O/T any airgunners out there?

tpe · Mar 2005

I know its very childish, a grown man getting a bb gun but the missus just let me get this... and i am very excited, blabber drewel etc.

http://www.fxairguns.com/products/fx_tarantula/tarantula_015.jpg

Ajustable to 30Ftlb 8 shot magazine, silenced with a 3-9x40 tasco scope, 0.5" grouping at 50yds

There are restrictions that make it very difficult to get a FAC here like a ~ $400 compulsory training course so i will see how fun this is and go from there, and i always wanted one as a boy

Love to see what you got and hear what they are like.

tpe

P.S does anyone know if a scilencer messes up accuracy, or even works?

sal_manilla · Mar 2005

Holy crap, Tim, that is a bad lookin' gun there. I never got serious with the hobby. As a kid I used to shoot bummble bees and dragon flies with something like this. http://store1.yimg.com/I/cobraairguns_1835_8897621 At 16 I got my first .22 which I still have. I hunted deer and did my own reloads. Later sold all that for camera equip. Whew.....the abridged version.

JKMakowka · Mar 2005

Well, that isn't the same as Paintball right? (the weapon doesn't seem very suitable for that).
Anyways, when I was ~18, I seriously thought about trying Paintball a bit, and there was even a club near the place I lived back then (duue... thats already 5 years ago

). But it was completly infested by (wannabe) neonazis

tpe · Mar 2005

Jesus sal i didnt know it was alowed to shoot deer with a .22*, but dont you think that hunting and photography have something of the same in them (but i guess you eat better from the former), you have to be at one with nature andtrack down your prey etc, great to get out etc?

* ok, but this is an exception... http://www.connext.net/~daq/airgunelka.html http://www.connext.net/~daq/index.html (check out the velocities, can anyone say if it is higher than a rimfire?)
if you still have your first one it is probably a collectors item and worth a fortune by now.

-Julius- its amazing how everyone turns into raving psycos paintballing (and video games have a bad name), but the guns are so damn expencive, the rifle i got costs less than a paintball setup, o.k. i guess i cant shoot other people with it but i couldnt aford the paintball ammo either.

tpe

Wells · Mar 2005

i've got an air rifle, though nothing as nice as what you've got there. mine's black and sort of looks like they were going for an assault-rifle look. i really don't like shooting anything living, even bumblebees, but i love to blow gi-joes and other toys from my childhood apart with my bb gun.

i've also go a pretty nice paintball gun as well, think its called a Spyder 2 or something. spent way too much for it and only used it a couple times... hard to get enough people together to get a good game on. up here in maine we just run around in the woods, no courses set up like i understand they are in the cities.

one thing that bothered me with paintball is the big bladders that hold all the ammo. i broke out my welding tools and made myself a set of 'clips' out of copper tubing. fits perfectly, is nice metal like the rest of my gun, and doubles for a handle. each clip holds ten shots (+ one in the hole). then i sewed a holder for them out of a shotgun-shell strap. that straps onto the thigh, holds six of the clips. great for running around without wanting to go through 1000 paintballs.

sal_manilla · Mar 2005

LOL...no Tim....that was my first real gun. When I hunted deer I used a few different ones. My first year was a 7.62 French MAS, then a Remington .244, then I had a nice Herter's .270 with a 3-9 scope. The challenge was too easy so I went back to a single shot 30-30 and still got a deer. I moved to California and my interests changed.

O/T any airgunners out there?

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