"...lowly Sheridan." ?!?!?!?!?
Hey MP-44, Kind of surprised that no one has taken you to task for aligning the words "lowly" and "Sheridan" next to each other. From my perspective, they just don't go together any better than having " MY " name included on a list of Democratic Supporters. ;^)
I see "tlt" has one even older than the one I have. I got mine in the 1977/78 time frame and it is as fine a pump-up air rifle as you will find for the money. I got mine to control a neighbors pet that decided to sleep on my boat cover. By adjusting the pumps, I got the pet to go elsewhere without having to kill it.
Since then, I've used it on a good many things, including Crows that just got too close during siesta.
By the way, for all you Air Rifle fans, the good folks at Beeman has seen fit to provide "Sample Packs" of their various pellets in each size. I got one in the 5mm size for my Sheridan and it came with 6 different types of Lead pellets plus some of the felt Cleaning pellets. Got a total of 175 pieces in the pack. I'm sure you all realize that pellet rifles seem to like one style pellet more than others and this gives you a chance to try a bunch at once.
For those of you interested in such stuff, here are the relative weights of the 5mm pellets from Sheridan and Beeman:
Beeman Silver Bear - 10.0gr
Beeman Silver Sting - 11.0gr
Beeman Ram Jet - 11.5gr
Beeman Silver Ace - 12.6gr
Beeman Laser - 13.8gr
Sheridan - 14.7gr
Beeman Silver Arrow - 15.4gr
Needless to say, the lighter pellets are "faster" for those of you interested in going fast. But, the heavy pellets do seem to penetrate real well on critters.
Good hunting and clean 1-shot kills, Hot Core