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Posted: 11/6/2016 10:19:59 AM EDT
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I'm looking for something I can shoot in my suburban backyard without pissing off the neighbors.
It would mainly be for plinking cans and teaching my daughter safety and fundamentals. Shots wouldnt be any further than 50 feet tops and probably more like 30 feet. Would something like this daisy work and not break in a couple months? |
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I'm looking for something I can shoot in my suburban backyard without pissing off the neighbors. It would mainly be for plinking cans and teaching my daughter safety and fundamentals. Shots wouldnt be any further than 50 feet tops and probably more like 30 feet. Would something like this daisy work and not break in a couple months? How old/big/strong is your daughter? If she's a little tyke, the Red Ryder is probably a fine starter gun. You probably won't be satisfied with it, though. I realize it's quite a step up in cost but I would suggest the Weihrauch HW30s for dad or mom (or bigger kids). It's a lifetime gun that is fully satisfying. |
| My son is about to turn 9 and the stock on the Red Ryder makes the LOP a little long for him. He has to tuck the stock under his arm to get comfortable. There is a smaller one intended for young kids that's almost like a Red Ryder, just not as nice. Can't remember the name, but they're like $15-20. |
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Get a Crosman 760 Pump. Shoot lead pellets. They won't richochet like steel BB's
Crosman Pumpmaster 760 pink You can just do 2 or 3 pumps and i will hardly make any noise. Daisy has a similar pump gun Daisy pink Powerline model 35 |
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Get a Crosman 760 Pump. Shoot lead pellets. They won't richochet like steel BB's Crosman Pumpmaster 760 pink You can just do 2 or 3 pumps and i will hardly make any noise. Daisy has a similar pump gun Daisy pink Powerline model 35 I bought my then 5 YO the pink 760 a couple years ago. It's actually a fun, super light, fairly accurate plinker. The scope it comes with is a pos, I've never bothered to upgrade it. We can easily hit crackers and silly string at 50'+. I picked up a Gamo break barrel, but have struggled to get any reliable zero even after trying multiple scope configurations. It seems to like heavy (10+grain) target pellets which also helps stay below sound barrier speeds and being obnoxiously loud. |
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I agree with a Daisy pump. I don't know that the cheap crosman air rifles actually have a rifled bore, but the Daisy's do.
The Daisy's are damn accurate too. As recommended above, a few pumps and it's nice and quiet. I would use lead pellets also- nice and soft and they will transfer most of their energy on impact so ricochets into windows will be way less of a concern. |
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A crosman custom shop 1300 carbine.
http://www.crosman.com/custom-shop/ You add a stock to the pump models in the "grips" dropdown. |
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Red Ryder is more fun to shoot since it's so fast to repeat. My go to back yard beer gun We plink all the time, squirrels are smart, they don't get shot too many times before they just avoid the area. When people come over (adults and kids) the RR's usually come out. I have introduced a couple of the wife's friends, who have never fired a gun of any kind, to shooting with the RR's, one actually went shooting 22's with us because the RR's were so much fun. If you do not have, at some point, a RedRyder BB gun and a bag of green army men in your life, Your life is not complete. |
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