From then to now in a nutshell

So we are all into air guns, but what got you into them? What were your early years like.
I'd be keen to hear.
Me I started at about 12 and wanted an air gun so mum let me buy a bsa super metor and she got a daisy air pistol and we joined the local air gun club, so I could learn to shoot and gun saftey.
On my 13 birthday she made me up a little card saying I had her permission to go hunting alone( in case ever ran into trouble) on the vast block behind us. Now all houses.
(a couple years later me and my mates use to hunt each other with air guns in same block. Three pellets and 3 huge welts on my leg, acquired running from cover to cover from a crossman wheel gun soon changed my mind on that!)
At about late teens I started a local gun club ( I. E set up in a wool shed) for the local farm kids to have somewhere to shoot and learn a bit of gun saftey. ( this was inspired by seeing how shocking their general gun handling was)
I set up running targets and flip up targets, stationary targets.
About the same time I first started playing with alterations and put a bsa barrel on a crossman CO2 revolver (sent barrel away to get machined) and sanded
out the inside walls of gas chamber to dangours thinness to increase power.
Set up shooting stall at the local rodeos and promtly had the kids from my gun club clean out 3/4 of my prizes and had to ban them for rest of day.
I was hunting all through this time.
After that got lost in world of cartridge rifles.
Then many years later rediscovered my love of air gunning, which was about when I turned up on this site.
Lot of good years and guns wasted by putting air gunning to side.

So what's you story?

Edited by kruzaroad - 06 Jan 2023 at 10:02am

Dude that's a great. Cheers for sharing that. Sounds like an awsome adventure through the world of shooting. I'm guessing the BRNO was prior to that period of crap rifles that came out under thier name. They are a great gun.
I can see why pcp would appeal to you.
I'm deliberately avoiding them. Two reasons 1: I would spend way to much and don't have space for compressors etc in car, when off farm and living in vehical.
2: challange. I enjoy the quirks of springers for shooting. It's added some thing back that the 22lr and I imagine a pcp lost. The need to get close. I've knocked a couple hares off from the house with 22lr this week, both would have been stalks and long shots with sig, but Toz and I'm guessing a pcp pretty much point and shoot.
Love the only having the pellet fly less than 150m too. So nice on farm not having to worry about a projectile going a km+.
Anyway respect. Sounds like your a very active and onto it shooter.
Cheers

Yep they got back onto it. There is still that period of a few years that catches the unwary buyer.
I think a lot cartridge shooters jump on a springer air rifle, think they will shoot it like a cartridge rifle and just give up. Hence pcp popularity.
( it is a winning formula for air guns pcp, no dought about that)
Certainly is a lot lost in recocking a springer. Its actually one of the things I noticed with the under leaver cocking that when cocking as apposed to the break barrel where when breaking the barrel the whole barrel disappears with the motion, in a under lever you still have that motion but the barrel is still there and the movement of the gun is more noticable.
Not such an issue with rabbits but knock of a quail from your possy in the trees and suddenly when they are all on alert that barrel movement with the under lever cocking movement is a huge eye catching movent.