and they were your buttstock

Damn that is cool

While the detachable air reservoir was capable of around 30 shots, it took nearly 1,500 strokes of a hand pump to fill those reservoirs. Later, a wagon-mounted pump was provided.

Just seems a bit of place in time tbh. Would of guessed air rifles was a pretty new thing

the Girandoni was a novelty

but it was a **very effective** novelty

I imagine somebody was looking for a way to keep it "waterproof" or something.

shoot through a man at 150 paces

and it's what?

.50 something?

I didn't know Lewis and Clarke used air rifles, lol. I wonder if they wore coonskin caps like Davey Crockett

@Polychrome and you could reload it from the prone

Rapid, accurate fire

while concealed

ya a 1/2" ball travelling at 500fps would be deadly.

and no smoke cloud

oh man

Insert "Price is Right" loser trombone sound here...

daisy powermaster 760 is a good air rifle, it's cheap, and more powerful than what it says on the box. Equal to a .22LR in my opinion.

one day my old man found a bunch of holes in some tin roofing, accused me of taking out his .22, I had to show him that with 20 pumps the 760 could poke holes in tin roof with ease.

I lost my air rifles when I was young. <:trumplaugh:666855109644386314> think I leave them in attic

Gamo makes a few .22 pellet guns

I have a nice Benjamin from the late 90's, premium walnut stock. I taught myself how to completely take it apart and rebuild it over the last 30 years.

I replaced the original pump hinge pin with something more serviceable. Original pin had to be taken out, put in with a shop press.

2000's I added a laser pointer to it

I remember when I learned that my old BB gun could shoot nails up to about 20 yards with accuracy

I destroyed a LOT of G.I. Joes that way, lol

Hello, Sid...

I used to hunt grey squirrels with mine <:trumplaugh:666855109644386314>

Doves and Robins don't taste bad.

dove is just a white pigeon

If I had to feed my kids, I'd just tell em it's chicken

I've been considering getting some chickens. I know it will piss my neighbors off though

So get some then <:trumplaugh:666855109644386314>

Be prepared for learning to be extra paranoid.

I actually like my neighbors, lol

No, not the neighbors, the chickens. EVERYTHING is out to kill them.

All the more reason then. It be funny

My sister has been very tenacious about her own chicken experiment, but she's lost all of them like... 3 times.

cats?