My current favorite air pistol - but why?

My Sheridan .20, 5mm caliber H-series pellet gun. It's a multi-pump. It's not particularly powerful. It's not particularly accurate. It's got plastic grips. But it looks nice.

I think it looks very nice.

It's also a very solid feeling gun. The grips are the only plastic on the gun. Working the pump lever is not difficult, though it's quite the potential palm-pincher. When I got it, the trigger guard was broken. I just bent a piece of brass plate, drilled and tapped a hole and viola, doesn't look SO bad. I might open up the bottom of the trigger guard though, just for some freaky-stylie.

So tell me people, am I going insane?

I have strange hobbies. I always have. Many have followed me through life, shifting in form slightly, but the themes remain predictably constant. Music and music making instruments; breaking, building, and modding things; mechanical doodads like yo-yos, telescopes, watches, cameras; Art and art-making, all mix and mingle in the stream of my free-time.

Of late, it's been pellet guns. I'd like to say "adult pellet guns" or "Olympic grade pellet guns," but for better or for worse, I can only say broadly "pellet guns." I've got some nice ones, some old ones, some cheap ones (several cheap ones), some modded ones... ok, ALL modded ones -  they just didn't come to me that way.

So to kick of this blog, I'm planning to photograph my collection and maybe comment on the modifications and performance they exhibit.