I lusted after a Sheridan Blue Streak for years in my youth. I could never afford one until I got older. By then, CF rifles took over my desires.
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What Was Your First Pellet Rifle?
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I lusted after a Sheridan Blue Streak for years in my youth. I could never afford one until I got older. By then, CF rifles took over my desires.
Power master 760 when I was 8 or 9 .we got it at service merchandise in 1980.still have it. HYNZIE 4S
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A Smith&Wesson 77A .22, bought it at Montgomery Wards in 1977 in Lakeland Florida, actually had two, I didn't know anything about them and somehow ruined the first one and bought another one, I think they were around $100.00, I remember taking one apart for some reason and having a heck of a time getting it back together. They were not bad guns and shot pretty well if I remember correctly.
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Beeman R7 in 1986. Loved that gun. Let a friend borrow it . Figured was lost. Just got it back 2 years ago. I restored it and gave it to my son. I hope he gives it to his. I bought a replacement for myself when I got back into air guns in 2014.
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First pellet gun was a Crossman CO2 pellet pistol for target shooting. That was over 56 yrs back, then got into an RWS 45 break barrel about 45 plus years back. Shot that rifle for 10 years or more, could hit just about anything with that rifle....
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Mine was a break barrel of unknown make in the mid 60's. Purchased at a Western Auto if I'm remembering correctly but well could be wrong. Followed over the years by several Daisy, Crosman, and Sheridan guns.
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My dad had a crosman 760 I don’t know the year all metal and wood with brass bolt. I loved that gun the seals blew and we threw it out. Mine was years later a Sheridan .177 with brass trigger and the seals blew and I threw it out. I didn’t know the seals could be replaced. I wish I had them now. I’ve found some vintage guns online but I didn’t buy them I probably should have they are getting hard to find and I’ve already blown through my 2021 gun allowance so maybe next year.
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My first pellet rifle was a Diana model 24 with a T04 trigger in .177. The single stage T04 trigger has a firm pull, but after thousands of rounds, its well broken in, crisp and predictable. It still has the original spring(which shocks me) and shoots RWS Superdomes around 600 fps. It's super easy to cock and accurate. Its been a great gateway gun which has led to a good many more. 
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Crosman 107- Traded a buddy for it, probably 1981? Kept it for a long time, passed it on to a buddy a few years ago. Rough condition, but it shot well.
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HW77 in 1996 in 4.5, when I was 15 years old. Bought with newspaper round money.
I did not know anything about airguns back then, but I saw the HW90s of fellow club members break all the time. I was familiar with the FWB 300 inner cylinder system, so I went the HW77. It turned out to be a home run.
I did not know anything about airguns back then, but I saw the HW90s of fellow club members break all the time. I was familiar with the FWB 300 inner cylinder system, so I went the HW77. It turned out to be a home run.
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Crosman 107- Traded a buddy for it, probably 1981? Kept it for a long time, passed it on to a buddy a few years ago. Rough condition, but it shot well.
Love the "custom" fore-end band! Where did you get it.
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.20 Pump Benjamin in 1981! Then I moved up to a Beeman Webley Vulcan in 1983 and thought I had died and gone to heaven!
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The Benjamin 347 that Santa brought in 1968, an early one with the "Tootsie roll" pump handle.
Still have it, still works great off one factory re-build and re-finish in the mid-1980's. It was shot so many times - by a kid ignorant of barrel cleaning - that it's functionally a smooth bore these days, LOL, but still quite accurate.
Still have it, still works great off one factory re-build and re-finish in the mid-1980's. It was shot so many times - by a kid ignorant of barrel cleaning - that it's functionally a smooth bore these days, LOL, but still quite accurate.
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Started with a Daisy 86/70 at about 9 or 10 yrs old, then got a Powerline 880 (smooth bore), then an FWB 124 from ARH. At 1 or 2 pumps on the powerline you could see "regular" bbs dodge around in random directions so I started using only precision ground bbs. The 124 was so accurate I could choose whatever part of any target I wanted to hit. Wish I'd kept the 124 but now have replaced it a few times over.
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Crosman 107- Traded a buddy for it, probably 1981? Kept it for a long time, passed it on to a buddy a few years ago. Rough condition, but it shot well.
Love the "custom" fore-end band! Where did you get it.
There was a leaf spring that held the forearm closed. It eventually broke, and the custom band was fabricated by yours truly from material donated by my dad the electrician! Velcro straps were not common back then....
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