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I recently made two purchases of air guns for no other reasons other than just PURE FUN. That's what they are. I was in a Gander Outdoors and was looking over the firearms counter, handguns to be exact. They had some interesting revolvers. Nothing I was going to buy or look at though. Then I headed over to the airguns. I looked over the poor selection they had and I spied an M1A1 Thompson. It was fully automatic. It didn't say if it was semi auto also. It was in a plain looking box. It was just before Father's day. I hemmed and hawed and left without it. I went back a week later and it was gone. I did my homework on line and discovered they are accurate and semi automatic also. They are good for at least two magazine loads of air. It sounded fun. I had fired a real machine gun, so this would be a cool similarity. An order to Pyramid Air and a few days later my Thompson arrived. Accurate was right. On my 10 meter indoor range, it did great. On full auto it brought a rare smile to my face. It was PURE FUN. The first five were semi auto and the rest were full auto till out. The firing stops when the magazine is empty. The second magazine I fired five semi auto and then tried controlled bursts. What fun. It was still accurate with bursts. Out at the new place I tried to see how long I could shoot on the original two air cylinders. Six magazines and ten rounds into the seventh before it was not penetrating the cardboard box. Out at the farm I had moved to 15 yards. It was still very accurate, especially for a smoothbore BB gun.

Fast forward to July 4th or thereabouts. Pyramid Air had a 10% off sale. So................the MP40 qualified for that sale. Yup it arrived a few days ago and went out to the farm. It does not seem as accurate as the Thompson. The rate of fire is a lot slower than the Thompsons too. It is more in line with the "real" firearms I think. It too is PURE FUN.

The MP 40








The MP 40 was able to hit all three of the steel targets at the top of the box from 15 yds in semi auto. The hits knocked the pig and the turkey off the box with authority. The full auto bursts were low. A sight issue and my glasses I'd say. I wonder if the sound carried over to the neighbors? No police came by, so that's a good thing.

It was and is JUST PURE FUN!!!!!!

Yes Dave!! That has FUN written all over it!!!

Way cool!

Very Sweet... have to check them out.

Looks like fun Dave might need to check out that Thompson myself

Dave, you better be careful, that gun doesn’t look as if it complies with the NYS SAFE Act!

Dave, I'm very impressed, though not surprised. Good for you. We both can give folks the low down on all the advantages of shooting air guns, but that just plain FUN factor is at the top of the list. Great post.

Fun is airguns middle name.

GeoBoy wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:17 am

Dave, you better be careful, that gun doesn’t look as if it complies with the NYS SAFE Act!

They do comply with the HRF FUN ACT!

BB guns are the one type of air gun I have yet to explore, but it's been on my to do list for a long time. Dave, you and Gene and Forty are way ahead of me on this one. Just too busy with all the other types of air guns to get it done.

Joanie, I also have one of those Daisy Avanti 499 BB guns on back order from Pyramid. I'm really wanting to see the accuracy that it can wring out.

Plus one other really cool just for fun gun on back order.

Bought a granddaughter a Daisy 499b, she shoots 4H, her and I practice in the backyard. I have to use one of my son’s old Red Ryder BB guns. I can hit the bottles and cans, ring the gong but she can really put’em on paper, she really out shoots me. We really have a good time, a few laughs and a lot of bonding!

With a BB gun you can load on Sunday and shoot all month.

When I was a kid and went to the county fair, the carnival there had a BB game with Thompson’s and you had to shoot the bullseye completely out of the target to win a prize. I loved that game.

brm4450 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:15 am

When I was a kid and went to the county fair, the carnival there had a BB game with Thompson’s and you had to shoot the bullseye completely out of the target to win a prize. I loved that game.

Did you ever win?

daytime dave wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 15, 2021 6:53 am

brm4450 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:15 am

When I was a kid and went to the county fair, the carnival there had a BB game with Thompson’s and you had to shoot the bullseye completely out of the target to win a prize. I loved that game.

Did you ever win?

Never, spent a lot of dimes between that and the cranes, I was the master of the cranes, won a lot of yellow pocket knives.

Looks like a lot of fun, I think it will be my next gun purchase, I keep saying I'm not going to buy any more guns

Do you have to load 2 CO2 cartridges, I suppose you could probably load a full and a empty cartridge if you didn't want to shoot much or would that affect the bb velocity?

Dave, I'm not sure. I didn't try it. I bought a big lot of C02 cartridges on Ebay a few years ago to satisfy my Crosman 1100 shotgun shooting habit. I still have a lot of them around so I don't worry about two or three mags and then a refresh. I still think you can get them pretty cheaply on Ebay. I would think it would work for at least one mag.