Septicdeath
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When you were kid what air rifles did you have so much fun with?
In the days of our youth.
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Steve Milbocker
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A bunch of Daisys but the one that was so simple and accurate was Czech built. Slavia maybe? I paid 15 bucks for it brand new from my hometown sporting goods store. Great times back then
I had the standard Daisy BB gun. I can't imagine how many BBs I put through it, but I know I used to buy the big 10,000 BB cartons.
I eventually bought myself a Daisy 880 pump rifle and shot it so much that the barrel wore out. A lot of those shots were BBs and apparently those undersized steel balls rattling down the rifling eventually did bad things to it. I bought another 880 (maybe an 881, can't recall) but I only shot it with pellets. I don't recall what happened to it.
My folks bought me a Sheridan Silver Streak and I still have it. I never shot it as much as the others because it was really too loud for a suburban area.
I eventually bought myself a Daisy 880 pump rifle and shot it so much that the barrel wore out. A lot of those shots were BBs and apparently those undersized steel balls rattling down the rifling eventually did bad things to it. I bought another 880 (maybe an 881, can't recall) but I only shot it with pellets. I don't recall what happened to it.
My folks bought me a Sheridan Silver Streak and I still have it. I never shot it as much as the others because it was really too loud for a suburban area.
cslinger
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I doubt this old girl has seen a BB down the pipe in 35 years. She has, however, put down countless green "Army Men" and is a veteran of a local BB war or three. I would sit out on our deck and just plink away at advancing army men. When the call came I answered with this old girl and went off to neighborhood BB war on occasion. (times were different, don't judge me But yeah its horrifying to think we shot these types of guns at each other. 
) Lots of found memories with this old girl.
But yeah its horrifying to think we shot these types of guns at each other. ) Lots of found memories with this old girl.
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My best friend had a Benjamin .22 I have the .20 blue streak in the picture. I can't count how many Cotton tail, Jack's, Pigeon and Rockchucks we routed with those rifles. Life in Southern Idaho was great growing up.You had NICE air rifles as a kid.......we would have hated you for it.
Armored farmer
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My parents were pretty good about keeping me with a supply of ammo in my youth. I think I had three Crosman pump up pellet guns at the same time. I had one shipping back to crosman for repairs, one returning from Crosman for repairs,....and one shooting, all the time. My mom claimed that if she wondered where I was, she only had to step out on the back porch and listen for the whackety-whack of an air rifle being pumped up...in order to locate me.
I had a Daisy spittin' image
Several crosman pump ups
One good Daisy pump 880
Then it was a Browning BL22.....and I was ruined from then on...
I had a Daisy spittin' image
Several crosman pump ups
One good Daisy pump 880
Then it was a Browning BL22.....and I was ruined from then on...
Starter52
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Break open single shot Daisy .22 pellet rifle that was marked Made in Scotland.
Bought from the Herters catalogue in 1967.
Bought from the Herters catalogue in 1967.
Ernie Bass
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None. Parents kept telling me I would shoot my eye out.
Gumby0961
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This was my first, I still have the box, my brother has the rifle. This was my second, a Daisy / Feinwerkbau 300s. Damn that was 50 years ago.
Steve Milbocker
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Dang Gumby, that’s quite a leap between 1and 2!
jackinil
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Daisy Model 25 plus a Daisy C02 pistol,Model 200.
Starter52
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^^^jackinil, the Daisy pump Model 25 was the first BB gun I ever fired. I was 9 or 10 years old.
And the Daisy CO2 200 was my first handgun back in the 1960's.
And the Daisy CO2 200 was my first handgun back in the 1960's.
jackinil
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Starter52,It was in the early 60's when I had those.
I had some little Daisy that was OK, but didn't leave very much of an impression. The one I really enjoyed was a Crosman that I bought from our local Walmart, on layaway because I was about 12. I don't remember the model number, but I shot it a lot.
Daisy lever action, not Red Ryder, then Daisy 25, then Benjamin .22, then Crossman .22. That was from 1953 til 1958. Skip to 1970, Winchester 435. Now, my original Benjamin, a Crossman, a Sheridan, and a RWS. That 25 Daisy was the most powerful of all my friends bb guns.
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stonebuster
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Daisy pump model with peep sight was my first. All the kids in the neighborhood had one and last time I knew all of them still had two eyes.
.455_Hunter
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First non-"hand me down" airgun- Daisy 840 (Age 10?)
Next one- Crossman 760 (Age 12) I thought they were cool because they kinda looked like a Martini-Henry carbine.
Next one- Crossman 760 (Age 12) I thought they were cool because they kinda looked like a Martini-Henry carbine.
MedWheeler
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My mother was always gun-shy, but finally relented and allowed her then-boyfriend Frank and she to gift a Crosman pneumatic multi-pump something-or-other to my brother for Christmas in around 1982. He was fifteen and I was sixteen. We knocked around with it for a while, and I remember it being pretty easy to hit what we shot at most of the time.
One night, maybe a month or two later, he borrowed a new BMX bike from our other brother (his Christmas gift; he was eleven years old) and rode off in the neighborhood. Mom was at work (no dad in the picture.) After he'd been gone long enough to arouse concern, I jumped on my motorcycle and went out looking for him. I found him in the parking lot of a nearby grocery store, accompanied by three police officers. The gun was in the hands of one of them being unloaded. Someone had called in a report of a guy with a rifle riding a bicycle there.
The officer was going to detain him until we could reach my mother to come pick him up. I mentioned in conversation with that officer that I was with the local volunteer fire department. Probably not realizing that I was not yet 18 years old, he agreed to release my brother to me, but kept the gun, saying it would be released only to my mother if she came to the station. We thanked him and rode off. My brother swore both me and our other to secrecy, not wanting to get in trouble with Mom, essentially agreeing to lose the gun.
A few weeks later, all of us, Mom included, were watching TV one night when there was a knock at the door. I answered it, finding the officer there. He asked to speak to Mom, wanting to know when or if she intended to come pick up the gun. We were busted.
That did it for BB guns for him (she did let me buy a .22 rifle from Frank, now her husband, when I was nineteen.)
One night, maybe a month or two later, he borrowed a new BMX bike from our other brother (his Christmas gift; he was eleven years old) and rode off in the neighborhood. Mom was at work (no dad in the picture.) After he'd been gone long enough to arouse concern, I jumped on my motorcycle and went out looking for him. I found him in the parking lot of a nearby grocery store, accompanied by three police officers. The gun was in the hands of one of them being unloaded. Someone had called in a report of a guy with a rifle riding a bicycle there.
The officer was going to detain him until we could reach my mother to come pick him up. I mentioned in conversation with that officer that I was with the local volunteer fire department. Probably not realizing that I was not yet 18 years old, he agreed to release my brother to me, but kept the gun, saying it would be released only to my mother if she came to the station. We thanked him and rode off. My brother swore both me and our other to secrecy, not wanting to get in trouble with Mom, essentially agreeing to lose the gun.
A few weeks later, all of us, Mom included, were watching TV one night when there was a knock at the door. I answered it, finding the officer there. He asked to speak to Mom, wanting to know when or if she intended to come pick up the gun. We were busted.
That did it for BB guns for him (she did let me buy a .22 rifle from Frank, now her husband, when I was nineteen.)
berettaprofessor
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Daisy lever model 99...peep sights. I refurbed it a few years back, new seals, and occasionally I just enjoy the old girl.
Speedo66
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My first was a Daisy 25 pump action rifle. I wanted that model because it had guaranteed spring loaded feed and a peep rear and hooded front sight with changeable inserts. Real target gun. lol
The longest hallway in my apartment was my range. Tough time convincing my parents to buy it, BB and pellet guns were illegal in NYC where we lived.
The longest hallway in my apartment was my range. Tough time convincing my parents to buy it, BB and pellet guns were illegal in NYC where we lived.
That model was my first step up from the cub! I need to get to my Dad’s house and retrieve both!I doubt this old girl has seen a BB down the pipe in 35 years. She has, however, put down countless green "Army Men" and is a veteran of a local BB war or three. I would sit out on our deck and just plink away at advancing army men. When the call came I answered with this old girl and went off to neighborhood BB war on occasion. (times were different, don't judge me
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Crossman 2200, 760, 750
Daisy 687, 880,
Marksman....uhhhh.....cant remember the model.
Ive always loved guns of all sorts, but airguns have been a slow burn for me. They are always there, but i long periods of not shooting them much.
When i was a kid tho, i wore one out every year or two.
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I was not allowed to have a bb gun, for reasons noted above. I have 3 now, and enjoy them immensely. Even a cheap nitro piston gun is accurate and fun once the trigger is unshackled.
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