My latest Garage Find

Nice find! That must be an early one. My wood stock 760 doesn't have a grooved forearm. :(

It was my first airgun. I used it to terrorize the starling population at my parents cottage on Lake Saint Clair and the pigeons in my Great Uncles barn. The starlings were considered an invasive species and were fair game. Uncle Lloyd hated the darn pigeons because they... "left their mark" on everything!

The 760 didn't see much use after I found a Sheridan Blue Streak at a garage sale for $15. That was back in the early 1970's. The woman wouldn't sell it to me without a note from my mother. I rode back home, got the note and brought it home on my bicycle! :cool:

I still buy airguns at estate and garage sales, when I find nice ones at a decent price. They make for good practice when you can't get to the range. I'll add a word of caution: They are addictive! :rolleyes:

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I had a Crosman 140 in the sixties. Also had a 130 pistol. Both used .22 cal pellets...though some small berries were used in "wars" in the woods.
After owning more than a few firearms over the last fifty years, thinking of coming full circle and getting the current rendition of that pistol, the 1377.
 
My friend has a gold/silver tooth, right up front. His brother shot and broke the original with a bb gun. His dad beat both their butts.
 
I had a 760 (I think) I bought as a teenager. Had it for many years till the cylinder wouldn't hold air any longer. Then I bought a Crossman Model 66 Powermaster, which I still have. We have a lot of feral cats in the area. I'll use two pumps and plink them on the rump with it. Doesn't hurt 'em, but they learn to hang out somewhere else.
 
Great find

Congrats on a good find. If it ever stops working they are easy to repair.
The kids back in the 70's, in the neighborhood used to bring me theirs, to fix when they stopped working.
I was like 12 - 14 years old, so they are pretty simple to work on if a kid could do it.
They usually just needed taken apart and everything cleaned up, and a little of mom's sewing machine oil applied to them.

There is an "O" ring or two, that sometimes would need replaced.
Used to be able to order parts from the manufacture, but I suppose that ship has sailed.
If you ever take the receiver apart to work on the internals, watch the spring on the BB reserve, on the top of the gun, as it likes to take off, and since its small, finding a decent replacement is harder than you would think.
 
RGallaher said:
BB gun wars, LOL! My parents wouldn't let me have a BB gun because, and I quote my mother, "you'll put an eye out!" So I borrowed a friend's and, as we were joking around about having a battle, my best friend shot me! And I shot him back. Then we both dove for cover and kept up a volley. After only a few rounds...I shot my best friend right in the eye! Fortunately, that was the last gun battle of any kind for me - 60 years ago!
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YIKES!

When I was about 10 years old, I received a BB gun for Christmas. An only child neighbor kid, whose family went to our church and I barely knew because he went to a private school, was kinda strange. We knew this as children! His mother called my mom and wanted to know if I would come over to their house and play with her son, since he had gotten a BB gun for Christmas too. I protested vehemently to no avail. She said she felt sorry for him, his mother was in my mom's church group, and it would only be a couple of hours.

When I got to his house with my gun and some cans for targets, we went into the woods beside his house to shoot. He had never shot a BB gun before, and didn't know anything about them. I showed him how to load, aim, and shoot it, stressing not to put his finger on the trigger until he was ready to shoot. He was reckless from the start, and wouldn't pay any attention. I thought we were enjoying shooting the cans. While I was shooting, he "accidentally" shot me in the back of my thigh from about 5 feet! Luckily, I was wearing blue jeans, but it still hurt! I was done! I wanted to fight him, but decided just to go home. As I was leaving, I heard him shoot. I turned around and saw him aiming at his dog!

When I got home, I told my mom what had happened. She was upset, and apologized for making me go. Thirty years later, my sister called and asked if I had seen the news that night. I told her no. She said the guy who had accidentally shot me years before, had been arrested with another guy, on child pornography charges! He was later convicted and sent to prison. His father had died years earlier, but he lived at his childhood home with his mother. I did feel sorry for her. She actually died while he was in prison. He is out now, and still lives in the same house.
Larry
 
I had a wood stocked M760 when I was a kid and was shooting at little frogs on the rocky bank of the Illinois River and a pellet bounced back and hit me in my lower right eye lid. Put a small red welt on it about a 1/4" away from my eye ball!
 
Sound like familiar stories. Still got my Daisy 25 from 1962 and it works! Graduated to a Sheridan 5 mm that took 8 pumps I believe. Lot of work but made for a good power house back then.
 
My buddy had one of those wood stock 760s, I had a Sheridan Silver Streak. Thousands of birds, and not a few frogs, squirrels, and rabbits fell to them. Summer nights we would stand under the streetlights and shoot at the bats on the wing as they hunted insects. Jerry finally killed one one night, to both our surprises!
 
For sure Eric300. The Daisy 25 cost my dad $10 back then. Don't know how many countless hours I enjoyed with it. BBs cost me 10 cents for that carboard tube. LOL A few tin cans and starlings fell victim
 
Used to buy those little milk cartons of BBs 3 at a time. My dad used to say there was so much steel in the ground around the house that he couldn't get his compass to read right. I had a Daisy 1894 copy and I wore it out. Learned alot about shooting. Sight picture, Kentucky windage, safety. Never hurt anybody or got hurt, but I never did the bb gun wars thing. If my parents had caught me even pointing it at a person, I'd still be looking for a surgeon to remove it from my posterior. I miss that little gun.
 
Hey, thanks for reminding me about my Crossman 760. It's been sitting in a dark corner collecting dust and cobwebs. I cleaned it up and loaded up some BBs, it still works and is reasonably accurate with BBs.
I believe it was around 1968 that I had saved up enough money from my paper route and convinced my dad to order it for me from Gopher Shooters Supply. With his law enforcement discount, I think it was around $17.

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I had a Daisey pump action BB rifle as first gun. An old used one w/a wooden stock. I remember the muzzle was made (factory) so you could push a cork ball into it and shoot that as well.

I had exactly 3 of the cork balls and they we gone very quickly to parts unkn.
BB's and strike anywhere kitchen matches were the main ammo.

Lots of other used BB guns thru the yrs, Daisy, Crosman (I lived not far from the factory), and a few unkn's.
I bought a nice Beeman R7 in the early 90's. Powerful for it's day.
.177 cal and could easily take pigeons sitting on a bridge at 40yrds and maybe more.
That and a Walther LP53 seem to have gone on permanent loan somewhere.
Kind of miss those 2

I did pick up this can of Crosman .22 pellet ammo recently.
Why I don't know. I don't need it for anything.
Still sealed. Has the older Rochester 7, NY address on it (downtown).
Kind neat.

 
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