Air Arms would like to know - Do you remember your first air rifle?

[Airgun Nation]

Whether it was plinking in the backyard, taking your first shot at a target, or learning the ropes with a family member.
What was your first air rifle?

Since 1983 https://www.air-arms.co.uk/

 

[Kgphotos]

For Christmas in 1979 I got a Crosman 760. I was 9 years old. I still have it. Although it needs some new seals.
Kenny

 

[beerthief]

I was nine and dad brought home a model 25 slide action BB gun said " if you shoot any windows i will make you smash this flat with a hammer !"

 

[RM100GUY]

My first air gun was a Smith & Wesson 77a .22 pumper. Bought in 1977 from Montgomery Wards in Lakeland Florida...Shortly after being discharge from the navy, cost $99.00 US. Liked it so much bought another one some months later...Honestly don't remember what happened to either one, started working long hours for 44 years....Still would like to find a nice used functional example....They were pretty good airguns.(I was 22 years old)

 

[Frank in Fairfield]

My first air rifle was a well-used Daisy Model 25.
My grandfather (The original trash-picker) found it in a garbage can in Baltimore, MD
In 1957.
The stock was broken but the rifle functioned fine.
I taped up the stock.
All of us had Model 25s in the neighborhood except for the kid whose family owned the funeral home and hardware store.
He had a Bluestreak.
The Model 25 traveled the world with me during my 22 years in the Air Force, including three thirteen month tours in South Korea, 12 months in Vietnam and five years in West Berlin, Germany where I first encountered adult air rifles.
That Model 25 finally died just after the turn of the century and was replaced with a newer Daisy Model 25.
Not the Chinese knockoffs which I looked at sent back without firing a shot But one from Rogers, AR.
This one is great..

 

[ChickenDumpling]

Red Ryder BB gun ... somewhere back in the later 1970's as a kid. Santa knows, he always knows.

 

[blackdog899]

Sure do , it was any back 11/6/24
umarex synergis 22

 

[scubajeeper]

I had a daisy BB gun first but my brother, who happens to be 10 years my senior, surprised me one day with a daisy springer in .22. I was 8 years old and the big kid on the block! About a year later my dad bought me a Benjamin pump in .177 which I still have today, that was 58 years ago, damn I’m getting old!

 

[cavedweller]

Whether it was plinking in the backyard, taking your first shot at a target, or learning the ropes with a family member.
What was your first air rifle?

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Since 1983 https://www.air-arms.co.uk/

Sheridan .20 pumper! Blue streak

 

[MJS]

Daisy Cub Model 102 for my 8th Christmas.

 

[Motorhead]

Real deal and accurate air rifle ... A Crosman 622 pel-repeater ( Co2 ) Circa 1971/72 when first released.
Prior, a Crosman 760 and some cheepo break barrel of unknown origin.

 

[thammer]

Most likely a 760 pump master but could have been a daisy 880. Hard to remember. I know I had both but even then I was taking them apart and modifying them and that was almost 40 years ago.

 

[Dan B]

In the early 60's I lived in the San Luis valley in southern Colorado. I was around 12 years old and had a lever action BB rifle that you poured the BB's into a shroud around the barrel. The BB's would rattle in there. I would go in my back yard and rattle the BB gun. My neighbors tomcat would run to me after hearing that dinner bell. It would grab sparrows that fell after I shot them off the alley telephone lines.

 

[delooper]

The first I ever used was in my childhood friend's backyard. I was pretty young so it could have been many rifles. I'm guessing it was a Crosman 760.

 

[Filnez]

A Daisy Buck 105 BB gun I believe was the model. Hollow plastic stock lever action. Second was a Daisy 880, third was a Beeman Webley Vulcan.

 

[kwaping]

For Christmas in 1979 I got a Crosman 760. I was 9 years old. I still have it. Although it needs some new seals.
Kenny

Similar year for me and I think the same gun. Mine was an upgrade from a Daisy BB gun like the one @Dan B described.

I still have PTSD from all that pumping!

 

[SDellinger]

Crosman 101 pump my older brother gave me when I was nine in 1956.

 

[SpindleB]

As an adult, Umarex Forge .177 pellet rifle.

As a child, some sort of .177 BB pumper rifle.

 

[rikkochet]

BSA Ladies pattern rifle. 77 years ago, when I was seven.
My elder brother was given two BSA's, a standard and the Ladies. I got the smaller one.

 

[Kola]

Yes.

Diana Series 70, Model 79, my 10th birthday present.

50 years old this year, the photo was taken last year.