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Daisy Airguns

Daisy Outdoor Products originally got its start in 1882 as the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company. However, with a struggling economy and a constantly changing windmill business, Plymouth began to search for new ways to attract customers.

This change came in 1886 at the hands of Clarence Hamilton, a Plymouth inventor. Using a combination of metal and wire, Hamilton produced a device that resembled a gun and could fire a lead ball using compressed air. When Lewis Cass Hough, the president of Plymouth, fired the first shot, he proclaimed, “Boy, that’s a daisy!”

With the success of the new “Daisy BB,” the Plymouth Company began to give out a gun to farmers with the purchase of a windmill and with its growing popularity; the company soon began to manufacture the Daisy BB instead of windmills. In 1895, the company decided to change the name from Plymouth to Daisy Manufacturing, Inc, and the rest as they say, is history.

Most well known for the Red Ryder BB gun, which has sold over 9 million units, making it the most famous BB gun ever to be manufactured, Daisy is now the world’s oldest and largest manufacturer or airguns, airgun ammunition and accessories.