It seems I'm one of the original members. I'll be able to look back 10 years from now and brag about it, hehehe.
My name's Jeremy, and I go by 'Smaug' on these fora. I'm also a member at the Crosman Air Pistol Owners forum and the yellow. I got banned from GTA because an admin decided he didn't like me.
I casually mentioned that I'd like to find a general airgunning forum with a nice format, and grumpy obliged by posting up about this one. I felt good about joining it because I've seen grumpy on at least two of the aforementioned fora.
I started off airgunning as a kid, probably like many of us. My dad had a Daisy 880 that my brother and I shot in the basement, but I think he only had it for a short while. We were young, so only used it while supervised.
Later, when I was about 13, I got my own Crosman 760 Pumpmaster. I sent THOUSANDS of BBs downrange with that gun, and drilled a good many birds too. That came to a halt when some kid told his parents I'd been shooting at geese, and the game wardens were there shortly to cite me for "hunting out of season." $100 fine is a lot for a 13 year old, so that was the end of my airgunning career for a while.
When I turned 21, I gradually started buying guns. I have about 20 now.
Here's a YouTube video of my gun collection. I need to get one going for my airgun collection soon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoQu0aX4fl4
But you know what? They're expensive to shoot, and highly regulated. Noisy and dirty too. I still like them, but I do about 95% of my shooting these days with airguns. I like that I can shoot them indoors, down the hall for 10 yards or 10 m. I'd like to get into hunting with them one day.
My airgun collection now consists of:
- .177 Stoeger X20 (break-barrel springer, 14 FPE)
- Crosman 66 "Powermaster" (my brother's childhood pump gun)
- Daisy 953 (single pump pneumatic target rifle, .177. 420 fps w/ 7 gr. wadcutters)
- Daisy 747 (single pump pneumatic pistol, .177 single pump, 350 fps w/ 7 gr.)
- Daisy 1200 (CO2 BB repeater, not a mock-up of anything else)
- .177 Benjamin Marauder (quiet pre-charged pneumatic rifle)
- Crosman 1701P (.177 PCP target pistol)
- Crosman 1377 "American Classic" (.177 multi-pump pneumatic pistol)
- Crosman 2300T (.177 CO2 target pistol, 520 fps w/ 7 gr.)
- Archer QB78 custom, on the way (.177 CO2 pellet rifle)
I'm thinking about a Beeman R7 some day; we'll see. Maybe I'll sell the X20 to make room for it...
Glad to meet you all.