As some of you know me , I've been shooting for a few years, lol.
Yesterday I drove to Santa Barbara to meet up with Lou Ferrigno. He recently moved from Santa Monica to SLO, San Louis Obispo. There was no way I was going to have him ship this beauty.
Gentlemen behold I now won the Air Arms Pro Sport serial number one. He bought it about 15/17 years ago while visiting Air Arms. Terry Doe was with him and he told Lou, you better buy that gun, so he did. As you know I sell most of his guns here. His guns are quality guns, does not shoot them much, and now making room for more. He is waiting for the New Daystate wolf. Here you go.
This came from the golden age of springers, right around the time I was building up my collection. Thank you for the post. Engraved guns like this were fetching $2,000 20 years ago. It would be interesting what it goes for today. Don't remember seeing an engraved pro sport ever.
He was the cover in an airgun magazine way back when the Career Ultra (9 mm's) was introduced.
It is a HUGE gun, but in his hands, it looked almost normal sized, ROFL!
Keep well and shoot straight!
HM
He does, just making room for more,,lol, like the rest if us.
That is a beautiful rifle but I am just a bit confused. I have a ProSport, serial number 52. I bought it new and of course it is very plain and not fancy like the gun pictured. My confusion comes from seeing the side screw in the stock just in front of the trigger guard. All of the early guns I have seen, including mine, do have that side screw. That screw was added later in production, I assume because of the pressure put on the stock while cocking the gun. That screw was added, I assume to give the stock needed support when cocking the gun. Without that screw my stock did crack on the under side. I repaired it with a piece of furniture hardware and also sometime later added the side screws as shown on the pictured gun.
I sincerely hope that those side screws were added to #1 at sometime post production.
Rick Bassett