I can tell you do not live near me 3 inches Dirt , Rock belowI have mine buried in the back yard, don't tell anybody
ThomasT
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"What IS it with you old guys "?
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No one complains when we pay with Mouldy moneyYa I’m suprised you old guys are into pcps, and are able to part with that moldy money tucked away in a cigar box
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who pays with cash anymore lol...you probably still write checks and use postal money order too lol
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I guess I am going to be one of the "young" old guys. Just starting my journey into PCP's at age 61.
Like most of you, I started early with Daisy Red Ryder, then a model 25. My favorite pellet shooter was my first pump. I "took" countless rabbits, squirrels and the occasional groundhog. Finally one day it started losing power. I attempted to fix it and discovered that the seals were leather. I fashioned new seals from a piece of leather I found in my Dad's shop. It worked! Little did I know that the piece of leather was his shop apron. Could not sit down for at least a week! Worse, I lost the pellet gun for a month.
Like others have stated, kids are grown, grandkids are not old enough yet to join in. More disposable income than in the last 35 years. I have all the old jeeps I want, (for now) and I am lucky to be married to a woman who does not say "no" to my hobbies. Life is good.
Like most of you, I started early with Daisy Red Ryder, then a model 25. My favorite pellet shooter was my first pump. I "took" countless rabbits, squirrels and the occasional groundhog. Finally one day it started losing power. I attempted to fix it and discovered that the seals were leather. I fashioned new seals from a piece of leather I found in my Dad's shop. It worked! Little did I know that the piece of leather was his shop apron. Could not sit down for at least a week! Worse, I lost the pellet gun for a month.
Like others have stated, kids are grown, grandkids are not old enough yet to join in. More disposable income than in the last 35 years. I have all the old jeeps I want, (for now) and I am lucky to be married to a woman who does not say "no" to my hobbies. Life is good.
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LMFAO I actually offered a guy list price in the classifieds (which I NEVER DO) but to pay in BTC, he told me he didn't know what it was - literally all the risk falls on ME not the payee when paying in BTC. I have no buyer protection, but you get 100% of your money.
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All I can say to you Russ is keep on keep'n on! I have alway said that I'm no collector but rather a "caretaker" of fine airguns. Only own three now cause I've sold off many. Should have kept them all. Still, I always look for the next one to buy. Wanting is better than having. Except for sex. And airguns are a close second.
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OK ,, here's my 2 cents about "old guys" & airguns . Like so many of you , I grew up w/ PB's . On a family farm in rural Pennsylvania, deer, crows ,squirrels , turkey, grouse & groundhogs were the main focus. My older brothers had BB guns that were handed down from their friends and eventually came to me. Tadpoles in the pond , bumble bees on the lilac blossoms , crayfish (crabs) in the creek( crick )&pine cones were all fair game. I finally wore them out & they went to the trash man ( Wonder what they would be worth now rebuilt ). In the '80's I bought a 1377 pistol to chase squirrels & rabbits from the little garden plot at our first house. Forward several years to my son's teen life & a Gamo 220 .177 break barrel came into the house . Wow, that thing could hit w/ some stuff ! My career path took me into the environmental field , traveling around the country , onto governmental facilities , military bases & old industrial sites. A stroll into a Bass Pro store one off day, I picked up a Benjamin Nitro .22 break barrel on sale. That opened up another chapter in shooting. After replacing the trigger w/ the GRT (?) , I was able to pop pigeons off the corn bins at a dairy permission where my son & I regularly hunted groundhogs . An assignment in 2018, west to Utah placed me just down the road from Utah Airguns & Justin & his band of Merry Men (sales force). I stopped in at his range one Saturday , tried out a rental Hatsan Flash, & THAT'S where it all started (again) ! I became a member there and another PB gun range also , eventually dropping the PB range as Utah Air had a PB range in the basement. I bought my first PCP there , a Flash Pup .I was even invited to the RMAC by Justin . Alas , as common to my job , things could change in an instant and I was called to service at another site . The week of RMAC , I was driving to California ! I have retired now . After a hip and shoulder replacement ( and awaiting another of each ) I've almost stopped chasing the game fowl & fauna , except for woodchucks & crow, w/ PB guns . I've reloaded enough of all ammo I'll ever need again . My attention now is almost entirely airguns. One day the farmer asked me in a text ," Can you shoot rats?" I replied " Can a bear s%#t in the woods?" Now besides buckets full of pigeons , starlings & sparrows , along w/ hundreds (yes hundreds) of groundhogs, I've got close to 250 rats at satellite barns that house dry cows & steers . I've even got my older Brother , a champion bullseye pistol shooter , into it enough that he bought my Benjamin Gunnar from me ! Airguns w/ the appropriate power levels have opened up another level of shooting opportunities for me . I've gathered a few PCPs & springers now and shoot something daily ,if not at the farm then in the basement Man Cave . Yes , we "Old Guys" have something that some may not understand till they themselves find it in due time ! Thanks for listening .
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Maybe I'm weird. No I know I'm weird. I started with a crossman 760. Put a scope on it. Shot thousands of BBs and pellets. We had a 10-yard range in my basement and we shot a lot down there. My dad and I. Rapidly progressed to a number of other unmemorable and short-lived CO2 powered crossman and Daisy things. We then got into some very good springers. HW55, a couple of FWBs, BSA scorpion pistol. The FWBs one which was an Olympic free rifle. We're in the basement during a flood that was sad. So yeah us old guys got our first PCPs when I was 56 and Dad was 82. Dad had found the miracle of YouTube and was watching some long-haired guy from South Africa with some goofy looking side lever thingy killing the heck out of stuff in South Africa. He said and I quote. We got to get something like that because I'm tired of the dog staring at me funny because there's 22 long rifle brass in his water dish. We live out in God's country and we can just roll open the sliding door to the back deck and shoot 50 yards in our good old country backyard. So that started it. More quiet than the 22 quiet ammo we were using. No brass cases to hit with the vacuum cleaner or take off the dog. And we're having a heck of a lot of fun. Your young guys are just mad cuz well idk.
Peace.
Jim
Peace.
Jim
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I am 71 years old, still active. I am in Cybersecurity guy, love games of strategy and using real Firearms is really, REALLY expensive' and you need ranges for firearms. Airguns is not as expensive and you can go almost anywhere and shoot stuff up!
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I'm 66, grew up with firearms, had a deer hunting father with a gun collection and a waterfowl hunting younger brother. Also grew up with assorted pellet guns, some owned by me, some by other neighbor kids. Crosman 760, Benjamin Franklin, Sheridan, cheap break barrels, we passed them all around.
Later own discovered music and girls, airguns fell to the wayside, as did hunting and fishing, didn't mix well with the nightlife lol -
Fast forward to the mid nineties, moved to Nashville, and immediately had a groundhog issue, and I knew there was an airgun soloution, AND HERE I AM -
reading the forums every morning instead of the morning newspaper.
Vines
Later own discovered music and girls, airguns fell to the wayside, as did hunting and fishing, didn't mix well with the nightlife lol -
Fast forward to the mid nineties, moved to Nashville, and immediately had a groundhog issue, and I knew there was an airgun soloution, AND HERE I AM -
reading the forums every morning instead of the morning newspaper.
Vines
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about the same story here , grew up with air guns , bow and arrow , tomahawk's made from trowel blades . then work/ life , retired now 77 and addiction to air is fierce ! only one PB rifle out of 58 PB's . Hmmm have to count the air rifles ?
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I'm only 41, I feel like a baby now lol. Got into air guns last year, I did get my 64-year-old father into them as well now though so I guess that counts as the old guy.
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The mere fact that you’re on a forum, typing and posting away, pondering your next online PCP purchase, proves you ain’t that old! I gotta go P…
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My wife & I are both North of 80 and we enjoy shooting "OUR" HW95L .22 from the back deck. I have to shoot the tree rats when she is not present as she seems to like the little guys. We spent the early years with the kids & grandkids which took up most all of our time and energy.
We sometimes can get a MOA group at 25 yards BUT not always. Still a bunch of fun.
We sometimes can get a MOA group at 25 yards BUT not always. Still a bunch of fun.
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I haven’t quite struck fifty yet, but ive always been happier with a .22 than any other rifle. Recoil, and noise, mostly the latter. Been shooting rifles of all calibers since I was a kid, no stranger to extreme long range shooting. But the problem is a place to do it. There’s long stretches out west here, but people get a little greedy with their land and letting people shoot on it. I get it, easy to sue nowadays. I’ve picked up the hobby of Airguns in the last 3 years, watching, waiting to see if I’m wasting thousands of dollars for a perishable product. Then a year ago I took the leap, bought an FX and just fell in love with it. Now I’m hooked and haven’t regretted paying those thousands. Biggest thing that really got me was the fact I can shoot at 100-200 yards in my back yard without worrying about the noise and snoopy neighbors. And to add to that, past a hundred is as challenging as 4-500 with a center fire rifle. It’s just a good fit for me I guess. But the noise, and the relative power of the rifles are nearly perfect for what I like to do. Shoot allot, and shoot quiet without government oversight.
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I have been an active shooter (targets/outdoors) for years.
I am 76 and my wife decided I needed a new toy and had me buy a Hatsan Flash, then a compressor, then a scope, adapter for the compressor and the like.
The rifle has some silencing and I can shoot in my large back yard without disturbing the neighbors.
Just what I needed, another gun!
I am 76 and my wife decided I needed a new toy and had me buy a Hatsan Flash, then a compressor, then a scope, adapter for the compressor and the like.
The rifle has some silencing and I can shoot in my large back yard without disturbing the neighbors.
Just what I needed, another gun!
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63 in 3 months. It requires as much skill or more (springers) than pb. Less noise at lower cost per round. Less space required... 10 meter in the basement.
I don't have the "magnum" ego needs of my 20's any more either.
I don't have the "magnum" ego needs of my 20's any more either.
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