My brother and I bought one when we were in grade school. The price was $27.50 and that was in about 1961. Most of the time were carried it around with 3 or 4 pumps as the owners manual said it would last longer if not pumped up to the maximun every time. Ours would shoot about 1/2-inch groups at 40 feet. We shot lots of sparrows, but were in an intensivley farmed area so there was not much game. However, I did get a crow, a large snapping turtle, a couple muskrats, a squirrel and a few rabbits. I think we shot 5,000 rounds through it the first year. The velocity was lower than my 124 FWB (800 fps), but I think it had more killing power. I think the pellets weighed 14 grains instead of 8. Also, being a pneumatic it did not vibrate so was easier to shoot accurately and one could carry it around loaded and ready to fire. Twenty years later the accuracy appeared to have dropped off and I discovered the problem. The newer Sheridan pellets were of lower quality. Their skirt was not completly symetrical. That is, the skirt was lacking a little lead on one side. I found that if I put the pellet in the barrel with the dented side of the skirt orented the same way every time, accuracy was much better. Also, accuracy was better with the pellet backwards. The balilstic coeficient was probably pretty bad, but it was likw a very large hollow point. The later bluestreaks were not as nicely made as our old one. A cousin of mine got a blue streak with fancy wood and this was about 1965. The only drawback of the blue streaks is that they are very loud. I now use my pellet guns for pest bird control work in the backyard and the bluestreak would make too much noise for that. I wish someone would make a pneumatic like to old bluestreaks (nice workmanship, nice wood and same looks), only in .25 caliber, and built for more pressure so one could get 800 fps with their heavy pellets.
