#2389685 - 08/24/08 04:48 PM
Beeman switch barrel kit for a starter gun??
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verhoositz
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Loc: The Texas Side of Lake Texoma
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I recently saw a Beeman 177/22 switch barrel takedown kit in a fitted nylon case for $119 at a local chain store. As I recall it was a Model 7, or something 7. The info tag sez 1000fps and it came with a typical inexpensive scope. I've never looked at an airgun before so I do not know what I'm looking at.
Having played with CF's from 224 thru 366 diameters since the late 1960's, and killed lots of critters in my life, but now living in a semi retirment scenario where frivolous bux are tighter than tree bark ...is this'un: A. functional enough for dinking around the yard and harrassing the multudinous squirrel & 'coon population & B. going to give me enough accuracy and transferable trigger skills time for my CF's?
I was impressed at the finish work and feel of the assemebled rifle and want more than a toy but not willing/ready yet to step off into another hobby. My county is nationally known for its P&Y White Tails around the local WMA at the other end of the lake...so I need to decide either Archery? or Airguns?, with the extensive CF & Shotgun experience much more transferable to Airguns.
I live in a rural area adjacent to ArmyCOE land in a heavily forested creek bottom that feeds the 90k acre lake 150 yards in front of me with too much canopy in the yard on my side of "the line" to even grow a decent crop of weeds & the uncut "greenbelt" across the road from me has a 15' tall understory to catch strays. What say ya'll?
The same store carries a GAMO product in this same price range I have not looked at as this was a whim to begin with, and other stuff all the way down to a pink Daisy popgun.
Ron
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#2555428 - 11/06/08 12:17 PM
Re: Beeman switch barrel kit for a starter gun??
[Re: verhoositz]
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centershot
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Loc: Southern Idaho
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Not to burst your bubble, but Beemans in that range are made in Mexico or Spain. For a lower end gun that will last for years the RWS M 34 P gets the nod. The trigger is not great, but serviceable and the rest of the rifle is typical German engineering and machine work - beautiful. For a few more beans the Beeman R-7 is a wonderful gun. Truth be told, if more people owned R-7's than brand x's 1000+ fps gun they would be much happier and shoot their rifles more often and more accurately.
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