airgun advice

[guitar geek]

Tomorrow I am going to visit the shootingclub in my hometown. in the netherlands it is somewhat different than in the US, where carrying guns is common and weapons are regarded differently. here only fireams are allowed at clubs and the guns used mostly are airguns.

at that club they have matchguns, both rifle and pistol, but I want one targetpratice pistol for myself. the restrictions over here are pretty strict. no guns that are similar to firearms are allowed, so only pistols that are obvious airguns. lots of manufacturers make those airgun replicas of original guns, but those are not the ones I am after. so does anyone have a idea what to buy? I was thinking of a beeman hw70 or a crosman "benjamin sheridon eb17".

does anyone have some more ideas? I know it sounds somewhat sissy on a mostly USA board, where fireamrs are the standard, but we dutchies have to do it differently and I think there are a lot of guys over here who have experience with this kind of stuff

harrald

[Cleveland Metal]

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I was always impressed by the Webley stuff. Not cheap though...

[Brad]

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Benjamin .22 cal...... Good Stuff.

[fett]

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Do you have to shoot plastic pellets like we have to use plastic tip darts in bars? [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I snagged a pat. pending Marksman Air Gun that dates back to the 60's. I love it, but it won't do you any good. It looks just like a 45. Shoots darts and everything. [img]/images/graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[ben]

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Buy hey, Dutch can drink beer at their 16th which rocks!

[fr0sty]

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Here are a few links I have bookmarked



Chinees airguns, more chinese airguns. general airguns

[horns666]

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You'll shoot your eye out kid!!!!

[guitar geek]

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thanks guys, this is quite helpful. Today I visited our shootingclub and I must say, I liked it better than expected, but I guess most guns will be dissapointing compared with the stuff they used there (feinwerkbau rifles and pistols), but that is logical seen the prices of this stuff (sick!!!!). anyway, thanks a lot!

harrald

[fr0sty]

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I have one of the Chinese air guns. I use it to shoot chipmunks. As a kid I liked chipmunks. Last year those f'ers decided to live in my house. So now I shoot them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Cleveland Metal]

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Yeah, I have owned a couple different ones of the chinese airguns, they are all pretty strong.

I still have a Crossman 3100 with a Redfield K11576 scope. Pretty strong single shot/pump action, and quite accurate to about 30 meters I believe.

[RacerX]

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You'll shoot your eye out kid!!!!

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HA HA HA [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Sukisyn]

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I have one of the Chinese air guns. I use it to shoot chipmunks. As a kid I liked chipmunks. Last year those f'ers decided to live in my house. So now I shoot them [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Aww ... Well, I still like chipmunks. We have a few around the apt complex. Now, pigeons on the otherhand... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[MetalMedal II]

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You'll shoot your eye out kid!!!!

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I'm not an airgun user myself, but my friend who was bigtime into it growing up sweared on the RWS pellet air rifles. He had a scope on it and everything and it had one of the highest muzzle velocities for pellet guns, at the time.

[Cleveland Metal]

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Yeah, when I used to read about them a lot, the RWS, Beemans and Webleys were among the best. I remember wanting an RWS pretty bad.