It was a very effective ratting gun. My method was to wait about 10 yards from a rat hole, as soon as a rat poked its nose out I’d take careful aim and then throw it as hard as I could ....

@diggerjoe1

3 жыл бұрын

That is gold I just spat out me coffee reading that 😁😁👍

My Gat was so powerful and accurate I managed to hit an inflated balloon from nearly 6 feet away! Fortunately the dart was slightly blunt or else the balloon would have definitely burst.

@melcomepay6668

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, they were not exactly made for power/ accuracy... I was given one for my birthday ( 12 /13.) ... a very long time ago now.. but the FUN I had with it! I It cost 30/_ "( one pound fifty). Could just about manage to cock it by pushing barrel on thh ground. This is in the days when the *Big brother * system fhat we are now controlled by did not exist.. and boys were allowed to be boys.. I remember shooting at fireworks ( 1d bangers) as they went off.. Never hit one. Oh for a time machine.. Dr Who, where are you? 😊.

@pietjepuk6372

3 жыл бұрын

Funny comment 😄

@kevinwheeler5879

2 жыл бұрын

I hit a Space Hopper at two foot away! 🤞

@moedem

2 жыл бұрын

I shot a strawberry from a centimetre away and the pop out done more damage

I've still got mine that I bought in 1975 - endless fun back then and nice to still use occasionally.

Brings back memories!!! When I was 14 me and my mates bought some from the local fishing shop and we would have shoot outs with each other. They would bloody hurt if you got hit by them. Lucky we didn’t blind each other!

I loved my gat gun, it was awesome fun as a kid back in the 60's. No pellets? No problem, the barrel shooting out could bludgeon anything in it's path. Great for breaking glass, launching pebbles and so-on. Shooting darts was just ridiculously fun. The most versatile airgun ever! Mine was totally toast by the time I was done with it and upgraded to a used Webley. Great times, great fun!

@NashRathbone

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing 👍👍👍👍

I've got one. It's hidden in the wardrobe somewhere. I bought it back in the 90's brand new after spotting it in a shop window. My mother wouldn't let me have such a beastly thing as a kid, so into my thirties I went for it. Different box to yours and an obviously updated design, woefully inaccurate too. It's still like brand new having only been fired a few times.

My very first gun this was. The barrel springing forward was actually more dangerous than the pellet. Also great as a hammer.

A really similar pistol was made in Czechoslovakia, it was called Lovenna Lov-2. It also was very cheap and thus quite popular. Just ordered one, new old stock, to my collection - and despite being a pretty rare piece nowadays I payed 30 bucks for it :D

My first air pistols....1972.....Great with darts board.

Wonderful Wonderful memories.. 1989 - 1990.. my first air gun at 12 years old! Now years later at 46 yrs old I own Weihrauch rifles.

Had exactly that gun when I was a kid around the late sixties. Me and my mate would have maggot fights with them when we went fishing. I can still remember the sensation of an over ripe maggot exploding on my face.

Nice trip down memory lane,thanks. Reminds me of The Beatles 'Blackbird Singing in The Dead of Night'.😉

Ah, the memories. Got mine on holiday in North Wales. Though I was a nipper the shop owner still sold it to me, but warned me to cover it up as he was not supposed to sell it to kids, bless him. God knows know I managed to convince my parents to let me keep it. I had many hours of fun shooting cans, and the little darts at a dart board.

Mucking about with air guns in a garage is something I did as a lad. On one memorable occasion I set up a Tizer bottle on a shelf on the end wall. Loaded up my Diana 16, sighted down the barrel, fired and watched the pellet travel to the bottle, hit it and returned back on the same trajectory to hit me right between the eyes. Much pain and swearing. The bottle was completely unmarked, the same couldn’t be said for my face.

Brings out good old memories. Thanks for sharing.

I would love to get my hands on one of these again. Childhood memories! Living in a block of flats in a council estate would make it difficult to be a kid again with this lol

Bought a gat off my friend at school in the late sixties , great fun and such happy times 👍👍👍.

A "FRIEND" once shot me with an old original GAT. However it was not loaded, He shot me in a most delicate area by holding it close enough for the barrel to hit me! It took quite a while for the pain, and my anger, to subside!!!

I bought mine in the early 90's when I was 17. Ahh memories, my first airgun. I used to see some decent models in front of a local toolshop in the 80's, but I was too young. To be honest, it is quite a hard hitting airgun with the 0.177 coned pellets, nevertheless a cool simple "forward recoil delayed" design.

Mine was chrome, Wish I still had it. Loved the darts and using them over and over. Thanks for reminding me of all the fun I had when I was a kid.

@NashRathbone

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Ray. I wanted a chrome one too but dad said it was a little too expensive. Thanks for watching and commenting.

When courting my wife back in the late sixties we visited a good friend of my father in law a 'Jimmy' Harrington. He lived over the factory in Walton on Thames where he manufactured Gat pistols. I recall he pushed a few buttons in the factory and Gat guns rolled off the production line! my other memory of this flamboyant chap was his large collection of shoes. Happy days.

@NashRathbone

6 жыл бұрын

I have been getting quite a lot of interesting comments concerning memories of times past like yours. Thanks for the feedback and for watching. 👍👍👍

my first gun ,got me into so much trouble as a young teen but great fun , also my last gun

I just got a load of boxes with many things in them from.a local antiques place near me in france. This gun was in one of the boxes. It's very old and I can't seem to unscrew the very back piece to load it. It's missing it's spring and the model from your description is a very early one. I take it from the cork you have that that can be pushed in at the end of the gun. Thanks for the video. I'm from the UK a sixties child but never knew about these. My father was not into anything like this and so I never saw one before. Used air rifles later and then went on to shotguns!!

@NashRathbone

Жыл бұрын

The cork is pushed into the muzzle after cocking the action. Apparently the company also made a rifle too but I have never seen one. Thank you for watching and taking time to leave a comment 👍

The gunmakers in the high street had a chrome gat in the window. It was less than £2[SH?], no idea where I got the money from but I went back on Saturday with the money, he wouldn't he sell it to me. I was eleven. I stopped a hippy who was walking along the high street and got him to buy it for me. It was confiscated at school.

One step up.from a spud gun, but great fun

I had one of these that my late Father got me, it was already battered and had wooden grips, it might have a Diana mod 2, it must have been about 1966 when I got it, and to a ten year old this was EPIC, nothing was safe, snails, bees, and any old paint tin or washing up bottle got blasted, it was about as accurate as a politician's expense account and tax return, but I loved it.

Used to have one of these when I was about 13, found it in a backyard of a empty house in toxteth, I told me nan “it only fires them big plastic bulbs same as they use at the fare” so I could keep it. It was a heavy beast compared to everyone else’s little plastic BB guns, could only fire 1 pellet a time tho

I bought one in the 90’s (about 93/94) and the box was the same.

love it, takes you back to that little boy, doesn't it? my first gun was a crosman 760 that could be pumped way past the 10 maximum and would then proceed to blow sparks out the muzzle..lol... love your videos, just found you and subbed😃

@NashRathbone

7 жыл бұрын

+PinpointR Hello. I believe I had a Crossman 700 series back in the early 1980s along with a Sheridan . 20 pump pistol too. I am (Mrs Rathbone permitting) going to pick up my first airgun in many years at the weekend. I hope!! Thanks for watching.

I hit a drawing pin with mine which was holding the target, it flew back above my head straight through a fluorescent tube which shattered all over me. Good times.

Had one in the sixties, great fun!

@melcomepay6668

5 жыл бұрын

Frits dK me too ,1960..

I loved my hat gun, used to go full Rambo whenever I found a wasp nest as a kid

I had a Gat in the early 1960s . The new price was 32shillings and six pence which was a small fortune if you only earned 12/6d on your paper round . They were terribly inaccurate and as soon as I could afford it I bought a cheap Diana air rifle selling the Gat to a mate for £1. Thanks for the memories.

Watching this on the 29th 9 21. Really enjoyable trip down memory lane so to speak....gats were all the rage in the 80s....me and the boys down the wood's with our gats and Diana sp50s.... Good time's.... kid's need to be kid's.... bring the old time's back.... community Spirit.... Best wishes from south Wales

@NashRathbone

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

@andyjs4629

2 жыл бұрын

@@NashRathbone Thank you....

I had a chrome Gat in the late 60s. My mates also. We used to shoot each other, with no harm done! Happy days!

@NashRathbone

4 жыл бұрын

I wanted a chromed Gat but dad wouldn't pay the extra. Thanks for watching 👍

I bought one back in 1987, from a Army Surplus shop in Norwich Norfolk. I was only 13 years old. Back then, all you had to do was forge a letter from a parent, and they would allow you to buy one. I also bought the accessory pack, with the fly squatter. The pellets, and corks were useless, BUT the darts were pretty reasonable for a low powered air pistol. :)

@NashRathbone

5 жыл бұрын

I'm really loving all the great comments on this review, yours is another cool memory. My late father bought mine in a shop in Hunstanton (not far where you got yours then) in the mid 1970s. I shot mine so much I broke the trigger! Many thanks for your comment and for watching. 👍👍👍

@jumblesaleboo

5 жыл бұрын

How scary is that! My parents had a caravan in Heacham when I was a kid, and we went to Hunstanton all the time, and that very same gun shop (which is still there) my Dad bought me a cheap knock off Rambo survival knife (The black version) a number of years prior, to when I bought the GAT! I was in Huntstanton a couple of months back, and the shop is still going. :)

@jumblesaleboo

5 жыл бұрын

The shop is called Norfolk Gun Trading Company, and it hasnt changed mate. :)

@alansmith2292

2 жыл бұрын

Lol, which army had a surplus of these?

What a load of ... I had one as well not much of a gun but fun for my youth

As a kid roaming around Liverpool in about 1992 I swapped all of my pogs for a gat. Was great. Shot it so much my dad threw the pin away. Got a new one though. Long live the gat. Worst thing was shooting lead balls. They used to roll out the end!

There is an earlier model ,by T.J.HARRINGTON...the original manufacturer's....it has no safety catch....NOT designed for accuracy! But fun! Thanks for posting!

@NashRathbone

5 жыл бұрын

The gun I had in the 1970s didn't have the safety either, the front of the pistol grip was also straight with no finger grooves. Thanks for watching 👍

I had one of those given to me in about 1968 ,it was priced at $4.99 Canadian if I can recall . It failed to break a light bulb. I think the next year I got Slavia 624 air rifle which was much more satisfactory I haven't thought of this in years but I remember that same box and that corker saying.

For any Americans watching the Gat Gun was the British school boy's equivalent of the Daisy BB rifle? WE ALL WANTED ONE... and our mum's didn't want us to have one 😊

My mate had one back in the early seventies and I remember a pellet bouncing off an apple we were firing at😆😆

I have still got my gat gun but no box it's got a slightly different stamp on the one side it says THE GAT J101 4.5 MM with f in the pentagon great little gun my nephew loves it those where the days when if the police caught you up to no good you would get

@planetterror649

2 жыл бұрын

A clip round the ear

One of my first guns.

I can remember as a kid fantasizing about this gun .

Got to love the "export model" printed on the box.

It is quite easy to take the gun completely to pieces to clean and lubricate it. Having just done that, it is now fully rejuvenated and flicks the pellet out with considerable vigour! Mine is the earlier model to the one in your video - no safety and the front section of the barrel is some kind of metal. Accuracy is total guesswork as it kicks like a mule! The one I have is my original from the mid 1960's.

I have the same friend, do you know where I could get the air seal rubber, the one that goes inside?

I want one, I've got much nicer airguns, but for some reason I just want one.

@melcomepay6668

5 жыл бұрын

Something Dreadful I had one ,in 1960, same gun, but a different manufacturer.. these Are The Originals and can be identified by not having a safety catch, and the handler shaped differently.

I had one of these in 1963.

There's no doubt that "too much cocking" will hurt your hand !!! ...however I got mine for my 10th birthday back in 1975 !!! ..."ITS A CORKER" !!!.

Nice video, are you wearing the one ring to rule them all?

Oh god,this takes me back,shot my sister in the leg and begged her to not tell on me by offering her sweets and stuff,she told on me anyway because my sweet supply to her stopped and my dad took it off me,I was devastated lol,the lesson was learnt though,I never should have shot my sister :D

@NashRathbone

6 жыл бұрын

Does she still remind you of it? I'm getting a lot of this sort of feedback on the pistol and it is very interesting to hear people's memories. I wish I still had the gun my late father bought me all those years ago. Thanks for watching and your comment.

@MrJools70

6 жыл бұрын

Nash Rathbone oh yes,because I still have guns and live in the countryside me and my father go out (he lives just down the road from me)so when she happens to be visiting she always reminds me when we have the guns out lol 😂

@melcomepay6668

5 жыл бұрын

Julian Collins Hope she forgave you eventually. Had a Gat way back in 1960. My friend had a Webly. I was envious!

Nice umarex Makes 50 caliber air rifles now

we used to have fights with these late 80s early 90s....still got a couple scars

@ArifAli-os3ot

6 жыл бұрын

Andwhat gat

My trigger catch was worn , and one time when I was screwing in the loading pin it fired...dragging my nail off ! Needless to say the nail remnants were used as an experimental ammo alternative :) That and rolled up tin foil :)

@NashRathbone

4 жыл бұрын

Yup, I have tried tin foil in mine too. Those were the days. Thanks for watching 👍👍👍

@neil754

2 жыл бұрын

Did the same with mine, I had lost the screw in pellet probe thing and replaced it with a bolt from dad's shed. It actually pulled my thumb down the tube. It was more dangerous to the user than whatever it was pointed at lol

Memories, memories....😭👍

Had a gat gun , we all did same as a BSA air rifle or a Webley , used to go down the canal hunting

@melcomepay6668

5 жыл бұрын

Delroy Washington Ahh yes Those Webly pistols.... QUALITY! Happy memories....we lived close to the old disused WW2 airfield at Gravesend ...great place for shooting ..hours of fun, and NO " Health and Safety " Pratt's to bother us !

@iguanaplays1657

4 жыл бұрын

Used to also go down the canal with my gat gun and had to stretch the spring every time But happy days all the same

Nice children's toy

where can you get the darts from?

This takes me back i absolutely loved mine shot all sorts out of it lol

@NashRathbone

5 жыл бұрын

This review is stirring all sorts of memories for people and the feedback has been great. Many thanks for taking the time to comment. 👍

i own one of these does anyone know how much they go for and where you can get the darts for it?

There was a Diana pop out that was slightly better . I miss the days when you could take the airguns out without fear of being reported the the police .

@melcomepay6668

5 жыл бұрын

arthur Oh yeah, I remember those days.....luck for me that I had a 1950's childhood ,and at 12 / 13 would go out and plink away at cans ,etc ...my friend had a Webly pistol ,great quality .

@melcomepay6668

4 жыл бұрын

@@stevenbig355 Tbhere was also a Diana G2.. my second air pistol and the German made Original pistol.. Found one recently.

@korky7775

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenbig355 Nope it was a Diana mod 2

I bought a chrome one in the early 70s for about 30 bob (more expensive than the black gun),, and yesterday i purchased a Black one for £2, would they be allowed to be made and sold these days?

@tonybrown9875

Жыл бұрын

Nooo, guns not allowed now, you are meant to be on prescription dope and staring at an app, for your safety.

I used to buy my Gats in Challenge Market in Islington. I remember using potatoes as ammo.

Still got mine, and you could probably shoot at someone from 20/30 yards away and they could get out the way of the pellet 😂

I had a pistol like this to. The gat, but the package did changed, mine was in a blister kind of package.

It reminds me of the "spud gun" I had when I was a kid.

@NashRathbone

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, I have a review of a spud gun on the channel too 😁

@BoggWeasel

2 жыл бұрын

@@NashRathbone No way...I'm orft to find it right now ! 😊

Loved my gat now iv got an dianna sp50 just the same but dosent fire crocs

they did a rifel to at the fairs we used them.hard to find them now

So many memories, Sp50 I think I had . We are so so compliant these days . Makes me sick .👍👍

Oh thanks for the memories! We had "shoot eachother in the leg" competitions". Happy and innocent days :) 1976 I believe

My eyes were instantly drawn not to the pistol but to how untidy you must be !!

@NashRathbone

5 жыл бұрын

Mrs Rathbone says the same thing. I have recently thrown a whole load of stuff out of the garage and I can actually move in there now. Thanks for watching 👍

I still have the scar between thumb and forefinger where my skin got dragged in when pressing the barrel in.

@NashRathbone

4 жыл бұрын

Ouch!

I used to have a G10 as a kid ( late 80s/early 90s). Very similar in how it worked but was styled on the us army colt. I eventually rusted the crap out of the barrel by shooting spitballs out of it lol. You still occasionally come across gat guns at funfairs as theyre often used at the shooting stalls for trying to knock over weighed down prizes with corks

@NashRathbone

5 жыл бұрын

I found my Milbro G10 in the attic recently so I might do a review. One gun I wish I still had is my Diana SP50, it works the same way as the Gat. Thanks for watching 👍

@steammachine3061

5 жыл бұрын

@@NashRathbone oh yep i stand corrected (just googled it). The diana was the one i had not the g10. Push barrel as well. The g10 could shoot bb as well from recollection. Only one i still own to this day is my webley tempest. Its probably the single oldest item i still posess.

@NashRathbone

5 жыл бұрын

Yes the G10 has a small magazine above the barrel, you have to point the muzzle up a bit whilst you operate the action to get a BB to load in the chamber. I had a Webley Tempest back in the 1980s, I still have the BSA Meteor bought for me by my late father in the mid 1970s. My latest airgun is a Gamo MP9 of which I have a review on my channel. I'd really like to buy another airgun but Mrs Rathbone says "No!"

All the kids in my street had gats we used to shoot each other with them. If we captured one of the kids. We took his gun put in the middle of the street and he would have to run pick it up and everyone got a free shot at him. Being fat guns it was rare that anyone actually managed hit anyone. I still the gat gun. Now they are all in their late fifties their not as much fun anymore. I’ve still got my original bsa meteor mk3 and a 1975 webley scott hawk. Good video

Great nostalgia but you couldn’t hit a barn door with them !

Still have mine bought in 1970 . Mine is stamped made in West Germany . Chrome barrel. Don't know where the original box is now.

@NashRathbone

6 жыл бұрын

I have been getting a lot of good memories posted on this review, many thanks for sharing. 👍👍👍

The projectile coming from the Gat didn't hurt half as much as using the pop out barrel against someone's head ! Could almost knock someone out !

any way of getting replicas of these or something similar? greetings from norway

Hi Nash, i have the same one only mine was a pond find in bad condition, but the silver end screws off the barrel, and you can take it to bits easily, as there is a lot of erosion to the pot metal body, so its a job to get it back to working condition ? lol a project gun definetly

@NashRathbone

5 жыл бұрын

Hi. If you are on Instagram please feel free to send some pictures over to me. Thanks for watching. 👍👍👍

Great video.i had one also but my bro throw it away 🤬🤬🤬🤬

As of 2021, It's perfectly legal to own and fire a airgun in England and Wales provided you are over 17 .

I had 3 types....GAT, Dianna mod 2 and the German Original one....

Brings back memories had one when i was a kid shot my mate in the arse with it he was not happy about it but me and the rest of my mate's found it funny

Just brought a gat from car boot looks brand new £15 absolute bargain, mum buried last one in garden 45 years ago, good memories

I use to cock mine on the end of my shoe as the floor would scratch it up!

I have mine at home. I'll send you pictures of it once I return to my apartment. I've been house sitting.

@NashRathbone

7 жыл бұрын

+traderjoes Hi Joe. Thanks I'd like to see them.

I had one of these a long time ago and I don't think there's air compression involved as such, it's a spring gun. When the barrel is pushed in, a latch holds the spring back - pulling the trigger pushes on the latch and o.c the barrel shoots forward and the pellet ejects due to simple physics. Not a true air gun and it has nowhere near 5 ft pounds.

@NashRathbone

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍 I found my old Milbro/Marksman G10 in the attic last week and it still works.

@andrewjenery1783

5 жыл бұрын

@@NashRathbone If it's in good condition might be collectible, but I found that I was wrong in saying the G.gun isn't a true air gun, found out there's a leather valve or ring around the inner barrel that goes inside the outer tube and this compresses some air behind the pellet when it's pushed in.

@vanmanwales1590

3 жыл бұрын

It has a piston and cylinder. It is a proper air gun but nowhere near 5.5 ft/lbs.

@andrewjenery1783

3 жыл бұрын

@@vanmanwales1590 Yes, you're right - my mistake, I thought it was just inertia that ejected the pellet.

I had one of them years ago.Very weak I'd guess that the pellets must come out at about 150 FPS and darts much slower about 100 FPS.

@stevenlawton5319

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure how they managed to judge speed, as don't think the pellet could go 150 feet 🤣

I loved mine until my mate got one. If we both fired at the same time his pellet hit the target (a garage door) well before mine then I realised mine was shit. So was his, but mine more so.

Nice slippers.

@andrewoldham4462

4 жыл бұрын

😂

Had one in the 70s. - chrome. Got bought one in the 80s - black paint. Still got it somewhere. Both crap.

@iguanaplays1657

4 жыл бұрын

I bought one in silver at school in 1978 for 50p ha and yes it was crap all round but great fun - if you could hit the target with a gat gun you're doing well with any gun

smat little gun had a couple of them when I was young. didn't think it was a air pistol though it was spring powerd no air as your just using the spring to shoot the dart out. any way smart gun in there day as a kid good video

@korky7775

3 жыл бұрын

It did have a plunger and it did work off air like a full sized air gun...

@CdEmm50

Жыл бұрын

@@korky7775 Correct 👍🇬🇧😁

It has always fascinated me how how the name GAT came about . Does anyone know ?

@NashRathbone

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I believe it comes from Richard Gatling's invention the Gatling gun, The Gat. Hope this helps. Thanks for watching 👍

Yip I had one and I fully enjoyed shooting targets etc was completely useless as a hunting. It's not an air pistol it's inertia we used it to dispatch rabbits but without projectiles .

@vanmanwales1590

3 жыл бұрын

It is an air pistol. It has a cylinder & piston.

£3.10 and my mate shot me with it to see how much painful it would be

Quite sure they retailed at about £3 in the seventies they were cheep as chips.

the "legend" of the gat gun far outweighs reality today, i have a boxed one as a museum piece, not much practical use for it, other than nostalgia. basically crap as a useable pistol today.

Interesting, my mate had one when we were kids, also the F in the pentagon is still used on Weihrauch HW 45's from Germany, which are brilliant pistols.