What Attracts You To Airguns?

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The accuracy and how quiet they can be is what I like. I can sit and quietly shoot with great accuracy out to 130 yards. It’s basically a dream come true for me, almost hard to believe it’s possible. What a great time to be alive lol!
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This for me.



I'm a big powder burning guy. Big AR shooter. for years AR's and Glocks.... cost of ammo went up, no problem...get a 22 LR adapter for my AR.



Then the 22lr shortage hit.... Rekindled my long-range precision passion... but that gets expensive... 22lr starts to come back, picked a a 22-precision bolt gun and higher end 22 ammo, yeah... life is good.



Then Ammo shoots thru the roof again.... even the high-end precision 22lr is expensive and hard to get....I'm ready to just say screw it and start collecting stamps.



Then one night I click on a You tube video watching a guy shoot Iguana's with a FX air rifle and I'm like Whoa.... that's not a 10 pump Crossman.



So down the rabbit hole I go, find this web site and GTA and a month or so of learning and boom... I buy my first PCP a Benjamin Cayden and I'm hooked.

The accuracy is astounding... lack of noise and ability to not need hearing protection and the cost (My Cayden loves the $7 tins of 500 rds-14.3 gr HP's from Crossman).

Now I have a 75 CF air tank and I'm saving for an Air compressor.

I also just ordered a Vector Veyron scope for PCP #2 down the road. My only regret...



I wish I would have made this discovery a few years earlier.
 
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Initially it was the fact that I could legally start shooting again. As a convicted felon I was not allowed to have firearms. I started shooting like many of us did, dad walking us through the stages of shooting, bb gun, pellet gun, .22 rim fires than on to centerfires, than onto bigger and faster firearms. After years of no shooting I discovered I could own air Rifles. I've since grown to appreciate the air rifles. It's more relaxing, less violent easier to enter a peaceful place where the world recedes. It's more affordable once you are set up.
 
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What you get: Lowest marginal cost per shot; opportunity to shoot at times, places, not open to firearms; growing supply of improved guns and ammo allow you to reach out further with greater accuracy;

Missing: ear protection; recoil; packing out with several pounds of ammo; empty brass; carbon buildup in your action; searching high and low for expensive ammo (to be fair, finding certain pellets / slugs not as cheap, easy as it used to be ...still much better than 22 rimfire)
 
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I gravitate towards all sports that are individual, i frown upon team sports.

So over the years i have been thru a few. 3-cushion billiards and others, still have my sticks - table tennis - Dart - shooting rimfire and big ones ( 7.92 mm ) as a child.

I have cycled many 1000 miles as a kid too, not precision oriented sport but took me far away from the things pestering my life, during the long school summer break 100 Km daily was not a problem, some days i got in the saddle at daybreak and did not get home before dusk.

The pedal pushing started when i was 11 YO and was allowed to use some of my savings on a 10 speed racer, my father have done both track and road cycling.

Now shooting the air rifles i am back to precision and also after a life of abuse of my body and substances, sitting down and shoot are just about all i am able to do.

I think if i had the freedom to do it, i would shoot other things too, but this is a problem where i live, if things can be done it will be made really hard for you to do, and as with everything here it will also be extraordinary expensive.

Like the jobs i have held, and the educations i have, its not really anything i have planned or wanted in any way, just the way things panned out i guess, i have never aspired to be anything but a stand up guy.

O i forgot in the 90ties i did a helluva lot of fishing, mainly fly fishing on the coast for sea trout, but i have the rods for a range of fishing types.
 
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Every thing everyone has already said plus...the fact that I dont havevto clean my airguns when I am done shooting!! I live in an areacwhere I can shoot just about anything, but sometimes, well most times actually my shooting sessions are short. Whether fun or pest control my sessions are usually short, less than half hour. Having to clean my firearms after each use makes me turn to my airguns more often.....
 
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Every thing everyone has already said plus...the fact that I dont havevto clean my airguns when I am done shooting!! I live in an areacwhere I can shoot just about anything, but sometimes, well most times actually my shooting sessions are short. Whether fun or pest control my sessions are usually short, less than half hour. Having to clean my firearms after each use makes me turn to my airguns more often.....
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+1 On the aspect of having to clean powder burners after each use as well as the quietness for back yard shooting.
 
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My wife was at the range with me last weekend. She came over to my bench and tried my airgun for a couple of shots. She was not very impressed and asked me, “What’s your attraction to airguns, I don’t get it?”

Now it’s your turn-what is it about airguns that bends your taco?
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I met my wife because of airguns! She's a 10M pistol shooter... maybe you should get your wife to try it!

As to what got me into airguns (before the significant other).

- Use to plink/hunt as a kid

- Got into a bullseye/Free pistol, and airguns were a convenient way to practice at home

- Fast forward to 2022 (Already) We don't travel to pistol/rifle match anymore (we live at the edge of nowhere). But I still enjoy to punch holes in paper. Airguns are the most convenient way to go about it.
 
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It took me longer than it should to pull the trigger but i finally did, for many of the reasons others have said.

I had a crossman pump pellet/bb gun as a kid and loved plinking and protecting my grandmas bird feeders...lol I would entertain the adults by shooting the lids on empty milk jugs as they would fly up in the air if you hit em just right between the lid and the neck of the jug.

Fast forward to today and I am entertaining my adult friends by silently hitting targets 120 yards away on a rainy day safely off the porch.

I have a feeling my neighbors will barley notice let alone mind my backyard paper punching but also appreciate the sudden drop in rabbit population that ravages their gardens...lol

Air guns are a lot like fishing in that they bring out that 12 year old kid in ya! :)


 
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When I started about age 8, 64 years ago the rubber band sling shots were not making the grade. Short ranged, couldn't hit anything but my cousin's Daisy was a different story. Grew into .22 lr on my uncle's farm cause my dad was in combat in WWII there were no projectile shooting anythings around our house. He said he had had enough. But I felt air (BB) guns were just the ticket. It's amazing what you'll do to hide a daisy so sometimes you can shoot cans, fence posts,grasshoppers, etc. And neither the neighbors nor my parents or brother ever knew. eventually I enlisted and married and bought my 1st PB. It was more than 10 years and I finally had need of a short range pesting air gun. A couple of Diana's, then an airforce talon in .25 for racoons. And off to the races. Right tools for the job, right range, right power, right challenge for me..
 
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My wife has asked me the same question - why do you do it? Where is the fun in it? I just said, I don't know, but all I know is that it's a lot of fun and addicting.
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Does your wife like yoga?

Shooting is a whole lot like yoga: Repeat the exact same movement/sequence, over and over again, until you get perfectly.

- Unlike yoga, airguns will tell you when you did everything right. You'll get shoot a 10!
 
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For myself,the stigma around powder burners and all the laws..Hidden rules to get busted for.When someone hears air rifle or pellet gun,they are a lot more accepting. I can shoot in my back yard.,I can shoot a squirel and then shoot the one next to him cause he didn't even catch on. The challenge of getting close enough to shoot, allthough these new guns can reach pretty far now. My kids shoot, and my wife with no hearing protection..and last but not keast.I like the thwack of the pellet hitting flesh...muahahahah
 
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I was born and raised a powder burner. At some point I bought a Beeman R7/HW30s and loved it. No more having to drive out to the range to shoot (we live out in the county on 2.5 acres). Since I longer longer hunted and wasn't involved in organized target shooting anymore, I started wondering why I had that gun safe full of potential cash that I didn't use.

After disposing of the firearms I bought a Benjamin Bulldog and began the adventure into PCP. Again, I can shoot it on our property anytime I want.

So air guns made shooting fun and accessible while places to burn powder are getting harder to find.



Scot
 
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