After reading the posts about these new awesome air rifles and reminiscing about the older ones from my day...I had to dig the old Sheridan out of the closet. She was looking pretty worn out as that gun has travelled the fields and woods for many years. When Joe and me got our Sheridan's it was like a quantum leap up from our daisy model 25 pumps. We simply called them our "Sony's". They were powerful shooters in their days. When taking aim at the foolish high wire pigeon that flew and lighted on the wire in our neighborhood...it wasn't a question of if we were to hit it or if it would fall when hit...it was shot off them wires stone cold dead Same with squirrels and rabbits...DRT. I sanded my sony down the other day and put on a couple coats of minwax oak and then a couple coats of poly on her. And then I gave her the 25 yard check up in the back yard with six pumps. Other than those two stragglers to the left she still shoots pretty good I'm going to back out to the 50 yard line with 8-10 pumps and see what happens

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My Sheridan is a lot older than yours but still shoots very well. I always wanted a scope on mine until I got a chance to shoot one scoped. I just couldn't get comfortable pumping it, where do you hold it to pump. I was always a 10 pumper when hunting too. But the newer guns work better I think on less pumps. When I got my Silver Streak I don't think Sony was in business, but it wouldn't have made any difference. Because the Sheridan was miles ahead of the pack of airguns of the day. Your gun came out nice, the finish is great. Compared to my airguns now the Sheridan is a model A and my AA 410ERB is a Ferrari my FX Monsoon is a Bugatti Veyron . But when I was a kid I seemed to be able to will those pellets into whatever I aimed at. We all had some misses but not many. I think the distances I shot were more realistic in my youth too. Today I don't think twice about taking an 80+ yard shot at a squirrel. I had my Sheridan out the other day just to exercise it and my wife said now you can get rid of that old thing! Blasphemy, I sooner get rid of her!

Bingo John...we think pretty much alike. There is no way for a comfortable 'pumping' with a scope on. I ordered the sheridan intermount when I was a kid thinking it would be pretty cool, but then discovered the same thing you did about the pumping and seldom used a scope. I'll have my rubber hand grip on by tomorrow and see my results scope less. I doubt if 'Sony' was in business when I got that gun...Sony was just a nickname we chose somehow. I remember us having slang or nicknames for almost everything we did. I'm going to have to ask Joe how we came up with it. He will probably remember. Yours might be a tad older, but not by much. Yes....those Ferrari's that you air gunners today shoot are unbelievable in both looks and performance.....but it's fun to reminisce

This was 1968 but it showed the screw top cans of 5MM ammo. There's that scope too!

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I've got an old Sheridan 5mm too. It's permanant storage place is standing in the corner next to the back door in constant "ready" status as the go to gun in case of mad squirrel attack.

Yep...I remember both those tin cans and the adds very well I think they used to mention something about being a good investment just in the fact of building up young boy's arms. I think it was about 1964 when my Dad bought me my blue streak...and a couple tins of that ammo I was in heaven. I bet it still does a fair job on them mad squirrels Red...let's you and the family sleep a bit better just knowing that

I finally found out today when my Sheridan Silver Streak was made. It was in 1963. I found that out because they had two of them at the Base Exchange and the other had a funky safety you held down with your thumb. I know this because we bought the gun I took it home shot it for a week hated it and took it back. They had just gotten in the new lever or paddle safety one in and that was the best.

Red I still keep mine by the patio door too. My other guns are too expensive to leave out like that. Plus the Sheridan shoots well with open sights. I can even pickup and shoot running rats, skunks and raccoons easier while holding a flashlight with it. If I could only have one survival gun I think I'd take the Sheridan and a tin of pellets. A rimfire is nice but still more things to go wrong with one. I wish every gun I owned was as trouble free as the Sheridan has been all of these years.

Has anyone ever stacked two pellets end to end and fired them from their Sheridan? Talk about some knock down power it makes a heck of a thump and there is even a recorded case of that method killing a person.

I guess what your saying SJ is that sheridan is a critical tool in your fur bootie business Never heard the tale about it being a man killer, but can belive it. We knew it could bring down cape buffalo and bear if hit in the eye...but of course our Daisy's were capable of that as well We used to 'doctor up' the pointed ends making cross cuts, etc with razor blades and couldn't wait to hit something with our homemade dumb dumbs. We just knew that a spotsie or starling would explode when hit. Thinking back, we were the only dummies around, but we sure had fun