What Attracts You To Airguns?

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I always seem to be attracted to "alternatives" to the mainstream. Air guns are no exception.

I'm out in the woods with a 75 yard range in the yard (that can be 100 yards if I'm not shooting off the deck). Really a perfect setup for casual air rifle shooting. I do have a couple neighbors within ear shot so out of respect I rarely ever shoot rimfire even with subsonic ammo. It's just not as fun or accurate anyway.

So..

High pressure air as a propellant is just cool gear. Clean, relatively quiet, incredible accurate at the distances I shoot, suitable for plinking, target shooting, home defense and hunting. Have air guns in every caliber from .22 to .357, bolt action and semi auto. The variety of ammo is awesome as well.

Also enjoy air guns being "constitutional carry" and none of the other legal complications that can come with firearms (unless, of course, you're forced to defend yourself with one).
 
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I have always done a lot of shooting. I would go to the range at least twice a week and usually burn through 500+ rounds of ammo in 9mm. 10mm, .223, 30/30 etc.

Then came the ammo shortages and insane prices. This revived my interest in air guns, and I bought my first PCP. Since then my other guns have been gathering dust. I did, last weekend, go to the range for the first time in over a year so the wife could try out her HK that I got her for Christmas. I took my Glock 20 and she her Ruger SR9, and of course the HK. We had a great time, but when I got home, I still had to go out to my backyard range and do some quiet shooting with my moderated TalonP.

My firearms will always have their place, but for fun target shooting my PCPs are hard to beat. They are also great for dealing with chicken pen raiders at midnight without getting Doug, my gun hating neighbors panties in a wad.
 
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I picked up airguns recently and like many others here did it out of the convenience it creates. Less expensive, back yard compatible, no excuses trigger time. Simpler, easier to sell than powder burner firearms when you inevitably want to make a change.

The pandemic has made life more insular, and while I am looking forward to getting back to the range and be among others, air works in the back yard. Additionally, I am drawn to precision shooting and there is plenty to be fiddly about with airguns. Love to learn, tinker and tune. True about almost every hobby I have.
 
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First, I've already loved shooting, but when I discovered that I can legally, easily, and anonymously buy almost any airgun and its ammo that I want, the FREEDOM of it was irresistible! Next, are all the reasons everyone has already mentioned here; safer, quieter, the challenge, precision skill building, inexpensive, collecting, accessorizing, and more tools! All these things make it a great hobby. It's all these things together that attract me to shooting airguns and keep me interested.
 
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I don't have to drive to the "range" to try and get a bench between the guy with his AR in a GI Joe costume rapid firing at a man sized target at 10 yards, and the guy shooting a 7mm Mag calling "cold line" every 5 minutes. You know the routine...

I don't have to fool with the gun shop and wait on a background check, or scour the flea market to buy one. I can simply buy them online from my buddies and have em shipped to the house.

I can shoot them here at my home (most of the time), in the backyard since they are quiet. 

Ammo is generally cheap and USED TO BE easy to find. 

I like hunting with them because they are quiet, accurate, and have little worry of collateral damage beyond my target. 

Also, I find them more interesting than powder burners. Most all powder burners work the same, hammer and a firing pin and they go boom. With airguns there is lots of variety in how they work. Spring guns are a rabbit hole with tuning all into themselves. PCPs have different types of firing and air metering systems. So on and so forth. 


 
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Legal way to own and travel with compact, suppressed, full auto 357 calipers, loaded with hollow points or polymags. 

And if theres ever an ammo shortage and power outage, I can recharge my bottles myself. 

I also liked how much cheaper it was to run drills using air replicas. I'd go through hundreds of pellets a day running drills with my Sig MPX pcp. Now, I went even cheaper, discovering hpa airsoft for drills with the same replicas. 

Pcp/ hpa, is wonderful gift we are blessed with.


 
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My reasons are similar to Harv24, with one difference. After a lifetime of shooting, I was involved in a critical incident at work. As a side effect, I lost the desire to shoot anything for fun. Same as above, I found videos on Youtube about precision airguns. Thought I would try them to in effect start over. It worked, and I gradually got back into pistols and some long range. Then the supply chain got all kinked up.

Again, youtube got me. I found Iguana Snipers and caught the bug again. My Ranger XT should be here this week.
 
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Its 8:00 at night. had an itch to shoot so I just finished shooting my .177 Talon 50 times at a cost of around $2.00 in my backyard with my neighbors house just 15 yards way from me on one side, in a suburban neighborhood where people live on top of each other. not a pep, nobody heard a thing. Our elementary school is just across the street. Earlier today I shot 25 .22 pellets out of my Urban at a cost of $1.00 in my backyard. Nobody heard a thing. My unregistered LDC's keep things really quiet.

Try shooting PB ammo at only $3.00 for the whole day. Try doing all that shooting here with a powder burner with a elementary school next door and the swat teams would be ziptying your hands within 10 minutes while attending to your wounds. 

Final reason, accuracy. The idea of being able to stack pellets just amazes me.






 
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