Your first airgun

 What was your first Air Gun

Realise the theme to this tread is  about buying a new airgun, thought I would start a conversation for us old buggers.

    My first air gun, was a birthday present from my Grandfather, he believed in quality & that was measured by how solid (heavy) it felt.

Year was 1970.

 Rifle was a Polish Predom 177 and at 8 1/2 pounds, was perfect for a skinny 8 year old. Got many years of joy out of it & developed strong arms carrying the dam thing around.

Mates had BSA meteors, ElGamos   which were  far less agricultural & more powerful.

 Still enjoyed that rifle, had a barrel release system that was brilliant, never seen it again on any brand of air rifle.  

i have been shooting feral roosters around here for years i use an old gamo 22 shadow which bout same power as the crosman,dumps them every time as it does for rabbits and possums too,the triggers in crosman and gamo pretty much the same and can be vastly improved quite easily my gamo set up to break cleanly with no creep at just under 3lbs,tho rifle was accurate to start with improving trigger significantly improved its accurracy ,i allso remove the pain in butt bear trap safety bars,so i can uncock the  rifle,dont knowif removing this useless safety device helps improve the trigger,but cant hurt either,these things are just put thereto protect idiots from themselves and to cover the factory from product libility issuses.

I am liking this, anyone else have a first rifle or liquorice story to share.

The first problem is the name, Gamo. the second problem is they are crap. Ive done a lot of trigger conversions for them which did improve them a little but they are a cheap rifle with a high price tag.