Just out of interest, whats peoples motivation behind there creations in the crosman range?
The questions comes from a post I made on another forum where an owner of a different kind took issue on a few crosman owners(me included) spending money on our choice of brand.
For me its my hobby and sport but also its grown more on the custom side with my 22xx's as I get to tweek things just how I like them and work on a chosen look, plus with a young family I dont get to shoot much these days so I can keep my hand in still and maintain the interest.
Whats your storys?
I do it because it is so much fun. You can take a small amount of money and buy either a 2240 or 1377 and go from there. The sky is the limit as to what you can do with either platform. And when you finish, you have the satisfaction of making a hot rod out of a Volkswagen or turning a piece of coal into a diamond.
But truthfully, who really cares what others think about how we spend our time and our money. It is our choice to do with it as we see fit. If others can not see the fun in doing what we do, it is their loss and for them we should feel sorry for they are missing some of the best doing and learning there is in the airgun world.
I could write more but I'm sure you understand what I'm saying.
Carl
I do it 'cause I am a sick sick sick sick man! And oh yeah, it's fun too! Seriously, I always loved airguns. Now that I am older, with a hair more patience, I can mess around and change up some parts by buyoing or making them. Then there is this forum which has overloaded my feeble mind with more ideas than I ever thought possible, so I found a new hobby that should remain fun for a long time to come!! :-*
Rich
Noone could ever understand me because I like too many things, and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to the next til I drop.
So, really, all I can say is I do it because I like it.
Simple, it is one of my hobbies! I love spending time with my airguns, fishing poles, RC Helicopters, personal computers, and my hand held GPS receiver for geocaching. If it brings you pleasure, then do it!
~Falcon
If I dont spend it all now the kids will get it!
Quote from: mr007s on April 19, 2011, 02:25:14 AM
If I dont spend it all now the kids will get it!
+1
~Falcon
Some good answers there:) +2 on the kids bit also
I started off collecting old Crosman airguns,then the modding bug hit me,sold quite a few of my Crosman collection,and decided to shoot the things more rather than just looking at them,to make a good gun perform & look better than Crosman intended gives me a buzz :)
Ray.
For me, I love all things sharp and shootable. Guns, knives, swords and anything in between! Even got body armor!
Always had airguns since a small kid, before I was legally allowed too (sssh). My brothers and I inherited an old BSA
- Major I think but maybe a cadet? I used to combat roll around the garden shooting potatoes on bamboo canes!
Safety wasn't even heard of!
Over years I bought various pistols - some air (metal bb, lead, airsoft & paint), some blank firers and some just spanish replicas. I think towards the end of last year I found a picture of one of 'Zoned' creations. I may have been looking at magpul
and found one of his rifles with an m4 stock on it. That was it. Thanks Zoned, I haven't had a balance in my bank account since!
My motivation/inspiration comes from two sources really - movies and you guys!
Old movies, 50's - late 70's I guess. Things like Scorpio in Dirty harry, skeleton rifle in Day of the Jackal, and
probably a major one is James Bond. His gadgets and guns - probably why the Mark 1 is so damn nice - ruger style
like the first Bond movie posters. The brassy scifi attraction is probably from the film Dune.
"Try looking into that place where you dare not look. You'll find me there, staring back at you!" Dune ;)
One last thing (apart from you guys + gunsmiths and machine artists) it is a hobby I can pursue/obsess without the need for anyone else. No partner required like in other sports and hobbies. Its a personal hobby and independent if you want it to be.
It sounds selfish but my other hobbies haven't been so fulfilling - except fish keeping.
A bit of a lone-wolf or in this case Air-wolf! ;D
I also find when a group of friends get together, multiple airguns, common sense drops away and many barrels
end up pointing in faces as people talk and don't think where things are pointing! 8)
my motivation started during the ammo crunch no way was i going to pay that much for ammo,at the time pellets were still cheap.
i had to fix my dad's old phase 2 1377 and have been addicted ever since.tried the potent pcp's but pumpers have my addiction,trying an old crosman 357 to see how i like co2 .my addiction needs flavor
Dune, classic film and my fav closely followed by patton and "the thing".
I find it interesting that you US guys are into airguns as much as you are haveing pritty much what you want at your finger tips, a .50 cal sniper rifle would be on the list for sure but I guess constraints hit us all in different ways and state to state laws sound very confusing. Crosman seem to have got it right for all backgrounds,keep it up!
a .50 cal sniper rifle would be fun, but the neighbors definitely wouldn't like the sound!
Very true :) id just be happy to look at it
Quote from: woody67 on April 19, 2011, 08:36:22 PM
a .50 cal sniper rifle would be fun, but the neighbors definitely wouldn't like the sound!
See, I wouldn't. I can't walk past my guns without picking them up and giving the trigger a squeeze. Sometimes I find myself loading a pellet without realizing that I have nothing to shoot at, in which case it ends up being fired into a pellet trap box or a piece of 'testing' wood.
I take breaks from work during the day to shoot 5 or 10 pellets every so often--it's like my cigarette break I guess ???
I would want to shoot at targets a mile away every single day if I had a firearm like that around. That's why I leave them at the Farm upstate NY...600 acres of mountains in the adirondacks---plenty of room to shoot with noone around to bother!
50 cal is cool, but having an area to shoot it is the key! Can barely shoot a pellet gun in Jacksonville and the only way to shoot PB's is to go to a range or gunshop with an indoor range. Not so much fun indoors with firearms. Just to darn loud and a 50 cal would be out of the question! One of the guys I work with bouth a 50 cal revolver! Looks like a clown gun, it is so big. Even the place where he bought it would not allow him to fire it inside. He ended up going to the outdoor range. Now I would love to be able to start an indoor airgun range here in Jacksonville. Problem is money, but I digress and have brought this way off topic.........sorry,
Rich
No off topic here rich :-* appart from reading what people have been upto with their crosmans its also nice to here whats behind it all :)
Quote from: woody67 on April 19, 2011, 09:09:30 PM
See, I wouldn't. I can't walk past my guns without picking them up and giving the trigger a squeeze. Sometimes I find myself loading a pellet without realizing that I have nothing to shoot at, in which case it ends up being fired into a pellet trap box or a piece of 'testing' wood.
I take breaks from work during the day to shoot 5 or 10 pellets every so often--it's like my cigarette break I guess ???
I would want to shoot at targets a mile away every single day if I had a firearm like that around. That's why I leave them at the Farm upstate NY...600 acres of mountains in the adirondacks---plenty of room to shoot with noone around to bother!
600 acres of mountians that must be sweet. didn't know you were from ny. I'm from orange county ny.
Yes, I'm from Westchester --Rye, actually. My place upstate is a little less than an hour north of Lake George. It's an awesome place; we even have a Sugar House that an aunt an uncle use to make maple syrup in the spring. They used to anyway - They had a baby, and -- no more syrup!
No electricity, except for a generator for lights to read by for a few hours at night. Woodburning stoves, kerosene lamps and lanterns, a good old fashioned well pum on the front porch with a ladle hanging on the back for when you come back from a walk in the woods or working in the fields to grab a cold guzzle of fresh water...two barns, a couple of ponds, all the red squirrels in the world to shoot (they destroy the barns!), dirt roads, tractors, fishing, hiking, trails, animal watching, etc..... best place on earth.
I spent my summers there growing up when my grandparents would stay there for the summer. Actually it's where I learned to shoot... hmm, maybe that's where my interest stems from!
I grew up in northern Ct where there was still some forest and primo lakes. When we got a bit older and started to drive, a bunch of us hit the Catskils frequently. Just a fantastic place to fish and camp. We would also hit the White Mountains of NH. If there is such a thing as falling in love with a place, well I did with lakes region of NH. Ended up moving there, enjoying hunting pheasant and fishing the smaller lakes and streams. I used to hike in the spring, summer and fall and cross country ski in the winter. I could head out at 6 in the morning and never see another person all day! I sure do miss that kind of solitude :-* City life........ughhhhh sucks!
Quote from: tatsumi on April 19, 2011, 08:29:25 PM
Dune, classic film and my fav closely followed by patton and "the thing".
I find it interesting that you US guys are into airguns as much as you are haveing pritty much what you want at your finger tips, a .50 cal sniper rifle would be on the list for sure but I guess constraints hit us all in different ways and state to state laws sound very confusing. Crosman seem to have got it right for all backgrounds,keep it up!
'The Thing" is also one of my all time favourites too.
On the 50 cal, you can shoot one of them at Bisley gun club. I think its the only place in the UK you can as they are the only place with a long enough range! I keep thinking about that vid of the guy with the ricochet 50 cal that clips his head! ;D
Quote from: woody67 on April 19, 2011, 09:09:30 PM
That's why I leave them at the Farm upstate NY...600 acres of mountains in the adirondacks---plenty of room to shoot with noone around to bother!
I have a 3 x 2 metre balcony. :(
Bring it to the farm...we can use it as a backstop!!!
Well like most of us i started shooting very young i would say 6 or 8 years old,also as a kid i love to take stuff apart and put them back together.At age 11 i won my first shooting contest in the Boy Scouts.My Dad always had some kind of BB gun and we would shoot often.As i got older i wanted to start shooting the real thing,joined a gun club and shot 3 to 4 times a week made my own ammo and did all the work on my guns from triggewr jobs to barrel changes.After i retred in 2006 i went back to work at another place so i could get another pention.But i injured my back very bad after 2 years of working there.Now with a bad back the recoil on most of my guns would kill my back,what to do ? i dug up all my old airguns and started to repair the guns that need it.I had 15 guns that i had not shot in a long time, most of them needed something.Then i found this site and the mods begain.
Mike