Thought this would be fun. My first one was the Daisy 105 Buck
N/A What was your First Airgun?
- Thread starter Northwoods
- Start date
Purchased a 2012 RWS Diana 48 in .177, back in 2012; still have it and shoot it regularly! Iron sights and accurate!
Upvote 0
First, besides my Daisy Red Rider, was my Dad's Crosman 102. I finally stepped up to an FWB 124D from the original ARH. I still own it, and on its second tune via Motorhead of Northern California.
Upvote 0
Never mind the interloper Red Ryder, the Crosman V350 from around circa 1962 and the Crosman 140 from around 1964, both Christmas presents, could be off a year, long time ago. Both still shoot just fine.
Last edited:
Upvote 0
My first air rifle was a Daisy model 25, I was about five or six years old and had been bugging my folks to get me a BB gun, several months later on Christmas morning I found a long slender box under the Christmas Tree wrapped in Christmas paper and sporting a big red bow.
I full expected to unwrap the package and find a Daisy Red Ryder BB rifle, I'll admit to being a bit disappointed when I hefted the model 25 pump gun, but it didn't take long to recover from the disappointment, after all it was a real BB gun, and it wasn't a bad looking rifle.
However, as those of you who have owned a model 25 can attest, they are not an easy rifle to pump, especially at only six years old, I had to place the stock on the ground, grasp the pump handle with both hands and through all of my body weight into working the linkage hard enough to cock the action.
But, as I got older or my arms built muscle it got easier, by late spring going into early summer I was pretty good at getting it loaded pretty quick, that model 25 was accurate, that first summer after receiving that pump gun I spent a good part of my days on Safari hunting the huge grasshoppers that hid out in the three foot tall grass that was so plentiful around our property, I got so that I could hit them on the wing as they flew off the hay like grass, you can talk about your pheasant hunts or deer hunting the big woods of the great north east, I'll tell you what my friends they didn't compare to the adventure of a six year old pushing through the boy tall grass and pitting your skills against those monster grasshoppers of my youth.
I full expected to unwrap the package and find a Daisy Red Ryder BB rifle, I'll admit to being a bit disappointed when I hefted the model 25 pump gun, but it didn't take long to recover from the disappointment, after all it was a real BB gun, and it wasn't a bad looking rifle.
However, as those of you who have owned a model 25 can attest, they are not an easy rifle to pump, especially at only six years old, I had to place the stock on the ground, grasp the pump handle with both hands and through all of my body weight into working the linkage hard enough to cock the action.
But, as I got older or my arms built muscle it got easier, by late spring going into early summer I was pretty good at getting it loaded pretty quick, that model 25 was accurate, that first summer after receiving that pump gun I spent a good part of my days on Safari hunting the huge grasshoppers that hid out in the three foot tall grass that was so plentiful around our property, I got so that I could hit them on the wing as they flew off the hay like grass, you can talk about your pheasant hunts or deer hunting the big woods of the great north east, I'll tell you what my friends they didn't compare to the adventure of a six year old pushing through the boy tall grass and pitting your skills against those monster grasshoppers of my youth.
Upvote 0
Almost the same exact story here except i was 8 , same sort of disappointment till i shot it . MY best friend got a RR which is of course what every boy wanted . But it did not take long to figure my 25 was a bit more FPE and quite a bit more accurate too .
YOU do know the model 25 is still in production ? but it cost a lot more than the $11.00 my Dad paid . Way back then .
Upvote 0
First one as a kid was a Daisy model 25. My first one this go around was in 2013... a Walmart Black Friday Daisy 880 for $24. It's been a downhill slide into the rabbit hole ever since.
Upvote 0
I can't tell you how many times I have almost ordered a new one, but they just aren't the same, at lest not what I remember, besides I have more air guns than I have room to keep them, I promised myself that I wouldn't buy any more air rifles a couple of years ago, before my HW-80k, and my Diana two fifty, and to get them I had to give away a couple of my older rifles to my son.
As it is I don't get to shoot all the ones I have as much as I'd like.
It's nice to have talked with you my friend, maybe we'll do it again some time.
Upvote 0
It was a Crosman 760 for Christmas in 1979. I was 10 years old. The poor birds on my grandparents property never knew what hit them. I still have that 760 but it does need some new seals. Then in 1986 I bought myself a Beeman R10 Deluxe in .20. Now that was a great improvement over the 760. I still have that one too. A great member here on our forum rebuilt it for me just a couple years ago and brought her back to life.
Kenny
Kenny
Upvote 0