OK guys lets get this thread going by posting pics of your airguns. It doesn't matter how good or how weak or how new or old they are, it's all about shooting bb's and pellets.
Here's my two primary guns.
The one on the left is a Weihrauch HW35 which was the predecessor of the Beeman R1, I just looked the name up to verify spelling and found out they still make the gun, and it looks pretty much the same as mine does but for different wood in the stock. I bought mine in 1976, and it is .177 cal. It is a "Break Barrel Cocker with a breach lock that insures that the barrel repeats it's position every time it is cocked.
The other gun is my Beeman/Weihrauch HW 77 in .22cal. It is an Under Lever gun, meaning there is a lever under the barrel that cocks the gun. Looks like a tube fed .22.
It is my goto "in town varmint rifle" and has accounted for no less than 300 Mocking Birds! My wife bought it for me as a birthday present since the Mocking Birds that I was shooting at with the .177 were getting smarter and staying out of range.
The first death was recorded at an even 40 yards! and many, many, more followed. We lived in town at the time and across the 126 Freeway from the Ventura Govt. Center which was infested with MB's. As soon as I'd kill one, 3 others would show up the next day to claim the territory. They died shortly there after as well. 3-5 a week for many years.
Needless to say I have a deep seated hatred for these creatures, and they are a shoot on sight varmint. I always wondered what they would do if I showed up at the Local Sheriffs station with a bag full of these things. There is a .05 apiece bounty on them that has never been taken off the books in Ventura. Technically they'd have to pay me for them.
Luckily for the species, our place in Ojai has a large population of Blue Jays which keep MB's away completely.
These two guns have many thousands of rounds thru them, they are deadly accurate, and hit hard. A hit on a Dove sized bird at 50 yards is easy off a rest, and I have never had anything fly away after being hit with either of these guns.
Velocity of the .22 is a consistent 625-626 fps, and the .177 is about 700 fps.
Beeman Pellets and H&N Pellets are the best. I somewhere have an Ace of Clubs that has 10 shots thru the same hole that I shot at 33ft in my hallway/living room (when I was single!) and the accuracy of these guns is never in question.
If you miss ,,, then "you" missed, the gun never misses.
Randy