Your First Ever Air Rifle

[Merlin21 143]

Good evening Gents

Just wanted to know what was your first ever air rifle ? Mine was a BSA Meteor .22.... I got when i was 14 year old , I loved that rifle but it was terrible power wise .. I can remember once in the garden with King , shot at a milk bottle at about 8 yards the pellet bounced off the bottle and came back at us and hit King on the forehead !!!! I don't think it hurt him much TBH . that always sticks in my mind .. But it did have enough power to kill a jackdaw off the roof of my house , the bird rolled down the roof and was left in the guttering , i can remember telling King about my kill and telling him don't tell my mother in case she took the meteor off me ( she never wanted me to have one in the first place).. Great times ..

[villaman 9,983]

This has been done a few times

But here we go , mine BSA meteor .22 back in 1973 and still have it to day

[patterdale 674]

A Relum Tornado

Very heavy !

[Merlin21 143]

This has been done a few times

But here we go , mine BSA meteor .22 back in 1973 and still have it to day

I thought it probably had , but i thought what the hell .. fair play to you still owning it mines has long gone ....

[Lid 194]

Mine was a knackered old BSA meteor (I think) 177 when I was about 11. Some toerag trespassing youths had been using it to shoot duckilings on our river with it. They ran away when confronted, dropping this air rifle. I used it for about 3 years succesfully on pigeons and rabbits. It had no adjuster on the open site and shot about 3" high to the right at 20 yards.That's my excuse if I miss something now!

[secretagentmole 1,701]

First one that I shot, my father's BSA Super Meteor (1974) in .22.

The first one that I owned, an SMK B2.

[Rez 4,961]

B2.

[VWman 232]

Bsa super meteor .22 in the 70's.

I was at a mates house on Monday night and I seen one sat on two nails tapped into the rafters.

I am going back tomorrow night to clean it up for him.

Edited November 18, 2015 by VWman

[Merlin21 143]

thanks for the replies gents , the meteor got a lot of us started it seems .. good old meteor ..

[barrywhite 282]

webley mark 3 supertarget

[tomburras 2,730]

1. B2

2. BSA Meteor

3. Smk b45-3

4. HW 85k (wow that was good)

[charlie caller 3,654]

Webley mk3 underlever, far too big for me at 8 years old, but I grew into it

[j j m 6,563]

relum tornado out of great universe catalogue i was 9,i got it for xmas i thought i was the bees knees,very heavy gun though been shooting ever since

[cragman 2,791]

BSA Mercury, local sports shop 1975

[Merlin21 143]

BSA Mercury, local sports shop 1975

mercury was my second ever rifle ..