The Forgotten Gun Challenge

[Kragman1]

Got a gun that you never shoot anymore...?
Or maybe it's just that you don't shoot it enough?

Could be that a new one is taking up all of your time. Or your time is being consumed by stuff other than airgunning (?!?).

But for anyone (else) who's guilty of "airgun abandonment" it's not too late - make a point to get that rifle out of the closet and into the field.

Speaking for myself, I've got a couple like that. As soon as I get a chance I'll make a point to use them. And I'll post a pic here as proof.

I challenge the forum to do the same!

 

[Danman]

Yup, guilty here.... my Slavia 630 dust collector. It's mostly the guns fault though
More of a youths stock and yet verrryyy long OA, bad factory irons (cannot be made to lineup, believe me I've tried!), no buttpad, and a bit weak @ 5-6fpe. Lastly to scope it you need some custom $60 13 or 14mm mounts.....not happening. I went all out and got a new vortek spring for it and it was waaaaay to much for the gun, my plan is to get it good, sell it and buy an HW50. Goal is to keep it open sights as well but ya never know! I may even scrap the Slavia and keep the stock and internals as my brothers both have them as well.

 

[Kragman1]

The prospective buyer will probably want to see some recent groups....

You know what to do.

 

[Danman]

The prospective buyer will probably want to see some recent groups....

You know what to do.

Hold right and high

 

[Kragman1]

Ha ha!

 

[Pumacarl]

A funny thing happened to me last last weekend, out of the blue, I remembered the first airgun that I ever bought as a kid. A completely repressed forgotten memory, probably from the trauma of disappointment. It was a M19A1 Annihilator automatic bb-gun that used freon cans. I was so pissed off when I opened the box and saw how it was made. I think I went in on it with my next older brother, and it was $20(?), which was a ton of money to us at the time! I was probably around 10 at the time, but could already recognize junk when I saw it. It did work, but only for a couple of seconds, because the cans didn't last that long, and we couldn't afford, or get, enough bb's to feed it. We had scaped up money for months, put cash in an envelope, and sent for it behind our parents back. My oldest brother was a mechanic and he got us a couple of cans of freon, but the novelty wore off fast, and our mother wasn't going to get us the bb's and my father would have killed us if he had found out that we ordered it. It was just a spray and pray unit, and the bb's ricocheted like crazy. We had not put any thought at all into it, except that we wanted it, and the reality was, it wasn't worth it. It got resigned to a garbage can pretty quickly, and forgotten about. So I don't have it anymore, no pictures, but they are out there on the web, I looked. I laughed at all the people waxing nostalgic on it, listen, if a bored 10 year old kid living in the sticks, thinks a gun, any gun, is a piece of crap and a waste of time, forget about it. I did.

 

[Dogowski]

A funny thing happened to me last last weekend, out of the blue, I remembered the first airgun that I ever bought as a kid. A completely repressed forgotten memory, probably from the trauma of disappointment. It was a M19A1 Annihilator automatic bb-gun that used freon cans. I was so pissed off when I opened the box and saw how it was made. I think I went in on it with my next older brother, and it was $20(?), which was a ton of money to us at the time! I was probably around 10 at the time, but could already recognize junk when I saw it. It did work, but only for a couple of seconds, because the cans didn't last that long, and we couldn't afford, or get, enough bb's to feed it. We had scaped up money for months, put cash in an envelope, and sent for it behind our parents back. My oldest brother was a mechanic and he got us a couple of cans of freon, but the novelty wore off fast, and our mother wasn't going to get us the bb's and my father would have killed us if he had found out that we ordered it. It was just a spray and pray unit, and the bb's ricocheted like crazy. We had not put any thought at all into it, except that we wanted it, and the reality was, it wasn't worth it. It got resigned to a garbage can pretty quickly, and forgotten about. So I don't have it anymore, no pictures, but they are out there on the web, I looked. I laughed at all the people waxing nostalgic on it, listen, if a bored 10 year old kid living in the sticks, thinks a gun, any gun, is a piece of crap and a waste of time, forget about it. I did.

Lol! I've got one of these too i bought in the 70s out of the back of a Popular Mechanics book i believe. I was so excited to get it and the excitement was over in a minute. I remember having to get powdered graphite at the local hardware store to put on the BBs so they would cycle better out of the gun. Freon seemed real expensive at the time for only a few seconds of fun! Had to shake it while you shoot it to get the BBs to come out. The things we all do for fun!

 

[Pumacarl]

Lol! I've got one of these too i bought in the 70s out of the back of a Popular Mechanics book i believe. I was so excited to get it and the excitement was over in a minute. I remember having to get powdered graphite at the local hardware store to put on the BBs so they would cycle better out of the gun. Freon seemed real expensive at the time for only a few seconds of fun! Had to shake it while you shoot it to get the BBs to come out. The things we all do for fun!

Yup, the 70's, and the bb's came in cardboard tubes that had a cap. There were no bottle of bb's to buy and you had to get a lot of tubes. A pain to load bb's, tedious, the freon was a pain to get too, but the cheap thin plastic that the gun itself was made out of really made me mad. And lets not forget the trigger, absolutely the worst trigger that I have ever put my finger on, what a joke, of course it wasn't actually a trigger, more of an actuator. Yeah you did have to shake it a lot so there was never any hope of accuracy. I think before it got pitched my older brothers hooked it up to an air compressor, but it was more trouble than it was worth. We went right back to fireworks in short order for fun.

 

[Farmplinker2]

Hummmm, maybe I need to put in a fresh cylinder and plink with the Daisy 74 again.....

 

[Kragman1]

One of my uncles had one of those freon guns when I was around 6 or 8. And had the exact same problems lol.

Farmplinker2 - go dust off that Daisy and get some shooting in!

 

[SpindleB]

I tend not to shoot my older British .22.
Such beautiful rifles I'm afraid fumble fingers here might drop one.
A.H. Hartley Stalker Tiger Ten
Falcon Hawk FN-19HT
I get them out check their air every couple months maybe toss a couple rounds down range.