Daisy BB and first air rifle

Gary Pressman

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Who around this campfire can remember their first rifle. Mine was a DaisyBB gun, styled like the old lever action western saddle piece. After being taught on our farm in South Africa the basics of gun safety I graduated to a .22 air rifle where I graduated from tin-cans to pigeons. A rim-fire 22 short was next,my first real gun and many a happy boyhood memory was spent sharpening my shooting and stalking skills that would stand me in good stead years later as a PH. Nowdays I still hunt rabbits here in the UK with my air-rifle and I respect this introductionary piece of equipment as the start of a great hunting life.
 
My BB was the Daisy force feed pump action,then I got and still have my Benjiman 177cal Pistol,and then later a long barrel Crossman 22 pump Pistol
 
I still have my first bb gun, a Sears Roebuck, friends see it in my gun cabinet and ask how old is that 30/30! Lol!
 
My first gun was a Daisy "1894" (looked just like a Winchester 94)......later graduated to a Crosman 760 pneumatic pump rifle with 4x scope. Shot a lot of vermin (starlings/mice/snakes) with that rifle.

Sadly, I don't have either any more..................:(
 
I too started off with a Daisy BB gun. I remember being amazed at how powerful it was because it would dent old soup cans! I had (and have) a lot to learn about ballistics!
 
My first gun was a Savage .30-06 that a uncle gave to me when I was 5 years old. I even shot it that summer, I don't remember if I hit what I was aiming at or not. I remember sitting on my dads lap with the rifle out of the cars window aiming at something on the hillside.

I didn't get a BB gun until I was around 14. My parents wouldn't buy me one so I collected pop bottles and headed down to the local Western Auto in Douglas, Arizona. I couldn't afford the fancy Daisy one with a wood stock so I bought a Western Auto one with a plastic stock. Me and my buddy then headed out into the desert along the US/Mexican border hunting lizards. When we weren't hunting lizards we were shooting his army men behind his folks home. When we ran out of BB's we would collect more pop bottles and then down to the store to redeem them and buy more BB's. That was a fun summer.
 
my first gun was a Chicado break neck pellet gun. i spent hours a day shooting everything that moved. still have the gun, my dad got it when he was a boy, has a 1960 date engraving on it. one day i will give it to my son to shoot
 
had a diana .22 air rifle but after a couple of years the stock split on the forend and it fell apart........so was given a bsa super meteor( dont you love the names they give them) in .177. i think this was when i went through my american period at the age of about 10 , as i thought lighter smaller cal with higher velocity must be better......:A Stirring: :E Big Grin: as opposed to my like of heaviest bullet travelling at sensible speed these days :A Thumbs Up:
 

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