Crosman 760 Pump Master. It’s a wonder I didn’t get into more trouble with it growing up In the 60’s.
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Air Arms would like to know - Do you remember your first air rifle?
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When I was about 8 we lived out in the country. One of my cousins lived in town and had (I think) a Daisy model 1894. He got in some trouble with his gun, probably a window involved, so his mom took his gun away and loaned it to me. I shot that gun a bunch. Then when I was 10 we moved. I think the gun went back to him and I got a Daisy designed like a Red Ryder. I still had it until I married and moved out. I have no idea where it went but in 2005 after my parents passed and we cleaned out their house it was nowhere to be found.
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A Daisy 100 I think it was, maybe a 101. Shot a lot of bb’s most of which are probably still in the bottom of the pond. Then a Crosman 500. Still got that one and the guy who rebuilt it sold me another one before Christmas.
Rick H
Rick H
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Daisy 880 that I took my first tree rat with. I remember shaking from the excitement haha
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In the late 60's, I was a young teen and had a pet Red Tail Hawk. So used my pellet rifle- don't know what the make was- to shoot starlings for the hawk to eat to have a varied diet. Was walking along the road with a couple birds and the gun slung over my shoulder when a police car pulled along side and ordered my to get in. Took me to the station, took my gun, showed me a cell that he threatened to throw me in, then made me walk home. Learned alot that day!
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Of course I do and here they are:
The Daisy is new and I bought it for a nephew but my brother has the real one as it was his. The top two are mine from the day. And they still work just fine.
The Daisy is new and I bought it for a nephew but my brother has the real one as it was his. The top two are mine from the day. And they still work just fine.
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Christmas, 1959 Daisy Red Ryder.. I was 8. Couple of friends got one also. We used to group hunt the backbirds that had migrated south for the winter. Brought a couple of trophies home. Dad was impressed, Mom NOT. LOL
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Sheridan pump .177 here. Had to bring the case with it everywhere I went because I wasn't strong enough to pump it to 7 without putting in on the ground and throwing all my weight into it.
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Benjamin Franklin 317. I left it at my parents home when I moved out, then saw it was still there in the mid eighties, and I left it there! It was incredibly accurate.
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Crossman 760, like so many. I tried and tried to kill gophers. Just watched the pellets do knuckle ball swerves and curves never to touch the pests. Good times with Dad though.
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My very first was a Crosman 788 BB Scout. No bird was safe from me with that thing in my hands.
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I think the first pellet i ever fired was in my neighbor's 760. Up to that time i'd fired many thoudands of bb's but never had a pellet rifle. When i shot pellets and saw how accurate they were that hooked me on shooting.
When i was a kid my job was to keep pests out of our many gardens. My dad bought me a Daisy 1894, no doubt because i loved the western tv shows, and even with that vastly underpowered rifle, i killed many rabbits ,possums, and the odd gtoundhog. I had to hide, and get close, and get the right angle to shoot through an eye normally. With a bb gun, whew! I had a lot better eyes then, all open sights. I never got a scope for a lot of years later.
It!!s funny to think now, how a kid could figure drop and hold over, things of ballistics. I used to set in the hay field and cut wildflpwers off their stems with a crummy old, neglected Red Ryder bb gun that no doubt had a a 4-5 # trigger.
Funny stuff, those days.
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Yes I do and I was hooked from then on. First one was a red rider. Shooting army men off the wood stack. Good times.
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