Help please.

[bikerdoc]

At 66 I have a life time full of firearms but when it comes to air guns I dont know my elbow from chopped liver.
So here is the story
Couple years ago I bought Sears 799 made by Daisy at a yard sale for 10 bucks. The old coger selling it said it was rebuilt and I believe him cause it is tack driver deadly on squirrels, crows, and even a possum that bothers NANA'S flowers and garden
The grand daughters - 8 and 9 love to learn gun safety and hanldling before I let them shoot balloons, cans and plastc bottles. The oldest now can hit crows at 40 feet cleanly and loves it.
Enough back story, here are my questions, ( google either failed or confused me)

1 Is it a good air gun or
2 Can I do better in the 50 to 100 buck range? (So each can have their own)
3 what should I do to take care of it? (Oil, clean etc)
4 How old is it?

Thaks guys,

Doc

 

[jcwit]

I remember those, never had one of my own as when they came out I was already into .22's.

As far as an answer to question 2, check out here.

http://www.pyramydair.com/

Please don't take this wrong as it is what I did and I found loads of info regarding the Sears 799. Google "Sears 799". Again, please don't take this in the wrong way.

 

[Kookla]

Poking around the net, I'm seeing two models that could be it. One looks like a winchester levergun (c02) and the other is an underlever pump multi stroke pump. Which one do you have?

 

[jcwit]

The Sears 799 was a pump up pellet/BB gun. Here is a link to a picture

http://www.gunauction.com/buy/10653643

 

[ZVP]

Contact Daisy customer service they can help you.
It's easy to get bad info on oder gunss so start there
HTH

 

[bikerdoc]

Thank guys
JC I was using daisy instead of sears

 

[Kookla]

That looks a lot like an 880, which is an excellent pellet rifle from Daisy. Does yours have a metal receiver? The newer ones are plastic.

I've had several Daisy airguns and have been pleased with the accuracy out of all of them.

 

[Kookla]

Bikerdoc- I've been doing some more research, and it looks like the Sears 799 is their version (gold receiver no less!) of the Daisy 880.

Here's the manual for the 880

Here's a strip down of an 880 here

Daisy still makes the 880, however these days, the receiver is plastic. Yours should be metal.

Author James House had a book called American Air Rifles and the Daisy 880 was featured there. Very accurate. You definitely have a keeper

If you were looking to get another low cost multi stroke pnuematic, I'd recommend looking at the Crosman 2100. They can be a bit of a pain to load, but are very durable and accurate. Wouldn't be certain of where to point you in the low end spring gun world.

 

[bikerdoc]

Thank you Kookla, yes metal reciever. Dead nuts accurate.
Reviewed both and everything is in good shape. When it stops raining im gonna run off some more crows.
Thanks again.