Jeff, I should have remembered WV, thanks for reminding me.
CaptMoonlight, I run across the same reasoning with several of my fire arm gun buddies. I just thought they would be fascinated as I am over these air guns? I've got one buddy in particular that I've been working on hard. My only air rifle that interest him is my .50 Dragon Slayer. I'm hoping to get him to go on a coyote hunt with it ;-)
But I did luck out and totally create an airgun monster with my buddy Paul. He is even more of an airgun aficionado than I am now! I invited him over earlier this year to shoot my air rifles. Can't remember if it was January or February? But his first purchase was a .177 Daystate MK4. He shot his first Field Target match with me in March. He's shot in 4 matches already this year. I've only shot in two. He's retired I might add ;-)
He bought a .177 Disco so he can learn how to tune them. Put a regulator in it, and an M-rod trigger group. He bought a .22 M-rod and sold it and then just bought an FX 400 this past week.
He's my claim to fame as far as spreading the addiction ;-) So, don't give up, keep spreading the airgun love, because there is always another one of us out there who needs this addiction and they don't even know it yet? LOL