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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dawn… I must be the youngest one in this forum, I’m 14….. if you know how chinesse read their book….. then you will know how old i am 😛
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Tedd,I`ll bet you never got beat with that Kawasaki in 72.In 73 had a
750 Honda and my friend had a Kawasaki Mach111 500cc,boy did that bike wind up fast.
My first pellet gun was a Chezch.177 break barrel for my 8th b-day
I was 19 when I got drafted June friday the 13th in 69
Half way to 88.
Hoot, when I was 6, I started out with a Daisy red rider and then graduated to a Crossman 760. I ended up with a Sheridan pump and shot it for a few years. We moved into town so I didn’t have a place to shoot. About 12 years later, around 77, I bought a Beeman R1 in .177 cal and had a Blue Ribbon 2.5 – 7 variable scope on it. It liked the Beman Silver Stings best and shot them at around 900 fps. Damn, that gun was heavy and took a lot of effort to cock it!
A couple of my buddies had full house Yamaha RD 350-400s. Very nice bikes, fast and handled really great!
Back then, I was a service manager at a Kawasaki shop and got my bikes and parts at cost. I had a Kawasaki H2 750 cc 3 cylinder 2 stroke that I ported, added larger Mikuni carbs, shaved the heads, Koni shocks and Denko expansion chambers. That thing would rip! Fastest thing in town and would turn low elevens at 125 at the local ¼ mile drag strip. Not bad for 1972.
If I could talk somebody into going for a ride, it would pull a wheelie from about 15 up to around 115 without touching the front wheel down. I loved to have a sweet young thing get on the back, ride out of town and then tell her to hold on. When the front end came up, they definitely would hold on and I got more than a few blood curdling screams while we were heading toward 100+!
I bought a 1985 Yamaha RD500N from a shop in Canada and had to smuggle it into the US. The EPA said that 2 strokes weren’t legal here anymore. BIG hassle getting it thru customs and getting plates for it. Think of a RD350 on steroids. Due to its high gearing, it wasn’t good in the ¼ mile; my cop buddy clocked me at 155. Not bad for 1985.
I have had around 30 bikes and I miss that RZ500N the most.
OK, back to “bb guns”!
And HOOT, it is Kawasaki not Kawosaki!
damn turns out im surrounded by old farts around here 😉 . just got 18 in the fall. luckily i was able to get my eagle scout in beforehand .
I’ll be 69 March 6, 2012,and started with the Beeman – HW 55 springer back in 1975. A 700+ fps in .117, it was one of the hottest air rifles around. Very few in those days went much over 750+ fps.
However, with that sweet little 2.5 power Beeman scope, I could corn-hole a pigeon, armed only with a flashlight and standing with a free hold at 30 to 35 meters. Of course the birds were roosting, but started ducking around when the light hit them. You had about five seconds or so to line them up and ring their bell before they would take off.
Rabbits at 50 to 75 meters were always headshots. No bi-pods back them, just a strap.
My first Beeman ordered was a model 30, but I didn’t like it, so I called Beeman’s store and spoke to Ms. Beeman in person. She swapped me out the 30 for a left-handed HW-55 Delux, my total outlay was in the $150 range, because the left handed stock was hard to sell. That rifle was heavy as hell, and had a spring-loaded thumb latch to release the barrel for cocking.
Quality was superb! The barrel was perfectly centered within the blank, and the walnut wood was excellent in quality.
I remember having to take off the metal sights, which came with optional front posts, in order to mount the little Beeman blue ribbon scope.
That rifle would drop a squirrel from the highest tree.
My favorite pellets were the Beeman Silver Bears, that had the three rings just behind the dome of the pellet. Ein Jin has them now in .25 caliber, but I remember the Beeman pellets being very nicely cut and formed. Of course, at $3.50 per tin of 500, they had better be perfect!!!
My motorcycle at that time was a Yamaha 350 cc, two stroke rocket, with oversized carb jets, big air intake tubes, and hollow exhaust. It had six gears, and would do wheelies in the first four. I remember using “Klotz” synthetic German oil because it absolutely didn’t smoke. That little light weight, at about 350 lbs, would beat just about any bike twice it’s displacement, at least for several gears. None of the four strokes stood a chance, but the Kawosaki three cylinder 2 strokes were impossible to get ahead of.
Sweet gear, but hard to come by due to low wages in those days.
Regards,
Hoot 😯
Ahh grasshopper, with age and wisdom come patience and better trigger control. Double dipping helps buy cool parts from Wok and Tony…. 39 here which means I’ve got at least another 40 some years of airgunning left. :4:
28, but ill 69 till im dead… 😯 😀
29 on Saturday
53 and loving it
Four zero.
Almost 38.
But, there really isn’t any point in keeping count, since I intend to live forever.
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You gotta love the 2 Stroke Bikes.. when I was 18 I bought a Kawasaki H1 Triple (500cc) from a guy down the road, it was a 1974 and had been sitting in his shed for 10 years. It looked like new. I got it for $300 😯 I took off the carbs and cleaned them and replaced the dry rotted tires and was good to go. It was fast as fuck in a straight line, but scary as shit in the turns, it even had a steering damper to keep the front wheel shimmy to a minimum 😯 I laid it down coming up to a stop sign after a light rain, the front tire just washed out on me.and I knew it was time to move on. didn’t do any damage to the bike other then broke a turn signal. Those brakes were scary..sometimes they worked sometimes they didn’t. I ended up Trading it for a 66 Chevy II with a small block 😀 So I did alright.
Goat as far as 2 stroke crotch rockets, I had an Rd350 Kenny Roberts Edition and that was a fun little bike. My buddy had a whole stable of them, white ones, yellow and black ones, but my favorite bike of all was his RG500 Gamma….Holy Crap is that thing fast…when it comes on the pipe…you better be holding on…I thought my Old Yz490 pulled hard when it came into the powerband…. I think there was a reason those things weren’t legal for sale in the US. and it wasn’t because they were 2 strokes.. It’s a full blown race bike with a headlight and turn signals 😯 His snuck in through Canada as well.