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OT: Any Daisy or Crosman enthusiasts here?


mungkiman

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A friend of mine and I bought out a local repair station some years
back, and were able to put together a number of "brand new" never fired
examples of some collectibles from the early to late 70's.Buyers on the
internet went nuts, with some things fetching $300 or more for a simple
Daisy spring rifle. We still have a good collection of parts, tools,
and repair manuals, but we are done "making" air guns from parts. It
was a lot of fun!

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I've had a Crosman "American Classic" model 766 that's been in my closet for about 25 years now. I bought it on a lark because I was visiting my brother who was living in rural GA at the time. It was on sale and we had fun with it for a couple of days. Ever since it's been unused. Here in crowded Pinellas county FL it's pretty useless. I should have sold it long ago I guess.

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Nice to see good quality air powered pistols and rifles are still around. My first was a Daisy 1894 lever action B-B rifle, followed several years later by a Smith & Wesson Mod. 78 .22cal pellet pistol based on their Mod. 41 Target pistol. I later upgraded to a Colt Python rotated through various semi-auto pistols and my most recent aquisition is a SiG P229 Hybrid, but I still have fond memories of learning the basics in the back yard (destroyed a perfectly good BBQ grill, much to my Dad's chagrin) with my B-B and pellet guns.

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Mungkiman, You got any Daisys marked at made in Plymouth, Michigan? I grew up in Plymouth and still think the old Daisy building is great. They renovated it and turned it into a restaurant back in the 80s. Not sure what it is used for now. I always wanted a gun with Plymouth marked on it just because I grew up there.

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The Daisy stuff I have is not old enough to be from Plymouth, but my
buddy has a really nice model 25 from there. The 25 is a pump action
(like a shotgun) bb spring gun, which is a lot of fun. The spring
loaded magazine loads the bb's as fast as you can pump the handle, which also serves to tension the spring.Great fun!


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