I was cleaning out the garage today when I noticed my old pellet gun laying on a shelf. My Dad bought it for me in the Summer of 1974 when I was almost 10 years old. It was a Daisy model 880 pump. I can remember that day as if it was yesterday. You could pump it up a maximum of 10 times, though a friend said if you pumped it up a 100 times it would be as stout as a .30-06. I never went beyond ten. In fact, my Dad said I could only pump it up 3 times in the backyard of our city home. I pretty much complied to his orders. I shot many little green army men and several birds off of the power line wires in our backyard during my youth. It was amazingly accurate. The seals slowly wore out and it would no longer pressurize and it went by the wayside as I moved on to bigger things. Today I decided to bring it back to life. I fashioned a seal from a faucet stem washer and oiled it up good and it built enough pressure to shoot a BB about like the Red Ryder BB gun. It won't bring down a charging Grizzly, but it sure made me feel good inside to hear it shoot agin.