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I started at around 7 or 8 with a Daisy lever action BB gun. Don't recall if it was a Red Ryder, but I did get it for Christmas and I did shoot myself in the eye with a ricochet off a blue plastic milk jug cap stuck in the bark of a maple tree.
From there I moved to a Crosman 766 .177 BB/Pellet gun. I believe the 766 was the precursor to the 2100 in .177 and the 2200 in .22.
That Crosman was probably my ticket to Hell for all the killing I did with it. I hate to think of all the chickadees and the like that met their end in front of the muzzle of my and my little brother's 766's.
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan. 
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Crossman 760 and 1400. We naively thought that the 1400 with 10 pumps was as powerful as a .22 CB. It was a pigeon, sparrow, and starling killing machine around farmer Churchill's dairy barn.
Now that I'm grown up, I have a S&W 77A.
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I still have my Sheidan Blue Streak. Replaced the seals and it's almost as good as new. Still enjoy it.
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Crossman 760 pump in 22 caliber with a 4 power scope. Sold it at 14 for $20 cause I needed the money to buy my Ithaca 37 pump shotgun.
Garry
Trump won !!!
Trying to live like a free man in the Communist Republic of New Jersey.
Love your country, distrust your government.
Democrats and the people who vote for them, enemies of America and a free American people
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Crosman 760, before the lined barrel and plastic.
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After wearing out several crossman .177s I bought a Sheridan 5mm Blue Streak in 1977 or so. Still have it, and until I started shooting Aquila Super Colibri from my bolt .22 a few years ago, it accounted for a lot of rabbit and squirrel out of the garden.
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Not a rifle, but a Marksman .177 cal pellet or BB's. Got it from an uncle when I was about 7 or 8. Now am 68 and still have it. and haven't shot my eye out, (Yet).
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The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.
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Crossman 10 pump .22. It had a nice wooden stock and decent open sights and w/it I would try to kill anything that moved.
I spent many hours learning to hunt and shoot w/ this single shot wonder/
mike r
Don't wish it were easier
Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that.
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Campfire Oracle
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I had a Daisy "spittin' Image" BB gun that was a dead ringer for a model 94 Winchester. I graduated from that to a Crosman 760 Powermaster.
The Powermaster was a short stroke pneumatic that was supposed to be limited to 35 pumps, or something like that, but I'd hotrod it up to 50 for taking out big game,...like squirrels or rabbits.
The Powermaster soon blew its rings because of the hotrodding and I started hauling around Papaw's Model 67 Winchester .22 rifle.
There was no turnin' back after that.
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Crosman 766 was first. It was my dads but I pretty well took it over. He did something to the valve in it, so that it didn't bleed off pressure from over pumping. It wasn't dumping starlings from the big tree in the pasture to his liking, from his hiding spot in the shed. After the mods it did much better. Untold numbers of birds fell to that air rifle. After I finally broke the stock on it, I had a few cheap springers and then my dad bought a Sheridan Silver Streak 5mm. That thing was a killer! Killed some nice big squirrels with it, put them down nicely. He later bought a Diana 52, and it was nice but I never got as good with it as the others. Kinda miss those days sometimes.
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Campfire Ranger
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Red ryder. I figured out I shot well over 250k bb's before the lever broke. Lol I was an addict
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crossman 880. owned it for 30 years. My son finally did it in a few years ago. I now have a ruger pellet rifle
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That Crosman was probably my ticket to Hell for all the killing I did with it.
LOL!! 
Biden's most truthful quote ever came during his first press conference, 03/25/21.
Drum roll please...... "I don't know, to be clear." and THAT is one promise he's kept!!!
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Campfire Ranger
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NRA LIFE MEMBER
GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS
ESPECIALLY THE SNIPERS!
"Suppose you were an idiot And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself."
-Mark Twain
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first gun in about '69 was a crosman 160 that ended up getting stolen and then i got a 2100. i still have the 2100 but it needs new seals. about 25 years i ago i got a sheriden blue streak when i lived in a neighborhood.
My diploma is a DD214
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Had a Benjamin .22 cal that lasted through me and my two older brothers. Wish I still had it.
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This thread reminded me that it is good idea to fire air rifles now and again, and it had been at least a year, so for old times sake I just grabbed the old Sheridan off the rack, gave it a drop of oil for the piston, chambered a pellet, pumped her up 8 times, and cracked one off out the back door at a fence post. It sounded really good, but definitely louder than the Super Colibri .22 rounds.
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Crosman 760, before the lined barrel and plastic. Yep, mine was all steel too.
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Daisy Pump. Great BB gun. Haven't the faintest idea what happened to it.
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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