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Anyone own a Umarex replica BB gun?
Posted on 2/14/20 at 10:38 am
Posted on 2/14/20 at 10:38 am
My 13 yr old wants one...but damn they look a little too real for comfort. The slide is a blowback slide and the CO2 drops out in the magazine. I think it would desensitize my son to the dangers of a real pistol..don’t want to be a curmudgeon though. He’s asked for a BB gun for his birthday...and this is what he’s come up with:
Umarex website
YouTube review
Kinda spooky.
Umarex website
YouTube review
Kinda spooky.
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Posted on 2/14/20 at 10:45 am to Gaston
Put a bozo nose over the muzzle and maybe, just maybe he won't get killed by a cop or the guy manning your neighborhood watch.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 10:59 am to Gaston
I'd personally get the kid a traditional BB gun (rifle style). He can't shoot black birds or squirrels with the one you posted. The only reason I see for buying a child a firearm is for them to learn to hunt with it. I just had my grandfather's old Benjamin restored for my future children to learn with before allowing them anything bigger. Once they're older, a handgun may be a possibility depending on how responsible they are.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 11:00 am to Pandy Fackler
A BB gun with a three inch barrel can’t shoot for shite. The physics just doesn’t seem right.
They make a rifled pellet gun too, just looks a little fidgety.
They make a rifled pellet gun too, just looks a little fidgety.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 11:15 am to Gaston
Yeah-I think I'd stay away from giving my child that BB gun. Way too many "what if's" to justify giving that to him.
What would you think/do if someone pointed that thing at you or you saw them carrying it around your home/family? Now ask what you think a dumbass with an itchy trigger finger would do.
There's your answer.
What would you think/do if someone pointed that thing at you or you saw them carrying it around your home/family? Now ask what you think a dumbass with an itchy trigger finger would do.
There's your answer.
This post was edited on 2/14/20 at 11:16 am
Posted on 2/14/20 at 11:23 am to Gaston
13 is exactly the wrong age for something like that IMO but I guess it depends on the kid.
I was a good kid and very good about guns, and my old man wouldn't have let me have that in his house.
I was a good kid and very good about guns, and my old man wouldn't have let me have that in his house.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 11:25 am to Gaston
Looks too real. Could get in to bad trouble with that nowadays. Get him a red ryder.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 1:16 pm to Gaston
Just get him a Walther P22
Posted on 2/14/20 at 1:25 pm to Gaston
At age 13 I had real guns. I don't see the issue here.
Teach him to shoot cans in the yard.
Teach him to shoot cans in the yard.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 3:43 pm to Gaston
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I think it would desensitize my son to the dangers of a real pistol
Seems like a good teaching moment. I was less than half his age when I started shooting. I wouldn't let him run the neighborhood with it, but there should be no issues with him having it around your house.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 3:44 pm to Gaston
Nothing wrong with airsoft. The Japanese companies make the best ones. Look on Red Wolf Airsoft.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 4:07 pm to Gaston
all fun and games till the cops have him cuffed face down on the sidewalk. get him a daisy red ryder like the founding fathers intended
Posted on 2/14/20 at 4:09 pm to Korin
That’ll bounce off drywall?
Posted on 2/14/20 at 5:44 pm to Gaston
Where will he be shooting it OP? I was originally going to say I’d let him have it but it goes with the other real guns and he only gets it with you around.
But airsoft is a good point. Kids run around with those everywhere.
I’d worry about a kid running around the neighborhood with it, neighbor calling cops, and kids have real looking guns. But as I said, it happens all the time with airsoft. So...I don’t know...
Honestly, maybe have that talk with your son?
But airsoft is a good point. Kids run around with those everywhere.
I’d worry about a kid running around the neighborhood with it, neighbor calling cops, and kids have real looking guns. But as I said, it happens all the time with airsoft. So...I don’t know...
Honestly, maybe have that talk with your son?
Posted on 2/14/20 at 5:59 pm to Gaston
At 13 a pellet rifle is the correct answer or a real gun, I got a 12 ga semiautomatic when I was 13 but I'd been hunting with a single shot since 9.
Posted on 2/14/20 at 7:16 pm to Gaston
Are those accurate to shoot at a target? Can't think of another good use for a BB pistol. If he wants something for target shooting, I'd get a 22, and start taking him. If it's for running around the neighborhood, I'd get a BB rifle. We had our own single shot shotguns at 10 years old, and I had a 22 rifle, and a 12 gauge pump, in high school.. I never owned a pistol until I was grown, but we never shot targets.
Unless you're out in the country, I'd think any BB gun needs to look like a BB gun.
Unless you're out in the country, I'd think any BB gun needs to look like a BB gun.
Posted on 2/15/20 at 9:54 am to Gaston
Cops in the next town over from mine, killed a guy a while back, who had something similar.
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