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New member, "Hi" from Holland.
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September 21, 2021, 07:57:57 PM »
Hello all,
My name is Wim, living in the Netherlands, just turned 50, wife, two daughters and a dog. So, that's in short.
Now the important stuff; airguns!
Since pretty young, I played around with a break-barrel riffle my father had laying around in the attic. Later on, I got a break-barrel pistol and so I spend years and years with those.
Well, you know how it goes; playing around with women is a lot of fun too and thus; the airguns were on hold.
Lately, I picked it up again and bought a Sig Sauer P320 .177
It hold a co2 cartridge and shoots okay for a 10 yard backyard.
But I wanted more; longer distance, shooting with other guys and drink a beer afterwards and so; I thought I should get a bit more serious gun; a riffle! When they place the targets at 50 yards, I don't want to be waiting at the bar
Budget wasn't big and so; a starting pcp or break-barrel. The break-barrel; I had played around with for so long; I wanted something different.
Now, just in a couple of hours ago; the Umarex Origin .22 with 3-9x40 scope and -of course- the pump!
Now I'm one to think I can always learn. I watched a lot of videos of the Sig and the Umarex; it's all fun upfront, right?
A lot of videos were from Hajimoto and that was really interesting.
Looking around for a proper airgun forum, I landed here. I saw Hajimoto posts here too and to me; I think this must be "THE" forum to be.
Look; I have no experience with pcp (nor co2 for that matter) and I will have questions somewhere along the line; where better to ask than over here?
Reading around; there is a lot of knowledge over here and I can learn a lot.
My motto is: "when the experts talk; you listen!"
So; I joined
Thanks for reading and kind regards, Wim.
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Welcome to GTA, Wim!
Interesting intro! Thanks!
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Welcome to the GTA Wim!
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Howdy
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Outstanding, Wim! Welcome to the GTA!!!
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Welcome to the GTA.
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Welcome to GTA Wim !!!
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September 22, 2021, 05:00:23 AM »
Very nice, thank you!
I forgot; please feel more than free to correct my English! It's not my native language but I want to "master it" and so; it's important to me.
Looking back, I messed up already I believe in the "when experts talk" sentence. I'm pretty sure it's "when experts speak". Sorry for that.
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Welcome to the GTA Wim.
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Welcome aboard Wim, I'm a fellow Dutchman myself!
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welcome to GTA Wim
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Re: New member, "Hi" from Holland.
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September 22, 2021, 05:18:29 PM »
Thank you guys, very nice of you.
@Jimbo; you are Dutch and living in the USA?! Wow, now I'm SO jealous!!
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Welcome aboard Wim!
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Welcome to the GTA!
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