Howdy Friends,
I'm Joe and I started airgunning with a Daisy BB gun at a young age (perhaps 6 or so). I can't recall the exact model but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a Red Ryder. I remember being envious of my cousin's Red Ryder and believing it "shot harder" than my gun
. In any case, it looked like this and would have been a mid-late 1970s model. Perhaps the 1894 "spitting image" model?
Then I moved on to a .177 Daisy Powerline with a Tasco scope (both purchased from Walmart).
My best airgun from back then was a Sheridan blue streak. I sure wish I would have kept it. Both of my Daisy airguns had plastic stocks - the Sheridan was my first gun (airgun at least) with a nice wood stock. I can't tell you how many pest birds (and more than a few game birds and squirrels) met their fate through that .20 caliber wonder-gun.
A decade or so later, I got back into airguns with a Beeman Goldfinger R9. To be honest, through no fault of the gun, I never could shoot it well beyond 15-20 yards or so. I guess that goes for any springer in my case, even an ultra smooth shooting Paul Watts tuned HW 95 in .22.
Fast forward to the past several years and I've had and parted with a few dandy rifles:
The recently mentioned Paul Watts tuned HW95 .22
Daystate Huntsman / Midas .22
FX Royale 500 .25 tuned by Mr. Allen Zasadny
Benjamin 392, Leupold 3-9x33 EFR (perhaps not a dandy but certainly a classic!)
More recently, I've returned to the sport with a couple of new precision airguns:
Taipan Veteran .25 (2nd new PCP), Leupold 6.5-20x40 EFR*
* I just received the Veteran this week and haven't had time to scope it or do any serious shooting yet.
Brocock Bantam .22 (1st new PCP purchased), Sightron SII Big Sky 4.5-16x42
Mostly I like to shoot airguns (PCPs specifically) so I can quietly and efficiently lower the population of varmints such as those in my avatar*. We plan to have poultry and livestock when I retire in a couple of years so my hobby might even get to be a tax write off.
* Avatar pic:
In the next month or so I hope to learn more about night vision scopes and would like to try one on my Taipan Veteran .25. I'll be reading more about what others have done/learned in the mean time.
Thanks and glad to be here!
Joe
