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One bad ass air rifle!

From: Harv
Posted: 2/22/01

Omygod this is one of the best sites I've seen in a long while! You guys are great!
There are those amidst the masses who share your loathing of the squirrel. They operate in near silence, eliminating the evil rats with nary a trace. They choose weapons unlike those you have come to appreciate. Though you may consider them odd at first, know that we, er they, are among your ranks. With mirth and focus they operate where others could only hope to. Their weapons are called Weirauch, Feinwerkbau, Beeman and BSA. Career, Tau and Webley in the ranks of their best.
In near silence they dispatch the evil, their neighbors unaware. With incredible short range accuracy squirrels are summarily killed. But who are these courageous 'gunners? What weapons could they apply to their task without background checks or unholy prices on ammunition? They are airgunners. They sit by open windows, in the shadows of open suburban garage doors, on backyard decks next to grills... They use CO2, multi-pump pnuematics, spring piston, gas ram and precharged pneumatics. Their caliber's can be .177, .20, .22, or .25. Some wait for hand made Gary Barnes Specials that throw fifty caliber lead balls (yes its true) and others remember quaintly back to that first Red Rider that inspired almost every shootist's love affair.
As they got older, they may have walked the isle of some sports center and thought, Its time my boy learned to shoot. Now where do they keep those Daisies?
Imagine their surprise when they find what the sport of airgunning had become! Then they type "airgun" into the old computer and find a world totally new to them. Suddenly Billy has a higher quality Sheridan, and Dad's holding a precision side lever Beeman with an FPS rating of 800 in .22! And the damn things are quiet!
All the fun of shooting (after all, isn't that what its about?) with a mere fraction of the noise, cheap to feed (pellets run about 10 bucks for a tin of five hundred around here) and a gun that needs almost no maintenance between a thousand shots on average. And believe me, you will put that many rounds through an airgun in a very short time. Its hard not to.
Some good sites:
The AirgunLetter (lots of links to some of the best sites here)
Precision Sales International (I bought two BSAs from them. Great people)
Fun Supply
We are fighting along side you (although you may not hear us).
We know what squirrel tastes like (but I'm still not ready for squirrel chili)
We like to shoot as much as you do, so we rationalized and bought airguns, set up ranges in our basements, and dialed em in. Most people don't even know a neighbor might be shooting vermin because he/she stays out of sight when shooting. The guns are quiet enough not to spark fear or concern, either. Another bonus.
Have fun checking this stuff out, and again, this is one really great site.

Harv

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