The tug on my spirit toward the world of airguns seems to have returned. Which is somewhat unexpected because I no longer own a sizable chunk of land out in the country. Haven't been to the inlaws' to actually shoot in close to a year I'm guessing. There's a convenient indoor shooting range just two doors down from where I work. So why the urge to get back into airguns?
I shoot fairly regularly. And the range isn't quiet most days. Unlike a great airgun, you still spend a large chunk of change when you need to buy ammunition. Advantage, airguns.
I'm hooked on great triggers and very few firearms triggers compare to what I've massaged out of my airguns. Sure, a Timney is great, but its platform deserves five hundred yards at a minimum as a regular diet. Expensive. And time consuming. My goal is keeping five consecutive rounds on the red white and blue circle of a Pepsi can at 75-80 yards. Doable. I want to play the game invented by a guy the forums used to know as Soapy. (it has to do with penetration)
I don't want to think about plus P pressures and how many rounds, fired at what rate of fire will wear out my barrel. Just finding standard pressure ammo seems to be a quest in itself. No. Just no.
Give me my airguns. My springers. Let me hunt small game and pests in the woods and fields with my single shot, hold sensitive and weighty springers. This is where the fun is.
Welcome back !
Best things about most airguns, depending on type, caliber, etc, you can shoot them indoors too.
I do all the time in my basement 42 foot range.
Yeah, it's always fun to get outside and shoot which I do, but for me that depends on the weather and the bugs !
Heck, I have room outside to shoot firearms, but still prefer shooting my airguns... less ammo cost, less maintenance, less noise, and less walking.
My basement Allows 50 feet. I bought a expensive 10 meter rifle and the "bible book"' Ways of The Rifle. Lots of fun during winter months. I have a video camera on the 10 meter target and a 20 inch monitor at my shooting location. I can even score my shots since my paper target is displayed on a 20 inch TV screen.
My basement targets include knock downs,spinners,bells,Gamo horizontal battery deer running,duct seal box,rubber mulch box,hanging truck mud flaps box with funnel bottom,Gamo steel pyramid target with a sock stuffed into the end,and of course archery targets near by.
Hi Harvey,
Welcome back! Sometimes the simplicity of an airgun beats everything else.
David Enoch
Exactly, especially for a flumsy and clumsy, accident-prone guy like me. Whether it be springers, pumpers or CO2, it's often just that one GREAT shot that keeps me coming back for more.
Breeze, last I heard, was doing well. We spoke a few times just after the passing of our friend Ingvar Alm.
Yeeeaaaaahhhh the video... sheesh. Cecil Whiteside almost took himself out with one of those. The scope bit him. Hard. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/yellow/20-mm-canon-kicked-in-face-t121199-s10.html
Harvey,
Welcome back to the world of airguns. One of the few addictions where a relapse can be a welcome thing. And it's good to see another springer shooter here, too. With PCPs getting cheaper and so many posts about them it sometimes feels like we springer shooters are a vanishing breed.
Harvey, I remember you shooting Big Bore Bob's 20mm at Little Rock. I remember it rocking you pretty well. I took home one of those 20mm pellets and I still have it. Harvey, what was your friend's name that came down to Little Rock with you? What became of him? I bought a P3 from him.
Do you still own the Goldstar?
David Enoch
