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by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier This report covers: • Silly exercise • What’s the point? • Airguns I like • My one airgun • Firearms • See where this is going? • My one firearm • What this tells me • How my life has changed …what would it be? Not long ago, blog … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Blog reader Kevin asked me this question recently, and I embraced it because I usually don’t even have time to think about which airgun I would prefer to shoot. There’s always another blog, a feature article and 5 other deadlines pressing on my time…so thinking like this is not … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier “Have a wonderful summer.” Great words, but not when they’re in my high school graduation yearbook. We were all going our separate ways. Some of us were going to southeast Asia and might never come back. Others were going on to colleges to become doctors, lawyers, nuclear physicists and … Read more
by Tom Gaylord, a.k.a. B.B. Pelletier Happy Thanksgiving! This is the day Americans set aside to remember the things we’re thankful for as we eat a feast of traditional turkey. A couple days ago, blog reader Rob asked for my list of most-favorite spring guns and why they’re my favorites, so I thought today would … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Today, I’ll venture into an area where style and function can clash violently. Also, because every person is built differently, the things I say will not apply equally to all people. That is not to say they are untrue or vague enough to just be opinions; but because of differences in our … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier Part 1 Part 2 This TS-45 rifle is probably at least 30 years old, yet also brand new. I’ve anticipated this day with great hopes, because this TS-45 rifle has the tightest bore I’ve ever seen on a vintage Chinese air rifle. I’ve owned a couple older Chinese air rifles, and they … Read more
by B.B. Pelletier This TS-45 rifle is probably at least 30 years old, yet also brand new. At every airgun show there’s always one or two special things that show up. At the 2012 Arkansas show this year, one of those things was a pile of new-old-stock Chinese TS-45 sidelever air rifles. Randy Mitchell had … Read more
