You might do well to prowl the local gun shops that sell and trade rifles.
I was off work today and the local shop had 3 air rifles and an air pistol that were part of an estate he was liquidating.
I got a TX200 in 22 cal. scoped for $300 and didn't need any of the others...
My Crow Magnums both came from the local gun show at a pawn shop's table, folks turn up their noses and walked on by, not me!

"Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them.
You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain like the features of a friend."
Isak Dinesen