how did you get into airgun hunting

[LordGamebore 0]

I came across a John Darling DVD. It was that simple.

 

I'd been shooting shotguns since a kid though.

[farmboy99 1]

grew up on farms just came natural really not sure what happened to start me off got a smk (i think) for first gun about 11 was diar to say least then a bsa supersport at 12-13 then a hw97k when i finally got a decent paying job! at about 14-15 there rough ages as i cant quite remember. i have a silver antler 4x32 you can have mate seen better days but works fine tom

[davyt63 1,845]

i got in to shooting when my older brother bought a bsa meteor & he bought me a diana sp50.

i use to shoot starlings with it in the 70's,and go bunny bashing with him.then went on to the army cadets and done some more shooting.left there 3yrs later then went down the wrong! road and a considarable amount of years later 6yrs ago. i see a rat in me back garden so tried to catch it, but failed terrible.and my other brother said he had a mate who would lend me a rifle and now here we are!

 

by the way the rat got it!!

 

regards

 

davy

[Phantom 631]

i got in to shooting when my older brother bought a bsa meteor & he bought me a diana sp50.

i use to shoot starlings with it in the 70's,and go bunny bashing with him.then went on to the army cadets and done some more shooting.left there 3yrs later then went down the wrong! road and a considarable amount of years later 6yrs ago. i see a rat in me back garden so tried to catch it, but failed terrible.and my other brother said he had a mate who would lend me a rifle and now here we are!

 

by the way the rat got it!!

 

regards

 

davy

 

You still got the Diana SP50 Davy?

 

Phantom

[davyt63 1,845]

i got in to shooting when my older brother bought a bsa meteor & he bought me a diana sp50.

i use to shoot starlings with it in the 70's,and go bunny bashing with him.then went on to the army cadets and done some more shooting.left there 3yrs later then went down the wrong! road and a considarable amount of years later 6yrs ago. i see a rat in me back garden so tried to catch it, but failed terrible.and my other brother said he had a mate who would lend me a rifle and now here we are!

 

by the way the rat got it!!

 

regards

 

davy

 

You still got the Diana SP50 Davy?

 

Phantom

 

 

no but i know some one who has one!

trying to haggle with him

[Phantom 631]

no but i know some one who has one!

trying to haggle with him

 

Well when you've haggled his best price, I'll haggle a better one with you then

 

Phantom

[davyt63 1,845]

no but i know some one who has one!

trying to haggle with him

 

Well when you've haggled his best price, I'll haggle a better one with you then

 

Phantom

[Snoopy. 0]

My dad got me into hunting many many moons ago lol. He was into his shotgun shooting and deer stalking and used to let me tag along with him when he was decoying woodies ect. He would always give me an unloaded 12 bore to carry around which i never used to understand untill i got older. He was just getting me used to a shotgun and teaching me how to go about holding one safely ect. When i was 14 i took my first wood pigeon with the 12' which nearly knocked me off my feet. Magical moments. And moments that shall stay with me forever.

 

Snoop.

[LordGamebore 0]

Been shooting on and off for over 30 years, but only got back into it properly a couple of years back but was only really shooting Pistols.

 

Never thought I would become a hunter until I wound up with Rodents in the shed, they did a huge amount of damage and although I trapped two of them, I also shot 2 after they p!ssed me off with further very costly damage.

Got one through the kneck with a classic Gamo .177 Sniper and then the next one fell to my beast.

After that I took my beast down to some land and started putting rabbits out of the farmers misery for him.

He never thanked me though but then he never knew about the favour I was doing for him

 

Eventually got permission and the rest as they say is history.

 

Phantom

 

I used to always help the farmers out with their rabbit problem. I always did it at night so I didn't dusturb them LOL

[Malt 379]

Been around air rifles all my life, learned from a very early age that they were things to be respected and not toys. Stated going out with my dad, then progressed on to carrying his HW35e about as soon as I could lug the bloody thing about without dropping it, when he took his shotgun and the spaniel out for a mooch!