Pumping up the Sheridan!

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--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.

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.

Hip

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

And, another pair bites the dust!

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!!!

One more--and a miss earlier today.

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A photo of the air rifle would be great - please!

Saw a menu in the UK a few years back that had squirrel on it, with a warning "May contain traces of nuts"!

Something I have never eaten...


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Charlie64--here's the Sheridan Blue Streak in 5mm





You can see the old vintage Browning 3/4" 4x scope and it also has a peep sight that isn't used once I got the scope mount.

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How awesome is that ! Great ! Thanks for posting, fun to see !

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still have my beeman ! shot pigeons off the top of old court house in Mississippi great fun for kids back then. not any windows broken either .

Get dem squirrels! Bastards got their choppers on most of my tomatoes last year plus voles, a red squirrel (live trap) and a fat-assed ground hog had a paw in their demise as well. This year the electric 12V wires go up on the side of the .25" mesh fence. Hopefully it will be enough deterrence that the purple Cherokee's will all make it to the table this year. Store bought tomatoes usually suck plain and simple.

custombolt--wish I could grow the purple Cherokees here--they don't like Texas weather. Celebrities are the best I've found. 3 plants and probably got 10 tomaotes this year--dang tree rats! I will be planting for the fall season in a month and will see if I can cull some more of them.

I heard putting up some scarecrows will help. Never tried them though.

Three more in the yard this morning--war is still raging!

Too bad they don't "taste just like chicken".

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Originally posted by dustoffer:
Three more in the yard this morning--war is still raging!