It seems like there should be an "Introduce Yourself" sticky as an icebreaker for the people that are new to the sport and don't know enough to make an intelligent contribution to any of the existing threads. Having said that, and by way of introduction, this is how I landed on the AN web page.
I live in a populated area of SoCal and our neighborhood is becoming over-populated with gophers. Our daughter had one pop up in her backyard and I took the opportunity to bring out my Winchester 1000x (made in China) and do a little backyard plinking. I haven't used it for many months and it took a couple of warm-up shots to get used to that horrible terrible trigger. She became concerned over the noise we were making so we ended the session after a dozen or so shots, but it left me longing for more.
So now I find myself looking down the rabbit hole of yet another hobby. Originally I thought of taking this to the backyard with a LDC-equipped rifle/carbine but the way things are in the world today I don't want to cause a fuss so I think moving indoors would be the better option for the time being. We have a long hallway that might work, and I've got my eye on the Notos/PPxxx/Bandit carbines...but I've always always always lusted for that powder-burning Luger that I could never afford and I almost bought one of the air-powered Lugers on an impulse...but I just can't make the leap to CO2...yet...because I don't know enough about CO2 power. My prejudice towards CO2 comes from when I was a kid and couldn't afford the CO2 powerlets on my lunch money.
I have several BB guns and a few Daisy 760/66 pellet guns, given as prizes for early entrance to the Shooting Sports Fairs that they had in the area decades ago. [Just now noticed that the Daisy 66 is a much heavier barrel than the 760]. Besides the Chinese Winchester, notably, I have a Benjamin pump pistol in .22cal (similar in appearance to the 132 or 137) that I bought in the early 70s...I just need to find it
And I think I still have my old Daisy Model 25 pump that I had as a kid, but I haven't seen that one in many years. As a kid, I used to smuggle that one out of the house, broken down, in a paper bag...I keep thinking it's probably in a paper bag in some forgotten corner of a closet. I know it didn't get stolen or thrown away, so it's around here someplace.
I haven't spent any money yet, but it's a good thing that Notos is out of stock!
I live in a populated area of SoCal and our neighborhood is becoming over-populated with gophers. Our daughter had one pop up in her backyard and I took the opportunity to bring out my Winchester 1000x (made in China) and do a little backyard plinking. I haven't used it for many months and it took a couple of warm-up shots to get used to that horrible terrible trigger. She became concerned over the noise we were making so we ended the session after a dozen or so shots, but it left me longing for more.
So now I find myself looking down the rabbit hole of yet another hobby. Originally I thought of taking this to the backyard with a LDC-equipped rifle/carbine but the way things are in the world today I don't want to cause a fuss so I think moving indoors would be the better option for the time being. We have a long hallway that might work, and I've got my eye on the Notos/PPxxx/Bandit carbines...but I've always always always lusted for that powder-burning Luger that I could never afford and I almost bought one of the air-powered Lugers on an impulse...but I just can't make the leap to CO2...yet...because I don't know enough about CO2 power. My prejudice towards CO2 comes from when I was a kid and couldn't afford the CO2 powerlets on my lunch money.
I have several BB guns and a few Daisy 760/66 pellet guns, given as prizes for early entrance to the Shooting Sports Fairs that they had in the area decades ago. [Just now noticed that the Daisy 66 is a much heavier barrel than the 760]. Besides the Chinese Winchester, notably, I have a Benjamin pump pistol in .22cal (similar in appearance to the 132 or 137) that I bought in the early 70s...I just need to find it
And I think I still have my old Daisy Model 25 pump that I had as a kid, but I haven't seen that one in many years. As a kid, I used to smuggle that one out of the house, broken down, in a paper bag...I keep thinking it's probably in a paper bag in some forgotten corner of a closet. I know it didn't get stolen or thrown away, so it's around here someplace.I haven't spent any money yet, but it's a good thing that Notos is out of stock!
