You Could Put Your Eye Out!

Rogers is the home of Daisy airguns and there is Daisy museum downtown (http://www.daisymuseum.com). Daisy airguns were started by the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company in Plymouth, Michigan, but moved to Rogers in 1958 for newer facilities and better labor costs.

The Red Ryder is still available today. They sold them in the museum gift shop!

Colonel Cass Hough (then vice president and later president of Daisy) went on extended active duty in the 8th Air Force, just six months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. A decorated test pilot and fighter pilot, he didn’t return from overseas until October, 1945, having won many an air battle from the English Channel to New Guinea. Most notably, he had the distinction of having tested the limits of the P-38 Lightning in an experimental, yet successful, 43,000-foot vertical dive during which the plane broke the sound barrier. As the normal control surfaces were ineffective, he used the trim tabs to regain control and pull out of the dive about 15 seconds short of impacting the ground.