Sometimes you just get it right the first time.
My first firearm guns were truly horrific garbage, like an abominable Savage 12 gauge side by side, a jam-o-matic pump 22 and an el-crappo 22 revolver with the optional deluxe insta-rust finish. I have done better since, and don't have any truly fancy guns, but they are all good quality guns that are worth owning.
That Savage had a stock designed by a sadist who managed to direct the full recoil to my cheek bone, and the geometry of the stock was set up so that only a peg-legged left handed cross-eyed hunchback could raise it and get a natural point of aim. The rifle jammed every few rounds, and the trigger was a special high-tech random jitter trigger that had anything from a hair trigger release to about an inch of travel and never had the same trigger pull twice. The pistol hit about 8 feet to the right of where I thought I was aiming.
The thing that kept me shooting, however, was the venerable Crosman 760, which was just great and I really liked it. Nice to see it's still available. I think I shot about 30,000 BBs through it, sometimes five at a time because you could chamber more than one BB. I also shot pellets and darts with it, but not nearly as much. Sometimes I even dared to, gasp, try 11 pumps instead of the documented maximum 10. This was my first "reloading" experience because I had different "loads" for different applications, like 3 pumps for indoor shooting, 5 pumps for low-noise songbird shooting, and 10 pumps for when I needed maximum power (I'll leave it to you to imagine what that meant, but think large and feathery).
