What do you like most about airgunning?

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Just about every aspect. I mainly hunt but, like fishing, even a slow day has calming, Zen things about it. I love learning new stuff & being able to help my fellows here if I've gained knowledge & experience with things that can help. It's been about so much more than I ever expected or could have hoped for. Makes me HAPPY!
EDIT: I wanted to add; there's something really fulfilling & comfortable about holding & using a finely engineered & crafted piece of equipment that reliably & consistently does what it's designed to do with all the parts smoothly & solidly working in tandem with each other. It makes it a work of art, not just a tool.
 
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PEP3 said:
Being able to shoot off my patio, don't have to wear hearing protection and not adding up how much each shot cost like I do with my PBs.
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PCPs are highly accurate, consistently hitting dime-size circles @ 50-yards. Repeating similar success with different PCP platforms, on a daily basis, is very satisfying. WM
 
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PEP3 said:
Being able to shoot off my patio, don't have to wear hearing protection and not adding up how much each shot cost like I do with my PBs.
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Ditto but sub backyard for patio, and raise you a basement. :) Eons ago shortly after working for uncle sugar in the USAF and I could actually afford buying a CO2 pistol. We had a nice long concrete basement in the townhouse we were renting. Pellets proved accurate enough that I learned most of the limited handgun skills I have back in 1980 with an airgun. Still shooting in the basement, and thanks to ear pro I am the only one in my house that does not have (or need) hearing aids! Still a nut for my PB guns as well, my best range time is when my good friend from Japan visits. I don't shoot much, but so enjoy watching him sample forbidden fruit. When I visited him at his office in Tokyo his targets were proudly displayed above his desk. Last time it was .44 mag, he was rubbing his right hand and smiling all the while in the car leaving the range. He called it the dirty Harry gun.:) The guy can shoot! He learned pistol marksmanship playing video games. No handguns in Japan. Very few rifles and shotguns loads of permits required. I also love wrenching on guns and I am learning the ways of PCP's. THat's why I call it wrenching, I'm no gunsmith.
 
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Sentimental value, and memories. Always enjoyed spending time with my grandpa walking along the edge of the public lake access shooting random things. Killed my first pigeon out there, learned how to skip a BB across smooth water and many other things. Ohh, and I just like to shoot.

He'd probably strangle me if he knew how much I've spent on airguns, and the number of pigeons and other critters I've killed.
 
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Matchstickshooter said:
Tinkering on them, bringing them "back-to-life" and shooting them.
Pesting for a neighbor (wood chucks)
shooting cans/paper targets.
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I know I’m working on, tinkering with, fixing, improving, breaking, etc. 10 times the amount I’m shooting. Got a new drs the other day. Wouldn’t fill, tried various things without delving inside. I know it’s brand new send it back. Ahh I had to see how this tank over barrel thing ticks. About the third time in was magnifying the main valve seat o ring and there was a flat spot.
I had ordered a whole oring set along with the big plenum angled gauge from Huma so I was in luck. Sorta a pain without the valve tool but doable.
First thing this morning went to shoot a squirrel. Opened window grabbed rexy rpa wtf no air. Grabbed Akela wtf red dot dead ( I musta left it on, $20 Chinese ). Looks like more work, no shooting tonight.
Rigging up water tank and radiators on Tuxing twin so it’s all self contained. Just finished.
Was filling a my 9 liter with Gx cs4i, wtf taking a long time… sh t the for me expensive fill set is leaking. Ahhh another job.
Another very enjoyable part is the research for all the stuff we use.
I guess it’s the whole hobby for me with the shooting overall the most important part as I wouldn’t be doing any of the above without it.
 
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Being retired there are alot of things to do around here that were either rushed to get done of just neglected when I was working. Now I don't have that excuse. All things airgun are what gives me the break I need from the must do stuff. It also keeps my mind and hands busy.
 
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Ricklin said:
Ditto but sub backyard for patio, and raise you a basement. :) Eons ago shortly after working for uncle sugar in the USAF and I could actually afford buying a CO2 pistol. We had a nice long concrete basement in the townhouse we were renting. Pellets proved accurate enough that I learned most of the limited handgun skills I have back in 1980 with an airgun. Still shooting in the basement, and thanks to ear pro I am the only one in my house that does not have (or need) hearing aids! Still a nut for my PB guns as well, my best range time is when my good friend from Japan visits. I don't shoot much, but so enjoy watching him sample forbidden fruit. When I visited him at his office in Tokyo his targets were proudly displayed above his desk. Last time it was .44 mag, he was rubbing his right hand and smiling all the while in the car leaving the range. He called it the dirty Harry gun.:) The guy can shoot! He learned pistol marksmanship playing video games. No handguns in Japan. Very few rifles and shotguns loads of permits required. I also love wrenching on guns and I am learning the ways of PCP's. THat's why I call it wrenching, I'm no gunsmith.
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I wish I had a basement for bad weather, my garage is a singe car garage so it's only 7 yards deep. I can shoot from the garage to the targets in the backyard but it gets mighty cold with that door open. BTW I have destroyed my hearing by shooting PB's early in life with no hearing protection, I know better now.
 
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I wish I had a basement for bad weather, my garage is a singe car garage so it's only 7 yards deep. I can shoot from the garage to the targets in the backyard but it gets mighty cold with that door open. BTW I have destroyed my hearing by shooting PB's early in life with no hearing protection, I know better now.
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For me, it was the thousands of rounds of rimfire that damaged my hearing.
 
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As some others, I have a profound hearing loss, effectively deaf without my aids. Hopefully, I'm not doing more damage with the air rifles. And it's a fun hobby for someone who enjoys shooting and tinkering. To paraphrase an old saying, I spent most of my money on whiskey and air rifles, the rest was wasted!
 
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Ricklin said:
Ditto but sub backyard for patio, and raise you a basement. :) Eons ago shortly after working for uncle sugar in the USAF and I could actually afford buying a CO2 pistol. We had a nice long concrete basement in the townhouse we were renting. Pellets proved accurate enough that I learned most of the limited handgun skills I have back in 1980 with an airgun. Still shooting in the basement, and thanks to ear pro I am the only one in my house that does not have (or need) hearing aids! Still a nut for my PB guns as well, my best range time is when my good friend from Japan visits. I don't shoot much, but so enjoy watching him sample forbidden fruit. When I visited him at his office in Tokyo his targets were proudly displayed above his desk. Last time it was .44 mag, he was rubbing his right hand and smiling all the while in the car leaving the range. He called it the dirty Harry gun.:) The guy can shoot! He learned pistol marksmanship playing video games. No handguns in Japan. Very few rifles and shotguns loads of permits required. I also love wrenching on guns and I am learning the ways of PCP's. THat's why I call it wrenching, I'm no gunsmith.
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do they have Airguns in Japan? how about air pistol? just wondering, you got my curiosity since I have not been back to Japan since I was just a baby.. always like seeing pictures of Japan..
I have friends that are Philippine and they have some very basic simple made Airguns over there..
mark
 
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Simple, the same thing that I did when I was shooting firearms.
Hitting the target.

I don't hunt breathing creatures, never have.

So yeah, just hitting the intended target, whatever it may be. From a small black dot on paper (air gun hunting), to a piece of steel a 150/175 yrds away, to a foam cup rolling down a stream of water (firearm).

Mike
 
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