Air Guns should come with warning lables

[hooter13]

WARNING : "Shooting air guns can become extremely habit forming and lead to hours of mindless fun". That statement should be etched on every barrel.
As a retired police officer and someone who has been shooting "powder burners" most of my life (and I have the hearing loss to prove it) I thought I would try this air gun thing. Low noise, cheap ammo, shoot in my backyard, extremely well made guns and very accurate, what's not to like? So I stopped by Airguns Of Arizona, talked to Kip P and walked out with a Weihrauch HW 80 with a Hawk scope. That was about five years ago. Now I'm looking at a gun rack with 10 rifles and 3 pistols of all types on it. There is enough lead in my back yard to open a mine. Not to mention the air compressors, tools, scales and targets to feed this addiction. My latest drug of choice is a PBBA in .308 "big bore". Having a ball experimenting with different types of ammo and power settings. Looks like it loves these 112gr hp bullets from High Arc Hunter. For a gun not advertised to be a "tac driver" but more of a "hunting rifle" I am getting 1/2" to 5/8th" groups at 50 yards. And I just started to tune it. I'll move out to 100 yds next, then 200. (I will post more about that on the Ammo page). My point here is that every gun has a sweet spot. You just have to find it and that's where most of the fun is for me. If it was easy it wouldn't be fun.

 

[Brian10956]

Welcome to the site. I have found that this place hasbeen a great site to find answers and a nice bunch of air gun enthusiasts .

 

[Joekrooz]

You know what I find funny about this hobby? When you think you have the worst airgun addiction out of anybody, then you meet someone that’s just as addicted as you or somebody that’s even worse!

 

[JohnL57]

I appreciate you folks-makes me seem almost normal......

 

[sonny]

I own a crossman 1377, rws model 48,fx bobcat and a fx impact and im not hooked! I might get a wildcat and maybe a crown then im done....oh yeah a HW95 luxus

 

[hawkeye69]

Well I suppose I'm addicted having bought 4 rifles and an air compressor, and I'm less than a year into PCPs. Eyeing up a Crown now... but I'm having a difficult time coming up with a way to justify it even to myself.

 

[Keyman62421]

You think we ought to form a support group, airguns anonymous?

 

[texagdds]

Agree - I pretty much come to this site to help me remember there are others who have the same passion... and to drool over the new stuff. 

 

[hooter13]

Hello,
My name is hooter, and I'm an air gun addict.
(all together now) "Hello hooter"

I think AA is already taken (don't ask how I know) how about AGA?

 

[Brian10956]

I’m on the 12 step program every month I get another gun 

 

[T3PRanch]

Only 10 rifles .... come on your not trying very hard. I am about to run out of fingers and toes! lol
Wait a minute we only have 20 total of those so I am out of fingers and toes by 2.

Thurmond

 

[wheelie]

Airguns are fun. I took a leave of absence of 45 years and then came back to them. LOL

 

[Sumo22]

I agree they should come with label's. I remember growing up and receiving my first pump action daisy .177 it was the greatest thing ever. Over time I grew up and started shooting center fire rifles. I came back to the air guns once again this time with a PCP! Let me tell you I'm in love all over again. Hope to keep adding to the collection overtime.

 

[hdrk1111]

Yea I’m on a 12 step program too, 12 steps away from the ole lady throwing me out. So worth it though ?

 

[AirgunnerSC]

I don't shoot powder burners , but I wonder if they have the same addiction as us air gunners. My budget is the only thing that keeps me in check. Oh and the misses of the house.

 

[BEN342R]

I’m working on the lead deposits in my backyard. I have the 365 day per year setup complete with Jotul wood stove, music, chrony, and beer fridge. I’ll shoot three hours or more. No worries about being in the doghouse now

The target is from one of my in the rain ballistic testing sessions

 

[bigdaves40]

Ya guess I started the way a lot of you guys did. When i was 8 yrs old my dad gave me his 22lr bolt gun that his dad gave him at 8. Of coarse he tought me how to handle the gun safely. Then he told me a gun is still dangerous with out lock stock or barrell, they will beat you to death with the ram rod!! And i got in to NRA youth shooting went as high as I could go. One of my buddies had a beaman pump up 22 air rifle. And we killed a ton of tree rats with it. But I still stayed with powder burners. The in the 1997 a bought a Daisey break barrell .177 and killed a bunch of squires. And a cyoto head shot. 20 yards. Still have the gun. Then 2 yrs ago I bought a Gamo break .177 and worked on the tree rats the year at my house. I did even know about pcp's and a year ago I was inlightened lol. Now I have 6 pcps from .177 to .357 I love this hobbie. DAVE

 

[Saltlake58]

Maybe we aren't as bad as we think. My son, just to buy something totally unusable in my opinion, just bought an AR-15 chambered in, wait for it, wait for it -

​.50 Beowulf.

It's a nuts caliber. It's a half inch hand canon! What on earth would youu use it for other than to say you've got a .50. No, we don't have elephants here. Of course, he was just outdoing the other son that just acquired a 45-70 in Stainless. Both guns were well over $1000, and I'll bet they can't hit the broad side of a barn with either. Just too much gun and ammunition is so expensive that they'll never shoot enough to really master the guns.

​So, that makes me spending $1500 on a used Impact seem a bit more normal. At least my ammunition is around a nickel ($.05) per round, where there's is about $1.50 per pull of the trigger. Oh, and the should injuries I'll avoid! I'll be laughing at both of them when they go to the range and spend a paycheck to shoot for an hour, while I shoot for under $20 for 350 rounds. Or in other words, for every time they pull the trigger, I can shoot two magazines. I like that math.

​The best part is I'll out shoot them for accuracy, and when we go home, I'll get to listen to both of them complain about their shoulders.

Maybe this hobby isn't as nuts as we'd like to believe??

 

[Geared4fun]

In not addicted, i can stop anytime I just don't want to. Really I'm telling you i can. I don't have to shoot I just like to. I'll trade you this DVD player for some pellets, come on man just a few wad cutters to get me true tonight.

 

[jvrobert]

Cracks me up, it's bad with powder burners but seems even worse with airguns and it's not like they're really any/much cheaper. And you come around here and read about people just "picking up" $2500 airguns and then I get the idea in the back of my head "well, this guy did it, why not it's not _that_ much money....".

It's a bizarre cult of enablement, lol.