What was your first air gun as a kid?

[ToBeFree]

Ha ha.
A straw and a bag of dried green peas or white beans.

Good times.

 

[LuckyBoy]

I had a Pneumatic pump, .177 cal. Enjoyed many hours of plinking in the woods out behind my parents home with this air rifle.

 

[outrider58]

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

I came within a half an inch or so.

 

[JohnnyE]

Sheridan Blue Streak, 5mm/.20 cal. pump. Bought it while in junior high from my best friend and took it home on my bicycle. I still have it. Shoots great.

 

[Trekker]

Mine I got in my early 20s

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I got to my mid-30s before getting an air rifle, a diana model 48.

Though for usage only, I enjoyed the use of the BB guns (make/model unknown) at summer boy scout camp.
Makeshift targets from styrofoam were put out on the range, and unlike the 22lr, there was no limit (aside from time slots) for the BB guns.

 

[Melnic]

Crosman 73​

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I think this is the one I had. I do remember lever action and C02. I would have purchased in 1980.
Paid for it after a spring paper route.
you could easily "Rifleman" repeat it with the buttstock on your hip and your finger in the right place.
I would take it to the lake and shoot off 10 or so (don't recall its capacity) and scan it from side to side.
Back before "airsoft" or "Paintball" We would have bb gun wars wearing our dirt bike helmets and goggles. Made face shields with card board. Thick winter jackets but i hitting your hand it would sting. No one ever got close enough to really hurt. but since Everyone else had a spring loaded lever action. I pretty much had the advantage unless someone burried themselves under leaves and sniped me.

 

[Muleskinner]

Red Ryder

 

[Dingo222]

Daisy power line 880. I took many quail and other things with that BB gun. When I ran out of bb’s we would put pieces of dried white rice in it and shoot what we could. Good times!

 

[Roksfr]

Crossman 760 Pumpmaster, killed squirrels, might have shot my sister ( no one ever proved it "it wasn't me") she had a pink daisy. And now-- now because of Beavisman1 I have to add one to my safe.

 

[Raiderjack23]

Crosman 760.

Used to have BB gun battles in the woods. It was all good and ‘safe’ as we had rules.

Three pumps or less and had to shoot low - stomach and lower.

Seemed reasonable then. Amazingly stupid now. Luckily no one was a budding psycho.

Will say some had suspect counting skills when it came to the number of pumps.


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[hippkid88]

My first was the Daisy Model 26, which looked identical to the Remington 572 Fieldmaster pump 22. It happened almost exactly like the movie "A Christmas Story", where I had opened all of my Christmas gifts and I figured - "Not this year.". Then, my Mom went to her bedroom and brought out long, skinny, wrapped package with a red bow and I knew immediately what it was!

 

[ralph.mclean]

Daisy lever action, but not a Red Ryder. I was about 10. When I was about 12, I bought a Crossman pistol that shot BBs, pellets, or darts, and it came with a dartboard. My grandfather gave me the last $5 dollars so I had enough to buy it myself. Got it at the hardware store in Marshall, VA, on the way to our cabin in Front Royal. Still have the gun, the dartboard, and even a few of the darts, 50 years later....

 

[Chat-Bot]

Not mine but some handgun and the first thing I did was shoot my thumb with it to see if it was loaded.

Life of a pre-teen.

 

[Sirex]

I don't remember the model number. It was a bolt action Crossman, with a forend pump. The bolt tip was magnetic to hold the BB. I used to cut the tip off nails and shoot them at GI Joe figures.

 

[wilcam47]

Daisey 760 pump. I killed a lot of small game with it

 

[brianns]

Daisy 880

 

[MarkinMD]

Daisy model 25 was first, then model 1894, a few years later I got a Crosman 600 pistol.

 

[JohnnyE]

Red Ryder

How is your vision?

 

[Pyramid]

Sheridan Silver Streak, 5mm/.20cal. Still have it and works fine.

 

[Muleskinner]

How is your vision?

Terrible. I got soap blindness