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Listening to the rain, and reading all of the informative posts. Thought I should introduce myself. I started with a Daisy 179, in the velvet cased NRA centennial edition at age 10. Two years later, my thumb now Herculean, I showed my Dad an ad for the Sheridan Bluestreak, and one wound up a great birthday gift when I turned 12… bought from a place called, “The Gunrunner”. I replaced 2 springs in the 179, and it was plum worn out, but the Sheridan never blinked. Bought a .22 Benjamin pump pistol, but sold it so I could get an HW70. Traded that HW70 towards my Beeman P1 in .20 cal. Years later picked up a Sheridan pump pistol in .177, and a Crosman co2 dpms ar15 . A few years ago I found a mint 179 Centennial to replace mine on eBay. It sits on the mantle (much to my wife’s chagrin). At work one day, a coworker said, “you like guns, right?” “Yeah…”. Long story short he had a beautiful HW55 from his uncle’s estate for sale so I bought it. I just found another mint HW70, in the original packaging to replace the one I traded off years ago… I think I’m done buying- but they’ve been fun for decades, and what I have will last until I’m gone, and long after. Thanks to all of you for supporting the fun of airgunning.


   
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(@bob_in_wv)
West Virginia
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Welcome from WV.


   
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marflow
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Washington
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it doesn't rain in Washington the air just has water in it all the time but the moss love it humans not so much so welcome to this forum 


   
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Washington
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Ha! Thank you both. Yes, it’s time of the big dark here. But, there are few places as beautiful. Does not seem to be a huge airgun community here, at least that I’ve found.


   
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Tennessee
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Welcome to the forum! Sounds like you have a couple real classics; the HW 55 in particular is a great favorite of mine.

For what it's worth, there really are rather few places that have big local airgun communities. Which highlights the real value of this and similar forums.


   
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Washington
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Yes, I agree. Online forums have certainly made several hobbies easier, whether it was guns, cars or motorcycles. A lot of experienced, smart people here.


   
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