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In some cases Kusan is Kusan and then in some cases Kusan is Kusan/Nichols. This might sound like "Double-Talk," but that's just the way it is.

In 1965 Kusan bought out Nichols Industries, but kept using the Nichols brand. So for quite awhile things didn't change very much. But gradually, little by little, the guns changed and the Nichols part was "edged out" and they became "more Kusan." More double-talk? Not really. You can usually look at the guns and tell the difference. For instance, now there was a lot of riveting and screws weren't necessarily used. And there might be dummy bullets or no bullets at all.

However, this is still another brand and some of the Kusan Cap Guns that were first produced were some beautiful guns.
OTHER BRANDS OF CAP GUNS




Kusan/Nichols
Right Side This Cap Gun is a perfect example of the transitional stage between pure Nichols and pure Kusan.

Some of these "transitional" guns were extremely high quality and are quite rare and still make up the entire set.

The chances are pretty strong that this gun came from the mid 1960s after the sale to Kusan, perhaps as late as 1968.

 Cylinder Area
Left Grip Right Grip
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Nichols/Kusan from 1964-1970

Less Gamma
More Gamma
Top Thanks To Harold Utley For These Photos!

This is one Rare Cap Gun and Holster Set!!! The gun is the one with the transparent pearl grips with the Circle "N" cast into them and the dummy bullets.
Most people will have to settle for seeing this gun as...just a photo. I've never seen the real thing either.

Here is the Stallion 45 with the molded Circle "N" in the grips, but in the Collectors Series box. Believe it or not, this particular version of the Stallion 45 actually uses the 2-piece bullets! Ben says that he has seen MANY more of this version of the Stallion with the dummy bullets than this one that still has the 2-piece bullets, so he thinks that the 2-piece bullet version is the more rare of the two. I agree with him. It was common for Kusan to "dumb down" the Cap Guns in the latter days, so it would seem plausible that they tried to save money by not having the bullets, but just casting them as part of the cylinder.


And here is the proof of the pudding. This is the same gun as above, but it shows the loading gate open and the cylinder where the 2-piece bullets would go. Please note the molded-in Circle "N" in the grips. I can't tell if these grips have the "cloud-like" effect in them as some do.

Thanks to Ben Graves for these photos.


Kusan Scout Rifle
There were a lot of rifles made by various companies that were similar to this one. Nichols made the Model 94 and there is a Lone Ranger version—and others. And here is just one more.

Thanks to Don Dillashaw for the photos.
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Stallion 45 (again)
Right View I present this gun (again) because, after all, it is one of the best that Kusan made and also to demonstrate that if you folks have good photos of guns that are already on here, but are worthy, they just might appear on the website as well!

These photos show the same gun model as shown above by Harold Utley, but in different poses. Thanks to Rich Hall for the photos.

 Dummy Bullets
Left View Right Grip
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Everybody's best guess is that this is a very late Kusan edition of the Mustang 500 and maybe their box contract had run out and they had a bunch of extra Stallion 45 MK-II boxes and so they just put extra labels on them and used them. If you know a better explanation, then please tell me.

Several people sent this to me at the same time.

This is another one of those transition guns that basically said, "Nichols" but was actually a Kusan.

This photo thanks to Rich Hall
This version of the Brave is not the same one as during the "Nichols Only" years and doesn't even say "BRAVE" on it.

Photo thanks to Tim and Janie Johnson




Here is a late model Kusan Cap Gun that some would think of as a "Mystery Gun," but it is quite legitimate. We don't really know why there are so few of them. Maybe it was a prototype. More likely it was a "last ditch effort" by Kusan to stay in business in their last days. In any case, it is really an oddball. It has the same internal cap feeding mechanism as the Tommy Gun (and the identical olive drab plastic) that is listed under the regular Nichols Cap Guns in the Rifle section. However, that gun itself was released right at the very tail end of my Uncle Talley's association with Kusan and then he was completely out and moved down the street, where he formed "Tally-Ho Plastics," which became a very successful tool and die company that led to countless other succesful similar companies that are still there to this day in Jacksonville, Texas. Quite an unusual find
—IF YOU CAN FIND ONE.

These photos compliments of Bob Garvey!
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