50 caliber Air Rifle - plus it shoots ARROWS...!

[AJMD429]

https://youtu.be/XS4ANd0NCQQ

[Blaine]

[marlinman93]

The guy must be living in a hole in the ground his whole life if he thinks a big bore air rifle is something new? In fact Lewis and Clark had big bore air rifles on their 1803 expedition to explore a route to the Pacific! I've fired one of the original big bore air guns like the ones Lewis and Clark took along, and they will easily take deer. Besides being a big bore, they were also a repeater! They held about 20 round balls in a tubular magazine, and once the buttstock-air chamber was pumped up, they could fire all 20 with very little loss of velocity.

This is the same gun I was fortunate to fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI

[1894cfan]

The guy must be living in a hole in the ground his whole life if he thinks a big bore air rifle is something new? In fact Lewis and Clark had big bore air rifles on their 1903 expedition to explore a route to the Pacific! I've fired one of the original big bore air guns like the ones Lewis and Clark took along, and they will easily take deer. Besides being a big bore, they were also a repeater! They held about 20 round balls in a tubular magazine, and once the buttstock-air chamber was pumped up, they could fire all 20 with very little loss of velocity.

This is the same gun I was fortunate to fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI

1903? They must have been kinda old! (I know, it was 1803)

[Blaine]

The guy must be living in a hole in the ground his whole life if he thinks a big bore air rifle is something new? In fact Lewis and Clark had big bore air rifles on their 1903 expedition to explore a route to the Pacific! I've fired one of the original big bore air guns like the ones Lewis and Clark took along, and they will easily take deer. Besides being a big bore, they were also a repeater! They held about 20 round balls in a tubular magazine, and once the buttstock-air chamber was pumped up, they could fire all 20 with very little loss of velocity.

This is the same gun I was fortunate to fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI

I must be living in a hole in the ground...I never heard about that particular expedition.

[AJMD429]

The guy must be living in a hole in the ground his whole life if he thinks a big bore air rifle is something new?

I think somewhere in the video he mentioned the long lineage of the air-rifle, but he did comment that these 'big-bore' ones are relatively new on the scene, which certainly is true in terms of the normal 'consumer market' for air-rifles.

[marlinman93]

[quote="1894cfan"


1903? They must have been kinda old! (I know, it was 1803)[/quote]

Typo. Big fingers!

[rock-steady]

He lost me in the first few minutes.....beating a $600 air rifle around in the bed of a pick-up truck....

[Ysabel Kid]

The guy must be living in a hole in the ground his whole life if he thinks a big bore air rifle is something new? In fact Lewis and Clark had big bore air rifles on their 1803 expedition to explore a route to the Pacific! I've fired one of the original big bore air guns like the ones Lewis and Clark took along, and they will easily take deer. Besides being a big bore, they were also a repeater! They held about 20 round balls in a tubular magazine, and once the buttstock-air chamber was pumped up, they could fire all 20 with very little loss of velocity.

This is the same gun I was fortunate to fire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pqFyKh-rUI

I think I saw that rifle at the NRA museum several years back. Very cool!