Air Pistols .....why ?

[Merlin21 143]

I am on a good few air rifle groups on facebook and have noticed a lot of pistols for sale , I can't for the life of me understand why people buy them .. what are they any good for ? nothing i am thinking and that's why they are up for sale i think people buy them realise they are crap and try and sell them on .. am i missing something ...do any of you Gents have one and what do you use it for ? cowboys and indians perhaps

[walshie 2,804]

Shooting tin cans 5 yards away and errrr.......no, that's it.

[Merlin21 143]

Shooting tin cans 5 yards away and errrr.......no, that's it.

thought as much lol

[Rez 4,957]

Nostalgia mate. Nostalgia.

 

To be honest an air pistol got me into "hunting" I had an old BSA 240 Magnum, and it would easily drop rabbits at 15 yards. Wish I'd never of sold it years ago, worth a small fortune now.

[bob.243 8,543]

Shooting your mates in the arse. lol

[forest of dean redneck 11,530]

Try hiding an air rifle from your parents when you was little,lol

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Simply because they cannot have the real pistol anymore. Guns like a Tanfoglio 1911 are apparently pretty close when it comes to firing...

 

I have a Smith and Wesson air pistol, it is fun, nothing more to it than that. Sometimes you like to have things that are just fun to have and shoot.

[jonnie bravo 572]

Some of the lads at the range have .357's, but they are huge, the barrels have to be long for legal reasons and they have an arm rest too. I think you can get .22rf pistols that actually look like a pistol.

 

There's a few pistol target shooters about too, have a look at the AA pistol and the brocock ones, they look immense.

[treecreeper 1,136]

Iv got a target pistol. Some stuffs useful for short range and humane dispatch but I think the vast majority of people just use them for plinking.

[ratbuster 807]

Nostalgia ........

 

This is how it all started :

 

 

 

I still have them, along with a couple of Webley pistols and a couple more; BSA, Sheridan etc. Useful? not much, just plain shooting fun, killing them tin cans

[stealthy1 3,964]

First gun I ever had was the F Series Webley Premier 22 Calibre, still have an old chinese 177 for can crunching at BBQ's, handy for getting kids into shooting when they are a bit small to hold a rifle, other than that, unless you spend a large wad on some thing made for target shooting, then pistols are a waste of money, aimed more at your local stick up artist maybe, a dirty harry in 177.

[walshie 2,804]

I can remember having gunfights as kids up the park with our gat guns. Got the odd welt off them. Thinking back, it's very lucky we've all still got 2 eyes.

[mark williams 7,550]

Started with a Milbro at age 11.

Later on i shot a BSA Scorpion .22 cal and put many a pot filler in the kitchen with that

[stealthy1 3,964]

I can remember having gunfights as kids up the park with our gat guns. Got the odd welt off them. Thinking back, it's very lucky we've all still got 2 eyes.

 

Same here, and they banned conkers in schools.

[charlie caller 3,654]

I shot my first rabbit aged 13 with a Crosman .22 pump up pistol, it would kill cleanly out to 15-20 yards or so, I also had a .177 BSA scorpion pistol, that I dropped quite a few bunnies, squirrels, pigeons with, if I can find a mint Webley senior at some point in the future, I will have it, lovely pistols, even the smell brings back happy memories