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by B.B. Pelletier I was casually reading through the new NRA Guide to Firearms Assembly for Rifles and Pistols last Sunday when something caught my eye. There’s a page on the assembly/disassembly of the Winchester model 74 .22 semiautomatic rimfire rifle, which I find to be a very strange firearm. It doesn’t look like any … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Today, I’ll continue the story of what airguns I hung onto over the years and why I kept them. I’ll also throw in a few firearms just to spice things up. Crosman M1 Carbine I kept the second M1 Carbine BB gun I ever got, but I let the first … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Crosman’s Mark I Target is a beautiful single-shot air pistol. It resembles the Ruger Mark I. Well, today I’ll test the velocity of my Crosman Mark I pistol. And you’ll recall that I’d planned to adjust the gun’s power for you as well. Well, I discovered that the pistol was … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier This subject was suggested by several readers who want to know what airguns I have become attached to over the years. I can write about that because I’ve given a lot of thought to the subject. Whenever I think about selling a gun, I run it through a thought process to (hopefully) … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Crosman’s Mark I Target is a beautiful single-shot air pistol. It resembles the Ruger Mark I. Ruger’s Mark I was a pistol worthy to be copied. I am writing this report at the request of a reader, but also because I feel it’s worth telling the full story. I did a very … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier It started when, at the age of 9, I “inherited” my recently deceased father’s Benjamin 107 air pistol. There was no formal ceremony, nor was I named in his will. Indeed, my lawyer father had no will for himself. I simply came into possession of the front-pumper pneumatic because neither my mother … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Whenever a gun writer is at a loss for a subject, he invariably falls back on how to start a collection. There are so many ways to slice that loaf that even the worst hack can fill a quota. Today, I decided to do something different. You see, I never decided to … Read more
