.20 Fans Your Opinions Please

[Squinty]

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So When Dr Beeman start to sell Americans on the .20 cal..
You have the accuracy of the .177 and the downrange hard hitting of the .22!!!

BTW...
This was 45 years ago!!!!
Also my first real Airgun...
Sheridan pump-up.....First made .20 made in the US!!!!!!!
I am refinishing it.. Will post a photo when finished!!

Stuart

my uncle had a .20 Sheridan, one of the perks of knowing USAF base personnel.
My father said it was alright for a 'pump' but the pellet choice was limited ......that was about 45 years ago.

[Ca_Varminter]

my uncle had a .20 Sheridan, one of the perks of knowing USAF base personnel.
My father said it was alright for a 'pump' but the pellet choice was limited ......that was about 45 years ago.

Well in the beginning there was the fancy Yellow plastic box for the Sheridan Pellets...
The Sheridan Pellet, the true trash-can cylindrical pellet!
Then here comes Dr Beeman.. With those fancy catalogs..
Imagine see your first Feinwerkbau (fwb) 124 Deluxe Pellet Rifle. 177..
The First Magnum Air Rifle...I still drool over them..

So Beeman starts to market the .20 cal..
Introducing a line of pellets you would drive to rob your sister's piggy bank to get some!!
Those Fancy shiny new Pellet called the Silver Jet... Those little guys were pretty accurate out of my old Sheridan!!

The true art of Snake-oil selling!!

Stuart

[Squinty]

nothing like a bit of snake oil....reckon we've all had a taste of that.

It was a long time ago, I was 7-8 years old and already paying attention to the fraternal banter of my father & two uncles.
BSA v Webley v German   Crosman v Sheridan
177 v 20 v 22,
break-barrel v sidelever v pump.
pointed v wadcutter v round
12g v 20g.... SxS v O/U.... pump v SA

and before the ban.... 9mm v 45 v 357 v 38sp

my first experience of a Feinwerkbau was a 300s
And contrary to the 124... HW 35 & HW80 were my first German air rifles.
Even though my father had suggested a Diana 

[MMA player]

I had some of those beeman SJs...they were bonk

[Brooksy]

Mine started life as a .22, then Rhys sold me a .177 barrel which made it better inn my opinion, especially for ease of POI choice, then I got bored and converted to .20 with a Walther barrel I bought from Ping, another R7OC member. I've never looked back. Shooting JSB Exacts, it's perfect and drops the quarry without drama.

[rgc_swanseaARC]

Mine started life as a .22, then Rhys sold me a .177 barrel which made it better inn my opinion, especially for ease of POI choice, then I got bored and converted to .20 with a Walther barrel I bought from Ping, another R7OC member. I've never looked back. Shooting JSB Exacts, it's perfect and drops the quarry without drama.

Wow that was some time ago now.

[Brooksy]

Yes, on a forum far far away! 

[daystatesniper]

My MFR in .20 has given 3k FT/HFT  rifles good runs for their money ,best rifle i have ever owned .

atvb' Mick

[KevG]

I never liked .20 to be honest and not had one since late 60s early 70s.that was a Sheridan pump.all thats changed since I built a .20 for my self.its really converted me.
KevG