My name is Matt, and I'm an airgun tinkerer.
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2016 11:38 am
Hi everyone.
My name is Matt and I'm an airgun tinkerer.
I would just like to say hello to everyone at AAOC and at the same time confess my sins.
I have owned and shot airguns since I was 12 up until I reached 30 when I felt I needed to move on to bigger, brighter, louder things, so I sold my airguns and got myself an FAC. I shot .22 RF for 8 years and although I enjoyed it, and did quit well at it, I found it somewhat restrictive as I could only shoot at my registered club and they only shot on a certain night of the week. I decided to sell off my RF rifle and return to airguns. As I had a bit of money from selling my rifle I thought I would go all out and get the airgun I had always dreamt of owning and got myself a nice new AA Prosport.
Now you would think this would have brought piece and happiness into my world of shooting but it didn't. Despite having spent a lot of money on a perfectly good if not exceptional rifle, I quickly developed an overwhelming urge to want to strip it down and play with its internals. I can't explain why I want to do this but thinking back it is something I have always done. I dropped a Vmac kit into my old Diana 38 when I was 16 and I have tinkered in some way or another with every gun I have owned since. I have read some of the topics on this forum and I see there are a number of people who share my 'addiction' to wanting to make their gun that little bit better. So I hope you don't mind me using the AAOC forum as a support group for my issues but as the saying goes a problem shared is a problem halved.
My name is Matt and I'm an airgun tinkerer.
I would just like to say hello to everyone at AAOC and at the same time confess my sins.
I have owned and shot airguns since I was 12 up until I reached 30 when I felt I needed to move on to bigger, brighter, louder things, so I sold my airguns and got myself an FAC. I shot .22 RF for 8 years and although I enjoyed it, and did quit well at it, I found it somewhat restrictive as I could only shoot at my registered club and they only shot on a certain night of the week. I decided to sell off my RF rifle and return to airguns. As I had a bit of money from selling my rifle I thought I would go all out and get the airgun I had always dreamt of owning and got myself a nice new AA Prosport.
Now you would think this would have brought piece and happiness into my world of shooting but it didn't. Despite having spent a lot of money on a perfectly good if not exceptional rifle, I quickly developed an overwhelming urge to want to strip it down and play with its internals. I can't explain why I want to do this but thinking back it is something I have always done. I dropped a Vmac kit into my old Diana 38 when I was 16 and I have tinkered in some way or another with every gun I have owned since. I have read some of the topics on this forum and I see there are a number of people who share my 'addiction' to wanting to make their gun that little bit better. So I hope you don't mind me using the AAOC forum as a support group for my issues but as the saying goes a problem shared is a problem halved.