When were you first hooked?

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When a kid I loved my Daisy 880 pump. Would build sand forts all day and place those little green plastic army men everywhere. Then get fair distance back and snip until they were down. Years and years later (around 2000's) I discovered the AG Forums and then it was like a drug springers, pumps, pcps. I had to have them all. Can't remember first adult airgun I bought, but I've loved them all. 
 
880 was my first also. Used to walk the woods from sun up to sun down with my friend every single day we could. Not hunting, just tooling around in the woods and shooting oddball target that looked like they needed to be hit with a bb. Plus shooting tin cans in my backyard. I went to college, gun was lost (I think it was trashed) in one of my dads moves. Picked up a 2240 20yrs later and haven't stopped since.

My 'big' move was 15ish yrs ago when I bought my first AF Talon (?). Been kinda crazy since.....
 
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760 pumpmaster back in the 80s and still have it, love how short and lite it is, but heres my small collection 

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I started back in about 1958 with a regular lever action BB gun, I'm sure it was a Daisy but really don't remember. I do remember that one of the guys had a pump (shotgun style) which had more power than mine. Then another boy had a Benjamin that you could pump several times and now that was the thing. It was powerful as all get out. Then my interest stopped.

Fast forward until I was in my mid 30's and I was at my local gun shop one day. The owner pulled out a FWB 300 to show a customer. I checked it out, felt the action, workmanship and I was back in the game. I had him order me one with a left hand stock and I still have it. My next purchase was a Beeman R1 followed by an R7 for my son. I think I now have about 28 different ones and still look. A friend of mine said it correctly, You only need one gun ..... and that's the next one.
 
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I started with a Red Ryder, even back then it wasn't enough power and didn't shoot it much. LOL. Then around 9 years old, in 1979 I got a Crosman 760. I shot everything that moved with that thing for a couple of years. Then my best friend's dad bought him a Beeman R1 to shoot the woodpeckers off his shake roof. We took turns shooting that gun with the Beeman Silver Jet pellets every day after school. When I turned 11 and passed hunter's safety my parents bought me an R1 too. My buddy and I shot every day after school for years together. Beeman was just an hour down the road in Santa Rosa, Ca. back then and we spent many hours looking at guns in their showroom. I was hooked and have been for 40 years! My two boys are following my path... we shoot 2-3 times a week together with our PCP's and my boys love it as much as I did as a young boy.

Stoti 

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Hooked when I was 9 and got my red rider style BB gun which I modified to shoot as soon as it was cocked without pulling the trigger. I needed to shoot fast in the all of the BB gun wars we had. Then again later in life when I got my Benjamin pump then the Sheridan. I shot with my daughters when the weather was nice for many years. We shot the army of corn curls coming over the hill in the sand by the river and balloons on the lake and of course the grasshoppers and slugs that happened along at the wrong time. Then again decades later when the Crosman 22xx guns were introduced I began with the mod and improve it addiction. Last year when I got my Impact I noticed I was hooked with the mods again. I am a sick man? ;^)





Crosman Discovery with 24inch .25 DAQ upper



2240 in .25, Mark1 with extended barrel, RWS 6G



Scoped 600 with long barrel



Crosman 400 pistol



A few guns I did not mod yet.



Crosman 2250 with DAQ upper in .25 with a few mods stolen in 2010




 
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I first got hooked on air propelled ammo with spit wads thru a straw in elementary school, then moved up to a wrist rocket slingshot. That wrist rocket was all I needed, and I got good with it.

then one day in 6th grade I was looking thru a catalog, and saw a Crosman pump up called the American Classic.I believe the 766? In 177 with a 4x tube scope. Had that for a year, and sold it to a buddy so I could buy my mom some perfume for Christmas(poor boy back then). 

Then in 1991 when I moved into my first home after marriage my new friend neighbor showed me his R1 Beeman. Like Stoti, Beeman in Santa Rosa was just a hop and a skip away, so I bought an R10 deluxe(getting ready to sell that, lol). Had the R10 deluxe for a bit, then the gas ram RX came out, so that was my next. break barrel. 

then in 1996 we had are first and only child, and we moved out to the country and bought a fixer upper. Life changed when those two came about, providing for a family, and remodeling for 15 years straight. Gave up a lot of things called fun. 

Two years ago due to multiple surgeries up and down the spine I retired, and the Airgun bug bit me while I was at home, bored with nothing to do. I rebuilt my R10, my FWB124 Sport that I had then recently acquired, then I started reading up on PCP guns, and that is when I got hooked. Amazing accuracy, all the gear that goes with pcp ownership I’m all about. It’s a perfect hobby for one with OCD such as myself, cause everything is about paying attention to details, and organization. Of course my first was a Marauder in 25 cal. What a perfect gun to dive in and learn of the workings of a pre charged pneumatic. I was so so hooked into this hobby, I immediately “tooled up” for this sport, with all tools necessary, tanks, compressors, pcp fittings galore, o ring kits, you name it. I even asked my family from now on moving forward, all stocking stuffers for Xmas is to be pellets, and nothing else, lol.



one of these days, I’ll get back to my other favorite past time, and that is reloading centerfire cartridges for extreme accuracy. Another perfect hobby for the OCD folks.
 
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When I was 12, back in 1889 (just kidding) I wanted a BB gun. My parents said "no, you'll just screw-around with it...get a .22 rifle and take a safety course". So I did, and owned a number of shotguns and hand guns (you were not allowed to hunt with rifles in NJ) over the years. One day at my gun club I wandered onto the airgun range, and got the bug. My first, in 1998, was a Beeman imported Wiehrauch HW77 .177 rifle. I still use it, and have 3 pistols as well. I shoot the pistols at least 3 times a week in my basement.
 
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