Bucks with favorite rifles

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I've got firearms around, but airguns are my first love because they're something I can always be shooting.
I don't have to go anywhere to shoot them and I can even shoot inside when the weather is bad.
This is my absolute favorite, a '79 Sheridan Blue Streak my dad passed down to me as a teenager.
my most prized possession, most shot, I shoot it better than anything, and have put at least 10,000 pellets through it over the years.




And this just happens to be a fitting picture, a '67 Benjamin 312 that was gifted to me by an acquaintance who had polished it down to bare brass.
 
tongueriver said:
Very nice! I wish I knew enough about airguns to purchase one suitable for the squirrels who raid my bird feeders and vegetables.
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In the UK they're limited to relatively lower powered guns under 12 foot lbs of energy for license free ownership, and they have no problem taking squires with proper shot placement.
If you make your shots count, the $50 Daisy 880 from Walmart is quite accurate and makes enough power.
With the right 10.5gr pellet on 10 pumps you can take them out no problem, it's just a matter of finding what pellet your gun shoots the best.
 
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Hickory n steel said:
In the UK they're limited to relatively lower powered guns under 12 foot lbs of energy for license free ownership, and they have no problem taking squires with proper shot placement.
If you make your shots count, the $50 Daisy 880 from Walmart is quite accurate and makes enough power.
With the right 10.5gr pellet on 10 pumps you can take them out no problem, it's just a matter of finding what pellet your gun shoots the best.
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Up here in Canada we're limited to less than 500 fps. Over that requires a PAL, even for air rifles and pistols.
 
Hickory n steel said:
I've got firearms around, but airguns are my first love because they're something I can always be shooting.
I don't have to go anywhere to shoot them and I can even shoot inside when the weather is bad.
This is my absolute favorite, a '79 Sheridan Blue Streak my dad passed down to me as a teenager.
my most prized possession, most shot, I shoot it better than anything, and have put at least 10,000 pellets through it over the years
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I was an airgun nut many years before I started collecting Buck knives. Back in the 80's no one wanted them and I could go to a gun show with fifty bucks and come home with an arm load of airguns and have money left over to stop at MickyD's. Thinking back on it I wonder about all the Buck knives I missed out on in all those years I was searching the gun shows for airguns. Not an airgun but searched unsuccessfully for a Sheridan KnockAbout for years. I like rimfires. It's a rainy day here in St Louis and Penny and I went to the Antique Mall. Came home with a Crosman 600 in like new condition, it is the first Airgun I've bought in a long time. They were selling 'empty' pellet tins for $9. Boy I've thrown a bunch of them away over the years.

For content, this is the only picture I have showing a Buck and a Rifle.
Marlin .22 989M2 and a Buck 055, both dressed in walnut.
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DeSotoSky said:
I was an airgun nut many years before I started collecting Buck knives. Back in the 80's no one wanted them and I could go to a gun show with fifty bucks and come home with an arm load of airguns and have money left over to stop at MickyD's. Thinking back on it I wonder about all the Buck knives I missed out on in all those years I was searching the gun shows for airguns. Not an airgun but searched unsuccessfully for a Sheridan KnockAbout for years. I like rimfires.
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I'd love to get a Sheridan model D and make a holster for it, but sadly with my non residential PO box adress firearm purchases are even more of a hassle than they already are in California.
Even if buying wasn't difficult they're kind of scarce, it took me long enough to get a Sheridan model E co2 pistol.

I have spent so much of my flea market/ yardsale effort looking for tools and axes that I've probably missed a lot of Buck knives as well, but I don't know if I would have purchased anyways because I don't like stainless steel when it's full of scratches and Buck knives tend to be bought by people who want to get their money worth out of a knife.
 
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Perhaps not my favorite, but a knife and a rifle none the less.
Rifle is a Fierce Rogue 7mm PRC. 1" at 200 yards with off the shelf ammunition. Going to hand load for it for shiggles, knowing I have an acceptable retail option.
 
tongueriver said:
Sweet pre-'64?
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Yes Cal, a 1963 Featherweight. It left Winchester as a 30-06 SPRG, I bought it used about 20 years ago and rebarreled it with a Douglas air-gauged fully chambered 270 WIN barrel - put it together in a machine shop. Had to take a tiny amount of metal off the face if the barrel shoulder until I had the headspace where I wanted it, then had to cut the extractor slot. Took a couple hours in the machine shop jigging it all up. Always shot sub-MOA but right now it needs to have some of the copper fouling stripped out - its starting to build up and accuracy is starting to fall off a bit. OH
 
My latest 305 from my pocket along with a custom .177 build of mine that I've been shooting today.

The stock ( heavily modified from an existing Crosman stock ) went so well until it was time to drill the roll pin holes that attach the forearm to the pump lever.
Now it's a bit of an ugly nightmare that I'm stuck with because I don't have skill / patience to make one from scratch and the stock I used is no longer in production.
It's a real shooter though, not pretty but it stacks 'em pretty well if I do my part.
 
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