Being the King Of Airgun Cheap Seats and God Of Mind Over Matter, a few of my evidences to those title claims (in roughly chronological order)-
1) In my earliest shooting competition experiences I began a LONG winning streak by defeating the best airgunners in the US. wielding the finest airguns 1980s manufacturing could muster with my 1950s and 60s vintage Crosman Co2 rifles and pistols that sold brand new for
$20 (give or take $2).
2) By Y2K I'd amassed many State Champion titles and NRA National Record certificates with those same $20 Crosmans, despite the evolutions in airguns in those ensuing two decades.
3) Shortly thereafter airgun Silhouette competition went mostly extinct in my area, so I brought airgun Field Target competition to me by co-founding Texas' first Field Target club.
4) Whereupon my winning streak continued in my new preferred shooting competition, despite ALWAYS using the oldest, cheapest and/or least competition-specific equipment in American Field Target to capture State and National titles with my preferred
hunting-specific air rifles, pistols and scopes.
5) Fast forwarding a(nother) quarter-century, my reign of domination is mostly behind me at 71 years of age. Since covid I've had to settle for one State Champion Field Target title, and three State Championship Second Places.
6) But those results came (still) with the least sophisticated airguns and optics in American Field Target competition (nowadays).
7) Point is, airgun competitions and competitors have evolved to such high levels in 2025 that even the best shooter cannot overcome considerable equipment handicaps enough to dominate.
8) But I ain't done TRYING!
9 Hey...
you asked! 10) The truth is fantastic enough for our purposes here.
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In capturing State Championships and National Records, the 1950's vintage .22 Crosman 160 Co2 rifle that sold for $21.95 brand-new whipped the best competition airgunners wielding the best European air rifles of the late 1990s.
The Czech-made, 22 Brno Tau 7 Co 2 pistol did the same against the finest German-made PCP pistols and shooters of 2002.
Come 2013, this Chinese-made Co2 rifle converted to air took Second Place in the FT National Championships behind a cheater now banned from Field Target. So that plaque actually represents a National Champion title. The original Co2 rifle sold brand-new for $159; the scope for $69.
This 1960s vintage Crosman 187 Co2 rifle converted to air pistol has three National Champion and three State Champion titles to its credit (to date). It's still competitive against the finest PCP pistols that exist, having finished second to a $2,000 RAW in the 2023 Texas State Championships. The original rifle used for the pistol conversion sold brand-new for
less than $20. For perspective, the 187 pistol conversion was originally born
six decades before the pistol that beat it, that sells for
a hundred-times what the 187 originally sold for, topped with a scope (only) about
ten times the price and
a quarter-century newer than the scope the 187 wore. I won't attempt to further quantify the collective magnitude of those magnitudes, other than repeating how I started this post- "King Of Airgun Cheap Seats
and God Of Mind Over Matter"
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There are many other examples like these, but I've made my point(s).
