Reply With QuoteI have great memories of my first pistol a bsa scorpion in .22.
We used to plink out of the back window until my dad banned us when a neighbor arrived with a bill for a couple of glass panes to his greenhouse!
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A Crossman 766 .177 pump action. Smooth bore but fine on the local vermin out to 40ft...did develop good right hand calousses though !
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I have great memories of my first pistol a bsa scorpion in .22.
We used to plink out of the back window until my dad banned us when a neighbor arrived with a bill for a couple of glass panes to his greenhouse!
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A Diana mod 2 with pop out barrel and wooden grips. Then soon after that a .177 Meteor for which I paid a mate 10s in 1959. The Meteor was stolen a couple of years later and I got a .22 Webley Mk3 for Christmas. Like for so many others here that was the start of constant fun and an interest that has lasted over 50 years.
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mine was an m1 carbine crosman
that i have now just got 1 back , great gun toall original including the metal mag
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Webley Mk3 .22, spent ages as a teenager in the 70's stripping the stock and refinishing it then sold it to my brother for £30 to pay for a car battery; I look back and think what a prat!
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Mine was the 'usual' starter...Relum Tornado! I think we all had ownership of the same 2 rifles back then, around 1976
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Originally Posted by wabbittwax
Mine was the 'usual' starter...Relum Tornado! I think we all had ownership of the same 2 rifles back then, around 1976
Was it from someones mums club book??
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Meteor Mk 1 for me. Wasn't particularly impressed. Then a Webley Mk 3 which I loathed and then a Weihrauch HW35 which was a revelation. All were .22.
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Webley Typhoon (de-rated Hurricane), later traded for a mate's Paratrooper repeater. Wish I'd kept it.
Then an Original 66 (second hand) and after that a FWB Sport 127, both of which I still have.
Two of my best birthdays - thanks, dad. (The FWB I saved up for, for what felt at the time like decades.)
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my first gun was a bsa meteor,then went on to a mercury,then a sharp's innova which cost £35 new.after that i bought an hw 80,one of the first in leeds to have one.. that cost £85 new from stanningley airgun's(trevor shaw....since then ive had nearly every gun out there,but my fav has to be the original titan manitou... awsome guns!!!!!!!
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