My love of small-town America enlarged no end at the sight of a Sheridan Model C in Lewistown, Montana. It was for sale for not much money, and was simply too good to leave behind on that cross-country trip in 1988.
This was my first and only ‘high-power' air rifle. The Blue Streak, as Sheridan liked to call the little Model C, came in a cardboard box with a pack of .20 calibre slugs for company and the excitement of a new land that never goes away.
That rifle was a direct descendant of the famous and very collectable Model A Supergrade and, like the Model C, was a multi-stroke pneumatic, which had to be pumped up until either you were tired or became distracted, whichever came first. The reward for all of this effort was about 15 ft-lb of energy.
Sheridan's rifles were unmistakably North American in styling, having the look of a firearm with fine handling qualities and bolt-action
