown up I would not mind investing some serious cash in Air Rifles. Thanx for the happy memories 👍
I still have 2, an old pellet can and a few darts, also one has 2 original corks in the box as well, been in the cupboard since around '86 👊
I was going to buy one online but they were a bit too pricy.
I worked for T. J. Harrington and son from 1983 to 1988. The factory was actually in Hersham Surrey. I worked as a setter in the multi-spindle auto shop and we produced some of the components for the Gat gun amongst other things. While I was there the Gat rifle was developed but I think it didn't sell well.
I concur with every comment here and I loved reading every one of them , so many good memories of meeting up with my school chums in the woods , yes with our Bowie knives on our belts , I was once stopped by a local Bobby “ what are you doing with that knife “ he shouted , “ I’m going too the woods and I need it to make a den and make some arrows and a bow “ I replied, he just shrugged his shoulders and bid me on my way ! Thanks so much for posting this Vlog , happy , happy childhood memories .😊
Had a Milbro Mod 2 in the mid ‘70s - had so much fun with it! As a kid I shot at a pigeon once, and by some miracle I hit it… but thank god I actually saw the pellet bounce off - I was so relieved, and have never again fired at any living thing 😊
We had one in the late '70s, early' 80s, that my dad found stashed under a bush.
Fun little plinker.
In the seventies in east London nearly every kid had a black gat at the time u thought they were great but they really were useless as far as air pistols were concerned ( they were just entry level pistols in reality ) we soon moved on to the pump action pistols ( which I think could have been made by webly not sure though it was a long time ago ) but that said to c an old gat does bring back some great memories of being a kid in the seventies in east London great times
Very cinematic 👌 something else I’d forgotten about from my youth in the UK. Great memories,terrible airgun!
I had one of those! Bought in the '70s. Always worked, even when I last used it a year or so ago. Mine never had a safety, though.
I have the Diana Mod2 all wood handle gat from my dad who used it as a boy in the 50's / 60's
Dad was born in 1942, he got his Gat gun late 50's, i used to plink with it in the 70's, zero maintenance at all, we found it in his garage around 2005 and my son played with it every time we popped over to nanny and grandads, i think its still sitting on his workbench right now, mums got a habit of throwing stuff away if they're not getting used, I'll have a look next time I'm over there, see if its still laying around 😉
me and my best mate as kids had one each .. we cherished then and i still have mine at 58 years old .... happy days ...
I had one in the 1980s, if i remember it came in a blue box. It came with corks and coloured darts and a yellow fly swatter you plugged in the end. I used 177 pellets which came in a red box made by marksman. Amazing what you can remember as a kid. I also was given a Diana pistol which was like the gat pistol.
It was my first air pistol, bought in 1968, I upgraded six months later to a Webley senior.
Happy days
Good video mate. I remember my friend had one of these in the 1990's. In my opinion they are closer to toys than an air pistols but still better than nothing!
Thanks! I agree, they're basically for children but they were good fun.
Thank you for reminding me of my childhood ( good times ) me and my cousin, R.I.P mike I miss you everyday, we had brilliant times, we even tried to make it more powerful by removing the spring and trying to stretch it, after that it wouldn't hit a wall from 2 feet away but that wasn't the point, we had a gun and that sound will never leave me, so thank you for reminding me that life use to be fun 👍
No problem. Glad you enjoyed it and it brought back good memories.
Great video, I love those little pistols, I’ve a handful of those, their were quite a few different makes back in the day! I’ve a German Diana, British Diana, Gat (no safety)! & a Briton! fun things to shoot 😊
The good old Gat, thanks for sharing!
The Gat is definitely an air gun. The barrel has a small hole in it. Loading the Gat with a pellet pushes the pellet past the hole so that when the gun is fired the air in the cylinder surrounding the barrel is compressed and powers the pellet along the barrel until it exits the muzzle.
I wrote almost the exact same explanation on a Diana sp50 video
@@philforbes7467I had the SP50 as my first airgun
Only took 5 minutes to load and fire 😂😂
Diesel it!
Many this for explanation. Has only taken me 56 yrs to find this out. Thought they might be more of a catapult with the barrel shooting forward!
I got home from school one afternoon and my mum told me that the kid from the house opposite ours had been shooting at our cat. I went upstairs and loaded my Gat that had a more powerful spring (so the person I bought it from had told me), and from my bedroom window I shot at the neighbour's back downstairs window, a distance of about 80 feet and cracked the window. I didn't know I had cracked it until the neighbour came around and to complain. My dad told him to eff off, and that was the last we heard from him.
I remember my first Gat - well it was really a Diana, fired so many rounds the trigger mechanism became liable to not latch properly, or could sometimes just fire all by its self lol
The guns I remember we had were Diana SP50, Diana Scorpion, Webley premier (.177 and .22), Relum T-200, Relum Tornado, Air Arms(?) Jackal and an ASI Paratrooper. God, how sad were we.
ASI Paratrooper - you would have been the coolest kid at school 👍🏻👍🏻 (amongst fellow geeks I must add🤓🤓)
I had one of those. Had darts and pellets
The Gat, works by throwing the pellet out of the end. It has so little power . Fun to use in the hallway with paper targets, or sitting in the porch with the door open plinking tin cans when it's raining.
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Omg this brings back so many memories! Inherited this off my uncle in the mid 90’s.
Still got mine, boxed and somehow with no darts or corks missing! Had so much fun with it when I was a kid.
You jammy b*stard😂
Great fun back then
Had one as a kid, great fun.
I had a sliver one without a safety. It was far better for shooting corks at your mates as the reload time is much faster. 2-3 of us used to play like this with a Gat each inside the house with no damage done at all. Great fun !
Yes...always yearned for one these as a kid❤
Every home in England should have one. My dad's stopped an intruder in his garage. Dart right in his leg 😂😂😂 cops arrested him and said nothing to dad. Today dad would be in jail and the culprit would be given care 🤬
worth it tnough.
That takes me back, I had a couple over the years 60s 70s. Great fun. Thanks for the memory.
I remember my gat was also inaccurate and low powered, but it was cheap and good fun for the time!
I had one when I was young and I used to prop it against the bottom corner of the top part of the window frame so I could stand and pivot it around from my bedroom window.
I would find ways to do this so that the "recoil" I suppose you would call it for lack of a better term wouldn't jolt the gun so much when the barrel shifts on firing, that way having it propped against some kind of frame would mean the accuracy was somewhere between actually fairly decent and at the very least, usable..
My school was literally right behind my house so there were some trees for cover with adequate gaps in the leaves and branches to lock on to the distant targets from either the bedroom window or the back wall.
It actually had some decent power! picking off bullies from quite a distance!
I remember one time one kid falling and crying holding his knee that a bee had stung him and I couldn't stop laughing for the rest of the day!
Death to all bullies!
I had a Diana Bob Cat. 177 rifle which my Dad bought me for a birthday present. . Was awesome. Went handgun shooting with my Dad in the 80s when it was still legal in the UK. Now living in Switzerland, I have a nice collection of handguns, various calibres from 22, 9mm, 357/38 and 45 ACP.
I got one of those in the early 70s along with my mates. We run around cars in the street firing at each other with pellets. Until an adult/neighbour informed our mum's and the battle quickly came to an end and the weapons were surrendered and peace was declared and duly paid Reparations was administered. "ouch"
Imagine that happening today we would probably be shot by the SFO.😂
😂🤣😅 Hilarious!
Same here. My mates and I used run around our local area shooting each other….loadsa fun. After a few feet couldn’t break and egg…do more damage with a pea-shooter 🤣🤣👍
same here! Surprisingly though one time i did shoot at my mate deliberately aiming at the ground some way in front of him as he was fairly close to me. Obviously these guns had ZERO accuracy past 6 inches and instead of innocently thudding into the ground at his feet i instead shot him straight in the thigh haha! It hurt him, not badly but still enough to leave a bruise a day or so later haha! Had another mate that went one step further to a friend annoying him. He was pointing a .177 air rifle at his back, literally muzzle against his T shirt. The annoying friend carried on being annoying in spite of having an air rifle held against directly against the middle of his back, so my mate just shot him haha! The victim was only around 10 at the time and kinda luckily was quite a bit overweight, as i think it was his layer of flab that stopped that little pellet going straight into the skin some distance that and the air rifle being a cheapie! I remember reading in the paper in the 90s (i think?) about an English professional football team messing around with air rifles in the changing rooms. One of them got shot in the thigh and unfortunately for him this WAS NOT a cheap n cheerful gun but instead a full power 12ftlb rifle. The pellet is supposed to have buried itself 6 inches into his thigh if memory serves me right? The shooter might have faced criminal charges? Or certainly football club or league issues? So its not just kids that love messing around shooting each other!
@@davekennedy6315 we used to play in our local woods using various full powered air rifles…BSA, Weirhuech (?) ect….one rule never aim at the face. We used to wear very thick clothing or a couple of layers. It still hurt when you got shot but no more than when players paintball 😁.
One time I was holding an empty can on the flat of my hand while a friend took aim with my BSA, it had a scope. I was roughly 20ft from him when he shot at the can on my hand that I was supporting it against a tree so my hand wouldn’t move. He ended up shooting me in the side of my little finger 😣🤬…I was wearing fingerless gloves at the time and I believe that’s what stopped the pellet from doing more damage. The pellet was embedded in my finger but it was easy to pull out because of my glove, it didn’t break the bone…it bloody hurt for a while and I still have a scar nearly 50yrs later 😆. To this day I don’t know whether he did it on purpose or if it was an accident 🤔…he said it was an accident but he must be a really bad shot if so 🤣.
The stupid things we used to do when we were kids 🙄
lol same ,we used to do it amongst a small clump of trees at the local field near our school ,it was really fun.
One of my elderly neighbours gave my son a Gat about 5 years ago. Never been used , still in the box with pellets.
He bought it over 40 years ago and put it in the attic.
March your son into the garden and teach him to gun sling, chop chop!
my first projectile gun was a daisy red ryder bb gun. then i got a crossman 760 and thought i held the power of Armageddon in my hands. nowadays i plink with a .22 gamo magnum with damn near 30 ft/lbs of power. wow.
Yes I had one of these as a kid.
I had one when i was a kid before moving on to a couple 0.22 WEBLEY & B.S.A rifles, happy days..
Yep good old gat - much preferred the little darts on a dartboard much fun, although at 10 years old it took about half an hour to cock it 😂
Love the GAT Gun. Remember going with my Dad to buy a GAT from our local gun shop.
I think they retailed for around £15. I would have been around 10 years old, so quite a few years back now.
I upgraded to a BSA Meteor a year or two later.
I had a GAT in the 70's, but it never had power. Upgraded to a BSA Scorpion with Tele sights. BSA Scorpion was on the AD for the Octopussy James Bond Film. A stylish - looking Pistol.
@@peterduxbury927 yeah the GAT really lacked on power an accuracy. Although I loved to shoot the darts. You could watch them leave the gun and stick in the garden gate 25 feet away, much to my mothers dismay 🤣
Oh the fun we had.😁
My first airgun at the age of 6 had great fun days with it in the garden
I’m 62. Served 12 years in the British Army. We always called personal weapons ‘Gats’. I never made the connection and wondered why ‘Gat’.
Gats were what the gangsters called their pistols in the old black & white movies :)
Was that the SLR/SMG or the SA80? I don't remember the SLR being called 'Gat', but I do remember the SA80 being called 'Gat', I knew it was called so because of this pistol, but I attributed it to the L85A1 being cheap and nasty, just like the 'Gat'.
Brings back fun memories from many years ago for me thanks for sharing.
As a kid in England back in the 1950's I was given one of these pistols. It was made by a company called Dianna. It was probably the worst air gun I have ever owned. Very inaccurate due to the barrel moving forward when fired. It was still fun to use even so.
i had both the Diana was better
Diana were much more of an upmarket gun, I had a Diana pistol as well as a Gat. Diana didn't make gatsby.
If you had a Diana, you didn’t have a Gat.
Cheers for the upload, seeing it just brought back so many good memories with my mates.
Yours is a slightly later one, it has a safety catch and a plastic sleeve at the end. The ones we had in the mid 70s had no safety and bright steel sleeve at the end.
Glad you mention that safety catch! I thought my mind was playing tricks as mine did'nt have one (1970's).
@@kerrybayton2954 Mine doesn't have one either!
I had a GAT back in the 1970's - I had darts with different RED and YELLOW strands , I think everyone shot the tins at some time or other LOL... takes me back , as you say it was my first and Introduction to Air Pistols (mine was made by Harrington)...
Good memories..simpler times...
Had use of a Gat when I was 5.
Older brother bought me a brand new Diana SP50.
It was streets ahead of the Gat.
I had a gat many years ago fired corks at targets quite a heavy pistol.
Excellent piece Sir. Thank you.
Had one as a kid in the seventies.
I remember shooting at a glass bottle and the pellet bounced off it from about 2 feet away.
So I pushed the barrel in and shot it point blank without a pellet.
The bottle smashed when the barrel popped out.
I thought to myself, what a piece of crap and went back to a catapult!
Ditto. I did exactly the same with my Gat... It wouldn't break a bottle with anything but the barrel.
Saved up my pocket money to buy this boyhood crushing disapponitment of an Air Pistol.
Can't understand peoples affection for it - You're right, they were and are crap 🤓
I had a Gat gun as a kid, I liked using the darts. Upgraded at some point to a Webley Junior at some point which I still have. Great video brings back some memories!
I always wanted to shoot a red dart into a sparrow.
Not much chance of hitting something that small with a GAT.
I had a Diana SP50, when I was a kid in the 80's, which worked on the same principle - the barrel springing out the front.
Sadly, it ended in tears. Me and my mates were always trying to copy movie scenes, using fake blood etc.
One day, I filled the barrel up with red food colouring, and fired it at my glasses, which, luckily, I held in my hand. I was trying to copy a scene in the Godfather, where a man gets shot in the eye, through his glasses.
I misjudged the distance from the gun, and the end of the barrel exploded my glasses all over the kitchen, along with the red food colouring.
Stupid kid 🙂
But did you get beats?
@@radicaledwards3449 No 😄 My parents just looked at me as if I was from another Planet. And they were probably right.
Diana sp50 wow forgot all about them , I had one too , lot cooler looking than the gat gun
@@kev.dkev.d8712 It was my first air pistol, even though it's more of a 'push it' pistol 🙂
nice , i moved from gat to diana sp0 in early eighties too . someone mugged it from me as i was 9/10 yrs old . my brother got it bk and shot the guy with it too lol .
I got one of these. If you get darts for it and a dart board it’s fun.
I had several Gats as a kid, always wondered why it was called a air pistol when there was no air involved. But it was good for indoor target shooting in my bedroom, not powerful enough to damage anything.
The "Gat" style "pop-out" barrel pistols certainly were powered by air, although powerd is a relative term. The air cylinder surrounds barrel and the air is forced through the transfer port at the breech plug end.
@@allanedwards5349 😂
The whole reason you push the barrel in at the front, is to compress air so it can be released to fire your projectile. It works similar to a break barrel air pistol, only instead of snapping the barrel down to compress the air, you push it in like a hand pump... Don't tell me you think just the force of the spring being released could fire that projectile out at the speed it does?
@@AD270479 No the Gat is operated purely by the energy of the spring. No compressed air involved.
@@AD270479 Not quite... No air is compressed as you push the barrel in, it just compresses the spring. Only when the trigger is pulled is air compressed to fire the pellet.
Most peoples first air gun. Progressing to Webley Tempests, Hurricanes, target pistols and then onto rifles like The Jackal and the BSA Meteor etc.
Sound familiar?
Now your talking...
I had one of these back in 1993, it went everywhere with me. Loved it, i shot the hell out of it. However i did aquire one that was my uncles when he was younger and was given to me my my grandad and was in great condition. It was at least 2 or 3 times as powerful as my first one. It was a glass breaker. I could tell because when i fired my first GAT, and i used to shoot it into the sky, you could easily see the pellet going upwards but my uncles you couldnt see the pellet after a millisecond. I used to take it campin n everything. Unfortunately it was confiscated by the police when i was 13 year old. Late one evening i had it in my pocket, which i should not have done, but was not doing any harm. I was walking home with my sometime nervous best mate at the time and as a police Maestro came by, my friend took it upon himself to bolt like a horse touching an electric fence straight up a back alley one terrace away from home. So the WPC who was just patroling as usual, now became very suspicious and took to chase on foot. Myself as cool as a cucumber i didnt run but i calmly placed it at the back gate at the rear of somebodies house. However when retrieving my friend the police officer, unintentionly caught the sight of the gun in torchlight. The WPC was startled by the the profile of the gun in torchlight and called for immediate back up. Another police vehicle pulled up with a much larger male officer and began to question us. Naturally the gun "wasnt mine officer." However the tin of bloody .177 pellets in my pocket when i was patted down unfortunately was. Oh shit, said i, and a dickhead is what i called my best friend. Luckily it was only a caution, but it could be worse these days i believe. For at least a week, when it got around, we were like celebrities at school and i referred to my friend atvthat period as...
"That pillock!" All the best from Lancashire UK.
Now ud get atleast 2.5 years 😂
@esaar121 Yeh it's a different world altogether these days.
You would be a "lifer" for that now.
@@martinhambleton5076 only around 1-2 years because there was a teen in town who was caught with a real firearm and he got like 2 years i think
@esaar121 Really? Was he classes as an adult because I known that somebody in Lancs who got the mandatory 5 year and somebody gettin 5 for a taser.
Had one of those when I was about 11 . Thought I was the bees knees ! Great using the little feather darts too.
I had a Diana SP50 in the 70s, similar in principle but in my opinion much better looking.
My first airgun brings back some good memories thanks for posting
I had one of these, great little air pistol, I then went on to own another pistol which the front popped up and you could load a dart and a number of ball bearings and recock the spring at the back to keep firing bearings, then i had a ratcatcher in .22
Had one in the late '60's, it'd been my older brothers (no safety!) ... Never, ever, ever, unscrew the spring retaining nut when under tension 🤣
Much later I had a Webley Tempest: a much more serious target pistol
PS flat bullets, and pellets, are called wad cutters, and principally used for paper target shooting
I had a gat and a G10 as a kid in the 90s brings back all the memories this vid
I purchased one new, a chrome one back in the early 1970s,, It cost about 32 shillings (£1.60), i bought one at a ploughing match last year for £2, Not at all accurate or very powerful, but great fun.
It’s Great. I still have my Crosman target pistol that my brother gave me for my 13th birthday 55 years ago. I still shoot it. The memories are priceless.
Me and my mate owned the later 90s versions that had a different, more semi auto handgun look. Being destructive youngsters we were shooting up an old caravan park with these and my lovely scoped HW77K (certainly an upgrade to these haha!) When we found the pistols wouldn`t break glass my mate instead just used the flying out barrel instead! Now that certainly DOES break glass haha!
Luck, the Gat was underpowered. I got shot in the face by cousin with a gat .it was more dangerous if you threw the pistol at someone. Great memories 😊
Yeah, they made a very sturdy baton.
We always spent our time shooting at each other. Fortunately, nobody was ever hit in the eye, but nobody ever got hurt.
I loved the Gat and Diana SP50 when I was a lad - The range on SP50 was good for a pellet gun ❤
O meu pai ofereceu me uma igual quando tinha 16 anos, hoje com 46 anos ainda a guardo com muito carinho, eu adorava essa pistolinha os meus amigos, também comparam outras iguais belo vídeo e abraço forte de 🇵🇹.
Really nice comment, thank you.
I had one and a black widow catapult, an a webley nemesis pistol when I was about 12
Hahahahahahahahaahah My first air pistol was a gat. it was awful!