🥳 Are you celebrating your airgun ANNIVERSARY? 🥳

[JungleShooter]

Are you celebrating your airgun anniversary?


I am so thankful for this!
TODAY
8 (eight) years ago —
I started the airgun adventure!


With a $99 bottom-of-the-barrel Hatsan springer.
To enjoy it for father-son activities.


TODAY
I can't believe just how far down I have fallen into the AG rabbit hole....!


Matthias



WHEN did you started on your airgunning journey?

WHAT got you started, what motivated you?

What GUN did you start with?

➠ Share your anniversary with us!

 

[Gerry52]

Next month I'll have been a member of AGN for 8 years. I got into PCP's approximately a year & a couple months before I found this great community. Can't believe that much time has passed. I guess the old saying is true, "Time's fun when you're having flies" !! I just never seem to grow weary of it. There's always a sense of excitement the day before I'm going to shoot, whether alone or with the friends I've made through this forum. Getting into this years back has brought gifts I couldn't foresee nor conceive of. So glad I've been driven to stick with it & reap benefits that have made life SO much more enjoyable & beneficial than I'd realized was possible. There's a LOT of company down here in the Rabbit Hole

My progession of guns has been:
Gamo Varmint Hunter .22
Benjamin Discovery .22
Benjamin Marauder .22
Hatsan AT44 .22
Hatsan BT65 .22
Hatsan BT65 .25
FX Royale 500 .25
FX Boss .30
FX Bobcat .22
Edun R3 .22
NOTE: The FX ROYALE, BOSS & Edgun are the only ones I have now (or for that matter, need).

 

[coastal drifter]

many moons ago I had a friend who gave me one of his BB guns. Years passed and I seen airguns (Beeman) advertised and wanted one but the prices were outrageous and out of my range. One day in the mid 80s as an adult I was in a pawn shop and seen a RWS34 with a scope, the guy wanted $100 bucks and I couldn't resist. Great gun, very accurate. I loaned it to a "friend" who moved out of state with it. A few more years passed before I decided I wanted another air rifle and purchased an RWS48 in 177. What I didn't know then was the gun was to powerful for such a light pellet and though it was accurate at close ranges the pellet got squirrely the longer the distance to the target. It was about a year later I seen some dude on YouTube (Teds Holdover) shooting tiny groups out to 50 yards and popping sparrows at ranges beyond and thought this can't be for real but finally gave in to temptation and bought a $2,000 dollar air gun. Yes, it was for real, and the gun was a FX Bobcat .25 which I had to pay extra to have regulated at the time when AOA was selling FX products. Anyway, that's how my air gun journey began and I have since been through a few more very nice air guns $$$. I have no regrets.

 

[6gun]

Are you celebrating your airgun anniversary?


TODAY
8 (eight) years ago —
I started the airgun adventure!


With a $99 bottom-of-the-barrel Hatsan springer.
To enjoy it for father-son activities.


TODAY
I can't believe just how far down I have fallen into the AG rabbit hole....!


Matthias



WHEN did you started on your airgunning journey?

WHAT got you started, what motivated you?

What GUN did you start with?

➠ Share your anniversary with us!

I celebrate every day.

Got my first airgun in 1995, my dad's old American classic rear cocker 1377

My neighbor friends growing up had bb guns and I wanted one badly.

My dad bought me a new benjamin 392 shortly after that I had to pump in a hilarious way as an 10 year old kid.

I still have 16 of the 17 airguns I've ever had. The 17th lost its nitro piston(and I didn't like it) . 30 years later I celebrate that 1995 Christmas EVERY SINGLE DAY.

 

[UDABEGGER]

Like an old time Mormon there are to many to recall !

 

[Goldwing]

I'd rather celebrate getting out of the hobby and selling everything off and make that my anniversary
There's just too much crap you have to have to pull the trigger and minimizing to less makes me happy
I'll stick to a 45 for home protection and be done with it

 

[coastal drifter]

I'd rather celebrate getting out of the hobby and selling everything off and make that my anniversary
There's just too much crap you have to have to pull the trigger and minimizing to less makes me happy
I'll stick to a 45 for home protection and be done with it
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I get it

 

[Vana2]

Started with a .177 Slavia 618 break-barrel as a kid in the mid 60's and then graduated to my father's .22 Crosman 101 multi-pump. Still have and shoot both of them.

Did a lot of gunsmithing for friends and owned/traded a bunch of .177 springers before taking the typical hiatus to rimfires, shotguns and centerfires.

Missed airguns so I invested $200 (a ridiculous amount of money back in '82) for a Feinwerkbau 124. While researching how to replace the FWB 124 piston (about 15 years ago) I stumbled into the rabbit hole of modern airguns.

Curiosity has lead me to try many popular airguns and I have 25-plus in the cabinets.

I'm NOT addicted to airguns - I can quit any time! I have to admit that I've already called "last gun" four times, ...the FX Leopard on order IS THE LAST ONE (I think)

I've been a member of AGN for 10 years now. Though it's turned out to be expensive, but I can't think of a better place to relax and spend time.

Cheers!

 

[maxtrouble]

Are you celebrating your airgun anniversary?


I am so thankful for this!
TODAY
8 (eight) years ago —
I started the airgun adventure!


With a $99 bottom-of-the-barrel Hatsan springer.
To enjoy it for father-son activities.


TODAY
I can't believe just how far down I have fallen into the AG rabbit hole....!


Matthias



WHEN did you started on your airgunning journey?

WHAT got you started, what motivated you?

What GUN did you start with?

➠ Share your anniversary with us!

Purchased my first pellet rifle in 1994. Picked up a RWS 34 with a 4x Tasco.

Purchased my first PCP from Pyramyd in 2016. Rabbit hole found.

Found Weirhauchs in 2020. Rabbit hole turned into a Rabbit Express.

Purchased my last one (I'm serious this time, really) last December.

However, those HW97kt walnuts in .25 look really cool.... The pellets would be so easy to load...Nope, Nope Nope!

 

[Just Zack 2]

Was gifted a Crosman 2200 for my first airgun. Never thought much about airguns aside from plinking. Gave it away years later and got a Daisy 880, again just for plinking. In 2010/2011 (I forget exactly) someone I knew needed help clearing out some critters and firearms weren't an option do to proximity to cattle. So after a bit of searching I ended up with a new Crosman Nitro Venom .177. That gun sent me down the rabbit hole, as well as all the learning curves.

 

[sekiar]

Started in about 1948 with a Daisy model 25 and shortly I went to pb guns and got back in airguns in the 80's and now have have over a100 guns. Think I just stick where I'm at and enjoy what I have and at 85 years old who knows how many I'll wear out! ha Charles