Because I am an avid airgun collector, I've been able to take more of a historical view in the development of our own company. For instance, we discovered that we had more specimens and information about the early Benjamin airguns than the factory itself, and that our collection housed a pre-WWII Weihrauch repeating air pistol that the Weihrauchs had forgotten. Beeman discovered rather early that most of the factories that we deal with do not even have literature, much less specimens, of their earliest models. Leapic video to gif converter serial port. It frequently happens that the factory staff themselves actually have less knowledge of their own early models than do those later collectors. It isn't until years, usually decades later, that collectors begin to try to sift out what has happened and determine which models came first, which are the rarest, and even which models existed. As a gun company grows, especially if that growth is rapid, the historical implications of model changes, new packaging, etc., are often not appreciated at the time they occur. Rare Beeman Guns For the Record: Rare Beeman Guns by Robert Beeman Reproduced from Beeman company reprint 8757 of an article in Beeman's Airgun Journal 4 (1): 2 pp.,1983.
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