Air rifle or BBQ?
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I’ve got a small (I mean small) amount of cash coming my way after my dad died.
Unexpected, a pension/insurance/life assurance company contacted me to say there was a couple of quid they had been sitting on since he died about 15 yrs ago.
I’ve got a load of things NEED doing and will be putting some of it towards them.
Mrs Cjelli wants a nice holiday, so will be looking at that.
But, I wanted to buy something my dad would have approved of. Something my teenage kids can have when I’ve gone. I have nothing much to remember my dad by.
He was an outdoors, man’s man. He built a chiminea type thing out of two 45 gallon drums welded one on top of another for family do’s. He built a bbq out of a pair of 45 gallon drums to cook a pig/lamb on a spit for the village to use for civic events.
He also was into shooting. As a teen, I ran the trap for him and his friends from the local on Sunday clay shoots on the private land he had access to. We had a few air rifles I learned to shoot with as a youth.
So I want a toy to enjoy with my lads that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to justify out of normal day to day funds.
I have a small garden. No access to 40 yd targets. But I really fancy a decent air rifle. £700 worth of Bullpup goodness seems like a fun place to be.
I also like the look of an automated smoker bbq. Pellet grill or gravity fed charcoal system. A Masterbuilt 800 gravity looks to be a good all rounder for not much more.
I do enjoy cooking, so I reckon I’ll potentially get more use out of the bbq, but I do yearn for the days of the simple joy of banging cans up in the air.
What would you spend your deceased dads cash on?
Unexpected, a pension/insurance/life assurance company contacted me to say there was a couple of quid they had been sitting on since he died about 15 yrs ago.
I’ve got a load of things NEED doing and will be putting some of it towards them.
Mrs Cjelli wants a nice holiday, so will be looking at that.
But, I wanted to buy something my dad would have approved of. Something my teenage kids can have when I’ve gone. I have nothing much to remember my dad by.
He was an outdoors, man’s man. He built a chiminea type thing out of two 45 gallon drums welded one on top of another for family do’s. He built a bbq out of a pair of 45 gallon drums to cook a pig/lamb on a spit for the village to use for civic events.
He also was into shooting. As a teen, I ran the trap for him and his friends from the local on Sunday clay shoots on the private land he had access to. We had a few air rifles I learned to shoot with as a youth.
So I want a toy to enjoy with my lads that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to justify out of normal day to day funds.
I have a small garden. No access to 40 yd targets. But I really fancy a decent air rifle. £700 worth of Bullpup goodness seems like a fun place to be.
I also like the look of an automated smoker bbq. Pellet grill or gravity fed charcoal system. A Masterbuilt 800 gravity looks to be a good all rounder for not much more.
I do enjoy cooking, so I reckon I’ll potentially get more use out of the bbq, but I do yearn for the days of the simple joy of banging cans up in the air.
What would you spend your deceased dads cash on?
If you want a BBQ that the kids can enjoy in later years a Big Green Egg (or cheaper equivalent) might be good. No metal (not much anyway) to rust away. An air rifle might be fun - unless you're in Scotland, in which case the paperwork will be a pain - but I suspect a kamodo grill might bring happiness to all of your family for a longer time.
Buy cheaper versions of both BBQ and air rifle. Print out pictures of cows, pigs, chickens etc and place them around the garden. Invite guests for a barbie and ask them to shoot what they want cooked for them. That's what I do. If you want a burger, then you don't get one until you shoot the cow pic etc. Makes it a bit more fun.
vladcjelli said:
Nice, is that a TX200 (or similar forgot its proper name)?I always went shooting air rifles with my dad, he's still alive but shakes to much to shoot now.
I bought my 11 year old a cheap smk junior for his birthday, and my dad gave him a decades old but unused Diana 15. He loves the Diana as its small and light, very easy to cock. Looks a bit like a cowboy rifle.
Hours of fun in the garden just shooting tin cans and old action men type things.
pocketspring said:
Nice! Weihrauch HW97 black line stl?
That’s the lad.Lusted after an air arms pro sport for a while, but couldn’t justify the extra expense.
Had Weirauch as a lad and I like the looks.
Plus, my teenagers approve, said it looks like the air rifle John Wick might use, if he needed to do some small pest control.
love that you ignored all the advice above and went for the rifle firstNice!
If you can squeeze the budget, a Kamado Joe Classic 3 will last long enough to hand down to your kids...
Saying that, I've got a ten year old Pro Q Frontier bullet smoker that still comes up like new, and a 14 year old Weber Mastertouch that's the same.
Not a huge fan of the automated pellet/briquette feed BBQs.
If you can squeeze the budget, a Kamado Joe Classic 3 will last long enough to hand down to your kids...
Saying that, I've got a ten year old Pro Q Frontier bullet smoker that still comes up like new, and a 14 year old Weber Mastertouch that's the same.
Not a huge fan of the automated pellet/briquette feed BBQs.
vladcjelli said:
pocketspring said:
Nice! Weihrauch HW97 black line stl?
That’s the lad.Lusted after an air arms pro sport for a while, but couldn’t justify the extra expense.
Had Weirauch as a lad and I like the looks.
Plus, my teenagers approve, said it looks like the air rifle John Wick might use, if he needed to do some small pest control.
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