Your First Ever Air Rifle

[tomburras 2,730]

 

BSA Mercury, local sports shop 1975

mercury was my second ever rifle ..

 

 

 

I fancy one of these one day to do up. had some fun with the one in the farm office I used to work at. Did many mad dashes to the office while working to shoot a rat or rabbit spotted spotted while doing the rounds. I remember it been pretty good.

[cragman 2,791]

 

 

 

 

BSA Mercury, local sports shop 1975

mercury was my second ever rifle ..

 

I fancy one of these one day to do up. had some fun with the one in the farm office I used to work at. Did many mad dashes to the office while working to shoot a rat or rabbit spotted spotted while doing the rounds. I remember it been pretty good.

Nice rifle Tom. Just been saying to the wife about the time I bought it. She was with me and after buying it, we walked through the town with it to the local canal to shoot it. After that I jumped ion the bus home with it, no bag or cover on it.

[random 659]

My first that I remember (or not) was an old gamo in .177 I think,I can't picture it too well now and didn't have it long anyway,so I say my first was a Webley Vulcan .22,remember it very well,lots of happy memories with that one,lots of squirrels taken with that as well!

[talt 878]

Diana model 27 was my first air rifle. It stood no end of abuse.

[patterdale 674]

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

 

As the song goes-Those were the days my friend.

I'd spent hours drooling over the airguns in my Mams Catalogue.

 

 

 

And of course the women's underwear.

[tote 856]

My first was an Original 45 bought second hand for about £30 in the early '80's.

Shot a fair bit of gear with it just with the iron sights.

[mark williams 7,562]

1, Relum Tornado 1976 .22

 

2, BSA Meteor .22

 

3, BSA Mercury .22

 

4, BSA Airsporter .22

 

5, FWB Sport 127 1980 ish - 2013 same gun .22

[comanche 3,076]

 

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

As the song goes-Those were the days my friend.

I'd spent hours drooling over the airguns in my Mams Catalogue.

 

 

 

And of course the women's underwear.

 

My first was the plain ol' Relum Telly from mum's catalogue. It cost a tenner and I still use it though its had a few new springs and seals over the years.

At the time I couldn't go the extra fiver for the Tornado as there was only so much school dinner money I could hoard without mum asking too many questions as to the source of my wealth. The blurb in the catalogue certainly inferred that the Tornado was superior and more powerfull than the Telly but years later when I eventually got my grubby hands on one I realised that it had exactly the same size cylinder ,piston and springs as the Telly.

Edited November 18, 2015 by comanche

[Merlin21 143]

 

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

As the song goes-Those were the days my friend.

I'd spent hours drooling over the airguns in my Mams Catalogue.

 

 

 

And of course the women's underwear.

 

catalogues used to spend hours looking through them . and also at the underwear trying to find the see through bra's hoping for a bit of nipple nearest we could get to porn lol those were the days .. and the woman that sang that song mary hopkins was born about 6 or 7 miles from me ...

[Merlin21 143]

1, Relum Tornado 1976 .22

 

2, BSA Meteor .22

 

3, BSA Mercury .22

 

4, BSA Airsporter .22

 

5, FWB Sport 127 1980 ish - 2013 same gun .22

I Don't remeber the relum before my time lol ... but you followed the natural progression through the BSA's i didn't quite get too the airsporter though ..

[mark williams 7,562]

The Tornado and meteor got the 4x15 shit scope and the 4x20 shit scope.

 

Mercury got a 3-9x 40 wages gone scope and so on.

[Rez 4,961]

The Tornado and meteor got the 4x15 shit scope and the 4x20 shit scope.

 

Mercury got a 3-9x 40 wages gone scope and so on.

Better glass than you have now then

[sean85730 5]

My first was a ruger blackhawk, utterly wonderful for the price bracket, came with a 4x32 scope with a duplex retical, got my most memorable shot with it too.

 

Sean

[reaper6 84]

Webley Falcon in 22 for christmas 1972 and i have still got it

[j j m 6,563]

merlin21,they were the only 2 pages worth looking at in the catalogue when we were kids mate