Atchman2
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When I was 11 years old I got a Crosman .22 pump up air rifle for Christmas. That bad thing was the barrel was bent! This was in 1971. I'm pretty sure it was this one, but I was pretty young then.
My dad bought it a K-mart for me. When we took it back they didn't have anymore of them! The manager offered to give my dad another rifle. A Sheridan 5 mm IF he bought the pellets for it. The rest as they say is history. I can't even count how many critters I've shot with that rifle! I even took it with me when I joined the Army and killed rabbits in KS with it. All those years I just used open sights too. I could never find the right scope mounts back then. Even when I did get some from Cabelas for it, I couldn't hardly use a regular scope. The Simmons one I had was okay, but you still had to move your head around a lot to use it.
I have never been a fan of red dot scopes, feeling they weren't precise enough for me. That changed when I put one on my new crossbow and took my first archery turkey in KS with it! It was so easy to use and I've learned to keep both eyes open when I shoot with it.
When I got back from KS I had trouble with my other crossbow scope and put its original three red dot back on it. Though I still think I like the scope better, the red dot is very easy to use at archery ranges. At one time, I had a red dot on my Disco. That was so my son could shoot it easily. As I was scrounging around the other day I found it! An almost new BSA red dot sight. I thought to myself, "what to heck?" and put it on my forty three year old Sheridan rifle. My iron sights had long since fell off, apart, etc. I just kept it around because I've had it so long and enjoyed it. Well the red dot transformed the gun back into the killing machine from the days of my youth! ;D
The squirrels have had a population explosion this year! Last year the mast crop was the heaviest that I can recall and there is a bumper crop of nutters running around. I have a mulberry tree in the back yard and every day I noted at least three of them running around it. Toby the Wonder Dog was going crazy, so I grabbed a vintage yellow box of Sheridan pellets and headed out the door.
The first one ran over to another tree. I could just see his head in shadow against the early morning light. KERPOW cracked the old rifle and down he went. Toby ran down and retrieved it for me in the heavy brush. The next one run up to the top of the mulberry tree (I think that is what it is anyway). I could just see his head peaking out at me. Eight pumps and a pellet later-KER POW! the old rifle spoke again and nutter number two was on the ground. I only wish I could have shot that well when I was 11.
Toby grabbed his still twitching body and brought it up to me. Good boy!
Note the "vintage" yellow box!
Shouldn't have peaked around the tree.
My dad bought it a K-mart for me. When we took it back they didn't have anymore of them! The manager offered to give my dad another rifle. A Sheridan 5 mm IF he bought the pellets for it. The rest as they say is history. I can't even count how many critters I've shot with that rifle! I even took it with me when I joined the Army and killed rabbits in KS with it. All those years I just used open sights too. I could never find the right scope mounts back then. Even when I did get some from Cabelas for it, I couldn't hardly use a regular scope. The Simmons one I had was okay, but you still had to move your head around a lot to use it.
I have never been a fan of red dot scopes, feeling they weren't precise enough for me. That changed when I put one on my new crossbow and took my first archery turkey in KS with it! It was so easy to use and I've learned to keep both eyes open when I shoot with it.
When I got back from KS I had trouble with my other crossbow scope and put its original three red dot back on it. Though I still think I like the scope better, the red dot is very easy to use at archery ranges. At one time, I had a red dot on my Disco. That was so my son could shoot it easily. As I was scrounging around the other day I found it! An almost new BSA red dot sight. I thought to myself, "what to heck?" and put it on my forty three year old Sheridan rifle. My iron sights had long since fell off, apart, etc. I just kept it around because I've had it so long and enjoyed it. Well the red dot transformed the gun back into the killing machine from the days of my youth! ;D
The squirrels have had a population explosion this year! Last year the mast crop was the heaviest that I can recall and there is a bumper crop of nutters running around. I have a mulberry tree in the back yard and every day I noted at least three of them running around it. Toby the Wonder Dog was going crazy, so I grabbed a vintage yellow box of Sheridan pellets and headed out the door.
The first one ran over to another tree. I could just see his head in shadow against the early morning light. KERPOW cracked the old rifle and down he went. Toby ran down and retrieved it for me in the heavy brush. The next one run up to the top of the mulberry tree (I think that is what it is anyway). I could just see his head peaking out at me. Eight pumps and a pellet later-KER POW! the old rifle spoke again and nutter number two was on the ground. I only wish I could have shot that well when I was 11.
Toby grabbed his still twitching body and brought it up to me. Good boy! 
Note the "vintage" yellow box!
Shouldn't have peaked around the tree.
