I've been wanting one of these for years just for basic target shooting and maybe squirrel or rabbit if I feel the need. At $80 it's not the cheapest toy but it's not terribly expensive ( look at me talking myself into pulling the trigger on Amazon ) It's CO2 power but from what I have seen shopping around you're not going to get that velocity from a 22 pellet out of a break barrel 22 pellet pistol. I also have some others in my collection that I will add to this thread with photos. Show me what you got.
Awesome, that's the full auto isn't it? I also have a Ruger 22 spring piston break barrel but I got to dig out of the closet to get a picture soon. A 30x3 scope and I am confident you could actually drop a deer with a well placed shot from a reasonable distance. I would not try that but I have no doubt it's possible. It will put a tit in a stop sign at 50 ft. I might actually jump into the waters and get a big bore air gun one day. But you're talking some serious bread for a toy. I also have a Walther PPK semi-auto CO2 replica. Then I have a classic Red Rider BB gun that I bought my girlfriend for her birthday because she is a tiny little thing and can't shoot the Ruger 22. Also just what the doctor ordered for stinging straight dogs and running them out of the yard without actually injuring them.
The Steel Storm can be set to single shot or 6 round bursts. The air gun I want is the Galatian by Hatmas.
I have a bunch of the old Beeman Weirauch springers, an FWB 601 Olympic air rifle (obsolete now)as are my two FWB 65 springer olympic air pistols. My son has one of those swedish FX PCPs that he charges with a compressor. Its brutal on pigeons and crows
Airguns are good to get a little target practice in when you either do not have time to go to a range or have enough private property or have friends that do where you can go shoot a real one. If you can get good and accurate with a spring piston rifle then it's very easy for you to be accurate with a real rifle.... The weight is the same if not more and the unique double recoil of a spring rifle actually makes it more difficult to shoot than a centerfire.
agreed. back in 85, after I returned from Cornell to Cincinnati, I started shooting ISU skeet seriously and I also started getting heavily involved in ISPC/Pins/Steel and USPSA events. One day I noted that a local club was holding a USPSA Rifle match. I only had 22s and a bunch of air rifles so I bought a Colt AR 15. I only had two sessions to get it sighted in, but I had shot air rifles for years -earning the NRA distinguished expert in the air rifle qualification (my dad earned varsity letters in rifle shooting in college and taught me how to shoot standing, prone, and kneeling). SO I entered the event with your basic Colt, I had spare mags and a military sling on the gun. most of the other guys had all sorts of tricked out stuff, speed magazine holders, fancy aftermarket stocks and match barrels (this was iron sight only in the division I was in). I ended winning easily-I got high "Novice" and OVERALL winner. Now I will note that there was a lot of running and I was 26 and nationally ranked squash player and was able to run well under a 5 minute mile (without carrying a rifle) at that time and that helped my times. But I also had the highest hit count and the next year I won as well. The Tournament Director was amazed when I told him I only had 60 rounds through the rifle at that first match but then I told him while in Middle school and high school my father gave me a tin of pellets a week and I almost always finished the tin in that period (500 pellets) a boy I coached broke several national and world records in crossbow archery. I gave him one of my air rifles to practice with. BTW When he went to Ohio state, they had open tryouts for the rifle team. He shot and was offered a position on the team but he had a full academic ride and was involved in other activities and declined the offer. air rifles are wonderful tools to teach shooting skills
Absolutely. I'm fortunate because I live outside of the city limits of a small City just far enough to have some privacy out in the county but not so far out that it takes forever to get to a store. I don't have enough property to shoot but plenty of my friends do just down the road and you can shoot whatever you want and no one says a word as long as it's on your own land. Once in a while you hear people with full autos. I've been seriously considering getting a recurve bow and getting back into that. They need to let people start culling some of the deer around here because they are too thick. I'm sure some people do but I wouldn't know anything about that.... I just know I see some dressed out carcasses in some of the oddest locations occasionally ( like on the side of the highway in the ditch ) I wish people would be more discreet about that because if I can see them I'm sure the fish and game going down the road can see them too. There are plenty of hogs in other locations around the county but not so many here because they are fair game and the minute they start running around someone's going to put a stop to them. Lots of Orange Grove owners actually pay trappers to go out and remove them. If you're fortunate you can get a Grove owner to allow you to hunt but a lot of them are scared of liability with guns in the Grove now. Still eagerly awaiting the arrival of my crosman 2240 pistol. I did get some of my 18 grain pellets delivered today.
This one here looks really interesting. 22 caliber CO2 that comes with two barrels and a removable stock for either a pistol carbine or rifle configuration. Single shot bolt action with an optional 7 round rotary magazine for $22. Should I do it? I'm thinking about it. Super lightweight for a rifle too at less than 3 lb.
And.... I ordered the above. We didn't have near this amount of air gun options when I was a boy. Though several of the classics were around back then and they are still there to this day.... Such as the crosman 2240 at the top. I want to say they first made that gun early 60s or possibly even late 50s ? I believe I read it but I haven't done much research but now that I'm curious I might go look it up
@SiNNiK a link to my question above. Fascinating history https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2005/06/crosman-air-pistols-then-now/
I have a Sheridan pump. It is a 5mm pellet. I use it for pests. In fact two pumps is just enough to not kill the pigeon instantly so they don't die in my roof. So they fly away and someone's cat gets a meal.
when I was a kid , the Sheridan pump up was the elite air gun. But my dad had a "hi Skore" spring gun made by RWS-Diana (current name) I got a catalog from Robert Law's long gone Air Rifle Headquarters and later a WEIRAUCH HW55 target model. I still have it 50 years later. the spring air guns were far superior to the multi pump pneumatics, and far more accurate. I do have a couple PCP rigs and my son has a compressor to fill them.
Y'all wouldn't believe the shipping restrictions on air guns to certain towns and municipalities right here in the USA. Off the top of my head I remember restrictions and Jersey and I believe New York and DC and of course several other locations. One of which even requires the air gun to be shipped to a firearms dealer for pickups. Isn't that crazy? When they tell you they're not out to ban guns I refer you to the above information. Maybe I'll even start a thread on US air gun laws. But for now I still live in the Free State of Florida where I can pick up my phone and order any air gun I want and have it shipped to my door. Isn't capitalism great?
Look at all of these items prohibited by state listing. https://www.replicaairguns.com/us-shipping-restrictions
When they tell us they're not coming after the firearms all you have to do is look at air gun laws in the USA. If they are that tight on air guns there's no question they want the guns.
I think I have an ancient thread around here that is a nice article by Dr Robert beaman who had a lot to do with air gun lobbying back in the day when they were making laws. If I remember reading correctly there is something in federal laws that prevents the government from ever classifying air guns as a firearm like so many other Nanny State countries do.
