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Aaaaand another thread gone…..all Thanks to POS

Well at least your better looking ole Stick.

I'm a lot taller, and I'm not fat. Wouldn't say either of us is getting on the cover of GQ next month though.....

Yeah, I shouldn't have started a thread about practicing your offhand skills with inexpensive pellet guns. Stevie Wonder saw Stick and bipods and "better" pellet guns showing up and throwing insults.....


Granted, I could just ignore him, but where's the fun in that???

I haven't read through this whole thread, but I am throwing in my two cents early since I know a bit about these air rifles. The CMP is selling Daisy 853/753 SSP's (Single Stroke Pneumatics). They're not powerful, but they'll shoot 10's on the 10 meter air rifle targets (a 10 is 1/2mm or about the size of a period in a newspaper article). These rifles are surplus off the JROTC programs who upgraded to Crosman Challengers. I coach a junior team and we still start new shooters on these rifles. It's not uncommon that our kids will shoot in the 80's offhand, through the irons with these. They're also shooting prone and kneeling with a sling. Upper 90's prone and upper 80's kneeling is a decent day for most of the first year kids.

If anyone is interested in getting one of the CMP Surplus Daisy's (best deal ever in an affordable marksmanship practice rifle), hit me up and I'll make a couple of recommendations to make them even a bit more shootable. The division these rifles are shot in is called "Sporter Air Rifle". In a couple of months we'll be rolling into Precision Air Rifle where they'll be shooting rifles with names like Anschutz, FWB and Walther. The FWB 300S doesn't even make the bottom rung here.

I actually linked to the CMP site (where I got mine) in an earlier post. 😉

So, basically, a used, surplus trainer from the CMP allows for cheap, effective offhand practice.

CMP Sporter air rifles

In case anyone was, you know, still posting about cheap, effective OFFHAND practice.

Now we can all anxiously await sticks irrelevant mail call pics. Probably got a new tripod for shooting offhand......

LOL. Me too.

Thanks. I’ve been meaning to get an air rifle of some sorts to shoot pack rats and grackles around the Ranch house so I don’t shoot up all my .22 ammo. Hate to waste a CCI stinger on a damn packrat. I’ll have to check them out. The only B.B. gun I have left is Dad’s original Red Ryder from the 1940’s.
Gave all mine away to the nephews years ago.

goalie,
I thought I was quoting that post...one of my many fails!

Looking for Daisy Air Rifle photos in my imgur. Didn't find any, but did find this ole Sheridan shot. Doesn't exactly fit the theme of this thread...because while it's old, it's definitely not "cheap". I like the photo, so I'm sharing.

ya'll ever see Stick in his film Debut?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KSiyaqnZYs

They sure are a good way to get lots of good practice in. For a few dollars worth of pellets you could easily do as much shooting practice as one bloke here pretends to do with all his rusty rifles, and if there are small pests around you could do more hunting with it than he's ever done too, and you don't have to go far afield to do it.

Now, that's funny... well done, Gitem.

Great choice. My Benjamin 397 .177 is my all-time killin'est gun. I've gotten well over 1,000 squirrels with it.

That's almost as old as his tree felling videos he posts.

And, depending on where you hunt, much more relevant practice than shooting long range with a bipod or tripod.

Shooting this:



Ain't practice for hunting with this:



But, stinky can't have other people liking what he doesn't like.

I'm sure he'll be around to post his 81 with a f'SS and tape on it, saying 300 Savage is at least a 900 yard deer caliber if you got enough mils on the elevation and "windshield."

🙄

You did, but for some reason the link didn't copy to the quote. I figured I would re-post the link in case anyone was actually reading about offhand practice with pellet guns.

Ya know...I posted the minute I saw I had something to help with, but had I read through the end and seen how this thread de-evolved I'd have probably walked away.

Eerily quiet, lil Kim musta brought the numerous pregnancy test to go over with the lazy bushelor… haha