Time that I made my intro. Back in my days of youth, a Beezer was a motorcycle, and I did not know that BSA made airguns, and I rode a Honda. Owning British vehicles in those days maybe taught you why the English drink warm beer.......was it because George Lucas might have made their refrigerators? I now ride a Kawasaki KLR 650, since the vast majority of my riding is Montana's unpaved backroads. And the vast majority of my shooting now, both powder burners and airguns, is on wide open public BLM lands. My first quality air rifle was a Benjamin .22 cal, made long before Crosman bought Benjamin. My next quality airgun was a Sheridan Blue Streak .20 cal, made by Benjamin just before the Crosman buyout, when they still came with American walnut stocks, and the Williams peep sight was bought as well when I ordered it from Cabela's. Both rifles ended up killing hundreds of varmints. That Sheridan Blue Streak with the peep sight when shooting JSB pellets will give my Lonestar .25 some competition in accuracy at short ranges.
The BSA Lonestar .25 is now my current main airgun, with the Sheridan Blue Streak filling in my low power duties. Hand pump duties have been well served by FX, and I have not gotten into air bottles and compressors yet, but it may be possible in the future. I mainly go after varmint class critters with the Lonestar .25, but shooting pine cones off of our ubiquitous ponderosa pine trees at various distances comrpises most of my target practice. In Montana, because of the distances I had to learn to shoot at, I learned that my Leica Rangemaster 2400-R is the best shooting accessory I ever bought, and good ballistic reticle scope is next in line. A good pair of boots that holds up to many miles of walking and stays comfortable and high enough to fend off a prairie rattler is also a necessity. I shoot powder burners a lot and am an experienced reloader. Half of my powder burner guns are made by CZ, because they are all well under minute of angle accuracy (with good handloads) with a price tag south of $1000.
I don't see myself buying a lot of airguns. The BSA Lonestar .25 can shoot 3/8" groups at 50 yards with JSB Exact King pellets, and I don't notice many people on this forum getting much better results with anything they are shooting. I am a firm believer in the old saying, "Never get into a shooting contest with a guy that owns just one rifle, because he just might know how to use it". I recently outfitted the Lonestar with a DonnyFL suppressor as the bark was getting a bit annoying in heavy use shooting such as at a PD town.
I am an Ex-Navy veteran, "boomer" submarine service aboard the USS Hunley (AS-31). Left the Navy and graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Health Related Professions, School of Biomedical Instrumentation Technology. I worked on medical gear in the work/study program at the John McClellan VA Hospital that was just across the street from my dormitory. I managed a biomedical equipment repair shop not far out of Dallas, Texas, for 15 years before retiring.
Anyway, enough about me for now, as the day has dawned and my cross country skis are calling me for a bit of ski touring around the BLM land just outside of town while the snow conditions are good.
Phil, aka "Beezer"
The BSA Lonestar .25 is now my current main airgun, with the Sheridan Blue Streak filling in my low power duties. Hand pump duties have been well served by FX, and I have not gotten into air bottles and compressors yet, but it may be possible in the future. I mainly go after varmint class critters with the Lonestar .25, but shooting pine cones off of our ubiquitous ponderosa pine trees at various distances comrpises most of my target practice. In Montana, because of the distances I had to learn to shoot at, I learned that my Leica Rangemaster 2400-R is the best shooting accessory I ever bought, and good ballistic reticle scope is next in line. A good pair of boots that holds up to many miles of walking and stays comfortable and high enough to fend off a prairie rattler is also a necessity. I shoot powder burners a lot and am an experienced reloader. Half of my powder burner guns are made by CZ, because they are all well under minute of angle accuracy (with good handloads) with a price tag south of $1000.
I don't see myself buying a lot of airguns. The BSA Lonestar .25 can shoot 3/8" groups at 50 yards with JSB Exact King pellets, and I don't notice many people on this forum getting much better results with anything they are shooting. I am a firm believer in the old saying, "Never get into a shooting contest with a guy that owns just one rifle, because he just might know how to use it". I recently outfitted the Lonestar with a DonnyFL suppressor as the bark was getting a bit annoying in heavy use shooting such as at a PD town.
I am an Ex-Navy veteran, "boomer" submarine service aboard the USS Hunley (AS-31). Left the Navy and graduated from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Health Related Professions, School of Biomedical Instrumentation Technology. I worked on medical gear in the work/study program at the John McClellan VA Hospital that was just across the street from my dormitory. I managed a biomedical equipment repair shop not far out of Dallas, Texas, for 15 years before retiring.
Anyway, enough about me for now, as the day has dawned and my cross country skis are calling me for a bit of ski touring around the BLM land just outside of town while the snow conditions are good.
Phil, aka "Beezer"
