Your not getting any cherry here though.
Are any of you shooting an air pistol?
I bought an IZH 46M this past winter. The only thing cheap about this "adult" air gun is the ammo, and some of that can get pretty $$$. If you get to a gun show pick one up, they feel some what like a 10" Contender.
As far as what can you do with it? Well when I can't get out and varmint hunt, take this one out in the back yard after grasshoppers, locust, dragonflys, etc. Yes you can splatter a big green grasshopper pretty good at 20 feet.
Jeff

Well I have a crosman 1377. It is about 13" overall. .177 cal. it is a pump gun.
I use it for the local vermin here in town. It will reach out accuratly to the property line, about 75 ft. and hits hard enough to kill a feral cat.

I thought all cats were feral?

I'm a 4-H Shooting Sports Pistol Coach and we use several of the single stroke air pistols in our matches. My daughter has a Daisey 747 with the Walther rifled barrel and adjustable trigger.

Check out B-Square as they have a scope mount for your pistol, it also will fit the Daisey 7XX series.

It is great fun to make 1 small hole in the targets at 30 feet. One hole accuracy for just over a Hundred dollar bill is a hard deal to pass up on the 747's.

Was at the range the other day shooting my .50x209 Encore when this guy shows up with a thoroughly modified Crossman CO2 air rifle. It had a big external CO2 tank on it, and some sort of silencer. The trigger had been reworked too. He let me shoot the thing, and I punch a hole through the center of a .25 inch bullseye at 25 yds! Couldn't hardly hear the thing go off! Oh yeah, it had a 12x scope on it. What a kick!

Air guns, eh?

Then you perhaps have seen old ads, mentions of the Quackenbush air rifles of old?

Dennis Quackenbush is making air guns at least up to .45 cal. that I know of using the old 1840's Leige lock design. Everything I saw in his shop about 45 minutes north of Springfield, MO was rifle length, but I'll just bet he would make something abbreviated.

I don't have his phone number, nor do I remember the town he is near. I helped a friend move a surface grinder from his shop several years ago, and have lost track of his address/phone. I can track it down if you want.

These are SERIOUS power factor air guns.

Mike

Mike, if you have an idea of the general area let me know. I have heard of Quackenbush, but never new it was this close to home.
I am taking a road trip to Sierra to restock my supply then on to Springfield to eat lunch at "Lamberts". Then make a few stops on the way home.
Thanks
Jeff

Jeff, one of your stops on the way home would not happen to be by the Bushnell Outlet store would it?

Mike (mbk)

I have a Gamo compact, and haven't fired it in years, shame on me. We have a restriction on firing air guns in our subdevision, which isn't enough to stop me, but our back yard is situated such that about 4-5 other folks can easily peer into it.

On the other hand, there was no mention of archery restrictions, so the wintertime project will be self bows for the family, with hay bales at 10, 20 and 30 yds. I'm also looking at making a crossbow or two.

Oh, back to air guns, the little Gamo is very accurate. When I was shooting it frequently, I could point shoot soda cans out to 25 feet, and even managed a few behind the back shots out to 10 feet.

Nothing like trigger time to improve one's shooting.

Paul, I am not up to speed on the IHMSA air program. But I think there is a pretty large following in Alaska. If I remember correctly they are shooting year round indoors?
The trigger time was kind of my main reason for getting my air pistol. The bad thing is that I had to get an air rifle to go with it. But the trigger on the air pistol is 12 ounces if my memeory serves me correctly. The craftmanship in this gun is unreal in todays world.
Jeff

mr.mike bellm ??? quackinbush ??? boliver missouri ???
air gun's....
interesting .45 caliber..???
buckweet

I remember seeing something about those Qaukenbush guns a while back It was the caliber and power that caught my eye. Seems like something was said about taking down deer with them.