Which airgun(s) got you started?

Mine was a Gamo BigCat 1200. Right after that was a Beeman R9 .22.

Bought a B18 from Fun Supply many moons ago. Still have it after all these years, its a good shooter. That was back in the days of dial-up internet. How time flies.

Started as a kid with a Crosman 760.Friend had a Sheridan. It was the Mac Daddy.

Young adult I got the Sheridan. I had the Mac Daddy.

Bought a house with 7 pecan trees, got an RWS48. It was the new Mac Daddy.

For a few years, I thought the RWS was the pinnacle of airguns, until the internet came around.

I had pellet guns as a kid bit it really started with Gamo I bought on a whim at Walmart. The hook was really set with my first PCP - an AT44 .22 short.

Mine is the Crosman 1322, this is not the exact one, but I made the grip for this one and many came after

This Daisy: 


That got me into a Ben 292, returned b/c defective, got a Gamo underlever, abandoned after 6 mo b/c , then a Compatto & the rest is Hx....

Walmart Co2 filled pistol is where the insaneness started. (If that's a word.)

Too long ago to recall the "first" since it was in the 60's-a break barrel from Western Auto if I remember correctly. I can recall using a long arm pump action bb gun as well as one of the double barrel bb guns but they were not mine. Marksman pistol, Crosman 760, and Sheridan were some of the earliest I specifically remember.

Down and dirty, even though not an Airgun, this ad along with owning the original wrist rocket slingshot was truly the one that got me into hurling projectiles. My Dad brought one back from Vietnam to home in the Philippines. In Vietnam he was a civil service worker as a security guard policing a factory loaded with equipment and supplies for the US troops during the Vietnam war. He used it along with 3/8 nuts as the projectile to keep thieves away from the supplies.

Got pretty good at it as a kid. I could pop a squirrel out to 25 yards. Even wore a beanie while shooting it, lol.

Daisy 99 in 1975. Mine had a red sling and my brother had a green sling. I got to where I hunted grasshoppers, shooting from the hip. Still love to shoot.

Like most, I started as a kid with an 880, fast forward 40 something years, the Gamo Big Cat got me hooked as an “adult”.

So I guess these would be the pivotal makers in the progression of my sickness . There’s been a number come and gone through out the years . But if one had to be given the blame for all the money spent , Sheridan Model C is the Root of my addiction! 

Daisy 860 multi-pump. 32 years ago for my 10th birthday. I shot it a few weeks ago! I still remember how to offset my shot to adjust for the spin to the left. 

I had a Daisy BB rifle as a kid, don’t remember what model (wish I still had it!), then about 40+ years went by. Fast forward to a couple years ago and just for the heck of it I got a Crosman Vigilante revolver and the trouble started. A few years and many dollars later have three break barrels and a Compatto and am waiting on a Hawk from JSAR. I had no idea how much I would like punching holes in paper! Still a novice but learning all the time. 

BSA Meteor, still have it. I remember being upset as a kid because my neighbor got a crossman pump which would shoot through pop cans and my meteor only dented the can.

Like many had a Crosman multipump as a kid that I shot to death.... Then I restarted back into airguns with a .25 Marauder for pesting woodchucks here on our hobby farm. After those first shots with the marauder... Everything went black and I no longer have control over my wallet. 

I started with a Daisy Buffalo Bill Scout. A year later,I ended up with a Crosman 760. The 760 developed a leak and I went to a Crosman-Hahn mod. 1400 .22

I shot the snot out of that 1400...even after the front sight broke off. I just removed the rear sight and practiced till I could hit things as well as my buddies (who Had sights!) just shooting instinctively.

This made me somewhat notorious in the old neighborhood,LOL! From there I went to a .20 Blue Streak followed by a .177 Beeman C1.

And as they say,the rest is history.

Mike

Gamo Varmint Hunter .22, then a Benji Discovery .22, then a Marauder .22, next a Hatsan AT44S .22, to a BT65 .25, to an FX Royale 500, next a BT65 Carnivore .30 to an FX Boss. That's been my whole progression the last 4 years. Sold off everything except my 2 FX's. It's been a fun (but expensive) ride! These two guns will probably be with me till the end & I'm not unhappy about it. They do EVERYTHING I need them to. 

'71 i had a wood crossman M1 carbine. It cocked but pushing in the barrel. It was so weak you could see the bb arc. Then a 760 and a 454 CO2 pistol did duty keeping the grackles and starlings from our cherry orchard. Lost the 454 in a move and replaced it with a 2240. Picked up a Gamo Raptor Whisper. Man that rifle was accurate. Sold it to buy a 2260, then on to pcps.