The one that started the addiction

[Wildcatter]

Had to say, Ted, those are a couple of nice rifles.  Love those wooden stocks.

[RevKillj0y]

In the late 90's I got a 1377, the kind with the magnetic probe for BBs. Shot the living daylights out of it. It was broken/stolen and replaced at least 3 times. Why not, for as inexpensive as it was just buy a new one. Wasn't until about 3 years ago that I rediscovered the platform. Now I shoot my custom 1322 almost exclusively. I've got several other springers but always come back to the 1300s.

[rookrifle]

Benjamin 347 from the seventies, still have it!

[Spark Master]

  We had several Red Ryder's and a 25 in the neighborhood in the late fifties and early sixties.  I got hooked by Red Ryder's that I converted into Mares Leg pistols.  I used the 3" barrels from Daisy pistols.
  I bought one of the 3" barrels a few years ago. I just need an older Red Ryder to make another.

For those of us who needed to look that up (mares leg pistol) enjoy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare%27s_Leg


great post, I remember the tv show, at least in reruns

[bantam5s]

  We had several Red Ryder's and a 25 in the neighborhood in the late fifties and early sixties.  I got hooked by Red Ryder's that I converted into Mares Leg pistols.  I used the 3" barrels from Daisy pistols.
  I bought one of the 3" barrels a few years ago. I just need an older Red Ryder to make another.

For those of us who needed to look that up (mares leg pistol) enjoy!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare%27s_Leg


great post, I remember the tv show, at least in reruns

I've never actually watched dead or alive ( I watch bonanza and gunsmoke ) but still think the mares leg is awesome though I'd rather have a full stock and short barrel for practicality.

[Ozarkairgunner]

Gamo Silent Cat .177 got me hooked

[lefteyeshot]

My first three guns as an adult were Beeman RS2, an Air Hawk and a Silent Cat. All from Walmart. Then I bought off gunbroker.com a old I.B. B3 and a XS or Peak B4-2 underlever. Rebuilding and refinishing those two gun and buying parts is what got me hooked.

[GumpIsrael]

I had a Daisy 880 first, but what really got me started was a Stoeger X10.

[Ronno6]

I remember having a Daisy Spittin' Image 1894 as a kid. I wasn't a bad shot with that rifle.
Many years later I purchased a TS 45 Industry Brand for $35.00 out of a magazine.
I still have it.
But, the real first was a Beeman R1 that I drove 1 1/2 hrs to purchase from a gun shop for $220.00.
What a fine piece of machinery.
I still have that one,too.

[Smaug2]

My first as an adult was this Stoeger X20:


It was a remarkably sensible choice, I must say. I replaced the trigger (weakest point) with a Charlie da Tuna one, which has made it into a keeper.  It honks when cocked and is not as accurate as my German guns, but it has a wonderfully executed plastic stock with nice sharp checkering, and is pretty light for its power level. and it is reasonably accurate, something like 1" at 40 yards.

It sends out CPLs at about 920 fps, making it about a 15 FPE gun.

[dlparish]

my hook was the crosman M1 carbine 1968? yes i am old. lol

Don

[Horatio]

My first as an adult was this Stoeger X20:


It was a remarkably sensible choice, I must say. I replaced the trigger (weakest point) with a Charlie da Tuna one, which has made it into a keeper.  It honks when cocked and is not as accurate as my German guns, but it has a wonderfully executed plastic stock with nice sharp checkering, and is pretty light for its power level. and it is reasonably accurate, something like 1" at 40 yards.

It sends out CPLs at about 920 fps, making it about a 15 FPE gun.

I have a synthetic stocked B19, B25, and B26. Wish my D48 was synthetic stocked.

[Horatio]

My start was a 2200 when I was a teenager. Good gun, took out pigeons, magpies, scrubjays, etc. Was blissfully ignorant that soda straw barrels were inaccurate, scopes are needed for hunting, you have to find the right pellet, etc.

Took about 14 year hiatus, then bought a 392.

[mav72]

Long story short... Older bro had a Crosman 766.. It got handed down to me and my younger bro. Enjoyed shooting so much I got a 2280 and a 1377. Then I lost inrest in airguns because of girls. Many years later, I needed to kill some rats and the old 766 wouldn't hold air anymore. Came here and to the "geen" and learned how to fix it and mod airguns. Now I'm hooked for good.

[Wayne52]

I've been shooting airguns since I was about 10 years old, I had received a Daisy lever action BB gun for Christmas around 1962, it wasn't long after that my older brother sold me his Crosman pneumatic 22cal pistol (another one I wish I still had).  I bought my first powder burner in 7th grade from a math teacher (only needed a note from my parents) and that really set me off to the races for shooting.  My next notable purchase was a Sheridan Blue Streak in 1977(still have it) and I shot a lot of squirrels with that gun.  Well there's a lot of airguns that I didn't mention in between however last fall is when I really got hooked on the newer airguns, I had found a airsoft P30 pistol in the woods and I had to do some work on it because by the looks of it, it had been there for a couple years, well I ended up getting it working and have been buying ever since.  May latest purchase is a Marauder .25 with the wood stock (I'm definitely old school is why I chose wood ) and I just can't wait to be out hunting with it.   I'm hooked on pcp for sure

[customcutter]

Mom & Dad always said I got my first Daisy from my Grandfather when I was 3 in 1957.  I remember I was so small I would jam the barrel in the ground to cock it.  I also remember once I forgot to close the guard and thought I had broken my fingers when I pulled the trigger.  I got my second Daisy a Red Ryder with my birthday money when I turned 5.  I had long since worn out the other one.  I've had an air rifle or PB of some sort ever since, including 3 years we spent in England in the late 60's.  Dad bought me a break barrel "Paratrooper" air rifle, with a pistol grip.  I would shoot it in the attic, and could occasionally knock over a bowling pin with it if I hit it just right.  I don't know if they had FPE restrictions then or not, but there were definitely gun restrictions and I was going nuts....we were going to be stationed there 3 years.

[Wink1018]

I have had an air pistol for a few years. Fortunately, or not, that 1088 did not spark the fire. It was purchased just for pigeon control at the house.

Fast forward a few years, I purchased a Beeman Gas Ram Quiet Tek. I started hunting small game and enjoyed the fact it didn't cost much to shoot it. I really enjoyed shooting, however, my PTSD kept me from firing PB's. Air rifles gave me the outlet I needed without negative emotional distress.

Since then, I have been collecting different lower budget rifles of assorted powerplants, just to get a feel for them all. However, that Beeman started my addiction....

[WD Feese]

  For me it was a Diana 34.  It now has been detuned to 11.5 ft pounds, has a 36 stock and barrel and wears an Avanti peep sight.  Just a great all around rifle.

[Wildcatter]

Don't remember my first.  Once I saw what the FX Wildcat could do while messing around on line,  got me deep.  After the FX in April, I haven't been able to stop.  Looking at buying a BSA in .25 right now while mt At44 .177 is still on the way.  I really got to slow down!

[Flint]

soooooo many airguns.  I was born into a family that was very much into guns and hunting. 

the first airgun I used was my much older cousins 880 that for some reason was living at our house.  This was 1985 I think.  I was 7 or 8.  I was only allowed to pump it maybe 3 times?  My grandfather taught me how to shoot by hunting grasshoppers.  I killed my first game animal - a bobwhite quail with it.  My grandfather pumped it up more than the number I was normally allowed and gave it to me to shoot. 
At one point, I found a love letter that my cousin had written his then girlfriend and hidden under the butt plate of that 880.  I wish I knew where that gun was now.  Maybe long gone.  It was all metal with brown plastic stock and forearm, but the forearm didn't have the black diamond (the one I got a few years later did). 

My own first airgun was a Daisy 95B that my grandfather bought me for my birthday I think in 1986.  Then for christmas my uncle got me a 1377.  I could not pump it myself yet at that point.  A year or two later I got my own 880 (still all metal at that point - still have it).  Sometime I should count how my I've actually owned.  It would be quite a few.