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Rignt now it sports the 1399 shoulder stock, of course, a .177cal 24"barrel that's been cut down to 18" and re-crowned, a 1389 backpacker forearm, a homebrew trigger sear, a Crosman steel breech and bolt for the .177 cal barrel, a

I had dissassembled one of the two new Crosman 1377s that Tom had brought me and swapped over the steel breech, 18" barrel, 1399 stock and most of the custom parts from the old 1377 Carbine. So I had an up-to-date, nifty new-looking Carbine and an assortment of parts left over. Enough parts with what I had left over from modding the original 1377 to bastardize together a working shooter. When the hodgepodge of parts was assembled I had a stock-looking air pistol with a very nicely modded valve and a sweet trigger pull.

This sketch of a sight picture and about 5 minutes of explanation got her started. She realy surprized me. I put her at 5 meters and showed her how to cock the gun first (ultralight valve spring) then pump then load stressing safety and doing what I could to keep her feeling comfortable and relaxed with the whole experience.

I started her out on a big sheet of paper with a small bull's eye in the center. After the first low shot I mentioned above she proceeded to blow the hell out of the cener bull. I couldn't believe it. she was shooting better than me. She was doing so

Edna has shot my Gamo Compact and my IZH M-46 before but she has not been able to cock and load either of them by herself. I showed her once with the Crosman 1377 and then walked her through it once and after that she had no problems loading and shooting the pistol. Keep in mind this gun has a super-light valve spring and adjustable steel piston that is set very light.

Here's the result. The larger paper is the first one she shot. You can see the first shot is low. Then I swear she put about 4 of them in dead center and when we switched over to the

well that we switched over to my regular sized targets. 2 3/4" x 4 1/4". Her first shot touched center white. I think the grin you see is when I told her she was out-shooting her bana. Well my story is that her progress was so good because of the quality of the instruction.

It has a quick pump arm dissassembly and no saftety. I checked it all over and took it out for a shoot to see how it would perform. I got it sighted in at 10 meters and ran some pellets throug it at 3 pumps up to 10 pumps. It was dumping up to 20 pumps and going through both sides of one can and one side of another at 12 pumps. My hands were getting a bit sore with all the pumping and I moved back to about 5 meters. Re-sited in for 3 pumps and had a go offhand. I was taking it back inside as Edna came through the gate, coming back from visiting with the neighbors. I asked her if she'd like to try it and she said yes.

I love inteligent women. She listened to what I said then did it right the first time. I only needed to explain it once and she had it. She took to this gun like a duck takes to water. First shot was very low so I went over the sight picture again explaining the importance of keeping everything in alignment while breaking the shot.

smaller target paper her first shot was touching center white. All of this was with 3 pumps. So I asked her to see how many pumps she could put on the gun. She started shooting 5 pupmps and a couple of times went up to 10. All this without help from me. Then her groups stared to open up a bit and I think she was getting tired. We set up some tin cans and she enjoyed seeing the cans jump when hit.
She loves the gun and has no problems handling it. In fact it's the only gun I have... er... we have.... er..... she has that she can shoot. She doesn't like it on 3 pumps because it's not powerful enough. She likes to shoot it with 5 pumps and when I told her it would take Tukmo on 12 pumps out to about 25 meters her eyes got big, I mean really big and she got this silly grin on her face.

I think she's a power freak.

I'll paint it up and re-install the safety and stock trigger assembly. Edna wants a heavier trigger pull so it will be more like a firearm than a target pistol. We have a CZ Compact 9mm that's in her name. I have only fired it once and Edna never has. I'll take her out and teach her how to use it when the gun ban is over. For now at least she can practice with the 1377 and If I know Edna she'll be oushooting me with cartridge guns too.

Well, I may have lost an airgun but I think I found a shooting partner and thats a good trade in my book anytime.