Airguns you shot as a kid

[NorCalMan]

Mine was in 1967 and it was a 1st variant Crosman 760 Powermaster.  In 1968 I actually bagged a
Woodchuck with it when the family drove from Pomona California to Gowanda New York for a
summer vacation.

[Muppit]

i stafted out 38 years ago with a daisy model 21b. i still have it and it still shoots well. it was also stolen when i was a teenager and recovered a few years later found in the wall of a shed that was being torn down. thil lever action shoots great an i like shooting wasps in the eves of my house.

[superchikn]

My first air rifle was a Diana 23 my father used to shoot when he was young. I put all kinds of projectiles in the barrel: pellets, paper, matches, pieces of plastic... I shot it until I had to keep the trigger pushed forward or it would shoot spontaniously. Internally the trigger mechanism was totally worn out. I still have it, all rusted and in pieces, but it could be a nice restauration project.

That’s really cool. In 1981 or 82 my dad bought a very worn D23 for my younger brother when we lived in Belgium.  Barrel was bent. Seals were shot. Last year I restified it. Shoots great now.

[JLfrey18]

Clean that thing up and start shooting it again, there’s something about old air gun that has a uniqueness about them.

[Ronno6]

That’s really cool. In 1981 or 82 my dad bought a very worn D23 for my younger brother when we lived in Belgium.  Barrel was bent. Seals were shot. Last year I restified it. Shoots great now.

Well.....you knew the job was dangerous when you took it................

[aguncrank]

The year was 1958. The old lady across the street found a Daisy lever gun in the garage that belonged to her son. I have no idea of the model. She asked my mom if she could give it to me and said it did not shoot. Mom thought it would be ok and asked dad. He said yes. Well to my recollection it did not shoot far. It did push the bb out the barrel a few feet. I showed it around the neighborhood to the other kids and voila. One of the bigger kids said all I needed to do was oil it thru the little hole. Me and my buddy put a lot of oil in that hole and keep cocking/firing it. The leather started to get soaked, maybe a little too much.The bb's started going a little farther with each shot. Then I took a shot at the man across the streets garage door and it hit it. Felt bad and new I had better not do that again. But now I have a shooter. We lived next to open rolling hills so I became a full time hunter. That was the start of an addiction that has got way worse over the years and as I say below I have way too many.
thanks for listening

[Blowpipe Sam]

Last week I accomplished one of those goals that I think many of us here dream about.  I found a very nice Crosman 1400.  Not everyone's dream I know, but the 1400 was my first gun that wasn't a hand-me-down.  In my teenaged hands that gun was a Kentucky squirrel rifle, or a double express, or a tack driving wildcat, or anything my youthful imagination could conjure up. The wooded hills and thickets that I roamed in those days are all subdivisions and strip malls now.  I can look up on my wall  and see that chunky little piece of hardwood and blued steel and I remember what it was like to wander the woods hunting and dreaming of the day when I would go on a real hunt with a real gun.  40 years later I still dream of real hunting, but with an airgun,  the way it used to be.

[Buldawg76]

Last week I accomplished one of those goals that I think many of us here dream about.  I found a very nice Crosman 1400.  Not everyone's dream I know, but the 1400 was my first gun that wasn't a hand-me-down.  In my teenaged hands that gun was a Kentucky squirrel rifle, or a double express, or a tack driving wildcat, or anything my youthful imagination could conjure up. The wooded hills and thickets that I roamed in those days are all subdivisions and strip malls now.  I can look up on my wall  and see that chunky little piece of hardwood and blued steel and I remember what it was like to wander the woods hunting and dreaming of the day when I would go on a real hunt with a real gun.  40 years later I still dream of real hunting, but with an airgun,  the way it used to be.

A 1968 model 1400 was one of my first airguns I used to hunt with in the island of Cocoa Beach Florida as a young kid. Like you it was my kill anything I encountered gun and even though a had a 12 ga shotgun I could use the 1400 killed far more coons and rabbits than my 12 ga ever did. Still have it today in good shooting condition albeit a bit worse for the wear and tear of the abuse and neglect of a kid and salt water islands.

BD

[Winston]

Sheridan Bluestreak was my first airgun, obtained as a kid in about 1963. Being my first gun of any kind I thought it was great. My friends and I were burgeoning shooters and we all thought, correctly or not,  that Sheridan was a step above its domestic competitors. My impression as a youngster was that it was pretty accurate, but I don''t know if it really was or not. When I got a .22 cartridge rifle a couple of years later the Sheridan was sold to a friend, who promptly ruined it somehow. Then in the mid 70's as a twentysomething with a little extra money I bought another Sheridan. It had a really beautiful stock but the effort per shot was not to my liking so it was sold too.

[Blowpipe Sam]

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A 1968 model 1400 was one of my first airguns I used to hunt with in the island of Cocoa Beach Florida as a young kid. Like you it was my kill anything I encountered gun and even though a had a 12 ga shotgun I could use the 1400 killed far more coons and rabbits than my 12 ga ever did. Still have it today in good shooting condition albeit a bit worse for the wear and tear of the abuse and neglect of a kid and salt water islands.

BD
[/quote]I spent a lot of summers in Rockledge and Merrit Island during the seventies. I still remember exploring mosquito Lagoon in my cousin's Sunfish.

[Buldawg76]

A 1968 model 1400 was one of my first airguns I used to hunt with in the island of Cocoa Beach Florida as a young kid. Like you it was my kill anything I encountered gun and even though a had a 12 ga shotgun I could use the 1400 killed far more coons and rabbits than my 12 ga ever did. Still have it today in good shooting condition albeit a bit worse for the wear and tear of the abuse and neglect of a kid and salt water islands.

BD
[/quote]I spent a lot of summers in Rockledge and Merrit Island during the seventies. I still remember exploring mosquito Lagoon in my cousin's Sunfish.
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Oh yea I was all over the Banana and Indian rivers as well as Mosquito Lagoon in our 10 and 12 ft boats with 9.5 hp outboards in the late 60s to early 70s. We camped out on the island in the Banana river close by Cocoa Beach every weekend from 7th to 9th grade. I had a curfew of 10pm by my parents so if we went camping they had no clue where we were or what we were doing and you could get to everywhere in Cocoa Beach by boat with a short walk to stores and such.

Did a lot of exploring in the mid seventies on our street legal enduro dirt bikes in Rockledge, Merritt Island, Titusville, Satelite Beach and all the way out to the St Johns river areas. Did a lot of fishing in the St Johns and lake Poinsette as well back then for sure.

Its so built up now its nowhere near the same and way to many people for me. I left in 93 to move to Alabama to get back to less people and more country.

I miss those good ole days.

BD

[unionrdr]

Well, after a few years of searching, I found the BB gun I started out with. I saved pop bottle money (2c each in those days), and bought it from that same family friend for $1.50. It was a long one, like 30" at least. Well, a week ago I found one in VGC on the auctions. A Daisy model 104. Silver-bronze color is a bit different than I remember, but it looks like the one in that splinter of my mind's eye. Built from 1966-1973 or 74. It's dated Feb 73. It's on it's way home now...

[bavaria55n]

Did your original104 have the 'scope', looks like this one is missing as most of them are.
Like the old Buzz Barton guns the peep sight in the tube didn't give a very wide field of view and lots of owners ditched them and learned to shoot with just the front sight.
Gary

[unionrdr]

My original didn't have the scope either, and I bought it used. Just sighted it like a shotgun. Had many hours of shooting adventures along the Black River with it. I even got to stretching the spring on the fly for a couple more powerful shots.

[bavaria55n]

Its amazing how accurate you can be without a rear sight after a little practice.
Just like the Quick Kill/Skill guns.
Great training for fast shooting.
Gary

[Leo 2018]

Here is my first BB gun.still has metal scope from Daisy on it.

[unionrdr]

And here's the Daisy 104 upon arrival in today's post;

  At least the factory stickers are still in place;


  Build date is Feb 1973.

[BackStop]

And here's the Daisy 104 upon arrival in today's post;

  At least the factory stickers are still in place;


  Build date is Feb 1973.

Now, that is sweet!   Ah, the memories...  (grin)

Although I never owned one, I remember those labels from a friend's gun around that time, or earlier.

Of course, MOST kids stripped them off ASAP!  Sad from a collectors POV today, but definitely correct for a kid at that time... and even today!  (smile)

[unionrdr]

I was surprised that they were still there (no seller pics of'em) And that they are still legible.

[bahne]

Red Ryder and a Gamo Delta