An Air Rifle of Their very Own

The Viking asked a very good question in what kind of air rifle should a father purchase for an enjoyable time with their children and I always fall back on KISS, keep it simple stupid.

When I was 8 my dad for reasons to this day I do not understand actually bought for my birthday an air rifle. It was the only gift I have ever received from him and as a child it still stuns me.

Air rifles are really not some toys. The late Col. Charles Askins utilized shooting an air rifle daily to keep his shooting eye sharp, whether it was for African game with elephant rifles or shooting quail in Texas. Having been shot with one by my stupid brother, I can attest they are not toys and can do painful damage to limbs.
I still should pay him back by "accident" for that little drama that dropped me like a rock.

I have no experience with expensive air guns. TL and I have a Crossman CO2 pistol which is not a nail driver and likes to eat CO2 cartridges. My brother had those Red Ryder BB guns which ran on a spring piston as did a youthful friend who had a bb gun that one depressed the barrel which still does not seem sound.

My rifle is a Crossman 760 in which one pumps the forearm to obtain varying pressures. It is the original old style in being made of all wood and not plastic. I like it as I had it repaired by Crossman when it leaked air and I can shoot pellets through it, steel bb's which are cheap and it actually looks like a gun.

I am aware of the more expensive rifles, but they all look Olympic in sights, and have the appearance of clubs. Those types of air rifles are for the time if you really make shooting your lifestyle instead of some quality time in the back yard or fields.

You can have a scope on these rifles, but I prefer open sights. Scopes on air rifles take a great deal of punishment due to the fast vibration of the gun going off.

So in simplicity, you have just a pump gun with perhaps 4 pumps as you are not trying to kill English sparrows or starlings, and my "game" was pretty simple in I had a variety of old shotgun shells from 10 to 410, which came in different colors, which I placed on weed stems at varrying distances, and that was my game in seeing what I could hit.
My niece greatly enjoyed it and with my brother, we had a very nice time in just seeing what we could hit.

I always shoot sitting, as the main gun positions are prone, sitting, kneeling and standing. You always want a solid rest and when sitting it is your knees with your elbows rested on them, so you hit what you are aiming at. That is the great secret to shooting is just a solid rest, taking a breath, half exhaling it, and then squeezing the trigger lightly.
I am not going into Olympic styles and trigger pulls as that is not what this is about, but simply shooting and enjoying yourself.

For people like my Mom who is left eye dominant, or TL who is left handed, you can shoot from whatever eye you choose, but if you shoot left eye, then place the stock on your left shoulder, as it is uncomfortable and not anything you will be shooting to hit anything having your eye raised up so far above the stock.

Do not expect to be Annie Oakley. Just enjoy the experience and the time with others. Some people are naturally better shots, but all good shots are made with practice. Rifles just are easier to hit things with by sight plain, and pistols require hundreds of hours to just start hitting the mark, which is not what most people want in another chore in their lives.

I suspect dowels set in the ground would work too and they do have little bb gun targets you can get too which flip about, but as I never have money to spend I just use what I have around, and dowels sometimes look like different sized twigs stuck in the ground.

Just always keep the safety on. ALWAYS be aware that the muzzle of the gun is either pointed up away from all things not shot at or down and at an angle away from you, pets or your feet.
You can never take a bullet back after it is down the barrel.

The pump air rifles are nothing accurate, but they are affordable shooting and with bb's you will find they will devour quantities with great enjoyment. Just follow the instructions for care and probably do not leave your rifle outside over night as I did as a child in the rain.

I never wear eye protection, but I suppose that caveat should be placed here, as some eye shades do look extremely cool to wear.

I see that everyone from Walmart to Amazon has the 760 and people are delighted with them, both young and old, and the girly pink ones have an appeal to them too, compared to the manly ones, so that is my choice and depending on what you want, for under a hundred dollars, you can be on safari in the back yard.......I suppose boonie hats are a suggestion with a feather in them too so you can join the Carlos Hathcock scouts.......I do tend to embellish my adventures as much as possible, without digging a foxhole...but if someone else cared to as their adventure, I probably would take advantage of a foxhole too with suggestion of a snack bar might be what George Patton would like.


The old maxim was if you take your kids hunting you will not have to go hunting for your children. Shooting empowers people, especially women as it builds confidence in them to know they can accomplish things and master "dangerous" things like weapons.

Just don't shoot your eye out by shooting ricochet things or the neighbors cat for shitting on your lawn which is always a most tempting target.



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Battalia Pye

This has to be one of the recipes I would most like to make and not eat, as dogs and cats would probably relish this feast. It is just eating the assorted things like chicken combs I have a bit of a problem with, but perhaps someone would enjoy these feastable materials more than I.

Is tough eating for me to be eating up baby chickies, pidgies or suckling rabbits.  This must have been the cullinary feudal lord type fair though, in I am sure it was all tender as could be in glands, sheep mouths and either testicles or kidneys.....as they come in pairs there are not alot of pairs on a stock but in eyes, ears, kidneys and testicles.
Is something odd to me in the same cullinary arts of the modern age in sticking anchovies which are fish into everything. Why on earth people want fishy tasting baby bunnies or chickens I just do not comprehend.

Yes like that comprehension of putting in oysters is the obvious thing which would make most people cringe with this recipe.

Once again, all of us fine people, your forefathers and mums ate all this gland, testicle and body part forage which in turn produced each of you.

Nothing like being you are what Grams ate, as each of us are apparently made of Battalia Pye.


A Battalia Pye:—Take four small chickens, four squab pigeons, four sucking rabbets; cut them in pieces, season them with savoury spice, and lay 'em in the pye, with four sweet-breads sliced, and as many sheep's-tongues, two shiver'd palates, two pair of lamb-stones, twenty or thirty coxcombs, with savoury-balls and oysters. Lay on butter, and close the pye. A lear.


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The Human Animal

In the study of the human form, it might appear to the ignorant that the observations and verbiage are racist, sexist or some other malady of insecurity, when in reality I find as much idiocy in a white President dying on a hot day from eating too quickly cold cherries and milk as black man named Dio constantly Darwin candidate in attempting to die for not having food.

In the Irish memoir of With Axe and Rifle, the reader is introduced to Diogenese or whatever this Negroid is named and called Dio for short. The man is good hearted in helping to rescue an Irish family from a river crossing, but he has absolutely no sense.

His next appearance is being found on a river bank about dead, due to having fallen in love with a black girl, who died in being sick, Dio runs away from a whip happy owner, but with feet all cut up, and no food, he is on his tits up phase.
Reasonable intelligence would indicate that if one was going to escape, that one might try to lay away some provisions in an extra biscuit for a week, and perhaps some type of metal with a sharp edge to hack at meat or make some type of spear to acquire fish or small game, but Dio had none of that which is a proof of his ability at the time to require someone to care for him, for while he could work, he certainly could not manage self care or comprehend a future tense of need.

In this rescue of Dio, the people who were rescued care for the nigger as Dio calls himself, while another nigger named Peter calls the overseers chasing Dio, "white niggers" in not being too bright either in planning things out.

Dio is sent to the underground railroad with the family tutor, who is tracked by the white niggers with a dog, but when the tutor kills the dog, the white niggers are just stuck on stupid, but the tutor is not bright enough to elude them, and has to escape back to the family, leaving Dio in a cave with supplies.

Dio has food enough for 4 days, but he eats it all in two days.  Dio has no matches, and does not figure out to keep a fire kindled to keep the spark alive. Dio is afraid to leave the cave to find food. Dio has not the sense to leave the cave after dark to at least find water, whereby when Dio is found, Dio is weak and dying, after two days without food and water, when Jesus made it 40 days without food and water.

I am mystified by the human animal. Colonel Dodge relates his book upon finding a lost white man, that the man was out of his mind, and actually ran away from his rescuers.
I know of another story on the AlCan highway where a lost soul kept crossing that landmark and going into the wilderness when he should have stayed on the road.

There are cases of humans in fear being out of their mind in being lost, and then there are cases of the human animal not being educated enough to overcome the emotional bonds which will destroy them.
Dio was lovestruck, but he was in the latter end proof that while the slave was capable of freedom, they were not capable of anything more than the grasshopper in they fiddled away the provision and then unlike the ant had nothing prepared for the future in considering that.

The slave of the era was basically a well trained dog. It could manage a service, but it rarely rose above that service as they had not the generational experience to develop an advancement on their own. Africa as much as the Afroid American is evidence of this, as there is an inherent genetics in the majority group which even with interbreeding, still does little more than go through the motions of their training.

In reflection, this makes that small group of Semites in the Arabian and Persian before Islam dumbed them down, and their Indo European counterparts as the ethnic divergents in technological advancements of all mankind.
The Asian has proven great mental capability and industry, both martial and agrarian, but they were cottage in mindset, instead of that Nimrod harnessing of the mass politic.

Granted these are types of the majority and not the individual, as one can find as many ignorant white trash as one can find intellectual Negroids, but in the examination of this, those stereotypes do generate true and to create a fiction which is covering up the reality.

The Semite white race has literally through military exploitation almost wiped itself out as they are so warlike in nature. In America, the Asian American Indian was as predatory in self extermination, but in Asia, those peoples even warlike were never on the verge of extermination.
Granted the American Indian is traced back to a Japanese mountain people who are then infused with Phoenecian bloodlines, making two distinct martial peoples in bloodline, apart from the Hamite strucutures of Asia, but it all returns to the historical realities that the American black, was captured by other superior blacks in Africa, who then sold them to Europeans and Arabs, as this group was not capable of building shelters or contemplating a future of need.

As Theodore Roosevelt noted in 1910 on his Africa expedition, the American black had advanced far more than the African Negroid, but the reality is welfare now is the master of the Afriod in America for the most part in most are not that far removed from Dio, dying in a cave, because he planned for nothing, and could not foster a plan to save his own life when he made animal like mistakes in not rationing food or keeping a fire burning.

The human animal is interesting. In the peoples of the west can be told they are free while imprisoned, managed by the conglomerates and then slaughtered, and they make no more effort than Dio in trying to save themselves as it is not in their structure of understaning of comprehending clever betrayal from within the group.
Yes if the children were slaughtered in the streets the western mind would react, but slaughter them in the womb or in the vaccine and without the visual proof, they will believe the fiction.

One can always find examples and they are most peculiar and interesting studies. The example of soul twinged Irish trying to make a Dio out to be more than pet, is an interesting bias.

Quote:

“He had his rifle, you must remember,” I answered, “and although he may not be a very good shot, he will be able to knock over a few birds or a racoon, or an opossum, and there are berries in abundance growing in the neighbourhood of the cave.”

William Henry Giles Kingston. With Axe and Rifle


Yes Dio had a rifle, but was afraid to use for defense of his person, for procuring food and he had not the intelligence to equate that in flint to powder, there was fire for his life......and yet he was still dying.


....and what of peoples in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas with the same wares as Dio and hiding caves dying from starvation in a world full of food and fuel.



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