I bought a fancy-assed Crosman target style pump powered air pistol in .77 caliber to support my sons latest hyper-autistic interest in weaponry.
I brought home a huge television shipping carton and cut a piece of plywood to place in it to use as a backstop. I have it filled with pillow foam to stop the pellets we shoot and most we will re-use, since the pillow stuffing will keep most of the pellets from hitting the impenetrable wood backing and becoming too deformed to put back into the pistol.
He draws all his own targets (dinosaurs, bad anime characters, senators, ugly actors etc, well he is fifteen, going on eight, but showing promise) and I am teaching him how to shoot properly.
This is step one on the way to the extensive training I have had where he will eventually be able to shoot while running and still bullseye another moving target. Having this kind of confidence is the only way we Concealed weapon carriers can safely protect ourselves and the ones we love. I am filled with hope that he will someday become as confident and proficient as I am with all forms of personal defense weaponry.
I am glad we have finally gotten to this point. Hey, he is not so bad, after getting over the energetic rush of actually holding a weapon in his hand for the first few times. and just spraying his pellets everywhere. He is calming down and learning to squeeze a trigger.
I also have a really old pump rifle that he is using, but he has a hard time with the strength it takes to work that weapon/toy.
I have tried to get him away from the books to do basic exercise, but wtf does a dad know? The boy needs more strength to work a weapon, but his interest has just begun and his interest in developing strength in his body has not yet.
I am waiting for the right girl to come into his life and stimulate his testosterone. LOLOL
ANY way this little Crosman shoots a 12 grain pellet at four hundred to six hundred feet per second (depending upon how many times you can pump it. It is pretty damn hard to pump it up all the way) and it will help to develop basic skills needed to step up to larger caliber types of weaponry.
EDIT:
Sorry, guys, but I did not buy a pump actuated pistol that shoots a "larger than three quarters of an inch in diameter" pellet by using a hand powered air pump.
HOL:Y SHIT!, You guys must think I am insane.
The actual caliber of the air pistol is .177, a bit smaller that a typical .22 pistol, shoots a lighter pellet, but it can go at six hundred fifty feet per second with three pumps. Really cool, but it is not the size of a twenty gauge shotgun. It is actually close to 4.5mm in diameter.
