Airguns you had when you started

[bantam5s]

How many if any of the guns you owned when you joined the GTA do you still have ?

After an old topic I started years ago was recently brought back to life, I started thinking about what guns I owned at that time.
I believe I've been here almost 10 years , when I first joined most of the few guns I had were crudely modified junkers except for a few and of those guns there are only 2 that I still own.
I still have my 1377, and of course I will always own Ol' Blue.
The cheap springers I wound up with were eventually given away, and the modified junkers got further modified to death.


I now own more good quality vintage guns than I could ever have imagined and none are likely to leave my posession any time soon.
I learned a lot in that time as well.

[ezman604]

After I started with GTA in 2009 I amassed a collection of around 100 airguns. I have, over the years, moved a FEW of them on to new homes. I haven't counted lately but would guess I still have around 80 of them.
I still have the very first airgun I ever bought, way back in 1967-8. A Revelation 760. Most of my airguns come with a story and are part of me and my history. I guess that's why I still have so many. This is a few in my gun closet. I have another rack upstairs in the attic and several in my outside Mancave.

[Dozer]

I still have my first pellet pistol, Sig MK P226N and it's modded to the max.
I've gone on to have almost all of Sigs pellet pistols and a handful of BB pistols.

But my first rifle was the Umarex Steel Force.
ABSOLUTE TRASH that failed and unrepairable after less than 300 rounds.
After spending $200 on that cheap Chinese pot metal trash I have REFUSED to EVER buy any Umarex product ever again

[ranchibi]

I started off with an RWS Pro Meisterschutz .177 mainly to dispatch rats. Then I purchased an RWS 48 T06 .22 for same reason plus targets and plinking. My first PCP was a Daystate Regal XL .22, best sporter PCP in my humble opinion.

[Blowpipe Sam]

When I joined GTA I had my trusty B-3 and the 1377.  I had a couple of cheap Chinese made springers too but I parted with them shortly thereafter. Over the next few years I acquired and discarded another half dozen.
After I joined GTA I learned that it was possible to find nice examples of vintage airguns for reasonable prices and  my collecting of older guns began then.

[buellm2]

I just had a couple of old Daisy lever BB guns, a Daisy pistol and a Sheridan blue streak.    Hadn't fired any of them for decades.

[splitbeing]

One odd weekend with light snow and a sovereign mood, I rode the motorcycle to the local everywhere big box stores for their Black Friday sale and bought an ipad and a gun.  The ipad became my GTA interface and still is. The gun was a gamo and is no longer in the stable.

[Back_Roads]

 Hmm I had a Beeman 2x dual cal. A hatsan 125 in .25, Bear River Black Ops Sniper, A couple Benjamin break barrels. the icing on the cake back then was a Recluse and Air Force Escape UL.
 Now I teater near 100 airguns, not sure, as in the middle of a head count a squirrel usually pops up

[HatsanPhantom]

When I started here I had a crosman phantom and a Hatsan striker. Sold the phantom years ago and still have the striker although it’s worn out. I have a bunch of other guns now

[HOSPassassin]

Daisy 901 and an HW30s. I still own both of them. I guess I chose wisely...

[airgunaut]

I had one air rifle when I joined, a Daisy 880. Since then (August 2023) I bought a Beeman P3, a Sheridan Blue Streak, and a Daisy Model 25. All of them are used every week, or close to it. No regrets on any of the purchases, only an interest in buying maybe one more at some point.