New BB gun

[nirvana]

I am looking at getting another one.  I am going for a single pump this time though, 10 pumps per shot gets tiring after awhile.  Anyway, it appears as though the only single pumps Daisy has are in the "youth" section so I was looking at this model http://www.daisy.com/shopping/customer/product.php?productid=16133&cat=249&page=1 .  It seems to have the best FPS of the youth lot.  I looked at the Crosman sight but they didn't have prices so it was somewhat useless.  The break barrels didn't seem like they would be too bad, but how do you charge them (can't say the other c word)?  I'm not looking for any super gun, just a cheap $50 or less single pump gun.  If there is nothing in that range, about about a sight?  I was looking at the laser ones but they are kind of pricey, the sight I got with my Daisy 880 isn't extremely powerful, so i'm looking into upgrading it.

[Golfer]

Use iron sights.  If you're shooting at ranges you need a sight/scope for with a BB gun then you need something other than a BB gun

My 11-87, Marlin .22LR (the greatest plinking gun there ever was!) and air rifles all have iron sights with whiteout on the sights.  Even my Remingotn 700 in .300 Win Mag had iron sights with a See-Thru scope mount.  Can you say "FREEZE, GOPHER!"


And the cheapest targets you can ever buy are Cheerios.  Then you can start shooting 1/2 of a Cheerio.  Fire a few thousand rounds at Cheerios and someday when you're all grown up you won't be slinging lead at various animals like the other hoopie's out there in the woods.  I've used 1 box of shotgun slugs (5 per box) the last 2 years and still have 1 left after bagging 4 deer

[nirvana]

I like my iron sights, I can hit something at 20 feet away (granted there is no outside influence such as wind).  Sometimes I like to go for distance though, just for a challenge.  Besides when dusk starts approaching, I find that sights make it easier to see the target as my vision diminishes quite rapidly.

[lasersailor184]

Keep your eyes open for a gun show.  

At most of them they have 50 dollar chinese Air Guns.  I have one of them.  It is a single pump, but it's a hellofa load to pump it.  It shoots about 1100 FPS every shot and is very accurate.

[Golfer]

Whiteout on the sights helps.  That or if you can find some "glow paint" which is exactly what it sounds.  Paint it on the sights and they gently glow in the dark.  If whiteout didn't work so well I'd look for a bottle of that stuff.

[crowMAW]

You'll put your eye out.  

[Hornet33]

BB Guns....hmmmmm. For general plinking I prefer my Ruger 10-22. 500 rounds of Wichester XX 37 grain jacketed hollow points only cost about $10-12. I can spend all day at the range plinking with it. My AR-15 is nice also but a bit more expensive to shoot. I have gotten 2 inch groups with iron sights with it at 200 yrds using good match grade ammo but that stuff is pricey. Mostly I shoot reloads.

[lazs2]

Kid... get a Ruger redhawk in 44 mag.

You can get speer plastic bullets for it.  The case is plastic and takes a regular large rifle primer to power the plastic bullet... it will shoot 1/2" groups at 15'   as you get better you canh shoot 44 specials out of it and then buy some reloading equipment and load light 44 mag rounds with Unique and cast or swagged lead slugs...

or... you can buy an old single shot bolt action 22 rifle and a couple a bricks of 22 long rifles... I would go for a ruger single six revolver in 22 tho or if you can find an old K22 smith and wesson in 22..

My first BB gun was a daisy lever action that I shot till it wore out after 10's of thousands of bb's in the back yard... my next gun was a 22 bolt action and a Hi Standard 22 semi auto pistol followed by a 45 acp colt and 38 special smith and wesson when I got old enough (12)

have fun... join the NRA

lazs

[VOR]

Originally posted by Hornet33
I have gotten 2 inch groups with iron sights with it at 200 yrds using good match grade ammo but that stuff is pricey.

200 yards....

iron sights.....

2 inches......

[lazs2]

My eyes are only 20/15 corrected these days... no way I could get that kind of group at 200 yards with open sights..

I can get a better group than that but it is for one shot only.

lazs

[Hornet33]

Well My AR-15 has lead inserts in the stock and fore grips. Overall weight of the rifle is 23 pounds with a loaded 10 round magazine. Pretty much NO recoil when it's fired. It also has a factory bull barrel on it. I figure after I get a new crome plated bolt assembly, some trigger group work done to drop the trigger pull to 2 pounds, and a few other odds and ends it will be a tack driver. My goal is to start shooting in "service rifle" comp. If I'm lucky I might qual for the Presidents Cup match in a few years. I have a long way to go but I'm working on it.

[storch]

http://www.airgun-express.com

http://www.compasseco.com

[nirvana]

Anything requiring powder isn't going to go over well.  I shoot in my back yard and let's just say the law doesn't enjoy people launching .22 cal bullets, not to mention the damned noise ordinances.  I'm going to keep looking though, maybe Wal Mart has semi descent BB guns.

[Hornet33]

Take a 2 liter coke bottle and tape it over the muzzel on any .22 rimfire rifle and it sounds like a pellet gun. For a few shots anyways. My kid has a Crossman 760 pump BB/Pellet gun that is nice. It's multi pump though and your looking for single pump correct?

[nirvana]

I'd prefer single pump, but Crosman has some nice multi's.  Oh and thanks for the like Storch, been on it since my post before this one.  The single pumps seem to max out at about 300 FPS which is to be inspected I think.  Not really going to be at 1000FPS in one pump.  The major thing i'm looking at is reliability for about $50.