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It seems that the demographic of airgun shooters, or at least the ones that post on here that is mainly composed of the middle aged to late middle age to young Senior people.
Given the heyday of the airgun in the UK was in the 80s & 90s is there going to be a demographic crash in the airgun shooting population?
Can this be predicted from the rate of non-bot BBS new membership registrations?
Is there a graph?
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I can tell you 69% of the people who watch my youtibe channel are 45 years +, and less than 1% of them are girls.
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Fascinating stuff. I wonder if the lady viewers are looking for technical know-how, trying to understand the middle aged male brain, or after some 'unintentional ASMR'. You could be an unwitting star in a galaxy very different from the SpringerVerse ....Originally Posted by tinbum
I can tell you 69% of the people who watch my youtibe channel are 45 years +, and less than 1% of them are girls.
It’s the last part that surprises me most……
It is very encouraging that there are 31% who are under 45, given the endless distractions and pressures on the Youth nowadays, some are interested in the old pellet gun fun.
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I do know this Forum hasn't changed in over the 12+ years since I've been on here. So why should the demographic do so. Before you ask, I don't know.
All I can remember about being young was, I wasn't knocking about with many old'ens
I think more members are dying than joining, although I could be wrong.
There used to be another couple of air rifle forums, can't remember what they were called. I'd probably get banned if I mentioned them
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It could be a case of avalible time and income, alot of mine actually went down the Airsoft route as its what was flooding the market when we were teenagers.
Many who were young in the heyday periods are now those towards the older end of things, their kids are grown and they are winding down so they are more able to revisit what they enjoy and have also the financial means to invest i their kit.
Doesn't mean the hobby will die with them though, there are definately younger people getting into them, you may however see forum usage drop as much of the sub 30 demographic do not bother with chat rooms or forums, some even barely use sites like facebook preferring newer things like Instagram.
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With permissions ever more increasingly difficult to come by, stricter rulings on purchasing where you can use one etc may all be contributing factors to less people joining the sport
I suppose with so much good choice for not loads and loads of money people are less liable to tinker and thus hunt for information on performance upgrades for rifles, quite a few are good enough out the box, can sit in the corner of the airing cupboard like they went in dispatch pests and go back away
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A lot is about cost, when you consider price of say HW77 back in early 1980's and what it is now
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Considering the recent responses from my thread I started earlier... that 1% seems generous.
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That could've also been a knock on effect from when Airguns saw their heyday, gender views would've seen it as a 'Mans' sport and sadly it's still a bit stuck that way, I'm doing my part to help change it though, when I get the 25 done I'll get the Mrs shooting and when she's older I'll get my Niece to try it out if her Dad hasn't already got her into Airsoft.
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Many millennials probably wonder if the word 'gun' can be spoken without offending someone .......the extreme PC brigade are having a negative impact for sure.
If you don't live in a country area, or from a shooting family / forces family, I imagine any young person showing an interest in shooting is rather ostracised now ..
The BBC has been doing anti shooting stuff for years, anyone remember the S16 hospital massacre on Holby ????????????
The culture has gone I think largely. In European countries (like we were until recently) shooting seems more widely embraced .......
We are about to ban posting pencil sharpeners by our national mail network, this kinda says a lot _
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I think you mentioned something on another thread?
The BBS membership cannot go down, so even people who have not posted for 2. 5.10 years or who are dead are still members. I know of 3 who are dead and suspect a few others are too.
I'd have a guess that if you had a "not posted for 3 years" deletion point, that the BBS membership would decrease by a third to a half.
More to your point ( I guess). I gave a mate an ASI Sniper for his 14 year old son to use, 10 years ago. He never really used it, because he could use other, much better weapons on computer games.
Cooler than Mace Windu with a FRO, walking into Members Only and saying "Bitches, be cool"
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That is a bit sad. The satisfaction of hitting a Trebor mint at ten yards or a Coke can at 30 yards with an ASI Sniper is in a different league to gunning down a hundred ‘enemies’ in Call of Duty or whatever. And more just fun rather than a bloodthirsty fantasy. Also he’ll be surprised if he ever gets to use a ‘real’ firearm. I remember being shocked at how heavy and agricultural the No.4 Lee Enfield was when I had my first go at ‘full-bore’. Nothing like the video games …
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I don't think games are entirely to blame though, I personally did grow up with them, I built a gaming rig when I was 13 and have owned all sorts of consoles etc, but I have always found myself drawn to something that acctually shoots a projectile.
Rewind to the early 00s, in my Town I couldn't buy an air rifle, the only time I'd see them was when I was visiting Yarmouth and walking by Pownalls etc, but what I did have everywhere was various sellers of 'BB' Guns which were basically Airsoft but not marked as so as the sport hadn't really got here, some kids weren't allowed near them (even mine weren't that thrilled when I brought my first Beretta home) but the odd few of us did get them and had a bloody good laugh using them, most of us played games, heck a mate was always pinching my Desert Eagle to mimic Counterstrike but we did shoot what we could.
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I would say the heyday was well before the 80's 90's, though there was definitely a revival in that time. I remember in the 70s, almost every household in our street (at least that we spoke to) had a trusty old springer somewhere, or a Webley senior. They must have been around for years before that, even.
I think back in the 70's & 80's you could shoot in a lot more places. We used to go down to waste ground or local woods. As long as it wasn't in the streets and you made an effort to go out of the way, the police didn't blink an eye.
You could buy your gun in the Littlewoods or Marshall Ward Catalogue, and pay for it weekly.
I don't think any of that is the case now.
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