[60sStuff]

This thread is about the model #25 Daisy BB gun. “King of all BB Guns”.

I’m sure most of the members on this forum had a BB gun as a child and possibly still have one now.

My Dad bought my first lever action BB air rifle from Sears when I was 6 years old. I wore that gun out and I still have it along with many more I’ve collected over the years.

I wanted to share the really rare version of the Daisy air rifle, the No.25 that was designed and built by Fred Lefever.
This air rifle was a single pump with a high velocity that used lead balls.

The first version of the No.25 was 1914.

The features on the earliest guns are as follows.
1) Front adjustable site.
2) 5 groove wood pump handle.
3) Case hardened finish on “short throw” lever.
4) No lever reinforcing rib.
5) Large head take down bolt.
6) No metal tang from receiver to wood stock.
Plus much more smaller items like screws, triggers, rear sites, etc. that distinguish the first generation No.25.

Below are two of mine that are of the 1915-1917 group.

Excuse the PMO receipts in these photos.
Both these BB guns are Factory Original and considered extremely nice in the collectors world of vintage Daisy guns.

A Dec. 1953 box that a No.25 gun would come in.

The Daisy MFG Co. in Plymouth, Michigan.