My first airgun @ 8 years old.

[Vskuma]

So in 1967 at 8 years old my dad bought for my older brother fir his birthday a Crosman 760. I was enamored. My brother being the good guy he always is let me shoot that thing more than he did. Great memories. I loved that 760. What was your first one?

 

[EMrider]

Daisy model 25, followed by a Crosman 766. Had a great time with both guns. The 766 was the more accurate and powerful of the two by far. I put thousands of BBs and pellets through those guns and they never gave me any trouble.
R

 

[jkingrph]

I got my first one back when I was about 6 years old, It was some kind of target model, plastic stock, and had a magazine tube that unscrewed from the muzzle and loaded I think 50 BB's. in a spring loaded magazine for positive feed. I think I wore it out cause dad got me another sometime about the time I hit Jr high. I do remember making a fairly crude wood stock and forearm for it. The model number evades me, I cannot seem to find one like it on the internet.

 

[Fixedflinger]

I was 11 when my friend let me shoot his Daisy Red Ryder. I remember being completely fascinated and begged for a BB gun that Christmas. Under the tree was a Crosman 760 and I was so excited I shot till my fingers were sore.

 

[SteveP-52]

A Marksman 740something break barrel when I was 12. My best friend back then had the 760 and didn't like it so being 12 year olds, we traded...lol
Lasted about a week until our parents found out, made us swap back and promptly grounded us both.
Fast forward 46 years and I have a 760 again. 2 of them actually. Found them at a yard sale the girlfriend asked me to take her to, saw them on a table, seller saw me looking and said $20 for the pair if you want them.
Yep, they came home with me, still in pretty good shape, still shoot well and actually both still had BB's in them although I wish they didn't.

 

[BackStop]

I think I was about 7 or 8 when my late older brother (3 years older) asked for a BB gun and my father bought one of these (Crosman V350) for each of us. This was in the mid-late 1960s.

Later, in our early teens, he also took an axe to both of them when my brother was caught shooting birds by a neighbor. I was very sad that he chopped up mine because I hadn't done the deed... my brother did... (heavy sigh)

Crosman V350

 

[rwsmike]

My first bb gun was a daisy single pump from Kmart but it wasnt as nice as the red ryder... after that I bought a daisy 880 from kmart

 

[Gunnertrones]

My first argun was a pistol. The Tex 086 - 50 years ago, and I still shoot with it now and then. Nostalgia!

 

[SpiralGroove]

Sheridan Blue Streak for my 7th birthday!
The gun was very hard to pump and cock & was almost as big as I was .
In 1966 they only cost $29 ...

 

[jccams]

Daisy 880 when I was about 10, I have no idea how many 1000’s of bb’s went through that thing. I know I shot it almost daily until I was 14 and bought my first PB.

 

[maxtrouble]

I purchased my first air rifle after I retired from the Navy. A shop in Lenexa KS sold me a RWS 34 .177. Still have it, need to dust her off.

 

[Mycapt65]

At nine my father gave me a single shot 22 rimfire rifle. My first BB gun wasn't technically until I was eleven or twelve. It was a Crosman 766. I was shooting BB gun for years before that because I had two older cousins on the other side of town that had woods behind their yard. I would use either of their guns. A wood and metal 760 or an all metal early 880. I liked the 880 best. By time I was allowed to have a BB gun on the crowded side of town the 766 came out. I got that because it was the most powerful model I could afford. The cast barrel band would always loosen up and the accuracy would tank. I much preferred either of my cousins guns to the 766.

 

[Zut]

I was also 11 yes old when my Dad bought me Crosman 760. I was the cool kid on the block! My best uncle had a Berman R7. That was the gun I loved and he and my dad let me carry it on my first pheasant hunt.

Fast forward 55 years and I was reading about Weihrauch 35's. Memories flooded in with the feel and sound of cocking and shooting the Beeman.

Now here I am. Just like a kid shooting air rifles in the back yard.

Z

 

[otis1016]

My first one at age nine or so was a Daisy Red Ryder style that didn’t have a lot of power but the next one was a Crosman 500 I think, semi auto 15 round CO2 gun that I still have. Got it rebuilt a couple years ago and it’s fun but I can’t figure out why every shot curves off to the left.

Rick H.

 

[shausen]

That would be a Crosman 760 I received when I was ten. My mom's boyfriend took my brother and I to Kmart for xmas. My mom thought we were getting some cheap toy rifles, but she wasn't there so when the boyfriend offered, we didn't say no. She wasn't happy when we came back with the Crosman's. I was a good shot with it. I got into a lot of trouble with that thing. That was many decades ago. Memories!

 

[MartyMcFly]

I was probably 11 or 12 when my dad got me a Crosman 2100. It could shoot BBs and pellets. It had a tiny/skinny scope on it. I sniped crows and bull frogs with that rifle. It was so hard to pump over 10 times to get the really far shots but the satisfaction of getting a headshot on a crow with a foot’a worth of holdover was so much fun! Eventually I moved on to a Chinese Tech Force 97, which had horrible accuracy compared to the Crosman but without a chrony and the fact that it dieseled so much I thought I had a powerful rifle.

Today I wouldn’t shoot anything living but the age of “innocence” sure made for some great memories.

-Marty

 

[crowski]

My first was around 64. My parents gave me a Lucznik. I hunted every weekend on a 500 acre Tobacco farm that the Ganaraska ran through it, a wicked Trout stream. Crow

 

[badger5th]

Crosman 760 for me too... I was 18 and had to wait till I was 18 to own an airgun in Mass. They were treated as firearms up until 1998.

 

[Struckat]

Daisy Safari. I bought one last year for old time sake. My first real air gun was a 760, composite stock, wood pump arm. 1975? I was 11. But that same year Grampa gave me a Remington m34 .22

Although I shot that 760 a lot, but I was hooked on powder at that point.
I would like another 760 like I had.