Greeting everyone. I'm a new member 77 years old located in Seminary, MS USA. I've been a powder burner for all my life but transitioned to airguns last summer. Started with Hatsan Airtact refurb but didn't like the trigger. Tried another Hatson with their Quatro trigger but didn't like pulling up instead of pulling back so sold both Hatsans and bought a Ruger Airhawk (Chinese rifle). Trigger wsn't very good so bought a Beeman R7 - good trigger. Recently bought a Benjamin Fortitude PCP.
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Howdy Buk. I also am 77 have a son in Madison, he met a girl while in law school in Jackson and stayed, and have a sister in Port Gibson. I started a bit earlier. I first saw a fairly nice airgun about 50 years ago while stationed in Turkey. It was at a NATO rod and gun club and everyone was cocking and dry firing. I honestly did not know that was something bad but passed on it anyway. Fast forward a couple of years and I got back to Eglin AFB at Ft Walton Fla, and no place to shoot my centerfire rifles, so researched and got a nice FWB 124. Living in E Texas now, and it's 50 miles one way to the closest nice range, so when my grandson got interested in guns , I had it rebuilt and have gradually built up several CO2 pistols, rebuilt several of the old nicer Daisy 747 and 777 types, and purchased some nice rifles and pistol. Really have more than I need but they are fun and I can step out my back door shoot a bit and come back in, At least I don't have a couple hours plus a bit in travel time to a range, plus the price of rather expensive ammo now, even If I reload, and can come in and warm up or cool down depending on weather. Never had the desire to go PCP route, staying with springers or single stroke pneumatics.
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Welcome aboard! Call your bank, extend your line of credit AND tell your wife she's going to be neglected 
This rabbit hole is DEEP!
This rabbit hole is DEEP!
Powder burners became too much trouble. I live in the country but, if I wanted to shoot, my range needed bush hogging and the bush hog wasn't on the tractor. Now I can sit on my porch, enjoy an adult beverage, and shoot across my yard (45 feet) and enjoy shooting again,
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Welcome Buk. You came to the right place. Lots of helpful people here, no matter what you shoot.
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Welcome. I hope you bought a compressor for the fortitude and don't just use a pump. We old guys can use exercise but not that much.
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enjoy the world of air guns!
Hello Buk, welcome to AGN. Glad to hear you have an R7. Great rifle, every household should have one. Best target for an R7 is a soup can with a long piece of string through the top or side to hang from. Shoot the heck out of it and it always returns to zero. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. That game was a hoot.
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