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I have scoped BB guns and shot groups with them off a bench. With the magnification turned up, you can see the BB in flight and at about 15-20 yards the majority are starting to veer off and there's no way to predict which way they will go. Some go left, some go right, some go up and some...

Speaking of Daisy’s and nice wood, take a close look the stock on this one. If anyone here is in the Portland area I’d pick it up. https://portland.craigslist.org/clk/spo/d/vancouver-red-ryder-daisy/7818688548.html

The affect of piston bounce wasn’t something that I had even considered, but it makes perfect sense.

I think that heating the air at the moment of compression and then cooling as it expands probably plays a role too.

One thing that is interesting about unsuppressed noise levels is that springers tend to be noticeably quieter even at the same power levels. We're dealing with pretty much the same physics here, a certain volume of air at a certain pressure in order to produce a given muzzle energy, but...

Barrel length too. Less wasted air with a long barrel.

I find that old telescoping antennas are often a good source for small metal tubing.

.30 is a good caliber. IMO, it tends to hit harder than a .22lr even when the kinetic energy is less. The larger frontal area and greater mass really do count for something and it bucks the wind better than the smaller calibers. For long range shooting it's a great choice.

I've never personally owned any Airforce products, but they have a good reputation and are known for being very simple, reliable and user serviceable and they've been around for a long time. The compressor I would recommend is a GX CS4 as I've had one for about 2 years now and it's been great...

They're a .28 caliber. Plainsman was descended from Apache. I'm not sure on the exact details but some of the people that ran Apache revised their designs and started Plainsman. Apache had a .25 air shotgun that also fired smaller caliber pellets.

For a first gun I'd recommend a .22 or a .25. .25's got more thump and will be better for hunting. .22's cheaper and gets more shots per charge. .30 hits even harder, but costs significantly more and uses significantly more air. For plinking and target practice, recharging guns is a...

I'm not sure that they do. PCP's also make a lot of sense at under 12 fpe. You can get hundreds of shots on a single charge and they can be nearly silent. I've got a .177 Avenger tuned to just over 12 fpe and I probably only charge it up every second shooting session. It's very backyard...

I've actually got one more springer on the way right now. AOA had a Diana 56TH for sale in their used section and I decided to snatch that up. I've wanted one of the 48/52/54/56's for decades now, but the only ones still in production are the 54's and I hate the new style stocks they have...

I keep a few tins around just because they're available in the big box stores and I like to have a variety of pellets so that I can pretend I'm one of those serious shooters who shoots different pellets and then chooses the most accurate one. In reality I usually just grab whatever tin is...

Well, if you've only got a FEW springers then you definitely need to get some more.

I don't see that. It seems to me that guns and shooting are as popular as ever, but the younger generations prefer Glocks and AR's.

Way back in the long long ago, we had Crosmans and Daisy's and an old brass Benjamin that looked really cool but only held air every now and then, but we had heard rumors of something more. There was a catalog that showed dozens of airguns that looked like Weatherbys and could shoot at 900...

There are a handful of brands out there that just market rebadged versions of someone else's pellets, often for a buck or two cheaper per tin. FX and AA pellets are just rebadged JSB's the last I'd heard, so you may as well save a buck.

I think it’s largely nostalgia. Those of us that are 55+ remember when the best airguns you could buy were all springers. When I was a kid the guns in the Beeman catalog were what I dreamed about owning and comparing them to the Crosmans, Daisy’s and the occasional Benjamin we had seemed like...

I’ve got a number of full-auto BB guns and I think BB guns and full auto go together like peanut butter and jelly. The full auto function helps to make up for a BB guns inaccuracy and their very low cost makes them one of the few full autos that are affordable to shoot. I’d actually be a...