That's right, so which air/BB gun started it all for you?
My first one was this one, a Red Ryder BB gun 70th anniversary, which I got last year's thanksgiving day (2010)
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SO WHAT WAS YOURS?!
Although it took me many years to realize it, I was bitten back in 1969 when I bought myself a Crosman Mark I. I am now looking for a replacement for that gun. Geesh do I wish I had kept the original. Sigh...
Carl
On my 5th birthday in 1976, I got my first "gun." It, too, was a Daisy Red Rider. That started it all! I no longer have it, but I did buy another that I bought a couple years ago. I wish it were all metal and wood like the one I had as a child...but it is still a hoot to shoot!
i started out with a daisy El Derado(a store specific 880) in the late 70's.had it til i moved out west in the early 90's.came back and about 4 years ago got my mothers husbands 880 after he passed.but yet again i don't have it anymore.the bug is there to stay
I think it was 2003, a Gamo Delta. I still have it.
After that a Crosman SSP250, a Gamo Whisper X Vampire and a Crosman 1077. Now I'm considering a Hatsan Striker 1000S 4,5mm with the orange inlays :)
Slept with the jcpenny catalog under my pillow for months, all I wanted was a red ryder for Christmas. Got it, loved guns ever since. The airgun that really got me into the sport was my 1322, still have it, now in pieces waiting for resurrection.
Webley Junior .177 smooth bore,back in 1966 :)
A Harrington's the gat on my 10 birthday, ruined it when I dismantled it when I was 12, why am I alway's this curios....
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looking for an old one again for nostalgic and collection reasons.
This one, a Daisy Model 102, bought at a relative's Hardware store, early 1980's.
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But this Crosman, bought at a Flea Market in PA was the start of my affair with Crosman. The box it is sitting on goes to another 760, however.
(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z157/T191032/Air%20Guns/Crosman760O01.jpg)
10 years old when my Dad sat me down in the basement and taught me safety and shooting with a Crosman 114 .22 cal rifle. Still my favorite today.
Rich
Quote from: Oane on February 13, 2011, 01:02:17 PM
A Harrington's the gat on my 10 birthday, ruined it when I dismantled it when I was 12, why am I alway's this curios....
(http://www.icollector.com/images/1160/14675/14675_0553_1_lg.jpg)
looking for an old one again for nostalgic and collection reasons.
There was one of these on Gunbroker just in the last couple of weeks!
Wow now im getting flash backs i had a bb gun that was used i think it was a plansman it used the 8 gr carts,But my first new airgun was a Daisy Buffalo Bill Scout in 1968,and soon after that a crosman 760. I still have them both but my 760 is at my dads house in VA.And my scout is now being rebuilt hard to find parts.Great thread.
Mike
Quote from: arkmaker on February 13, 2011, 03:39:01 PM
There was one of these on Gunbroker just in the last couple of weeks!
I just placed a bit on 2 of the here in the Netherlands, hope the guy will mail back one of these day's.
Daisy 188 to start off with when I was 9. Then it was on to a Crosman 760, then a Crosman 1377 phase 1.
After that I owned no airguns for quite a few years. I've only started back into them again about 4 1/2 years ago now. But I am HOOKED now. ;)
It's really nice to see everyone's first airgun :-*
My father gave me a Gecado Model 22 calibered in .177 (made in Germany)
I completely wore out the spring and internals. i'm surprised it still shoots at all. All these projects and not once have i thought about I touching this gun. ;D
(http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n196/LOC519/airrifle.jpg)
A GAT at first but this Zip I bought in the seventies bit me :D
Dads powermaster 760 variant 3
First, around 13 year old, i had a GAT pistol with the press in Barrel... ;D
Then simmilair but better one as the Gat from Daisy i thought.
Then i bought an Benjamin EB20, with the Co2 capsules, around my 16th birthday.
And that started the love for Airpistols by me ! :-*
When i bought my first Crosman 2250 B and turned it into a pistol, i was Hooked ! ;)
Then followed some more.
But sold almost every one i got, till my Steyr LP5 what's the best Pistol ever made ! :-*
greetingsss...Guido :P
I got my first airgun back in the late 70s. A first gen 1322. Had up until 1989 my 3rd year of college when it was stolen out of my car. My wife bought me a Airmaster 77 on our first Christmas together but I didn't shoot it much. Not until my son seen it and wanted to shot it. That's when the bug bit me again. Still miss that 1322.
daisy 15xt co2 repeater pistol from walmart along with a beeman steel target trap.
early 1990's, i wanted something small i could keep in my pocket while hiking in the woods. just in case something would jump out & attack (gotta watch out for those roaming gangs of attack squirrels or starlings). then i read that weapons are not allowed on public trails (opps, can't do that again). no more hiking, only time in the woods is for scouting or hunting (when i can legally carry).
returning home & didn't fire the pistol, i hung a target in the beeman trap & started shooting at 5M. sure, i can hit the target but not as accurately as i'd like. searching the web on proper pistol grip form, breathing & trigger techniques, etc... but cannot consistently hit that 'one ragged hole group'. then i read bb's are not accurate, pellets are.
at that point it was down the slippery slope...1377 multipump .177, then a storm xt springer rifle .177, then the benjamin silver streak pump rifle .20... the armory is still growing (and not just airguns, powder burner armory is growing just as big - everyone has to have an AR15 & a .20ga & .12ga shotgun & a .308 rifle & a henry golden boy .22). it's already gone to the darkside of .50 cal bigbore pcp's with scba tanks, pumps, shoebox & now casting lead boolits :D