Hello to everyone at AGN,
This is the first introduction I have done on any forum-previously I have just jumped right in. Anyway, here goes:
I have been a lifelong shooter and I received my first air rifle, a "Benjamin Franklin" .177 pump-up around 1972. I shot that rifle a lot for about 3 years until I graduated to a .22 and the Benjamin was forgotten. It took 40 years before my next air rifle. In the intervening time, I explored the full gamut of water fowling and bird hunting with dogs, deer hunting, dabbled in pistol shooting, etc. and had my introduction to formal rifle competition in 2009. I am a member of a longstanding group who shoot NRA 4-position smallbore indoors every Tuesday evening thru the winter months. In the fall of 2015, the club we were shooting at told us that due to concerns about indoor lead issues, there would be no more indoor firearm use at all. Several of us went to a neighboring club and started an indoor air rifle group. It was there I began shooting a Feinwerkbau C60, which evolved into a Feinwerkbau 800W nearly 3 years ago. We blend in a little 10 meter standing early and late in the season, but for the bulk of the winter we shoot 4-P at 50 feet like we did when we were a smallbore group. Some of us also shoot at home at 33 feet to try to get two nights of shooting in per week. Most of our group shoot and compete in other disciplines, but we all truly look forward to and enjoy the winter air rifle season. I compete in club level prone and 4-position shooting and during a typical winter, I would attend one match per month. I also compete in NRA smallbore prone in the summer and have dabbled in CMP high power.
I have been a member of Rimfire Central and Target Talk for a number of years under the same username and occasionally turn in scores on RFC to the air rifle offhand match and smallbore monthly offhand match and prone match. I have been focusing on prone this past year, including practicing in my house with my Feinwerkbau 800.
I am not about to give up shooting powder burners, but I believe air rifles will play an increasing part of my shooting enjoyment as time progresses and am looking toward including air rifles in my outdoor shooting outings. Field Target sounds interesting, but so does simple range time outside with an air rifle. My winter 4-P group taught me shooting air rifles is just as fun and rewarding as smallbore, and more affordable(regarding the ammunition) too.
A little long, but there it is.
Brian
This is the first introduction I have done on any forum-previously I have just jumped right in. Anyway, here goes:
I have been a lifelong shooter and I received my first air rifle, a "Benjamin Franklin" .177 pump-up around 1972. I shot that rifle a lot for about 3 years until I graduated to a .22 and the Benjamin was forgotten. It took 40 years before my next air rifle. In the intervening time, I explored the full gamut of water fowling and bird hunting with dogs, deer hunting, dabbled in pistol shooting, etc. and had my introduction to formal rifle competition in 2009. I am a member of a longstanding group who shoot NRA 4-position smallbore indoors every Tuesday evening thru the winter months. In the fall of 2015, the club we were shooting at told us that due to concerns about indoor lead issues, there would be no more indoor firearm use at all. Several of us went to a neighboring club and started an indoor air rifle group. It was there I began shooting a Feinwerkbau C60, which evolved into a Feinwerkbau 800W nearly 3 years ago. We blend in a little 10 meter standing early and late in the season, but for the bulk of the winter we shoot 4-P at 50 feet like we did when we were a smallbore group. Some of us also shoot at home at 33 feet to try to get two nights of shooting in per week. Most of our group shoot and compete in other disciplines, but we all truly look forward to and enjoy the winter air rifle season. I compete in club level prone and 4-position shooting and during a typical winter, I would attend one match per month. I also compete in NRA smallbore prone in the summer and have dabbled in CMP high power.
I have been a member of Rimfire Central and Target Talk for a number of years under the same username and occasionally turn in scores on RFC to the air rifle offhand match and smallbore monthly offhand match and prone match. I have been focusing on prone this past year, including practicing in my house with my Feinwerkbau 800.
I am not about to give up shooting powder burners, but I believe air rifles will play an increasing part of my shooting enjoyment as time progresses and am looking toward including air rifles in my outdoor shooting outings. Field Target sounds interesting, but so does simple range time outside with an air rifle. My winter 4-P group taught me shooting air rifles is just as fun and rewarding as smallbore, and more affordable(regarding the ammunition) too.
A little long, but there it is.
Brian
