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Air Gun Home Forum Index » General Air Gun Questions and Topics » inexpensive shooting    View previous topic :: View next topic  inexpensive shooting   Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:41 pm schwingmichael New Member Joined: 27 Sep 2009 Posts: 7 Pellet pistols are by far the best option for practice, $50 get about 50 45 acp rounds while that same $50 get you many hundreds of pellets. And Pellet guns are mutch quieter. Duh... My only trouble is choosing a pistol below the $200 mark. Some of my thoughts were: Benjamin hb17, Crosman 1377, Anics Black Bird, Avanti 717, or the Walther cp99.   Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:58 pm fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2444 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia I would go for a Crosman 1377, or 22xx series. For $200 you can do quite a bit to them. _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. It's not that I'm not a people person, it's just that I'm not a stupid people person.   Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:04 pm jlwilliams Veteran Member Joined: 02 Oct 2009 Posts: 264 Location: Jacksonville, NC USA First decide what you want to do with the pistol. Targets? Small vermin? Shooting at a bench in a basement range, or shooting in the fields or woods far from home. That should lead you toward a choise of powerplant. Once you have decided what you expect the gun to do, and what type of gun will do that; then do whatever you can to aford the best you can. Like you said in the original post, the price of ammo saves you a ton over time. Do your best to aply some of that savings up front and you will have saved yourself even more money by not having to upgrade in a year. Case in point. I wanted a Discovery. I heard that they were coming out with a repeater in a year or so. I had to go further than I had originaly planned to get myself a Marauder when it finaly did come out. If I had got the Disco,I would have ended upgoing for a repeater later, costing more money in total.   Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 3:43 am Brutuz Senior Member Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 504 You could make a custom one @ http://www.crosman.com/custom_store Example: $ 169.81 _________________ Crosman [1300 1322 1377 1377c 1389 2289G Mark II SSP250 2300KT 2400KT ] Sheridan [HB20] Haenel [III 284] SMK [XS78 Deluxish] My vids on Youtube   Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:30 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Consider the Beeman P17/Marksman 2004, which is a Chinese clone of the more expensive HW 40/Beeman P3. Not very powerful, but accurate, has a great trigger, and all under $50.00 USD. It can be modified: _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:07 pm fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2444 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia Slavia, that looks like it weighs more than some rifles... _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. It's not that I'm not a people person, it's just that I'm not a stupid people person.   Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:55 am Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Quote: Slavia, that looks like it weighs more than some rifles... That would explain those Chairgun error messages telling me to enter the gravitational constant for the gun. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:26 pm fritz Silver Status Member Joined: 25 Nov 2008 Posts: 2444 Location: New Jersey- outside of Philadelphia Oh, sure it doesn't have its own gravity? What happened to the OP? This is going to go off topic soon... _________________ "I never set out to be wierd, it was always everyone else who called me it" -Frank Zappa Speed is impressive, accuracy is deadly. 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