I remember growing up, everybody had the old pump action, spring driven bb, guns, red ryders, and that kind of thing and that was always fun. Fast forward to today and things are shall we say different.
The first difference is the difficulty in obtaining ammo for regular firearms to shoot in the state of California. Regardless of the fact there is an indoor gun range 5 minutes from my house.
The second is my property is on a game trail and the Coyotes are prevalent, but I can’t use firearms in town even though I would be shooting into my own bluff. I don’t need to kill them much as they need killin’ hence airguns.
Colt Defender
I looked around for a nice handgun, in .177, and I discovered the defender by Colt, all steel and built from the real frame. It weighs a little more than my actual Walter PPK in 380. Gas driven semi auto,410 fps, a real fun weapon, I threw a red dot on it and a consistent bullseye at 25 ft. I like it.
Umarex Canex
While researching the background on my little Colt, I discovered they’re actually manufactured in Taiwan by a company called Umarex, further, I found out that they actually have a plant in Fort Smith Arkansas.The website is yummy but I noticed the Canex, a pellet drum magazine semi auto with twin gas cylinders, 810fps, so I bought it. My trap was a joke against this thing, and the ‘yotes will notice, again with a red dot scope this thing is zeroed perfect, ouch fuckers.
Crosman full auto M1
I was looking around for gas and ammo at airgundepot.com and they showed it to me, empties a mag in less than a second?Dual gas, 3 round burst or full auto, holy shit. Of course I bought one, not like I needed it but auto? Sold to the old guy.
Night vision goggles
They are more like a screen than binos, at my needed ranges they work perfect, 80-100 feet, dead o night I can see those fuckers prowling for puppies, Its best on a tripod for smooth motion but easy when your following a game trail.when spring comes we shall make a hide on the back deck and have some fun.
Ammo is cheap, having a bluff in the yard keeps things safer, I need a thicker trap, and its a great past time. Ill be back to the range but I need to make a visit first, in the meantime
the Coyotes call, and howling moon, so Ill ride out, to the old sundown,
Nice. I prefer the spring piston, but there is more than enough to go around.
My 760 pumpmaster is a nice springer, cheap too
A 760 isn’t a springer, it is a pump.
Fair, glad I use gas, I stoch it like ammo, these are varmit machines, and cheap to operate.
There was a Sherlock Holmes story (The Adventure of the Empty House) about an assassin who used an air rifle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure_of_the_Empty_House
First gun I ever fired was Daisy BB gun, also an air rifle. My brother, cousin, and I used to have shooting contests judged by my grandpa. Good times. Also, no one shot their eye out.
I had the pump Daisy, bought it mail order from Sears with my own paper route money. As I remember it had a 50 round magazine. It was fun, can’t remember what happened to it but for sure it included my next older brother. I was about 13.
My cousin inherited all my grandpa’s guns, including the percussion cap rifle that we only fired a few times. The rest of the time it hung above grandpa’s fireplace.
He spent his early years in Kentucky. I inherited his collection of arrowheads and other Injun artifacts.
He told me Kentucky means hunting ground, but my own research says it just means field or meadow. He had a lifelong interest in the tribes. I enjoyed reading Black Elk Speaks from his library.
He allowed and encouraged my sister and female cousin to shoot, but they were not much interested in it.
When I was a kid living on the farm, the big thing for us was bows and arrows. We all had a bow and a bunch of target arrows.
The highlight of that era was when the two neighbor boys and I were screwing around and the younger brother shot his older brother in the ass with an arrow from close enough that it went through his jeans into his butt.
We weren’t too worried about the flesh wound. What scared us was the fact that the jeans were brand new (school was going to start in a week or so) and now had a hole in them. Parents were not going to be amused that a new pair of JC Penney Plain Pockets did not even get to Day 1 of the school year.
I can’t remember how, but Randy did manage to hide the jeans until the start of the school year. He was able to manage to pretend that the damage was done in the school yard and only received the normal amount of punishment for that.
Ah, yes. The eeevil and dastardly Col. Sebastian Moran. Good villain.
I really enjoyed his portrayal in the second Guy Richie SH movie.
I’ve been eyeing one of those full auto M1s.
Umarex Arrax is a good break barrel.
As a kid I had an old Crosman pump, and (still have) a Beeman pump air pistol.
Brrrr, 25 rounds,
Less than a second,
tight spread at 25 yards. Total fun.
I love the 30 carbine clone.
I prefer my real one.
This is a hobby that oddly skipped the [surname’s] family plan. Thanks for chances to shoot vicariously.
Trying to think the last (and maybe only?) time I went to a range, and I reckon that woulda been ’round 2012 or so.
I have a Umarex in .177. It is enough to take out a rabbit* (my chickens love rabbit). It is enough to deter the deer, wolves, and coyotes. A red dot might be a good idea.
*Rabbits do a number on my garden.
Mrs. Holiness believes she can stop the rabbit infestation of our gardens via a large fencing program. Add enough fencing and the rabbits will go away.
I snort and mock her ideas, but I still end up adding rolls of fencing every spring to the gardens at her insistence. Like fusion energy, she thinks we are constantly on the cusp of success.
My favorite year was when she cut a hole in the fence at one end of the garden. Turns out that the recent fencing that I installed was too tall for her to step over. So she cut the hole so she could get into the garden. According to her, this would work because the gap was waaaaaay at the end of the fence and no rabbit would ever find it. Much beer was drunk that afternoon while muttering under my breath.
My garden space is 40’x80’ with an 18” high roll of 1/2” mesh around it. The rabbits don’t get in it but there is nothing you can do to stop the voles.
feckin rabbits.
Amazon red dots work well, YMMV
I have a spring piston .177 rifle. It has killed scores of rabbits and squirrels in the back yard.
The rabbits are buried in the garden as part of the Circle of Life. The squirrels are cleaned and eaten.
I don’t have the luxury of a bluff behind my property. So when I am shooting squirrels out of the apple tree in the back yard, I have to be conscious of what is behind them. There are several large swathes of tree that are safe to shoot them out of. Unfortunately the squirrels have learned which branches are danger zones and which branches are safe zones. They will nab an apple and scurry to one of the safe branches and eat it while sneering at you. Hopefully after the Maduro snatch, they might not be so sure of their safety.
That defender is purdy.
I only have two airguns. I used them to put mice out of their misery. Haven’t had to do that in a while since my neighbors started mowing more regularly so I didn’t get the surges of rodents fleeing anymore.
Unrelated to the article topic, I finally made the meatballs stroganoff. 🤤😋
suh’ fam
whats goody
/I feel terrible
Maybe you shouldn’t have taken that covid test.
Works for the Amish.
If you had taken your (∞+2) boosters instead of just (∞+1) your symptoms would be 1% less severe.
Five years ago today, cops murdered Ashli Babbitt.
Boy they do a good job of exonerating themselves on wiki:
“The USCP deemed the shooting was “lawful and within Department policy” and “potentially saved Members (of Congress) and staff from serious injury and possible death”
I remember how the left laughed when Sen. Paul was attacked and suffered cracked ribs.
He deserved it though.
Morning all.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHC9HE7vazI
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Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., and homey!
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Morning.
Good morning, U! How are you today?
Annoyed.
I’m running low on caffiene, and will have to make a run to the store during my lunch.
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https://www.fox29.com/news/crews-battle-large-fire-horsham-gun-range
Local news. Sad. Though I haven’t been inside in years.
Sad indeed, but thank goodness no people or pets were hurt! 😥
If you feel like spending firearm money, you can absolutely get air rifles that euthanize coyotes:
https://airforceairguns.com/product-category/big-bore-airguns/texanss/
Those still need a big air compressor, usually another $700. Or Conan the Barbarian arms with a manual compressor. Very cool though.