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Posted: 6/7/2001 5:49:47 PM EDT
Okay guys I am a little drunk, doesn‘t happen often so get ready and reel.  I need some help on a BB GUN.  Yes, I know a BB GUN!  Ever since I got back into shooting approx. three years ago I have wanted a BB GUN.  No, I do not have my first BB GUN since I passed it down to my little brother whom has no clue where it is at this time.  

A couple of considerations: I live in a rural area where there is a wal-mart and k-mart, which is it!  I live with in the city limits.

I have to have a BB GUN because my back yard has 5 huge Beach Nut trees and surrounded on either by multi trees creating a canopy.  Also, I have a 50 foot wide river as my back boundary.  When there is no crow (blackbirds) to wake me up in the early A.M. I will have moving targets in the river.

I know I know!  Shoot with some power.  Well, I can’t since I live in the CITY LIMITS.  I fired a few rounds, at a target with a backstop, during the past New Year and guess who showed up 40 mins. later at the front door?  Lucky for me I graduated high school with the city cop.    

Please give me advice on a good BB GUN that I might find at a wal mart or k mart?

Time to crack another and see what kind of response I get to this thread.

Isomerase


Link Posted: 6/7/2001 6:04:06 PM EDT
[#1]
Daisy 880 with a little tasco 2X scope on it and any bird within 50 yards is dead.  And use pellets not BB's.  That's what I had when I was growing up. The 880 is , well at least was, the most powerful 10 pump BB gun out there.  I'm 27 and still break mine out when I go home on leave!  I love shooting that thing.  
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 6:08:31 PM EDT
[#2]
Get the ones they at Tapco.

[url]http://www.tapco.com/store/departments.asp?dept=65&d_name=Airsoft%3A++Full+Size+and+Mini+Machine+Guns&lev=1[/url]
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 6:15:17 PM EDT
[#3]
I vote for the 880.  I had one as a teenager.  When I got mine they had both a rifled version and a smoothbore.  I don't know if that still holds, but get the rifled version and use good quality pellets.  The Daisy has a long pump lever, and it pumps up much more easily than the Crossman 760.  With a decent air-rifle scope and good pellets I could punch 1/2" groups at 50 yards all day long.

Lousy trigger, but I have yet to see an inexpensive air rifle that had a good one.

[sniper]
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 6:19:00 PM EDT
[#4]
I  have an inexpensive import (Chinese) .177 cal air rifle.  I bought it mail-order about 2 years ago.  It uses BB's or pellets.  It is a one-pump, single shot type.  It is quite good for the $27 price tag.  I will drill and tap it for a scope mount and put an  Tasco ACCUDOT red-dot optic on it.  

My first BB gun was a Crossman Scout.  I still have it, but it is all worn out.  Plus when I shoulder it, the trigger is right at my chin, its a little one.  But I will never part with it.  

I live in MA, and to buy a BB gun at Walmart, you have to go through all the same crap as buying a rifle or shotgun.  That is why I went mail order, came right to my house, no hassles.

OSA
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 7:36:28 PM EDT
[#5]
 Get yourself a Daisy RED RYDER BB gun
with a wood stock .  You won't regret it .
Rapid fire and reasonably accurate .
 My wife got me one for Christmass a couple
 of years ago and I love it .
 I don't shoot birds to much cause of all the bugs they eat but a wasps nest full of wasps is a real treat .

 Just remember to keep it oiled up good .
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 7:38:54 PM EDT
[#6]
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 7:44:12 PM EDT
[#7]
Have another brewski  [beer]
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 8:34:56 PM EDT
[#8]
RED RYDER.
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 8:45:51 PM EDT
[#9]
Link Posted: 6/7/2001 8:50:50 PM EDT
[#10]
When I was quite a bit younger, my parents got me the Daisy 880 that I'd been begging for for years. I must've put 5000 BBs through that thing in the first few days! I still have it, but it's pretty worn out now. I keep it around for sentimental value. I originally had a Tasco 4X scope on it, and I was deadly accurate for a kid.
The only problem was my arms would get so worn out from pumping it 10 times for every shot[that's what made my first .22 rifle SO enjoyable!].

At a gun show a couple years ago, I bought one of those break-open Chinese pellet rifles on a whim. It was less than $30, and I can't leave a gun show without buying something.
I put a 4X32 Simmons scope on it and refinished the stock. Man, that thing is FUN! shooting it brings back memories of my Daisy 880. Except it's a lot more accurate, it has a higher muzzle velocity, and I only have to pump it once. It's pretty dang cool.

Sorry for rambling, I think the cheapo Chinese rifle is a good buy. See if you can find one.
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