In 2003 I broke my neck in an accident and after getting out of the hospital, I was home bound for a long time with the head brace on my head and neck. I couldnt lay down and sleep in my bed with the head brace on, so I slept sitting up in a leather recliner until I got the brace removed. During the day I was home alone most of the time (wife at work) and couldnt move around very well in the beginning, so I spent a lot of time in that chair. I was going crazy, had cabin fever really bad and was really missing shooting. I could get up and walk around the house and yard a bit, but I couldnt drive. One day Shannon came home with a crossman air pistol for me, she just asked that I dont shoot it in the house.. Man, I became really good shooting that thing, especially from the recliner and using my rolling laptop stand as a bench rest. We had one of those big giant bean bag chairs from that store at the mall that only sells bean bag furniture. It had soft foam in it instead of beans or whatever, and was covered in that thick type of materal, and it was already set up in the perfect place in the corner. It was the perfect back stop for my targets. I was using everything for small targets, plastic pill bottles with the white caps facing me, even getting those uncooked little baby carrots out of the fridge, they made great exploding targets and the big bean bag chair would contain it all, even the exploded carrots. I just had to shop vac everything up and hide the evidence before she got home. I was using small targets because the max distance in my living room was only about 15 to 16'. She thought I was being a good boy and eating those tastless carrots, but she eventually found some trace evidence of exploded carrots a couple of times and figured it out (no more carrots). After shooting that thing almost every day, It made me quite the marksman for a while there. I still have that crossman pistol and shoot it every now and then in the back yard, but I dont have the same skills that I once honed with it shooting it everyday back then. They definitely serve their purpose.