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Marksman 1010

Russian that is an awesome old pic young man.

I started with a an old Daisy rifle, looked like a Red Ryder but I don't remember it saying that on it anywhere. I got that when I was about 5 yrs old. A few years later I moved up to a Powerline and from that I moved up to a Benjamin .22 when I was about 12, a friend of mine and I went 50/50 on it, it cost $99.99 in 1978, that was a killing machine. He borrowed it one day and I never saw that rifle again.
From then on I had a couple of Mendoza's, an old RWS that had been dropped and dragged around a few times before I got it and then a Beman. I recently purchased a Daystate Huntsman XL and I am very very happy with it.

Daisy Rifle
Powerline
Benjamin .22
Mendoza X 2
RWS
Beman
Daystate Huntsman XL

"Benjamin .22 when I was about 12, a friend of mine and I went 50/50 on it, it cost $99.99 in 1978, that was a killing machine."

Killing machine?...I don't care how good it was, not even close to your current Daystate!...You are putting woodpeckers, pests and other in the ENDANGERED list! ha, ha, ha!

Good shooting Rchr, I fell in love with your Daystate and you know that I couldn't sleep without one...I got it and love it!
You should bring this gun again to Montana next summer, but please forget your pellets at your home in Brownsville!

Regards,

AZ

My first was a BSA Merlin .177 under lever. As a kid I used it like artillery to shoot balloons at some distance. I used that until a fellow offer my father an FN .22lr single shot. He couldn't pass up a freebie and so began a passion and appreciation for firearms. I too have a Slavia - Gunnertrones.

Mine was a (1977) multi-pump Crossman BB/single pellet rifle. Truthfully, it was ugly and cheap, but for a 5 year old boy, it was the most beautiful thing ever made.

"russinbaja"55 years ago I had this Benjamen pumper. It was my dad's gun and the workers would shoot the pigeons that messed on the metal stamping presses. It didn't hold air long but I did get a few. This shot was take at a ranch that I had free run on when I was 11 or 12.

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That's an awesome pic!

Crosman 1377, but that one was confiscated by the police........ well that is another story.

About 5 years later I bought another one and have since been able to retain possession for the past 20 years. I loved the idea of being self sufficient with pumping for power. Well since I have picked up a few higher end PCP's

I shot a red rider until I was eight and my brother surprised me with a daisy spring gun in .22, I don't remember the model number but that would have been around 1965. Lost the breech seal and it got dry fired a few times so it went to crap. My dad took me to buy a crossman 760, I'll never forget how much that gun cost, $15.95 plus tax, I shot that thing forever. Picked up
a used benjamin which I still have, it's 45 years old! 

My first was a Crosman 760 around 1980 I shot that air rifle till the seals went bad. Then I saved up enough to get a 2100 Crosman that I had to get my brother to buy for Mr due to me being u der age. He didn't give it to me for two months because he liked it. Then he went to college and I got it. I have it in my garage today and it still shoots like the day I bought it. Happy times.

760 pump. What else. Got it about 1970. Handed it down to a family member and it still works fine.

+ one for the Daisy Red Ryder then on to a Beeman R-9. owned it for a long time now and just getting started in shooting it. Been hunting for years with rifle ,pistol and shotgun. Time to try air.