Welcome to AIRGUN NATION - please introduce yourself here!

Hi all. My name is Gary Palinkas, retired law enforcement and I live in beautiful Venice, Florida. I'm new to airguns outside the Daisy Red Ryder I had 60 years ago. In mid 2014, I discovered several Airgun videos on YouTube and then Ted's Holdover. Next thing you know I'm the proud owner of a Benjamin Marauder .25 SynRod and attending the Pyramyd Air Cup in New Philadelphia, Ohio (near my hometown of Cleveland) where I met Ted, Jim Chapman, Tom Gaylord and bunch of nice people. I spend most of my time flying my home-built RV-6 airplane, riding my Harley Road King and shooting and thinking airguns.

I'm glad to be aboard the latest airgun forum. Thanks
 
Hello everyone, my name is mark and i am from Yorkshire, England. i enjoy hunting and a bit of target shooting.
I own a HW100 and a few modified Crosman 22xx, great to be on board and see what happening over the pond.
here's a few pics of mt guns the HW is getting the bullpup treatment at the moment and the Crosman is wearing
some ash that i picked up while out with the dog and turned into a stock and forend.
Regards, Mark.








 
The more we know about a person’s background, the more successful we will be in our communications with that person. Myself, I’m a retired engineer and college professor. I’ve worked extensively in the pulp & paper and nuclear industries. I’ve taught at two colleges, one in New Hampshire and the other in Tennessee. As a young man I served in the USAF as a Security Police Officer (81152) Law Enforcement. I’ve had plenty of experience with hand guns, shot guns and rifles. In no way does this make me an expert, but it does make me experienced. Today, I live on 60 acre spread in Tennessee and I’m what you might call a Gentlemen Farmer. I have cows, hogs, Guinea fowl, and chickens. There is plenty of small game and game birds that also reside on my spread. It was Ted’s videos that showed me how useful an air gun could be around the farm, so I bought a TX200 MkIII and an HW90. That was about 5 years ago and since that time I’ve used my air guns to hunt all the small game around the farm. It’s a wonderful tool that works very well. I’ve spent a lot of time studying air gunning from an engineering view point. I enjoy those tasks (measuring, weighing, and calculating) that most people find tedious. I hunt to eat and I’ve butchered and dressed my fair share of cows, hogs, and so on, but I do not enjoy killing. I very much enjoy the math that goes with air gunning. I very much enjoy calculating and plotting the trajectory with my old HP 32S that I’ve had since 1987. I consider air gunning to be both a science and an art. I thoroughly understand the science but people like Ted are the artist. They are expert at using their skills and experience to handle all of those variables (temperature, humidity, elevation, wind speed & direction etc.) to take that successful shot. 
 
Hi from the Netherlands.

My name is Erik. Progression from barrel-cocked handpistols as a teen to a rifles as a young adult. Still keep a Crossman 2240 for "fun" but rocking a .22/5.5mm Walther Umarex Dominator FT 1250. Recently upgraded my set to include a diving cilinder for refills (150+ on a handpump is good for the health, but but for a shooting heart-rate and blood pressure). Currently looking into some fx no limit scope mounts (thanks to Ted's holdover youtube channel ;-) to progress into longer range shooting.
As the avatar suggests I'm into bowhunting/targetshooting aswell. 
 
Greetings from West Central IL (Greene County). My name is Mark, and I shoot an airgun. You may have seen my username on GTA and Yellow, you can also find me on Facebook's "Airguns: Air Rifles and Pistols" group (and a quick shoutout to http://www.airgunsarp.com/)
I've been airgunning with the good stuff for a couple years now, and have pretty much slid to the PCP side of life. I'm shooting:
Benjamin Marauder Gen1 .25
Benjamin Marauder Gen2 .177
Crosman Challenger PCP
Benjamin NPXL .25 (this one will get sold or traded - PCPs for me)
Crosman Silhouette 1701P
DAQ .458

I didn't intend to be a Crosman fan-boy, it just turned out that way. I am a southpaw, I will tune my guns to the extent of my ability, but I am not a modder and don't pretend to be.
 
Hello guys - I'm John and live a few miles north of Houston, TX. I've shot firearms all my life but have recently developed an interest in airguns and bought a scoped Beeman R9. I shoot mostly paper targets and the occasional squirrel. I'm always shopping for my next airgun and a lot of you guys who post YouTube vids don't have any idea that you are in the ad bidness, but you are! Keep em coming...I'm leaning toward an FX-something.

Age is 54, currently work in the aviation industry and, prior to that, rode submarines in the US Navy. Also enjoy dual-sport motorcycle riding.

Glad to have found this forum.

John
 
Hello Everyone - My name is David,38, originally from the UK now living in the South West of Nicaragua. A couple of years ago I stumbled across Ted's and other great airgun video channels from the UK on youtube that brought me back into the airgun world after 20 plus years away. I was blown away by how far the sport had come since I had been away! My first rifle when I was 8 years old was some cheapo spanish .177 sleeved break barrel plinker. One day, messing around I managed to make it fire while cocking it which bent the barrel and wrecked the breach. Can't remember how I did it but it was probably my fault! :D After a bit of research, I used all my pocket money savings to buy a HW77 in the UK and bring it down to Spain. I spent many hours plinking, punching paper and even pesting with it. I grew up on a small farm so there was no shortage of pesky sparrows, rats and the odd pigeon. Then when I left school and went to University, I sold it for a pittance and am now kicking myself!
So 2 years ago I ended up getting an HW95 .22 and had a lot of fun plinking with that plus have used it to keep the magpie jays at bay and some other critters. Even a central american pygmy porcupine once that was living in our roof causing a stink, was evading my traps while just wiping out my corn, melons and mangoes and just couldn't be persuaded to move on somewhere else, Seemed like such a generally harmless critter slowly bumbling along and going about it's daily feasting on the fruite of my meagre gardening skills. Couldn't believe how much that crafty critter could eat in one night! 
Anyway I have decided to up my game and get a real airgun. An FX Superswift in .22. So here I am, a born again airgun junky, on here to learn from and share with all you experts in the field! 
cheers!
 
Hi, Jason here from about 45 minutes east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Other than squirrel hunting as a kid, I've only been in the airgun scene for a little over a year now. I happened to stumble across Ted's spearfishing video on youtube. Needless to say, watching that video, led me to another, and another and another.... Having almost zero knowledge of airgunning, I was amazed at Ted's knowledge, but even more so, how accurate air rifles could be. Watching the shots that he was making with his .25 Bobcat did me in. I just had to have one. So, several months later, after a brief delay in shipping, I recieved my Bobcat. Shortly after, I realized that shooting accurately is much more of a skill than I could have ever imagined. A year later, I am slowly improving, but am no where nearly as accurate as Ted and many members on this forum. I definitely need to keep practicing and reading this forum!
 
I'm Bill from Wyoming. My first airgun was a Benjamin 347 (.177) my grandfather bought for my 10th birthday that still has its place on my rifle rack. I loved shooting caps off bottle and hickory nuts out of the tree with it as a kid growing up in the piney woods of Texas. Now I have a Benjamin Marauder to bring back that fun. I'm a Marine with 9yrs of active service as an Avionics Technician. Currently I work in the Wyoming gas fields.
 
Hi iam Dougie I live in West Texas. I have a Benjamin trail np2. Iam formally from the UK and use to hunt with a break barrel air rifle there. Here in Texas I hunt jack rabbit, cotton tails and pigeons with my NP2. If iam going to hunt anything bigger like coyote I use my remington 700 sps tactical. I enjoy hunting with my NP2. Iam not looking at buying a pcp at the moment as the price for one I could buy another remington 700.
 
Greetings. I'm Tony Roman, from Madison Wisconsin. I've been shooting airguns on and off since I was a kid, but only started getting serious about them as an adult over the past few years. I'm very much a 'budget' enthusiast, but have been growing my collection of air rifles. Currently, I have a garage sale find Diana 48 (stamped Made in West Germany in 1987), a B50 from Flying Dragon with a Neil Clauge LDC, a QB78 with regulated Ninja Tank by Nervioustrigger of GTA fame, and most recently a .25 Hatsan AT44 QE Long. I am one of the admins on the Airguns: Air Rifles and Pistols Facebook group, and am the owner of the www.airgunsarp.com website. I've recently started shooting Hunter Field Target (HFT) at BAGA Airgun club here in Wisconsin, where I am lucky enough to compete with, and more importantly learn from members of one of the first field target clubs in the midwest (BAGA is the home club of 2014 US National WFTF PCP Champion Greg Suave). I do a mix of target shooting and pesting, but as of late I've been focusing more on HFT due to time constraints and not having a shooting spot close to home.

I can't wait to see what becomes of this forum.
 
Hello. My name is Eric Arnold and I am a professional wildlife control operator, industry trainer, Ohio hunting and trapping instructor, and publishing editor for WCT Magazine, a trade publication for commercial wildlife and pest control businesses and operators.

I still consider myself new to high powered airguns even though I bought my first high powered spring piston back in 2000. My focus with airguns starts with using them to solve problem wildlife conflicts, then it rolls over to into recreational hunting and now I'm starting to explore target shooting. I've a face for radio and a voice for print, so it's not much of a surprise that I am also a writer and have been published in several other trapping and facility maintenance publications.

My current airgun inventory includes:

.177 Gamo Big Cat
.22 RWS Model 34
.22 Gamo Bone Collector
.22 Benjamin Trail NP
.22 Benjamin Trail NP2
.22 Marauder Pistol
.25 Marauder Gen 2

I'm looking at adding the Discovery in .177 and a Daystate Regal XL (in .22 I think) shortly. My wishlist includes an Air Arms S510 (or S410 TDR if I can sell the .177 in the US) and at least one FX (it's so hard to decide) as money allows in the future.