Does your way of airgunning make sense? – Brutally honest chronicle of NONsense

[sk73]

Great point of view-until you repeat a stage or two and think why did I sell that back then.

I've done that and thought that.  Don't have a good answer for what to do.  So far, I've re bought only one gun, but it could happen again.

[JungleShooter]

The cost savings over cartridges for sure justifies owning a few nice airguns.

● Yes, that is one of the huge advantages of AGs over PBs. 

● For me another huge advantage of AGs is that many countries don't legislate them overly strictly.    
And this is sometimes true even of countries where it takes many years and many dollars to get a license for a PB, like Peru.
For example:
I'm still waiting on my Peruvian PB license – and I have spent triple the amount on paperwork than what I spent on the gun (though I "bought" it in a store, I have never seen or held the gun, and until I present the gun licence "my" gun stays locked up in a central government storage facility....).
Oh, the purchase date was January 28.

Of 2003.



Now, airguns in Peru, that's a different story...., legally speaking, AG hunting is fine, any caliber is fine, any power is fine. 
Now that is what I call a FINE legislation.
and...
The opposite of FINE is COARSE.
COARSE is variously defined in my dictionary as:
–"lacking refinement"  [or reasonable thought]
–"crude"  [toward the citizens and their rights]
–"uncultured"  [...]
–"grating"  [on me]
or simply:
–"bad"
Yeah,
bad legislation....

That's what legislation is that restricts AG power to 6FPE (e.g., Germany, Italy; 12FPE England and Canada; 1FPE Northern Ireland);
or restricts AG to plinking and target shooting (e.g., France, Switzerland don't allow any hunting or pest control);
or restricts anything and all AG – even the backyard plinker with the 4FPE Benjamin Trail pistol has to get a firearms license(!!) to hit a couple of Coke cans in his backyard – what's wrong with that, Australia, Japan?!?).
[Source of legislation info:  http://www.airgunbuyer.com/page.asp?pg=1008]



I feel like shedding a tear for our fellow airgunners suffering under such COARSE legal restrictions.   
And I feel like celebrating the citizens' freedom – and airguns.   
If I could, I'd buy you all a drink right now.

Happy shooting,

Matthias

[Bryan Heimann]

The cost savings over cartridges for sure justifies owning a few nice airguns.

● Yes, that is one of the huge advantages of AGs over PBs. 

● For me another huge advantage of AGs is that many countries don't legislate them overly strictly.    
And this is sometimes true even of countries where it takes many years and many dollars to get a license for a PB, like Peru.
For example:
I'm still waiting on my Peruvian PB license – and I have spent triple the amount on paperwork than what I spent on the gun (though I "bought" it in a store, I have never seen or held the gun, and until I present the gun licence "my" gun stays locked up in a central government storage facility....).
Oh, the purchase date was January 28.

Of 2003.



Now, airguns in Peru, that's a different story...., legally speaking, AG hunting is fine, any caliber is fine, any power is fine. 
Now that is what I call a FINE legislation.
and...
The opposite of FINE is COARSE.
COARSE is variously defined in my dictionary as:
–"lacking refinement"  [or reasonable thought]
–"crude"  [toward the citizens and their rights]
–"uncultured"  [...]
–"grating"  [on me]
or simply:
–"bad"
Yeah,
bad legislation....

That's what legislation is that restricts AG power to 6FPE (e.g., Germany, Italy; 12FPE England and Canada; 1FPE Northern Ireland);
or restricts AG to plinking and target shooting (e.g., France, Switzerland don't allow any hunting or pest control);
or restricts anything and all AG – even the backyard plinker with the 4FPE Benjamin Trail pistol has to get a firearms license(!!) to hit a couple of Coke cans in his backyard – what's wrong with that, Australia, Japan?!?).
[Source of legislation info:  http://www.airgunbuyer.com/page.asp?pg=1008]



I feel like shedding a tear for our fellow airgunners suffering under such COARSE legal restrictions.   
And I feel like celebrating the citizens' freedom – and airguns.   
If I could, I'd buy you all a drink right now.

Happy shooting,

Matthias

Thank God for the U.S.A.  Good grief!

Under so much legislation, I would probably be strictly a bow hunter.

[Habanero69er]

The cost savings over cartridges for sure justifies owning a few nice airguns.

● Yes, that is one of the huge advantages of AGs over PBs. 

● For me another huge advantage of AGs is that many countries don't legislate them overly strictly.    
And this is sometimes true even of countries where it takes many years and many dollars to get a license for a PB, like Peru.
For example:
I'm still waiting on my Peruvian PB license – and I have spent triple the amount on paperwork than what I spent on the gun (though I "bought" it in a store, I have never seen or held the gun, and until I present the gun licence "my" gun stays locked up in a central government storage facility....).
Oh, the purchase date was January 28.

Of 2003.



Now, airguns in Peru, that's a different story...., legally speaking, AG hunting is fine, any caliber is fine, any power is fine. 
Now that is what I call a FINE legislation.
and...
The opposite of FINE is COARSE.
COARSE is variously defined in my dictionary as:
–"lacking refinement"  [or reasonable thought]
–"crude"  [toward the citizens and their rights]
–"uncultured"  [...]
–"grating"  [on me]
or simply:
–"bad"
Yeah,
bad legislation....

That's what legislation is that restricts AG power to 6FPE (e.g., Germany, Italy; 12FPE England and Canada; 1FPE Northern Ireland);
or restricts AG to plinking and target shooting (e.g., France, Switzerland don't allow any hunting or pest control);
or restricts anything and all AG – even the backyard plinker with the 4FPE Benjamin Trail pistol has to get a firearms license(!!) to hit a couple of Coke cans in his backyard – what's wrong with that, Australia, Japan?!?).
[Source of legislation info:  http://www.airgunbuyer.com/page.asp?pg=1008]



I feel like shedding a tear for our fellow airgunners suffering under such COARSE legal restrictions.   
And I feel like celebrating the citizens' freedom – and airguns.   
If I could, I'd buy you all a drink right now.

Happy shooting,

Matthias

Thank God for the U.S.A.  Good grief!

Under so much legislation, I would probably be strictly a bow hunter.

Amen!

[anti-squirrel]

I'm sure bows are regulated in many countries.

And yet motor vehicle operators everywhere only require money to buy the vehicle and a driver's license.

[Bryan Heimann]

Surely, bows are definitely regulated.  But I can, and have, made 55+ ib longbows from stagger cut and bundled fiberglass rods (the kind you use to mark the driveway so your wife don't wreck the car!)  duct tape together and inserted in PVC pipe.  Bowstring made of weedeater cord.  Will slam a fiberglass arrow with no head on it, clean through the wall of the shed, dont ask me how I know!

In asian countries I think a better bow could be made faster of bamboo!  Or could go the other way with it, start with a stave and put in the work to make something nice.


Regardless, try as you might to stop me (anyone, really) if I want a primitive bow I will have it, and if I want wild vittles I will have those too.

[RedFeather]

Never, EVER buy a Ruger 10/22. Or a boat. 

[Bryan Heimann]

Never, EVER buy a Ruger 10/22. Or a boat. 

 

[WyoMan]

Never, EVER buy a Ruger 10/22. Or a boat. 

40 years ago I would have said never buy a Volkswagen Beetle and get a JC Whitney catalog, LOL. Another example of "priceless" fun along the way... no regrets 

Wyo

[Oldgringo]

I've always loved hunting, fishing, and shooting. My interest in air guns came about with age AND the presidential election debacle of 2008.  I could see that any ammo was gonna' get hard to find but maybe, pellets would escape the scourge.  So, I invested in a few air guns.

There are now, six much-beloved, remaining Frauleins in my safe.  I shall cherish them, my CHL License, and my PBs.  The government can go wee-wee up a rope.  Come and Take Them!

[JungleShooter]

Thanks Greg, in your previous post you just helped us find another type of airgun buyer for our tongue-in-cheek Typology of Airgun Buyers? on another thread, found here:
   https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=148605

The Type 13 of airgun buyers:

Type 13a:  AG but can’t PB:  There is the gun buyer who buys AG (airguns) because politicians and ideology peddlers have places sheer unsurmountable obstacles on the way to acquire a PB (powder burner). These obstacles are actual (in my case), or looming large in the near future (Oldgringo’s case).

Type 13b:  AG and won’t PB:  Then there is one who does not want PB, and actually prefers AG.
I have to say, I do like it when things go bang, and if it’s louder I like it better.  I was born that way.  All boys are.  That’s a fact.  It’s just that some of us are made to lose that enjoyment for bangs and explosions. Sometimes through political, legal, or ideological influences.

Type 13c:  Wants both AG and PB:  A third variation of the Type 13 species likes both types of guns, AG and PB, and buy both types.


Now you notice that the position of Type 13c certainly gives the person access to a virtually limitless amount of reasons to keep buying more guns, AG and PW. Because, of course, a man (or a woman, likewise), needs...
–needs to have at least one rifle and one pistol,
–needs one of each caliber,
–needs them in both AG and in PW.
Can you see how the factor “AG” just doubled your opportunities for self-deceptive “I need to buy X”–talk? It’s genius.
And a perfect reflection for the days leading up to that Grand Day, that day which has been given the color black and which shows up every year in our calendars right after Thanksgiving....  D: