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I have that rifle!!! Shoots pellets or bb's. It's called a AIR-17 by Daisy. Anyone want to buy it? First $200 gets it and of course you will need an FFL. [;)]
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You got the AIR-17 right, but its made by Crossman. My mom bought me one for my 7th or 8th birthday I think. It was my first "machinegun" [heavy]
It shot either BB's or pellets. It even had a trapdoor in the buttstock which I used for storing thousands of bb's in at the time. If you wanted to shoot pellets you loaded them in a long little "magazine" that held 5 of them if I remember correctly, and you had to slide it over each time you shot. It fit in the slot you can see directly beneath the middle of the carry handle.
Many a bird, locust, rat and other menacing vermin fell from the blasts of my AIR-17. Those were the good old days.
Michael