couple of cool looking little plinkers

I really enjoy this channel because you mostly stick to the affordable guns. This is the first time I've seen the No. 25 in action. It looks way cool to shoot; I might have to fork out some more $ to get one some day. Not surprised you had trouble at 50 feet, as it's rated at only 350 fps, only about 100 fps higher than the Red Ryder. In fact, you can use the Red Ryder "Shooting Gallery" with a rubber mat that acts as a bb catcher, allowing young shooters to shoot their Red Ryders and Bucks indoors, in the basement. The box says "don't shoot anything over 350 fps" with this. So you could shoot the No. 25 even with that Red Ryder shooting gallery. A little historical information about the No. 25: I have been doing a little research on the history of the Daisy 880, and I purchased the "It's A Daisy!" history of the first 90 years of the Daisy company, written by son of one of the founders, and then himself a long time president/head of the company dude of Daisy, Cass Hough. Cass kept a diary over the years, and used that as a reference to various decisions made that resulted in some of Daisy's most famous guns. He writes about Charles Fred LeFever, the engineer/inventor behind the No 25. In late 1911, Lefever, who was from St. Louis, wrote a letter to Ed Hough at Daisy in Plymouth, MI. It said "I have designed and built a model of a pump action air rifle, which I would like to have you see with a view toward its manufacture." Hough delayed answering, so Lefever, sent another letter saying Daisy wasn't the only company in the air rifle business, and if they didn't act properly, he would go elsewhere. Normally, this would offend a company president, but Hough was intrigued by the boldness of this guy, so Hough traveled to St. Louis (not the other way around) to see what LeFever had to offer. When Hough saw the plans, he realized this was pretty sophisticated for the time, and made LeFever an offer. LeFever sort of accepted stating "Well , if you're really deadly serious about making this gun, I'll come to Plymouth for a few months to get you started, but that's all." He stayed until 1953. It took more than a year to engineer and produce the tools for the first pump gun, but by 1913 they had a prototype to show. It went into full production in 1914, and over 8,000,000 copies of the gun were produced by the time Cass Hough wrote his book in 1976. I would not of typed all this, except when I saw this video, I thought I remembered reading about this engineer who made a pump gun that was supposedly still around. When I saw this video, and the stamped engraving on the receiver, I thought, "that's the gun!" and looked it up. Hope you enjoyed the story.

I'm blind in my right eye thanks to the #25. I had to switch to left handed. Naturally my #25 was long gone by the time I left the hospital. No more bb guns until I was an adult. I'm an airgun junkie now pushing 70. I mostly shoot paper and cans, haven't hunted in 30 years. I mostly shoot pcp now, but collect old BB/pellet guns and replicas. I have more old Daisy's than Crosmans but the older guns are usually more accurate than the new ones. I've just ordered the parts to salvage two more all metal 880's, one of which is the first edition. Anyways, enjoyed the video its a fun hobby. I'll hit that subscribe for you.

Enjoyed your video. Grew up with a Crosman 1400 and Blue Streaks. Dad had a Crosman barrel pumper BB gun. The same mechanics as the M1 carbine they produced too. Still have my original 1971 blue streak I bought new.

Alvin, Simon, Theodore! 😂 I am a big proponent of the 25' range for bb mad minute, as you already know. 🎉

Awesome!

Man, that looks like a lot of fun! 👍 I'm liking that Daisy No. 25, even though the Winchester cycles faster. I've never seen that 25 in action before. I thought you had to pump it like a phnematic pump gun. I wonder how smooth I can get the action. Lol I want one now. 😅 (Hmm my first post disappeared. KZfaq doesn't like me. 😂)

Very cool enjoy all your videos

I did not expect the pump arm on the 25 to bend like a bug leg I actually kinda jumped😄I might have to get one just for the unique factor.

8-10 yds is usually the max for the daisy's

I have my father's 25. From when he was a kid. I'm missing the tube that holds the BB's. No idea how old it must be , but I'm assuming it's from like the 50's.

I've seen this match up before. 25 beats 12, lil duke beats 25, sheridan beat duke, and Red Ryder wins all 😊. I've never had any of those myself.

Harry Vermeegen? so u are in Alaska now😅?🤣

it is said that the daisy model 25 is the king of b-b gun's. it is a fine one l own one from 1928 and l went through it cleaned it up it was already in good condition and boy it shoot's hard they say the early ones shot almost up to 400fps l would like to crony mine but l don't own one.