Same order for me got a .22 firearm at age 6 to keep the strawberry patch safe but I started airguns at 12.
Upvote 0
What was your first Pellet Rifle?
- Thread starter Bear-of-Grayling
- Start date
Have either of you been playing with one in a Grade 11 English class and accidentally started it inside your desk?
Did anyone notice?
Upvote 0
Back in the first months of 1975 I bought a FWB 124d. I had just gotten back from a USAF tour in Turkey. We had a NATO rod and gun club and I had seen a break barrel, make unknown. The Turks running the gunshop, where mostly shotguns were being sold, as rifled firearms were not allowed had gotten one in and was letting everyone cock and dry fire it and that just did not seem right to me, so I passed on it but did not forget.
Got home and discovered Air Rifle Headquarters, sent off and got one of their catalogs and studied it for a couple of months before deciding on the FWB, which I still have.
I had started back about the 3rd grade with some Daisy BB gun, all I remember is that it was a lever action with a plastic stock and an adjustable rear sight. Wore it out and dad got me another. Even then he took me out to shoot a .22 Rifle and later pistol. And when I finished high school he got me a Winchester Model 70 30-06, and a few years later when I finished college I bought a S&W K 38 target pistol, and then started acquiring more firearms over the years.
Got home and discovered Air Rifle Headquarters, sent off and got one of their catalogs and studied it for a couple of months before deciding on the FWB, which I still have.
I had started back about the 3rd grade with some Daisy BB gun, all I remember is that it was a lever action with a plastic stock and an adjustable rear sight. Wore it out and dad got me another. Even then he took me out to shoot a .22 Rifle and later pistol. And when I finished high school he got me a Winchester Model 70 30-06, and a few years later when I finished college I bought a S&W K 38 target pistol, and then started acquiring more firearms over the years.
Last edited:
Upvote 0
I still have my first one, Slavia 618 .177 that must have been about 70 years ago. It still shoot 7.9 gr pellets at 375 fps with everything original excepting the rear sight elevation screw. h, I improved the leather breech seal. I can't imagine how many pellets went down that barrel but has to be far more than 10,000. 
Upvote 0
Daisy 880 or 881 first, can't remember which one is the correct model. When I was 15 I ordered catalogs from Air Rifle Headquarters and Beemans via gun magazines. I was saving money to buy an airgun but ARH closed. Not long after that I got a Webley Vulcan from Beeman. Shot that one for several years.
Then I got trade happy, going through an R10, R1 and an RX, finally ended up getting out of airguns for several years.
Then I got trade happy, going through an R10, R1 and an RX, finally ended up getting out of airguns for several years.
Upvote 0
I got my first pellet gun a little over 2 months ago (Gamo Shadow Whisper .177). Then a month ago got a Hatsan Mod 95 in .22.
I've had real guns for 15 years.
I've had real guns for 15 years.
Upvote 0
Beeman R1 bought directly from the good doctor at his small store in San Rafael In 1984.
I raised two military expert rifleman with it.
It is still here:
I raised two military expert rifleman with it.
It is still here:
Upvote 0
I wonder how much mine cost..... It would have been about 1957 or 1958.That was my first as well! Paid 15 bucks for it brand new
What year did you buy yours?
Upvote 0
Crosman 760, then I found a used.22 Diana 25 clone at a sporting goods section in a department store, That thing was a tack driver, Not alot of power but delivered that pellet right where you aimed it. I misplaced them in a move and bought a Beeman dual cal. for like $85 at Walmart, then things snowballed
Upvote 0
That was my 1st break barrel. I wanted an R1 so bad that I could taste it, but the 45 was in my budget. Crazy accurate, but the spring buzz got me a lot of ridicule when my friends and family were within earshot while I was shooting. It earned me the nickname of "Durnt!" because that was the sound that it made on firing.
Upvote 0
I got very lucky as I went to the Beeman store outside San Rafael and got a choice pick of a R-7 .177 IN 1981
Upvote 0
This long forgotten Daisy was found in a box in back of my attic crawl space when doing some electrical wiring. It will shoot but really about junk now. It was seriously used and abused and no telling how many pellets went through it. Can't recall how young I was, but shot a little bird with it right after I got it. Didn't kill the bird, I brought it in the house and ask dad if we could keep it and make it better. He made me take it outside and shoot it in the head to kill it. I recall crying about being made to do it. That's how I was taught that guns were made to kill and you don't shoot at it unless you mean to kill it. Definitely different times, they'd probably call that child abuse now, and want the kid to go to therapy because of it.
Upvote 0
Who would've thought that looking at a photo of someones 1st airgun could make a guy feel so damned old...
Upvote 0
Benjamin 600 automatic…was old when I got it in the mid 60s…I still love it in spite of its horrendous trigger pull
Upvote 0
Very nice!! The Benjamin Automatic was first designed by Frank Mihalyi back in 1928. At first glance, yours looks like a type two with the updated trigger and longer air chamber. Surprised to see it posted as someone's first airgun.
Upvote 0
Around 1966 I traded a neighbor down the street my 12 bass accordion for a Crosman Madel 140 his father had found hidden on a roof where he was working. Had a two-tone stock from being sun bleached. Not quite sure where it went after I enlisted in the USAF. Cool thing is I got one in an auction a couple months ago and putting in a seal kit tomorrow.
Upvote 0
My great uncle was a merchant marine…he bought it to hunt with on Sundays…gave it to my Dad…I discovered it at my grandparents farm…my grandfather said I could have it, if it was ok with my Dad. It was and I’ve loved it ever since. Still have a few of the green tins of ammo…
Upvote 0