What was your first air gun as a kid?

[outrider58]

Mine I got in my early 20s

 

[Glaron]

Daisy air pump something or other. Think I remeber the damn number? I had to be like 12.

 

[teratos]

My brother's Ted Williams "El Dorado" (made by Daisy)

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Yep. My shooting partner had a not so fancy version. When we were 8.

 

[outrider58]

Yep. My shooting partner had a not so fancy version. When we were 8.

We put a lot of BBs and pellets through that thing for sure. I bet my brother still has it.

 

[MTplinker]

Plastic-stocked Daisy lever action BB gun with the annoying safety that always put it on safe after you cocked it. Talk about muscle memory- to this day I’ll thumb it off every time. My first target was a trash can lid at the old cabin, which I could hit most of the time.

Could spot the BBs on their parabolic path. Learned to hold high to get stubborn soda cans to tip over.

 

[DeadInside]

Daisy Red Rider, then Crosman 760...Then Sheridan Blue Streak 5mm,

Yep a Sheridan was the goal for my next upgrade in airguns but got distracted with little league baseball, BMX, motocross, then girls and cars…and never got one. By the time I got back into shooting it was 22 rifles and my 9mm Taurus (Beretta 92 clone) instead of air guns.

 

[JoeRinMD]

Mine I got in my early 20s

Outrider, I had (and still have) a S&W Model 78G. I was about 15 when I bought as my first "firearm" with earnings from delivering the Washington Post in Prince Georges County. It's a decent target airgun, but the seals don't seem to last.

One interesting anecdote... In high school, my physics teacher encouraged his students to experiment. One of the pieces of equipment in the physics lab was an air-track that could be used to teach about dynamics of motion. I convinced him to let me do an experiment to calculate the speed of the pellet based on an inelastic collision with a target. I attached a coffee can to the slider of the air-track, and set up a strobe camera to measure the velocity of the target after impact. Turns out the .22 pellet had a muzzle velocity of ~650 fps.

Can you imagine doing something like that today???

With encouragement like that, about a year later, I was applying to mechanical engineering programs for college.

JoeR

 

[outrider58]

Outrider, I had (and still have) a S&W Model 78G. I was about 15 when I bought as my first "firearm" with earnings from delivering the Washington Post in Prince Georges County. It's a decent target airgun, but the seals don't seem to last.

One interesting anecdote... In high school, my physics teacher encouraged his students to experiment. One of the pieces of equipment in the physics lab was an air-track that could be used to teach about dynamics of motion. I convinced him to let me do an experiment to calculate the speed of the pellet based on an inelastic collision with a target. I attached a coffee can to the slider of the air-track, and set up a strobe camera to measure the velocity of the target after impact. Turns out the .22 pellet had a muzzle velocity of ~650 fps.

Can you imagine doing something like that today???

With encouragement like that, about a year later, I was applying to mechanical engineering programs for college.

JoeR

That's pretty cool!
I bought a seal kit for mine a couple years ago but it didn't work. One of these days, I'll send it off to have it professionally rebuilt. It was a great mouse gun. I killed a bunch in my house when it was newly built 36 years ago. The old pasture land was full of field mice.

 

[Atlasarmory]

Crosman 73​

 

[Glaron]

A daisy pump air rifle that I had to share with my brother. Trust me, that just made things worse.

Guessing something like this.

Daisy Powerline 880 Multi-Pump Pneumatic - Daisy

The Daisy Powerline 880 is the standard for all multi-pump pneumatic air rifles. Shoots BBs or .177 caliber pellets at 800 feet per second.

www.daisy.com

 

[Clay]

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^^^This was mine, first "gun" as a matter of fact. Probably spent hundreds if not thousands of hours with this thing out in the back yard....would also have a lot of fun with the darts it could shoot in the kitchen. Great memories.

I had the exact same one. Brings back many happy memories

 

[Clay]

Benjamin 22. Brass and walnut. Gave it to my son, still works fine

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Mine was something like this.

 

[Doctor_M]

How many on this tread shot their eye out???

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

How many on this tread shot their eye out???

My stepdad. His uncle shot his eye out, so stepdad had a glass eye as long as I knew him.

 

[RoadDawg]

How many on this tread shot their eye out???

I know one kid who shot another kid’s tooth out.

 

[Glaron]

How many on this tread shot their eye out???

I left a permanent dent in the bathtub...

We were sinking this Bismack in the bathtub. Taking turns with the rifle.

 

[Decoy]

Crosman Model 760 then a Crosman Model 1377

 

[HiStandards]

Daisy Model 179 "Six Gun". Age 12 no adult involved purchase at Kmart. Still have it.

 

[RoadDawg]

Daisy BB rifle.

When there were no BBs left… the insides were removed from the barrel, the barrel was jammed into the dirt, and when the trigger was pulled, a big cloud of “smoke” came out. Hey, I was six. It looked like gun smoke.