Semi-impulse BB gun choice: Daisy 25 or ????

[airgunaut]

I've been reading Mary Roach's engrossing, if sometimes gross-outing book, Gulp. Remember those tiny silvery cake decorations that resemble BBs? Industry name for those is dragees, and there are dragee tweezers:

https://www.ahcakedesign.com/ateco-4208-dragee-tweezers.html

BTW, the coating contains real silver! Not supposed to be eaten. Like probably every other person who encountered them, I have ingested some and lived to tell the tale.

Soooo, are the nonblack hairs that have been gradually proliferating on my scalp silvery silver or lead gray???

[airgunaut]

Another little tip.. this one for counting out Bbs/pellets.
I have a digital scale for weighing my cast pellets. I count out the number I need of a certain pellet and weigh the total. I log that weight in my journal or a text file in the folder on that gun. Now I can just dump what I need in weight and put them in the holding vessel.
Saves a little time.

That might explain why a tin of nominally 500 pellets sometimes contains 498, sometimes 500, sometimes 503 or 505 or whatever. I always wondered if the factory doles them out using weight or pellet count. I count them as I check them for deformed skirts.

[bantam5s]

yeah, i have opened 25s that have been loaded since WW2... spring still had tension... I think they dont want you to have it "loaded" from a lawyer standpoint, if you know what i mean.

I'd bet that's exactly the reason. Our household has only two adults, and neither of us monkeys around with the other's guns. As long as I do not cock it and keep the safety on (standard practice anyway) I might leave it loaded. I counted out 50 BBs into an empty pellet tin and will repeat that in another tin, even if I don't load them into the shot tube till ready to shoot.

I made this speedloader for mine

[airgunaut]

I like it! Gonna make one for myself. Thanks for the pic.