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Pumping up the Sheridan!



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Blue Streak (or Silver Streak) 5mm I presume? I used to have one of those and loved it. I still remember the ad in a Sears-Roebuck catalog from my teenage years: "6 pumps will penetrate a 1-inch pine board." And it was true!

I saved up my hay-hauling and pelt money and got one -- and definitely got my $$'s worth out of it. At one point, I mail-ordered some Beeman pellets, and they grouped just as well -- or maybe a bit better -- than the yellow-boxed cylindricals. And they shot just a bit flatter, too.

Now you have me reminiscing about the old days and wanting another of those...

Good luck on those garden varmints!


Bobby
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Bobby--It's a Blue Streak 5mm that I bought about 30+ years ago in the PX. It wears a Browning 4x rimfire scope that looks like one of the vintage Redfields. I bought the scope when I was in college in the '60s.

3 pumps pops 'em down.


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Had one in the 50's. Liked it a lot except for the tang safety that you had to had to hold down to shoot it.
I think they changed that in later years.

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This morning's guilty one -- -and another dead that fell across the fence. hipshoot--my Sheridan has a sliding tang safety--later model.



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And, another pair bites the dust!


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Good that you can take them out. My house, it the pecans. Killed many a one with a 177 break barrel! Brother-in-law had to build a chicken wire house over his, HOA!!!
 
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