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.

@thedarkknight1971

9 ай бұрын

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). 😎🇬🇧

@Sandwich13455

8 ай бұрын

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!

@asafoetidajones8181

5 ай бұрын

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.

@lammy1100

5 ай бұрын

what ever they say every kid always classed this as an air pistol

@JamesNewtonCinema

5 ай бұрын

I agree @@asafoetidajones8181

gat gun...sheath knife...catapult and a box of matches and you were good to go in the early seventies.

@jfilm7466

9 ай бұрын

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

@michaelgibson4705

9 ай бұрын

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

@philmulrooney7020

9 ай бұрын

You forgot the darts

@lapisredux

9 ай бұрын

@@philmulrooney7020 pellets only....."Diablo"

@philmulrooney7020

9 ай бұрын

@@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😲

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.

@Man_fay_the_Bru

9 ай бұрын

I’ve had to move over to crossbows as Scotland is so strict on air guns🤷‍♂️

@orderofmagnitude-TPATP

9 ай бұрын

​@@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.

@reviewswithpappy8058

8 ай бұрын

I have fire arms convicted charge for one these at age eleven how bad was police back then FFS

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.

@jfilm7466

9 ай бұрын

A safety what?😂

@peterpedro7662

9 ай бұрын

The one I had never had a safety must have been a later design

@ThePanicman66

9 ай бұрын

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.

@PhilbyFavourites

9 ай бұрын

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…

@peterbalac1915

9 ай бұрын

Used to take the gat to school, we used to shoot each other in the leg as well 😂

@timothysmith160

9 ай бұрын

aye good times, we used to shoot each other in the arse for smokes@@peterbalac1915

@kipsalviv5742

9 ай бұрын

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.

@birdymaniac

9 ай бұрын

but this is spring-loaded

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 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 ...

@chardspiritof73

9 ай бұрын

Worked if blew up the balloon to almost bursting point though 😂

@PGHEngineer

9 ай бұрын

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.

@SkinPeeleR

9 ай бұрын

🤣😅 too true. Don't get hit at 2 feet though. Hurts like hell and leaves a nice black & blue spot.

Everyone who was a 1970s kid had a Gat.

@JamesNewtonCinema

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. It was a great gift.

@martinhambleton5076

2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@lesscotford1419

10 ай бұрын

Yes we did.. Until we found the Wembley Tempest.

@martinhambleton5076

10 ай бұрын

@lesscotford1419 I then had an Original mod 5, and my friend had a BSA Scorpion. Great times.

@lesscotford1419

10 ай бұрын

@@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.

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.

As a schoolboy in the 70s I loved these guns !!!!!! Great to see one again !! Thank you 😀😀

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

@felixdagger549

9 ай бұрын

😂😂

@fordprefect4345

9 ай бұрын

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.

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.

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 😊

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...

@glynnwilliams3192

9 ай бұрын

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.

@sputumtube

9 ай бұрын

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.

@jimacklaw

9 ай бұрын

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.!!

@ludo9234

9 ай бұрын

Had a Wembley 22 break barrel for many years.

@robcarter55

9 ай бұрын

@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 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 .😊

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 👍

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.

Had a couple of Gat’s , prize possession was a .22 BSA meteor though 👌🏻😎

@zenzen9131

9 ай бұрын

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

@andrewlorenz3139

9 ай бұрын

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🤔

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.

@toritori4430

9 ай бұрын

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 .

@johnmudd6453

9 ай бұрын

Me to my first air gun

@GnrMilligan

9 ай бұрын

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

@sergentcolon1

9 ай бұрын

@@toritori4430I had an SP50 too, great fun

@31hallite

9 ай бұрын

I used to have SP50 to

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 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.

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 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.😂

@martinhambleton5076

9 ай бұрын

😂🤣😅 Hilarious!

@ThePanicman66

9 ай бұрын

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 🤣🤣👍

@davekennedy6315

9 ай бұрын

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!

@ThePanicman66

9 ай бұрын

@@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 🙄

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.

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

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.

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 KZread algorithm 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I never had one of these, I was fortunate in that my dad was a shooter and gifted me BSA .177 rifle, which was moderately powered but deadly accurate. My mates all had pistols, which we're invariably Gats. Even with my superior .177 rifle, I was envious of my mates with their concealable pistols. I imagine my delight when hunting around under the stairs I found my my dad's latest acquisition; A Webley Premier .22 air pistol. That thing was deadly. We used to go down to the local woods and have battles, every man for himself. We'd have hard hats on from where our dads worked, and heavy parka jackets from the fashion of that time. We'd come home with a few bruises and what not, but nobody lost an eye. Timmy Pilchard claimed he lost a bollock through it, but as there was no outcry at the time, and nobody got into trouble, we didn't believe it. Most of us thought he only had one to start with.

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.

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.

Omg this brings back so many memories! Inherited this off my uncle in the mid 90’s.

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 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.

@PhilbyFavourites

9 ай бұрын

ASI Paratrooper - you would have been the coolest kid at school 👍🏻👍🏻 (amongst fellow geeks I must add🤓🤓)

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 !

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 😂

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)...

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 😊

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!

@JamesNewtonCinema

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! I agree, they're basically for children but they were good fun.

Nearly every teenager in the 80s had one of these just like we all at one point had a field stripped Honda c90 with about 8 kids riding on it all at once 🤣

The good old Gat, thanks for sharing!

I remember my gat was also inaccurate and low powered, but it was cheap and good fun for the time!

@user-pt2fv4cv9z

9 ай бұрын

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!

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.

@jfilm7466

9 ай бұрын

Skål, mannen. De var dagarna, eller hur?

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!

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.

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.

@philforbes7467

10 ай бұрын

I wrote almost the exact same explanation on a Diana sp50 video

@johnschofield3418

10 ай бұрын

​@@philforbes7467I had the SP50 as my first airgun Only took 5 minutes to load and fire 😂😂

@flysomethingdamitdotcom8788

9 ай бұрын

Diesel it!

@richardevans6955

8 ай бұрын

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’m 62. Served 12 years in the British Army. We always called personal weapons ‘Gats’. I never made the connection and wondered why ‘Gat’.

@zenzen9131

9 ай бұрын

Gats were what the gangsters called their pistols in the old black & white movies :)

@colinramsden746

9 ай бұрын

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'.

My first airgun at the age of 6 had great fun days with it in the garden

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 👍

@JamesNewtonCinema

9 ай бұрын

No problem. Glad you enjoyed it and it brought back good memories.

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.

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 🙂

@radicaledwards3449

9 ай бұрын

But did you get beats?

@jeffreybarton1297

9 ай бұрын

@@radicaledwards3449 No 😄 My parents just looked at me as if I was from another Planet. And they were probably right.

@kev.dkev.d8712

9 ай бұрын

Diana sp50 wow forgot all about them , I had one too , lot cooler looking than the gat gun

@jeffreybarton1297

9 ай бұрын

@@kev.dkev.d8712 It was my first air pistol, even though it's more of a 'push it' pistol 🙂

@hanifkhan8822

9 ай бұрын

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 .

We had one in the late '70s, early' 80s, that my dad found stashed under a bush. Fun little plinker.

ah the memories. we used to have dart fights, numerous times i went home with a dart or 2 stuck in my back.. my mother never batted an eyelid just pulled the darts out and handed them back to me. im surprised one of us didnt lose an eye! fond fond memories.. can you imagine kids these days?! ours never had a safety thought? i wish i still had mine

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.

@FlyingV344

9 ай бұрын

i had both the Diana was better

@tonycamplin8607

9 ай бұрын

Diana were much more of an upmarket gun, I had a Diana pistol as well as a Gat. Diana didn't make gatsby.

@johnnunn8688

9 ай бұрын

If you had a Diana, you didn’t have a Gat.

I had one when i was a kid before moving on to a couple 0.22 WEBLEY & B.S.A rifles, happy days..

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.

@felixdagger549

9 ай бұрын

March your son into the garden and teach him to gun sling, chop chop!

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.

Good memories..simpler times...

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.

@peterduxbury927

9 ай бұрын

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.

@reallycrafty5276

9 ай бұрын

@@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.😁

me and my best mate as kids had one each .. we cherished then and i still have mine at 58 years old .... happy days ...

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.. 👍🏻

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!

@fosterb247

9 ай бұрын

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 🤓

Still got mine, boxed and somehow with no darts or corks missing! Had so much fun with it when I was a kid.

@jfilm7466

9 ай бұрын

You jammy b*stard😂

@sosteve9113

9 ай бұрын

Great fun back then

I had completely forgotten the gat even existed. I had one when I was a kid it was ace I wish I’d kept it

A friend of mine improved my accuracy with a pistol after decades of being useless. If you alter your grip by pointing your thumb at the target, instead of holding the pistol as you would an axe, you accuracy will improve.

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.

@kerrybayton2954

Жыл бұрын

Glad you mention that safety catch! I thought my mind was playing tricks as mine did'nt have one (1970's).

@akatripclaymore.9679

Жыл бұрын

@@kerrybayton2954 Mine doesn't have one either!

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.

@esaar24z

11 ай бұрын

Now ud get atleast 2.5 years 😂

@topshot2787

11 ай бұрын

@esaar121 Yeh it's a different world altogether these days.

@martinhambleton5076

10 ай бұрын

You would be a "lifer" for that now.

@esaar24z

10 ай бұрын

@@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

@topshot2787

10 ай бұрын

​@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.

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 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

I had a Diana SP50 in the 70s, similar in principle but in my opinion much better looking.

I had a gat many years ago fired corks at targets quite a heavy pistol.

I loved the Gat and Diana SP50 when I was a lad - The range on SP50 was good for a pellet gun ❤

Talk about a blast from the past!! 🤠

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 😊

@jasperbarlow2582

9 ай бұрын

Yeah, they made a very sturdy baton.

@twatmunro

9 ай бұрын

We always spent our time shooting at each other. Fortunately, nobody was ever hit in the eye, but nobody ever got hurt.

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.

Me and my friends used to hunt each other with them ,used to wear 2 pairs of jeans and a duffel coat to ease the pain ! Great fun in the 70s

I had a Triumph Tiger Cub in our garage in the late 60's. I swopped it for a GAT pistol. I was happy at the time, though not later on in years - never been good at business!

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 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.

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 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.

@allanedwards5349

9 ай бұрын

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.

@SaxonSuccess

9 ай бұрын

@@allanedwards5349 😂

@AD270479

9 ай бұрын

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?

@billballbuster7186

9 ай бұрын

@@AD270479 No the Gat is operated purely by the energy of the spring. No compressed air involved.

@Targetmaster1066

9 ай бұрын

@@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.

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 🇵🇹.

@JamesNewtonCinema

2 жыл бұрын

Really nice comment, thank you.

I’ve still got mine somewhere,it’s got the darts in the tin of pellets too,great memories from the early 80s,my mate had a webley tempest,it’s was like a scene from Dirty Harry when he pulled that out 😂😂

I was a proud owner of 2 gat guns as a kid, then a Daisey repeater, (remember them?) Then licenced my Dad's 1980 Weirauch HW35, which I still have, now I shoot 8mm Mausers, 9mm CZs, .38 specials and do pyro in TV&Movie special effects, BUT!!! It all started with a Gat...😊

Hahahahahahahahaahah My first air pistol was a gat. it was awful!

They really were crap. Not an air pistol at all. Ric from Oz 👦🇦🇺👍😎

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.

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.

Wow im 60 years old and i haven't seen a Gat gun since i was a young boy! Thanks 👍

@alexmartinlillia

9 ай бұрын

Good memories 🙂🙂🙂

I remember them well. You could unscrew the silver nut at the end off the barrel and stretch the spring to give it more power, but then When you fired them enough that silver nut on the end of the barrel would strip the thread from the barrel with that now over compressed spring, and would end up launching off said nut and spring with more hitting power than the pellet for many a happy hour looking for them in the garden.... Happy days! 😂

An old friend of mine and I used to use one of these to shoot at each other in the woods, sort of a dangerous version of "airsoft" back in the late 70s, I remember on one occasion, I fired mine from the hip, and shot him in the eye with an .177 lead pellet, fortunately his blink response was pretty good and the pellet hit him in the eyelid instead of his eyeball, in retaliation he threw his Gat at me and I managed to dodge it. Years later I even shot him in the shin-bone of his right leg from a ricochet from my .22 HW 35E air rifle as I fired into the ground in front of him from 50m away, the .22 pellet being deflected upwards by a piece of slate in the soft ground in front of him, that one required hospital treatment, They cut it out of his leg with a scalpel, I think a few months later he shot me in the arse with his HW77K air rifle in revenge, fortunately the pellet was deflected by one of the studs on my jeans but it still left a nasty looking welt that lasted for a few weeks on my left buttock. Sadly, my friend and I are no longer friends as I brought into question his driving skills when he'd written off his 30th (or more) car which at the time was a classic 1984 Audi Quattro (or similar) and so of my many misdemeanours over the years between us this was the last straw and we have not spoken to each other for over 20 years (I actually miss the old Git) So if you ever read this Dave (you'll know who you are), I am truly sorry for losing your friendship.

It was my first air pistol, bought in 1968, I upgraded six months later to a Webley senior.

@kriskeeling6243

9 ай бұрын

Happy days

I had a Gat in the early 70’s but can’t remember it having a safety catch on it though.

Yes...always yearned for one these as a kid❤

Yep, it was my first Air Gun too. I bought it off a lad in school, about 1970, I was eleven years old and it was Chrome plated. I can`t remember what happened to it, probably swapped it for something else, I know my second Gun was a Dianna, happy days.

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!

@nicholasalexander4743

9 ай бұрын

I always wanted to shoot a red dart into a sparrow. Not much chance of hitting something that small with a GAT.

I had one back in the 60's. I think it was probably vintage then. The spring was so weedy I could cock it by pushing against my palm. Soon graduated to a break-barrel BSA. Night and day different..I could now make holes in things! Ta.

I had a gat and a G10 as a kid in the 90s brings back all the memories this vid

A 'GAT' was a 1930's American criminal slang term for a gun. You'll very often see it used in B&W Detective films and books of that period. Harrington started making the pistol in the 1930's, the same time the name was in common usage and a lot of young men went to the cinema and saw the term used. It was a good marketing idea.

Had one of those when I was about 11 . Thought I was the bees knees ! Great using the little feather darts too.