New Airgun

[Mortblanc]

I was shopping for airgun pellets now that the stores are mostly restocked and somehow I pushed a button and ordered a new air rifle.

This is the modern version of one of the rifles I craved during my youth and never had the money to buy. I did have a Crossman pump up rifle, Christmas when I was 14. It was a great rifle and I shot about a million pellets through it to the point that Crossman rebuilt it twice.

20 years latter my X-wife sold it in a yard sale, such behavior and worse being why she was made an X.

This new rifle is in .22 caliber and at full pump it gives around 1000fps, which puts it over your 12 pound limit. I really prefer the .22 over the .177 even though the paper ballistics say they can be made "equal".

I shoot a lot of .177 off the back porch, but I am not trying to kill anything with it, just set the little steel targets to flipping and spinning. This pump up .22 will be put to the same use I am sure.

I was sad to see that they have gone from the old style hardwood stock to injected plastic, but everything is now "injected plastic" including our military rifles/pistols. Showing my age I suppose, I remember walnut and blue steel.

I might just order a hardwood stock blank and spend some time this winter building a "real stock" for this one.

https://www.pyramydair.com/product/benja...=4869#9745