What's your fascination of airguns and why airguns? Does it have something to do with our childhood and things that we were not allowed to have or could not afford? I asked this questions years ago on the Yellow Forum and yet it still give me something to think about. Is it only a "male thing" and does it always have anything to do with hunting or taking the life of a thing, pesky or otherwise? Whether CO2, spring piston, pneumatic (single or multi-stroke) pcp or gas-ram, what's the fascination with airguns is my honest question?
I look back on the money that I've spent on my hobby/obsession and I'm like, wow I can't count the times when only one is a temporary cure to my hobby/addiction. It's not always about the thrill of the kill of a pesky varmint but just a little down time behind the trigger and brain rest after having to deal with so much during the coarse of a day. Regardless of whether or not you started with a Daisy/Crosman, CO2, springer or sling- shot, how did you manage to get where you are and in some cases, it's out of control. That sounds like, yours truly because I've said many times that only one more is a temporary fix and I know better. When is something new or different better than what you've already accumulated throughout the years of your adventures in airguns? Ole school is something that we should forget because there's always something to learn from if you're willing to listen. Every now and then, I'll pick up a springer just to see how it feels to shoot and experience what a real airgun is about. I've owned and shot quite a few very nice springers but pcps makes things less complicated as I've began to "ripen" or age. With that process, springers/gas rams seem to take its toll on this old frame so I took a deeper diver into the "dark side" and that has brought up another problem. One has to have a reliable source in order to charge their puffer and that can run into a stock pile of Benjamins that we can spend somewhere else but "why airguns"?
As of March 25, 2020, I've been out of work because of surgery of my "Parotid gland" and I'm in the process of retiring as of June 1st which is just a few days away. There's so much that I would love to learn about my addiction of airguns and what makes them work, all that I want is gather is a greater appreciation of what I've grown to love and respect as a hobby.
This is the place to do just that and I appreciate your experiences, trials and eras in what's drawn us together as airgun enthusiast/hobbyist.
Simplyhooked, aka...Fleming
I look back on the money that I've spent on my hobby/obsession and I'm like, wow I can't count the times when only one is a temporary cure to my hobby/addiction. It's not always about the thrill of the kill of a pesky varmint but just a little down time behind the trigger and brain rest after having to deal with so much during the coarse of a day. Regardless of whether or not you started with a Daisy/Crosman, CO2, springer or sling- shot, how did you manage to get where you are and in some cases, it's out of control. That sounds like, yours truly because I've said many times that only one more is a temporary fix and I know better. When is something new or different better than what you've already accumulated throughout the years of your adventures in airguns? Ole school is something that we should forget because there's always something to learn from if you're willing to listen. Every now and then, I'll pick up a springer just to see how it feels to shoot and experience what a real airgun is about. I've owned and shot quite a few very nice springers but pcps makes things less complicated as I've began to "ripen" or age. With that process, springers/gas rams seem to take its toll on this old frame so I took a deeper diver into the "dark side" and that has brought up another problem. One has to have a reliable source in order to charge their puffer and that can run into a stock pile of Benjamins that we can spend somewhere else but "why airguns"?
As of March 25, 2020, I've been out of work because of surgery of my "Parotid gland" and I'm in the process of retiring as of June 1st which is just a few days away. There's so much that I would love to learn about my addiction of airguns and what makes them work, all that I want is gather is a greater appreciation of what I've grown to love and respect as a hobby.
This is the place to do just that and I appreciate your experiences, trials and eras in what's drawn us together as airgun enthusiast/hobbyist.
Simplyhooked, aka...Fleming
