Buying Your First Airgun

[SNAKEBITE]

When you bought your first airgun were you A) "assisted" by an experienced source. e.g. Club or friend or B) "unassisted" e.g. plunged straight in and bought whatever took your fancey?

[leftytwoguns]

Unassisted, aged 21, trusted what my local dealer told me and never looked back.

Had the HW99 for years and have bought all my guns from him ever since.

[SNAKEBITE]

Oh just one thing if you could post what you bought then it would help. The idea of this poll was to see what people bought first time around and to see if this was the target audience for Chinese rifles.

Oh I bought a B4 underlever pile of dog dirt!

[leftytwoguns]

Like I say, my first was the HW99.

But.

A mate of mine bought a B2 as his first gun from a place in york. asked me to come and help him zero it (he had a hawke 4x40 scope) because he couldn't hit a thing.

Guess what? Neither could I! Took the scope off to use the iron sights and still no joy. We couldn't work out what was wrong until I had a good look at the barrel and laid it flat on a table - it was actually bent by a few degrees in the middle!

Piece of S#!£$

[Sam Vimes]

First airgun I bought, not the first I'd owned, was a second hand Theoben Sirrocco Grand Prix. I recently bought the exact same rifle back after selling it on about five years ago.

Chris

[Nealsey]

Unassisted,

Got a Webley Eclipse from a dealer and have had 3 rifles off of him since.

[Jackel]

Unassised Falcon fn19(mail order) then a air arms s410(swopped with someone)

[Punchsteve]

The 1st one that I bought (and not my parents) was a s/h Anchutz 335.

[roger 62]

Bought a 2nd (probably 4th) hand Original Model 50 in .22

'see it/buy it syndrome'

'big lead best syndrome'

When it got nicked the insurance money / finding the BBS put me on the right track.

Luckily I never read the magazines or I'd have thought an SMK was just as good as a AA400

[jamier]

i had no assitance on mine i just went with what the gun dealer recomended for my price range.i ended up with a very nice bsa lightning xl in .22 which i think is a super springer for its price,fits me well etc.great little gun for a beginner i think?

[Enthusiast]

First was an airsporter bought by good old Dad. Fantastic

Best part of 30 yrs later bought an HW80 unassisted. Complete dog, but like any HW could have been saved. Now only buy after careful consideration and talking endlessly to other members at Ford - or complete impulse.

Richard

[frogandtoad]

First air gun i bought was a diana air pistol from a secondhand shop,the first air rifle i bought was a bsa airsporter out of my mams catalogue(remember that lads being able to buy airguns from a kays catalogue)

[Reeco]

HI All, If it wasn't for the kind people who helped me choose my set up, I would have bought a custom B2, only because of a lack of knowledge.
I am more than happy I took the advice on offer and bought a HW 95K.
ATB. Reeco

[Lash13]

Brand new Webley Osprey

[digitaldwarf]

hw90 tb bought unassisted and still have it
just dont use it enough