Author Topic: Air gun pics (Read 4702 times)

simplicity · « **on:** June 14, 2010, 04:03:42 AM »

Lets see your air guns, and hear your there performances. This is my RWS model 48 in 22cal. with a centerpoint 3-9x40. Using 14.0 grain Meisterkugeln (RWS) (my lightest pellet) I get 870fps=23.5ftlbs. My heaviest pellets are Beeman Kodiaks 21.1 grains i get 670fps=21.03ftlbs.

simplicity · « **Reply #1 on:** June 16, 2010, 04:25:10 AM »

huh guess no one has any pics of their air rifles.

scout4 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2010, 05:25:23 PM »

My Crosman Quest 1000, good gun! good shooter! scout4<><

scout4 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 18, 2010, 05:48:50 AM »

This is my Daisy 880. For a cheap pumper, it is a good gun! scout4<><

Cohort · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2010, 12:08:11 PM »

I have one of the early Beemans that were made in W.Germany back in the 1970s. It has all the finest sights they sent with that gun ,and it is a 5mm. The stock is European Walnut ,and it is to fancy to shoot . Although i used to put a pellet in a dime size hole at 30 yards all day long with it .
It has killed more bad critters ( Snakes , Badgers ) around here than any other gun i own .

IOWA DON · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2010, 05:34:20 PM »

We were not very old when my older brother and I bought this V-350 Crossman BB-gun, maybe 10 and 11 years old. Before that we had a Daisy lever action which was a poor excuse fore a BB-gun in terms of accuracy and power. Then we got a Hy-Score break-over BB/pellet gun. It was .177 and could shoot eithe BB's or lead pellets. It had a little more power than a Daisy and was a lot more accurate. Then we got the Crossman V-350 slide action BB-gun. It had about the accuracy of the Hy-Score and was a repeater. (See the photo below.) One had to slide the barrel in and out to cock it. The velocity was 350 fps from which it was named. I took the sights off it and used it for shooting tin cans which I threw in the air when I was about 12 years old. After a lot of practice I could hit a can three times before it hit the ground. Note that the wood stock was originaly just a slab of maple wood which was rounded on the edges. I used a file, rasp and sand paper and shaped into a better shaped stock. Anyway, we thought it was quite a nice air gun at the time and got better equipment after that. I will send more photos. - DON

IOWA DON · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2010, 05:46:51 PM »

After the Crossman my brother and I got a Sheridan .20 caliber. I will post somthing on it in a few days as it was a real hunting rifle. However, for now the attached photo is of the FWB-124 I got as an adult. I have had this rifle for over 30 years. It has got dozens of rabbits and squirrels many hudreds of pest birds. It does not make as much noise as the old Sheridan pump gun, but it just is not as good of a gun for hunting where noise is not a factor.

IOWA DON · « **Reply #7 on:** June 20, 2010, 06:09:35 PM »

About the same time as I got the 124 FWB I also got a 300 FWB target rifle (see photo below). Instead of a velocity od about 800 fps it only shoots less than 600 fps. However it has a hair trigger and is very easy to shoot accurately. It has accounted for hundreds of pest birds, numerous rabbits and two squirrels. Rabbits are easy to kill but the two squirrels are what I consider an interesting story. I do not think a 575 fps .177 air gun is really adequate for fox squirrels. However accuracy sometimes makes up for power. Anyway, there was a squirrel on the bird feeder which was about 30 feet away from my shooting place (out the sliding glass doors of our family room). I had a good rest and when the sruirrel looked in my direction I put a pellet up his nose into his brain and he was immediatley dead. An hour later another squirrel showed up, looked in my drection and got the same treatment, and died just as quickly. I got to thinkin that it would be possible to make a slight aiming error and only blind or otherwise wound a squirrel with such an underpowered airgun, so never tried to get another squirrel with that gun. However, the 300 FWB is very usefull in my back yard. It is very quiet, accurate, and is capable of taking pest birds and rabbits. - DON

IOWA DON · « **Reply #8 on:** June 20, 2010, 06:51:54 PM »

This is what I think is a mid-60's Bejamin pnuematic air pistol. I bought it from a friend about 8 years ago when he was retiring and selling off his gun collection. I shot it for accuracy with some .22 caliber pellets I had. Accuracy was very bad. However, I more recently got some H&N match .22 cal pellets which weigh 14 grains. A few days ago I tried them in that old pnuematic pistol off a rest and got a 5/8th-inch group at 25 feet. Considering that the piistol probably has a 10-pund trigger pull with a lot of creep, I think it could shoot more accurately with a good trigger job. Also, with 6 pumps the velocity was 325 fps. That would kill small birds and maybe rabbits. Anyway, I am thinking abot puting on some grips of fancy walnunt and having a trigger job done on it as there is potential for it way beyond what it now does.

simplicity · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2010, 04:06:23 AM »

Awesome Iowa Don, thanks for posting I wish I still had some of the old air guns from when I was a kid ( I'm still a kid lol) I don't know what my new fasination with air rifles is from. I think it's mostly from have a home just inside city limits and it's leagal to shoot discharge a air gun within city limits, so I can shoot at my house and go out squirrel hunting. It kinda sucks that you can't hunt crows any more here in maine with a rifle or a air gun ( has to be a plugged shotgun) My rws 48 kills squirrels faster then any of my 22lr's. I'm waiting to try it on a woodchuck. I also have a old crossman 180 but it hasn't worked in years I need to rebuild the valve, it just leaks the air through. Hopefully more folks will chime in.

Cohort · « **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2010, 09:59:29 AM »

Crows are a little to smart around here .Dont ask me how ,but i can walk outside without a rifle and all they do is yell at me . But when i start thinking i am going to shoot those little hoodlums they scatter.
Now when they are in my Pecan trees they are too bust pigging out and they become an easy target from there .
Gackles are our real problem ,they will kill or run off any other birds around includeing my hunting Doves and Quale .

steg · « **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2010, 05:33:43 PM »

I have an old winchester 435, But I don't know how to post...........steg........could be short for stegosarus, LOL but it isn't

Cohort · « **Reply #12 on:** June 21, 2010, 06:42:05 PM »

Steg ,i thought you were a Raptor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Duke0313 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 21, 2010, 07:21:15 PM »

Steg??? Say, you didn't happen to run a Fantasy Football site a few years back, did you?

steg · « **Reply #14 on:** June 22, 2010, 07:12:46 AM »

Naw it's a short take of the local beer I used to drink, It's name was Stegmaier, I don't drink anymore though............steg

IOWA DON · « **Reply #15 on:** June 22, 2010, 11:56:22 AM »

SIMPLICITY - I think the facination with airguns is that they are such marvelous mechanical devices. I am a mechanical engineer (retired) and of course like any mechanical engineer love cars, motorcycle, bicycles and guns. I shoot other guns (firearms) and hunt pheasants, coyotes, deer, etc. but to me there is something really special about designing and making a gun which uses air as a medium to launce a pellet or bullet, especially if it is accurate and works for hunting. Putting a pellet from an air rifle through the heart/lung area of a rabbit at 30 yards is a little less exciting to me than hitting a deer at 400 yards with my 6MM-06, but still pretty close. - DON

IOWA DON · « **Reply #16 on:** June 26, 2010, 02:13:10 PM »

This is the old Sheridan my brother and I bought in about 1960 when I would have been 11 and he would have been 12. During the last few weeks it was at MAC1 getting the steriod treatment and a peep sight, and I was busy making the new stock for it. My brother and I (mostly I) shot a lot of critters with it. It was very accurate when Sheridan made good pellets and if we missed something it was our fault not the rifle. Anyway, one of my 12-year-old grandsons has a break-over springer and has trouble hitting birds with it as it vibrates so much. He does not have any problems hitting targets with my 300 FWB. So I volunteered to get the old Sheridan fixed up and give it to him. My brother had custody of it for the past 20 years and it had a leaking seal so was not shot much for a while. We had shortened the old stock a couple inches for our younger brother and that peice of the stock was missing so I could not glue it back on. My son-in-law had some pieces of walnut from a dead tree found on their acreage. The slabs of walnut were cut up 7 years ago and were drying since then. I asked for a peice to make into a replacement stock for the Sheridan and that is why it has the nice stock. The grain was much better than we suspected it would be. I only got the gun together yesterday and began to do some testing and sighting in. It appears that a good combination of pellets and pumps for the grandson is the 13.8-grain Kodiaks with 5 pumps which gives a velocity of 540 fps (on my chronograph) and about 9 foot-pounds energy. It would have a good 30-yard trajectory and enough thump for a rabbit or maybe even a squirrel. With 14 pumps the velocity with the Kodiaks is 780 fps and the energy is 18 foot-pounds. That is more than 50 percent more energy than my 124 FWB puts out. I shot three 3-shot groups with it and the Kodiak pellets off my patio table (which did not seem real steady) at 22 yards. The first group (which was the first group I shot with the rehabilated gun) measured 0.80-inch. The second group measured 0.50-inch. And the third and last group with that pellet measured 0.25-inch. A 5-shot group with a Beeman 11.5-grain field/target pellet with 4 pumps at 530 fps measured 0.6-inch. Groups shot with the Preditor pellet and the Crow-Magnum pellet were not as good. Anyway, I think the grandson will have a lot better luck with the old Sheridan than with his springer. A couple people have asked me if it will be hard to let go of that gun. No, I don't think it will be. It makes a loud crack which is OK for the 5-acre place my grandson lives on, but I think it might be a little too loud for some of the neighbors around my 1/2-acre lot. However, I am really starting to think about buying an old Sheridan just like it for me and getting it fixed up the same way. Hope the photo turns out OK.

Wareagle · « **Reply #17 on:** August 19, 2010, 07:40:00 AM »

Umm....here is my $20 dollar Chinese gun with a $40 scope. A picture of 5 shots under a penny at 20 yards...(best I can get I'm afraid).

scout4 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 19, 2010, 01:54:04 PM »

Hey Wareagle! Is that a B3 fastdeer? If it is, then for $20.00 you have yourself a pretty good airrifle there. They no longer make the B3 fastdeer. From what I've read the B3 had a good reputation as a very accurate airrifle. Nice shooting! Good luck with it! scout4<><

scout4 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 19, 2010, 03:38:46 PM »

Here is a new photo of my two best airrifles. The Crosman Quest, and my new Beeman Bearclaw!...Thats a good sounding, rugged name, the Bearclaw!! I like that.

Thanks! scout4<><

darkgael · « **Reply #20 on:** August 20, 2010, 04:43:18 PM »

Ok. A couple of CO2 Guns. I have since taken that red dot off the top gun.

One of the big Korean PCP guns - .45 cal (200 grain bullet at 600+fps). This is a stock advertising photo. Mine has no bipod.

A super accurate Baikal match pistol

May be my most accurate air gun - a Feinwerkbau match air pistol

Wareagle · « **Reply #21 on:** August 23, 2010, 07:31:54 AM »

Hey Scout,
Beats me what the heck it is. Kid brought it home years ago, been sitting in the gun case barely getting any use. Only recently I've been needing a "critter-ridder" so I started comparing my other 2 pellet guns with this one. Its accuracy was the best of the 3 so I went ahead and put a scope on it. I'm not super impressed as at 20 yards I could not touch holes - THAT IS UNTIL 3 DAYS AGO....stopped by Bass Pro on the way home from work Friday...found these Predator plastic tipped pellets...at 20 yards I am punching the center out of a 3/4 inch aiming dot...one single hole. Now its getting interesting!

Let me know how I could identify this gun for sure.

Jim

scout4 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 23, 2010, 11:42:11 AM »

Wareagle thats what I figure you should find with your rifle. I'm not sure if you have the B-3 fastdeer, or a B-34, I do know that for a very low cost airrifle they are suppose to be very accurate. You could try checking in this site. www.kermitairgunclub.com Lots of information there. Another thing about a spring piston airrifle is that it can take many, many shots before the rifle starts shooting with its greatest accuracy. And as with any rifle finding the pellet that shoots best can take a little doing. These are a different gun compared to a powder burning .22 or .17 cal. cartrige. scout4<><

Wareagle · « **Reply #23 on:** August 24, 2010, 10:18:20 AM »

Thanks for the link - I will check that out. I'm guessing I'm getting close to 500 shots now. That with 6 different types of pellets, but the polymag predators are my chosen child presently.

BillC. · « **Reply #24 on:** September 03, 2010, 09:24:12 AM »

OK here's my big airgun. Quackenbush .458 LA , just a heap of fun to shoot. Nothing like dropping a 405gr "bb" in the chamber and lunching it with air

a 405gr next to a .177

darkgael · « **Reply #25 on:** September 03, 2010, 01:43:21 PM »

Bill: I lust after the Quackenbush guns. How long did it take you to get on his list?
Pete

scout4 · « **Reply #26 on:** September 04, 2010, 05:30:00 AM »

Hey All! Beautiful day here in northeast Pennsylvania! I sent to Pyramyd airgun for the heavy .177cal. pellets I figure that is needed to get some good accuracy from the beeman bearclaw. If the pellets get here today maybe get a little shooting in and find out what kind of accuracy this gun has. Have a great day! scout4<><

Handi Man · « **Reply #27 on:** April 13, 2011, 11:13:45 AM »

I had one of those Chinese single cock..........shot at a stray cat at about 40 yd dropped him dead.....

keith44 · « **Reply #28 on:** April 13, 2011, 10:07:30 PM »

Beeman Sportsman RS-2 switch barrel, .177 and .22 advertised velocities 1,000 fps, and 850 fps (at time of purchase) (now 1,000 fps and 830 fps).

Bottle top shot with .177 barrel, and gamo hunter pellet at 30 yards

nuf said

shooter6br · « **Reply #29 on:** June 30, 2011, 04:58:39 PM »

Pic of my Daisy 747 with Tasco $32 red dot Great scope for the money