I was pleasantly surprised to find this classic airgun in a toy store last Wednesday- and in Ann Arbor, of all places. (Michigan residents will understand.) Even better, this is the original, cast metal design- not the plastic ones that seemed to replace them in recent years. This gun has a real heft to it, [...]
Here’s another gun from the back of the cabinet that hasn’t been out in the field in a long time. It’s an original Beeman C1 carbine in .177 that I bought used in the late 1980s from a fellow airgunner who’d done some tuning on it- I think he relubed it and did a little [...]
Looking through my past postings, I was surprised to find that I’d never featured my Hy-Score 814 pistol. If you’re familiar with the English-made GAT pistol and rifle, this should look very familiar, as it uses the same sort of push-barrel design. To load, you push the barrel backwards, until it locks. This b rings [...]
One of my all-time favorite air pistols was the Crosman Model 454 CO2 powered BB pistol. It had great looks, and was pretty accurate for a BB pistol. It hasn’t been made since 1977, but there’s a reasonable replacement being made now- the Crosman C41.
Modeled after the Beretta M1935, it’s sharp looking, hard shooting (495fps) [...]
