The way it was

[chicharrones]

Air gun rebuild kits for common models are not hard to find on the net. I’ve rebuilt my Crosman 2260, Predom Lucznik, etc.

just one example
https://www.ebay.com/itm/2909549220...MIjKyM8LmL9AIVimxvBB1K2AbLEAQYASABEgKfsPD_BwE

 

[bassjam]

My neighbor had a similar deal with his kid but he wouldn't let us shoot a bb gun in there, we had a little fiberglass recurve bow and arrows with rubber tips. I don't remember hitting very many of them but that didn't stop us from trying. I think we would have done far less damage to the roof with a bb gun.

Yeah even a light 20 or so pound pull can hit pretty hard. My neighbor one-upped my dad and paid $3/head. The year he was planning on replacing his roof he let me use a .22, one day I bagged just over 30 in like 5 minutes. It was pure carnage, feathers everywhere. I wish I had a picture of them all lined up lol.

 

[wombat13]

Wal-mart is selling the Daisy Red Ryder carbine for $28. How is that possible? Can't be as good quality as they used to be.

 

[7mmsavage]

Cool thread OP. I can remember that feeling of getting a brand new half pint milk carton style carton of bb’s. With that and my Crossman pump I had the world in my hands.

 

[LoonWulf]

Ok i admit, the bbs almost never get used anymore. I now prefer pellets.

 

[7mmsavage]

With all the BB gun talk I figured I’d share this.

Picked it up at a car swap meet. I saw it on a table and thought it had a detachable magazine or something. I’d never seen one and wanted it just because.

The guy saw me checking it out and said “$5”. Me being the overgrown child that I am took it without hesitation. Got a lot of looks and funny comments the rest of the day walking around with it.

Turns out that its a Daisy Powerline 990 that can be used as a pump or co2 powered. Needed some new orings but now works great.

 

[MedWheeler]

stillquietvoice writes:

I started with a Crossman 1377 with pistol brace. It had interchangeable sights a square notch a b d a peep sight.

I bought one of those in maybe 1986, after buying my first gun, a Winchester 190 .22 rifle. I remember the package with the shoulder stock (it wasn't a pistol brace; you removed the grips and slid on the stock.), and the rear sight. That was one you loosened and turned over to switch between notch and peep. I still have the gun and the shoulder stock around here somewhere. Still shot the last time I tried, maybe 8-10 years ago.

 

[hq]

Wow. Lots of history going on here.

Some time ago I found my old EM-GE Zenit air pistol. My dad bought it new in late 1930's. By the time I got it the seals and spring were tired enough to produce 3" of vertical stringing at 10 yards. That didn't stop me from shooting thousands upon thousands of pellets through it, even though accuracy was barely sufficient for soda cans at short distances. It gave me a bad habit of aiming slightly high to compensate for unpredictable bullet drop, which became an instinct and was a right PITA to get rid of.

My dad replaced it as "his" gun in early 70's, with a Walther LP2. Needless to say, once I found out where he kept it I borrowed it whenever I could. It could shoot cloverleafs at 10 yards, which was a huge improvement over the EM-GE and that's what I learned the basics of handgun marksmanship with. I refurbished it a few years ago with silicone O-rings, took it completely apart and essentially rebuilt it from the ground up.

Pictures may follow when I have time.

Sadly my Crosman 357-6 (with all the accessories and both 6" and 4" barrels) has been lost somewhere. Someone borrowed it and never returned it. I bought it as late as mid 80's, as a quiet way to practise some IPSC drills indoors. Inaccurate and weak, but the possibility for six consecutive shots was a huge plus.
In mid 90's I also bought a Diana air rifle, spring operated, one of the most powerful models at the time. It turned out to be much louder than a suppressed .22lr so I passed it on to a friend of mine who was ineligible for a firearms license and couldn't afford a decent air gun. A win/win situation, I was so glad I got rid of it.

 

[rust collector]

My dad was also concerned about confusing a gun with a toy, so the only BB gun time I got was borrowing the neighbor kids and shooting sparrows at the farm when visiting Grandma's. Lots of fun and skill building. I also learned I could stick a farmer match in the muzzle of a spring gun and if I hit the pavement just right, it would be incendiary ammo. Best shot was a fly on a floor joist about 3 feet away with little brother witnessing.

 

[Meeks36]

With all the BB gun talk I figured I’d share this.

Picked it up at a car swap meet. I saw it on a table and thought it had a detachable magazine or something. I’d never seen one and wanted it just because.

The guy saw me checking it out and said “$5”. Me being the overgrown child that I am took it without hesitation. Got a lot of looks and funny comments the rest of the day walking around with it.

Turns out that its a Daisy Powerline 990 that can be used as a pump or co2 powered. Needed some new orings but now works great.
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Years and years ago. Two brothers where walking through the woods . Big bro, little bro. Big bro had it cradled in his arm pointing at little bro head. Or so he claims. Only one made it home. Sad but it happens.
Hope yours gives many years of shooting.

 

[Encoreman]

Thanks for bringing back lots of memories guys. My daisy was a plastic stock lever gun circa 1960-61. It has long since been lost over years of moving. I fired somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000+ rounds for sure. Moved up to a Model 61 Winchester .22 for target practice, every weekend we would shoot a few $0.39 boxes of shorts. Tin cans were no fun, so we started shooting at cigarette butts laying crossways on fence post, that got to be too easy so we turned them looking at the end, no telling how many I shot off of the post, best one was I shot the filter out of the paper and didn't tear the paper. Believe me those 100,000+ rounds of bb's will make you a better shot. Anyone put a few drops of 3 in 1 oil down the barrel to up the velocity? First shot or two were like curve balls.

 

[troy fairweather]

I'm surprised there's not a medical paper on daisy Carpal tunnel lol.

 

[Nature Boy]

Every boy on my block had a Daisy Red Rider and we used to have BB gun wars. The risk of losing an eye was secondary to the fear of what would have happened to my backside if my dad ever found out what we were doing