How old are you guys?
Im 22 and am shamed by your shooters. But its Encouraging to see that some of us survive long enough to get them nice guns. I the mean time i move to lock the bullpup section, all you do is share photos causing severe civil unrest
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Sorry, Hoot. I’ve got a year on you: 70 in May. I think it’s great that we have so many um “mature” airgunners here. And bravo to those who stood up to be counted!
Well, Ed, I have achieved that simply by marrying the right woman 😉 My wife firmly believes that I am 16 and that I will NEVER grow older. Unfortunately she is referring to my mental age only 😆
Hoot and Ed, I know your messages where for me.
Hoot, let me see you do that and I’ll consider myself as young as I can be. It will be the last good deed you’ve done on this earth, considering you don’t have much shots to calculate (sorry for that).
I’ve already post this link on this forum so no backfire from you guys.
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Hoot and Ed, I know what you mean and because of you I’ve started to act as young as I was . I’m sure there will be guys that will say: let youngsters take your place if you don’t fell apt to it anymore, but I wont give up thanks to you.
did i forget to tell my age ?? old people forget a lot. thats my excuse for having so many toys . ha ha .
60 and retired, nothing to do but camp,fish,shoot air rifles. it was a long time coming, many 7 day work weeks,many 12 hour days. now its my turn
Nice write-up Ed. Enjoyed reading it.
I’m 53
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Completely agree with Hoot. I am very grateful to the Soviet Army I was serving in for 26 months. Before Army I was usual teenager with many complexes as many teenagers. Then I got to the forces. I was lucky one to be in Spetznaz GRU (special forces of the main intelligence service) we were trained to be a ghosts and kill the “Pershings” that is American mobile ballistic racket of the middle radius of act. When I was watching the American movie “G.I. Jane” with Demi Moor I laughed seeing those “difficult training” remembering ours and considering those in the movie as a scout boy games. They really “killed” us training, just an example when I got to spetznaz we passed trough the medical test, my weight was 75 kg, I was staying there just for couple of weeks and we have to pass through another medical test before the parachute training, I was 60 kg, so I lost 15 kg of my weight just for two weeks. To sleep 4 hours a day was a “never happen dream”, usually we slept no more then 2 hours a day and that lasts for 3-4 months. Plus to that we were “young” it means that those who served more could trained us very cruel. We had guys who shot themselves, who hung themselves or jumped from the third floor of the barracks just to avoid to be there. Those who remained became a real animals 🙂 the main idea was “you can die but have to fulfill the mission!” and I carry that idea through all my life since that time. That was 1987 and we were trained to come to Afghanistan, so being on the south of USSR it was very difficult for me, born at the North to get used to that heat, around 110-115 degrees F in the shadow I have no idea what it was looked like under the Sun, our thermometers were graduated only up to 50 centigrade (122 F). So, after being there I don’t care about anything. Then I went to the University and being at the second year of education I failed the exams of Higher mathematics and Phisics. I conned the whole semester program for both subjects for three days. I remembered it till every dot and comma. Completely half a book I knew as a computer, I could write down any page of the book from my mind. After that I got something happened to my head 🙂 I could remember the whole pages of text just looking at it, I studied English for 6 months to the level to be enough to work as an interpretor (now my English is very pour in comparison as it used to be, now my active vocabulary is about 3 000 words, that time it was almost 12 000) I could learn Swedish for the level enough for everyday conversation (about 1 000 words and main grammar rules) for just two weeks and Swedes I was working with that time was completely amazed with that). I failed to the zero level (when have no money even for the bread) and started again few times and I never cared about it knowing that I have either to die or win. So I don’t care about my age, I just don’t notice it, being 44 I have no problems to catch 20 years old girls and they are happy 🙂 I know that the age is in the mind not in the documents. Being at the meeting of the school classmates (25 years of finishing the school) I looked at them and thought to myself “Who are all those people?! They are old and just cannot be my classmates!” 🙂 And I am going to keep myself young till the death 🙂
The human body ages. The human mind has an option, it can grow old and dull, or stay young and active. It is an option WE choose, not nature.
Last year, at age 68, I climbed a 100 foot oak tree, and cut it down using a rope, a safety sling, and my chainsaw, cut it from the top down. I did it by myself because none of the neighbors would, or could, help me.
A lot of people limit their activities and accomplishments because they “think” they are too old. You are never too old. You may go slower and it may hurt more, but you can do anything a man half your age can do.
Example, I decided to become a scuba instructor at age 60. Everyone laughed. Half way through the course, we had to swim 400 meters without stopping, in less than ten minutes. The 20 and 30 year old students tried and failed repeatedly.
One day I decided to do it. I hadn’t trained, hadn’t been running, I just decided it was time to get this hurdle out of the way. So I did it on the first try, right at ten minutes. The rest of the group was astounded, and a bit put off. One 30 year old fellow didn’t believe it was really 400 meters. He didn’t think it possible a 60 year old man could do that. He took a GPS out to the first buoy and boated over to the other buoy and back…that was the course we had to swim. He checked his instrument and found it was actually 600 meters. The instructor has guessed at the distance and got it a bit long. Once they found out a 60 year old could swim 600 meters in ten minutes, 400 meters suddenly got really short and within two weeks they all passed it easily!
two weeks after this, all the students swam the hurdle and made it just fine.
It wasn’t the physical capability that had stopped them, it was their mind.
Ed could have built a really nice pcp rifle and stopped there. His mind decided to go a bit further, and then a fit further, and then even more….
Now he is near legend in the pcp world because he never let “good enough” slow him down. It wasn’t a younger man’s job, it was HIS job to get it perfect! He said it himself, he doesn’t think about age, and nether do I!
Look at the demographics on this forum. We have professionals, factory workers, students, family men with various jobs, playboys, millionaires, and one-eyed, ox-like creatures, who choke bears to death with their bare hands, have hair on their backs, butts, and palms, and sleep naked in the mountains (sorry roach…) and even Ted in Madison, sent another planet, who has come in peace to teach humans how to use mil-dots, yet we all are capable of learning, growing, and never stopping our individual progress. Yet our ages are decades apart!
The lesson here is you are only limited by your mind, not your body. I’m not alone, there are many others like me. Think young and you will act young.
Now if you will excuse me, I have to water my herbs, and check for helicopters overhead.
Kindly ‘Ol Uncle H 😯 😯 T
PS: Think of all the nations involved in this forum and we have an excellent world wide resource at our hands to help each other.
44 but I always have to calculate while am asked about my age 🙂
39 and counting…
I concur 🙂
I’m 33.
Feeling Hoot’s age.
Lars….
Sometimes Oldgoat drinks his meals. Pay no attention to his ravings, he will be ok once his liver snaps back.
The only positive you really need to know is when you point an Edgun at a target, a hole appears there, and I mean right there! It is downright erie…until you get used to it.
There is no finer pcp made in the world.
Regards,
Hoot
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48 in the frame, 26 in my soul… shooting everyday…