Bought myself a bb gun for 67th birthday?

[stonebuster]

An old friend of mine was showing me his collection of firearms when he started pulling out about 40 old bb guns(handguns). BB guns?? He proceeded to tell me how much he liked to go in backyard and plink. Soon after I dug out my father's old SA6 Crosman pellet revolver and found it wasn't ready to be shot just yet. On an ammo buying trip to Walmart on my birthday I looked at the air guns and decided to get an inexpensive little Crosman semi auto P10 bb pistol. The first time I pulled the trigger I thought "this is going back for exchange." After shooting some cans I got accustomed to the trigger and it's accuracy isn't that bad. Think I've got a new hobby. My wife was happy to hear it was $28 instead of the usual $500-$1000.

 

[aarondhgraham]

I can't tell you how much fun I have with a pair of Daisy Spittin' Image rifles,,,
Invite a friend over for some backyard fun with a case of Pabst.

I have a decent sized back yard and a good backdrop for my targets,,,
So we drink beer and plink away at the empty cans.

No noise, no stress, just pure trigger-time fun,,,
I'll be 66 in November and hope to never outgrow this activity.

Aarond

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[stonebuster]

I can't tell you how much fun I have with a pair of Daisy Spittin' Image rifles,,,
Invite a friend over for some backyard fun with a case of Pabst.

I have a decent sized back yard and a good backdrop for my targets,,,
So we drink beer and plink away at the empty cans.

No noise, no stress, just pure trigger-time fun,,,
I'll be 66 in November and hope to never outgrow this activity.

Aarond

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Right. Need another target , drink another beer. Do you really need to clean the bore of a bb gun pistol? I guess an occasional patch with light oil followed by dry one for protection from rust would be a good idea. I think I'll be purchasing a better quality air gun before long so the kit will be worth it.

 

[Kookla]

My most favorite gun to shoot is my Daisy 499b. Congratulations on your purchase!

 

[PainlessWolf]

Heyos! Happy Birthday and serious congrats on your new airgun. Your friend is right, there's hardly a better way to relax than set up some targets in the backyard and bang away all afternoon. Cheap, and HUGE fun for the dollars and time invested in getting the gun then keeping the gun clean and maint. As time goes by, you'll find you are probably adding different types of airguns.. I prefer CO2 powered replicas but whatever you use will be fun! ( here are a few pics of my faves so far. )

 

[stonebuster]

Heyos! Happy Birthday and serious congrats on your new airgun. Your friend is right, there's hardly a better way to relax than set up some targets in the backyard and bang away all afternoon. Cheap, and HUGE fun for the dollars and time invested in getting the gun then keeping the gun clean and maint. As time goes by, you'll find you are probably adding different types of airguns.. I prefer CO2 powered replicas but whatever you use will be fun! ( here are a few pics of my faves so far. )

First air gun I've had since my dad gave me a nice daisy bb rifle around 1960. They've come along way, looks like. Thanks for the photos of your faves. I've read some good reviews about that Tanfoglio 1911. I got the less expensive gun to see how I'd like the air guns. Now it's time to start figuring out what will be my next air gun. I like the semis but the blowback feature I hear you use a lot more CO2. I'm getting about 50-60 shots with this p-10 before I start seeing fliers from low co2 pressure. My range guns I really like to shoot are 357 revolvers. The air gun revolvers I've seen have been rated at 400fps. Does the design of the revolvers cause the loss in muzzle velocity? I'll probably go for a pellet gun next time. I saw a new model Crosman 357 all metal BB/pellet that looked good. Is there a downside to the dual ammo models? Got a lot of questions since I'm new to air guns..

 

[MTNSTRYDER]

I have 2 Red Rider bb guns and 1 smaller for the kids. There has been a DAISY by my door and a hanging tincan for a target for most of 59 years.I shoot it at least once a day.
The Daisy Red Rider is my favorite its just about the same size as my lever action carbines.Just plain FUN!
Try giving one as a gift young or old watch their face light up. You will need more than 1 the competition gets very real.

 

[SwaneeSR]

My brother-in-law had problems with the scope on his Gamo .177 air rifle last month. I replaced his scope and dialed it in for some of the fancy hunting pellets. It was so fun plinking around that just this week I was looking at making a purchase for myself around the $100 price point.

I still have my Crossman 760 from the early 70's. Actually got it repaired a little over 15 years ago. Wonder where I put it?

Swanee

 

[PainlessWolf]

Good afternoon, Stonebuster,
The only possible downside to dual ammo guns is that the barrel may be smoothbore for the BBs. That will affect accuracy of the pellets since they work best in a rifled bore. You will have to check for that specific model. Crosman has just come out with a dual ammo replica that I have my eye on, a Remington 1858 revolver.. It can be found at PyramydAir. Here are a couple of more pics, ( sorry, no pics yet of the Uzi outside of it's box but it is amazingly well done also )
regards!

 

[JONWILL]

My brother-in-law had problems with the scope on his Gamo .177 air rifle last month. I replaced his scope and dialed it in for some of the fancy hunting pellets. It was so fun plinking around that just this week I was looking at making a purchase for myself around the $100 price point.

I still have my Crossman 760 from the early 70's. Actually got it repaired a little of over 15 years ago. Wonder where I put it?

Swanee

I have a 760 just like the one I got for Christmas in 1977. I wore that gun out. Never counted but had to be over 10k bb's and pellets fired. The brass bolt handle broke( replaced with a bent nail)
Seals wore out. We stuck ladyfinger firecrackers behind a pellet close the bolt as far as possible and light the fuse. Lol. Surprised we have eyes left

 

[22250Rem]

Got my first air rifle at age 65..... and that was two years ago. A Crosman .22 cal. Benjamin Trail with a 3-9x Center Point scope and I like it. I was pleasantly surprised at the accuracy and power of it compared to what my previous conceptions were. Even took it squirrel hunting last season and managed to get one at about 25-30 yards. Not as easy as using .22LR but that was part of the challenge ( Took two rounds; the second from about 10 yards) . It's interesting to try different pellets and even ran some of each over the chronograph so now I know for sure what velocities each of them runs at. This one has what Crosman calls their "Clean Break" trigger ( supposed to be improved from previous design) and that breaks at a consistent 3 lbs. 14 oz.'s on a Lyman Digital gauge. It's my first air rifle but I know they weren't like this when I was a kid. So I guess you're never too old to enjoy 'em or outgrow BB & Pellet guns.

 

[Spats McGee]

I started looking into air guns a few years back, when .22LR was nowhere to be found. Wound up buying a Ruger Impact. I haven't had nearly enough time to shoot it, but it's been fun when I have. It's a far cry from the Red Rider that I grew up with, and I can buy 1000 rounds far cheaper than I can for anything else in my safe.

 

[bannockburn]

I have lots of fun down in the basement shooting my Remington 1911RAC. Only problem with it is being able to see those realistic but oh so tiny sights. Next one will have easier to see sights.

 

[22250Rem]

Spats McGee;...Thanks for reminding me for yet another reason I bought that Benjamin Trail two years ago this month but forgot to mention. Back then there was some 22 LR around but at that time but the price was sky high. I forget the prices but IIRC a 500 round tin of Crosman Premier 22 cal. pellets could be had for less than 100 rounds (or was it 50?) of 22LR, ( if you could find any 22 LR at all). My 22LR supply never ran out during the shortage but it definitely was an influence on my starting to look closer at air guns. Bet that air gun sales were way up during that time frame.

 

[Whacked]

bro-in-law has a old 760 pumpmaster that has been outside on the porch for well over 10 years.
barrel is rust pitted, stock is cracked and duct-taped together.
still works, still shoots well enough

 

[Whacked]

I just bought a 1377
I have a ruger air hawk

haven't airgunned in a couple years so this weekend I made a trap out of a cardboard box, towel and rubber mulch. stops the pellets from the 1377 easily. haven't tried the air hawk on it yet.
I can use this trap in the house and the only noise is from the gun.

 

[BullSlinger]

My grandfather sent me my first BB gun in 1959 for my birthday. I purchased my last air gun about a year ago this one a Beeman bolt action co2. The thrill is still there.

 

[22250Rem]

Never had one as a kid but was exposed to many that were owned by friends. Nowadays I have all the centerfire rifles, shotguns, handguns, rimfires, etc. that I'll ever need but somehow found myself drawn back to air guns 'cause I guess the thrill really is still there because they've come a long way from what was available in my youth. Or else I'm going through my second childhood; either way it's a heckuva lot of fun.

 

[MedWheeler]

I'm also one of those (re)discovering BB and pellet guns. I wrote a little about here it a ways back. I've found the current crop of CO2-powered BB pistols to have a degree of accuracy I had, for decades, considered a smoothbore to be incapable of achieving.

This was my thread on these pistols:

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/bb-pistols-ive-been-missing-out.816115/

 

[Spats McGee]

Spats McGee;...Thanks for reminding me for yet another reason I bought that Benjamin Trail two years ago this month but forgot to mention. Back then there was some 22 LR around but at that time but the price was sky high. I forget the prices but IIRC a 500 round tin of Crosman Premier 22 cal. pellets could be had for less than 100 rounds (or was it 50?) of 22LR, ( if you could find any 22 LR at all). My 22LR supply never ran out during the shortage but it definitely was an influence on my starting to look closer at air guns. Bet that air gun sales were way up during that time frame.

Yep. Like you, my .22 supply never ran out, but I didn't shoot very much of it, either. Still, I wanted something to fill in for a .22, in the event my supply should run critically low (or out, perish the thought!).

. . . .they've come a long way from what was available in my youth. Or else I'm going through my second childhood; either way it's a heckuva lot of fun.

No, they've come a long way, at least since my childhood. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, every boy and his dog had some kind of BB gun, but my Crosman was nowhere near as nice as the Ruger I just bought, and I'm sure it didn't perform as well, either.