air guns

it's another cold day. a good day to stay in the house and shoot targets with your air pistols/rifles. not only can they be shot in the house they are a good cheap way to have fun. all you need is a room about 40ft. long and a pellet trap. with pistols only, a shorter room is ok. unlike firearms air guns aren't as noisy and don't discharge substances which are poisonous to breathe. you can shoot at any distance but 33ft or 10meters is the olympic airgun target shooting distance. my basement just happens to be long enough for this. first picture is just to show you that air guns are not toys. they are real guns. this picture shows a 2,000lb. bison shot with a Quackenbush .457cal. safari rifle. this rifle is probably shooting with a pressure of around 2-3,000psi. that's a lot. i'd like to have one some day. my airguns are not nearly so powerful but are still not toys. my most powerful ones could be used for hunting but i prefer to shoot targets. mine are all .177 or .22cal. guns. second picture is of some Russian IZH air rifles. these are good for target shooting and gun training. not particularly powerful but you still wouldn't want to get shot with one. i've got one of these and they are quite accurate. they are a spring piston design with a cocking lever on the side. third is a Benjamin air pistol which has to be pumped up to shoot. very nice little pistols, well made and accurate. i started my air gun career with one of these when i was about 11 or 12. next is the famous Sheridan Silver Streak, also a pump gun in .20cal. mr. go away garage has one and it is a very nice rifle indeed. i have a Benjamin which is very similar except in .22cal. last but not least is the Daisy in all it's iterations. Daisies are possibly the best known of air guns. they mostly shoot b.b.s and are what millions of boys and girls started their shooting careers with. Daisy does make some high quality pellet guns also for amateur and professional target shooting.