[Sekol]

Looks great! Thanks for the pix and let us know how it shoots. Have started looking into air guns -holy cow, soooo much to learn!! My desire is to have something that is relatively quiet so we can shoot it on our farmette without the neighbors having a canary! 15 acres just isn't big enough for shooting regular firearms -and besides, airgun pellettes are easy to find -unlike 22lr!!

 

[Sekol]

OK guys - DH and I have been thinking about air guns - started to looking in to them, am totally confuse, but got a chance to try to actually "break the barrel" of a Stoeger - and my stubby arms just don't seem to take to it too well, but DH has no problems - anybody found any youth type guns out there? did just get CO2 and 22 pellets to try out an old, old Crosman 99 that we found in dad's house while we were cleaning it out - if it doesn't snow/snain tomorrow we might try it, but the seal is probably shot after all these years... You guys gotta' keep us all informed!

 

[Sekol]

If you want to rebuild that old Crossman, this is the guy to talk to:

Flying Dragon Air Rifles | Airguns | Tuning | Repairs and Parts

The Industry Brand guns are clones of that old C02 Crossman of yours. He has 3 basic springer models of Xisico brand and one of them should meet your needs. Pricing is quite good considering that he custom rebuilds every rifle before he ships it to you.

These Chinese guns are very good copies of RWS air rifles.

Model XS28 = RWS Model 350 Magnum
Model XS25 = RWS Model 34
Model XS12 = Probably some other youth model RWS, but I don't know the model exactly

A phone call is probably best to answer your questions.

Before anyone starts asking why I didn't get the Flying Dragon Xisico XS28M, instead of the Hatsan 125, I will tell you it was a very hard choice that came down to free shipping in the end as they were both the same price. The Flying Dragon is like a custom built 1911 government model. A custom built 1911 but still a straight up government model. While the Hatsan 125 is like a production 1911, but with all the custom improvements built in, like with a Taurus PT-1911. It came down to about $20 UPS ground shipping.

The Ruger Air Magnum is the same Chinese clone without the custom work and runs $167 at Midway USA. The Flying Dragon for $28 more is clearly the better deal. JMHO

GreenWolf70 - thanks for the info - elPescador, also on this forum directed me to look at FD but I didn't know about the parts for the ol'Crosman! Hopefully we well have a few hours tomorrow to go to the range and be "off" from work so a call out to MM at FD might just be in order! Thanks sooo much! Happy shooting!