Shooting Gallery

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5¢ and 1¢ Models Available

This is the famous A.B.T. counter top Shooting Gallery. These were the most popular one made, and more of this style was made than any of the other "Counter Top" models. The gun and case and target haven't changed much since the 1920's. This machine comes equipped with either a 5¢ or a 1¢ Gun. The "Challenger" came in two Models. From WW II to 1952 A.B.T. made the case with sports graphics. In 1952, Johnny Frantz bought the manufacturing rights, tooling, etc. from A.B.T.'s Walt Tratch, the inventor who made the first one in the 1920's, and made the new spaceship graphics for the cabinet. Same gun & Target. You hit a target, and the indicator in the head of the machine shows a hit. It has 9 targets, you get 10 shots. Merchants and operators would pay out 25¢ in trade for a perfect score. BUT, they would confirm a perfect score, because they would squeeze off the last of 10 shots, to ensure the customer only used 9 shots for 9 targets. It was the last model ever made to accept the coin in a slot on the side of the gun.

Frantz made this model up until the Mid 1950's when he started his own counter versions with a "Western Style" Target he invented. The first was called "Dodge City". Dodge City was a little wider, and had a unique target. It emulated an old fashioned Western town shootout. When you hit the bad cowboy, another would pop up somewhere else. It has 5 cowboy targets that pop up in various places behind the aluminum 3 dimensional back plate with saloon windows, doors, etc. The target cycles twice, for a total of 10 shots that pop up in the windows, doors, behind the water trough, etc.

He Made Dodge City for only 1 year and then produced several other counter styles with the same western cowboy "shootout" target. Jr. Deputy, Western Frontier, etc. They only difference between those models were the graphics and a smaller, counter top case, with a feature that allowed legs to be attached to it as a stand alone A.B.T. Gun Game on legs. Also, he changed the gun design for the first time in over 30 years. Then, he made even a larger version on legs called the US Marshal, and other names, that was in production until 1983. The only difference was between models was the case.

Also, he changed the gun design slightly for the first time since Walt Tratch made his first shooting gallery with this gun. Because the gun could only be set up for penny or nickel operation, inflation was slowing his sales. So Johnny Frantz made the right side of the gun different. He removed the coin slot from the gun, and designed his cases to use a standard coin slide that could be changed out for any denomination of a coin, or even foreign coinage. He doubled his sales by doing this. Johnny was shot and killed in his Chicago West Side Factory in the early 1980's, and was making Shooting Galleries, Kicker Catchers, and Pace's Whizball games and penny scales up until the day he was shot.

The only parts that are not "New Old Stock", are the handle grips on the sides of the guns. They are slightly used, but are ABT originals. We have the only remaining stock of original, unused 1950's cases, targets and guns, Back doors, Parts, etc. and assemble them, to order, as either a 5¢ or a 1¢ machine. We only have a half dozen left. Your machine will be new and built to order from all original ABT parts identical to the 1950's model.

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