air pistols for practice

Since you already have a Single Six, consider shooting .22CBs through it. These should be safe for indoor shooting assuming you have something that will serve as a bullet trap or backdrop.
 
I just bought a Glock-like airsoft gun for practice at home. It is the same size as my G22 and I can shoot it indoors without... well... putting .40 caliber holes all over my house and getting arrested for discharging a firearm within city limits.

The closest range is 30-40 minutes away and while it is free, the ammo is not. I will have to reduce my range time to once a month instead of once a week.:(
 
I once got into airsoft but it got boring, quick. Paintball was more enjoyable, and it felt good cause it hurt more when you got hit!

All things aside, I recently purchased a P22 airsoft pistol for my gf. It was for basically one reason, and that was to teach her safe and proper handling of a pistol in a holster. I just ordered it a couple days ago, so I can't say how it has been, but she finds dry firing try boring and I think this will be a good option. She will have a replica of her favorite pistol she shoots (P22) that shoots a 6mm plastic bb along with a custom pink holster, it'll be perfect! Then when she learns proper holster work and is comfortable with it, she will then start to practice with her real P22 holstering/unholstering/safety/practice practice practice.

So I guess in some cases it is a tool (airsoft, that is). Sure some people play it for fun, but I think there are different applications for airsoft, training being one of them.
 
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.
 
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I spent a number of Winters shooting Air pistol matches on Sundays and using one for practice during the week occasionally. As the gun was a single shot, it is not what you are looking for at this point, but the effect on my firearm shooting - both .22 and .45 - was dramatic. My slow fire/precision scores went up a number of points on average and I had my best years in the league - winning the three gun aggregate at season end.
Then I got lazy.
The point is that APs make a good training tool.
Pete
 
I learned sight picture, sight alignment, and trigger control on a {now discontinued} Daisy Model 188 air pistol, bought new in the early 1980s. It was my daily use of this gun that enabled me to shoot hovering bumblebees out of the air. It was also what helped me out-shoot everyone in my Basic Law Enforcement Training class...including the instructor. I still have it, and it still works. Whatever one you pick, it will help you out with developing and honing the basics. The cheap ammo and low noise is a bonus. Enjoy.
 
I'd consider my Tempest a pretty good practice piece.
While only being a single shot, it's a "springer" and does have some recoil which helps with trigger control.

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I love the Tempest/Hurricane. I have untold thousands of pellets through my Hurricane, which I purchased from Beeman's San Rafael store.

I shot that thing constantly. It's in need of some springs and seals now, but I figure if it lasts *another* 28 years I got my moneys worth.

I never found mine to be as inaccurate as others claimed. Once you master the back-and-forth recoil it's capable of some very tight groups. I'd like to dovetail a slightly taller front sight in as well- I've done a trigger job and put an overtravel stop in the trigger guard.
 
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