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as a medical doctor and psychiatrist. I don’t recall
NOT owning a bunch
of air guns! Even at the
tender age of eight years
I had several pop-out air
pistols (unbeknown to
my parents). I truly don’t
know how I’d have goƩen
through life without
air guns. As I recall, in
MY life, everything else
played second fiddle to my
interest in pneumaƟc guns!
Now in my dotage-I’m
STILL at it!”
Check out Trevor’s
online airgun scrapbook
web site at hƩp://www.
cinedux.com that he dedicates to all airgun collectors
and yesteryear.
We’ll be aƩending the SHOT Show in January
to bring you news on the newest airguns that will be
available in 2015. From what we’ve seen already, 2015
could be the year of big bore airguns and will open
more possibiliƟes to hunƟng with airguns.
Look for new
adverƟsers in 2015. Please tell
our adverƟsers that you saw
their ad in Airgun Hobbyist
Magazine.
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On the Cover
The book that started it all.
I sƟll remember buying a copy of Air Gun Digest
by Robert Beeman at a
bookstore in Chicopee,
Mass at the age of
13. I can sƟll visualize
the table that it was
siƫng on in the store.
Yes, finding a book on
airguns made that kind
of impression on me.
Decades later, I
sƟll have the book. The
pages have yellowed
and worn over the
years, but it’s sƟll as
useful as it was when it
was published in 1977.
Countless
Ɵmes over the years
the book has been
viewed. Many hours
were spent reading
and rereading arƟcles
along with looking
at the pictures and
dreaming of airguns that I’d like own.
Just looking through the book today,
reminds me of doing the same thing, siƫng on my
grandparents couch waiƟng for holiday fesƟviƟes to
be over so I’d be able to roam around in the woods
behind their house with my Crosman 38s.
Back then, that 13 year old would never have
thought that someday he’d be a published airgun
writer and then editor and publisher of an airgun
magazine. He never would have dreamed that
someday he’d be able to visit companies like Daisy and
Crosman or that the airgun industry would grow larger
and he’d be able to visit even more companies such as
AirForce Airguns, Umarex, and Hatsan.
Reading an arƟcle on the Freon powered
automaƟc LARC BB gun wriƩen by Jess Galan, he
never would have dreamed that Jess would be wriƟng
arƟcles for him thirty plus years later.
In the current world of electronic publicaƟons,
I wonder if the same will hold true for current 13
year olds. Decades in the future, will they be able
locate that PDF file or web site address? Will all these
electronic devices sƟll be funcƟonal like simple printed
material would be?
We hope Airgun Hobbyist will inspire a new
generaƟon of airgun writers. Even though at the
moment, they may not realize that it could be in their
future. - Tim Smith
Airgun Hobbyist, the only American airgun
magazine in print, also has an internaƟonal following.
While many of our contributors are from the USA, we
also welcome internaƟonal contributors. One such
writer is Trevor Adams. He and his wife, Jennifer live
in reƟrement in the Waitakere Ranges on the edge of
Auckland city, New Zealand. Trevor turned 79 this past
November and has been married for 51 years. He has
two middle aged children.
Trevor states “I occupied my ‘working years’
EDITORS’ LETTER
Colt Limited EdiƟon
NRA 1911 CO2 BB
Pistol. One of many
airgun replicas
available on the
market today.
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Trevor Adams
The book that started it all.