Here's one for the gurus.... spring air pistols of the USA... name some...

[JimmieDee]

Here's one for the gurus.... spring air pistols of the USA... name some.


I know of the following pre-War pistols:


The Haviland and Gunn Morse
The Johnson and Bye Champion
The Pope Rifle Air Pistol
Numerous Quackenbush designs

Then following WWII you have the Hy-Score range of spring powered air pistols...

But are there any others?

I'm not interested in the Beeman pistols that are rebranded versions of European designs or other rebranded air pistols. Just pure native designed U.S. spring powered air pistols.

[ogilkes]

Marksman G10 etc.

[draitzer]

Off the top of the noggin, post-war includes the rare Marvelair, scarce Healthways Western Plainsman, more common Healthways Topscore aka Sharpshooter, and several Daisy models. In older times there were the Bedford Eureka, Lindner gallery pistol and others that would turn up in a cruise through John Griffiths's wonderful Encyclopedia.

Don R.

[greenwayjames]

Targ-aire air pistol?

[45flint]

Targ-aire air pistol?

Funny I forgot the Targ-aire and I did a UTube on mine. Lol Pretty rare, didn’t make it for long, but pretty cool charging system.
https://youtu.be/WPf5DrfCnhI

[Garvin]

Here's one for the gurus.... spring air pistols of the USA... name some.


I know of the following pre-War pistols:


The Haviland and Gunn Morse
The Johnson and Bye Champion
The Pope Rifle Air Pistol
Numerous Quackenbush designs

Then following WWII you have the Hy-Score range of spring powered air pistols...

But are there any others?

I'm not interested in the Beeman pistols that are rebranded versions of European designs or other rebranded air pistols. Just pure native designed U.S. spring powered air pistols.

There's the William Cross, the Bedford and Walker, various Daisys, the Marksman and the Carey pistol. I think the HW45 was an original Beeman design - according to him anyway.

[greenwayjames]

Funny I forgot the Targ-aire and I did a UTube on mine. Lol Pretty rare, didn’t make it for long, but pretty cool charging system.
https://youtu.be/WPf5DrfCnhI

Thanks for the link to your video. Interesting pistol. I like the ratchet method they came up with. I havent seen anything similar which is strange as it seems a good way to go for pistols.

[45flint]

Thanks for the link to your video. Interesting pistol. I like the ratchet method they came up with. I havent seen anything similar which is strange as it seems a good way to go for pistols.

Unique and well build just made the mistake of being born the same time as the Hy-Score

[Leonardj]

The Crosman V-300.