{"id":3249,"date":"2015-03-09T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2015-03-06T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T16:08:37","slug":"meet-the-aoa-team-shane-kellar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/meet-the-aoa-team-shane-kellar.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet the AoA team — Shane Kellar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy, some guys just don\u2019t get the word. What word? You know: the typical narrative involved in an airgunners career. It usually goes something like this: \u201cWell, I started out with a Daisy (or an inexpensive) Crosman, and after many years of scrimping and saving, I finally got an adult precision airgun.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Shane1\"<\/a>Shane Kellar, whose chief responsibilities encompass working with dealers and setting up the Extreme Benchrest competition every year, has a vastly different story to tell. \u201cI\u2019ve known the owners of Airguns of Arizona \u2013 Robert and Steve \u2013 my entire life. When Robert first started selling airguns, my Dad bought me a German made spring gun. I would shoot a hundred to two hundred pellets a day. At 12 years old, I was dropping little green army men in the backyard with that springer and a 3-9 scope. I didn\u2019t know the difference between a good air rifle and a bad air rifle, but I knew I could shoot it well.\u201d<\/p>\n

My reaction: HOLY SMOKES! A German springer at 12 years old? Wow!<\/p>\n

Kellar adds, \u201cWhen I graduated from high school, I got a Beeman rifle from Robert. That was my only knowledge of air rifles. I wasn\u2019t familiar with precharged, and I didn\u2019t know that there were different qualities of air rifles.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says, \u201cI was working in the banking industry, doing mortgages and home equity loans, when the crash came, and I was laid off. Robert was looking for someone to do shipping, so I started to do that. The phones got really busy, so I started helping the guys out. They said: if you don\u2019t know, just ask \u2013 so I started asking lots of questions. And of course I had lots of opportunities to shoot different air rifles\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin a month, I bought a Daystate Huntsman left hand and an FX pump. Within six months, I had three precharged rifles, the Huntsman, an Air Wolf, and an FX Cyclone. I did lots of reading about airguns, learning about them, and eventually I began to take them apart, so now I know how to fix just about any of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Kellar\u2019s favorite precharged rifles are the FX Royale and the Daystate Regal. And when it comes to springers, he is right back to his roots; the last springer he would part with is an HW35e.<\/p>\n

When he isn\u2019t on the phone with dealers across the country and thinking about next year\u2019s Extreme Benchrest competition, Kellar enjoys competing in air rifle bench rest whenever he can get the opportunity. He helped to start the Phoenix Benchrest Club, and he participates with them on a monthly basis.\"Shane2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps his favorite thing, though, is \u201cgoing out with a couple of my cousins to one of the local dairies and helping them to eliminate their pigeon problem. It\u2019s a win-win: the dairies appreciate getting rid of a pest, and we have a heck of a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Til next time, aim true and shoot straight.<\/p>\n

– Jock Elliott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy, some guys just don\u2019t get the word. What word? You know: the typical narrative involved in an airgunners career. It usually goes something like this: \u201cWell, I started out with a Daisy (or an inexpensive) Crosman, and after many years of scrimping and saving, I finally got an adult precision airgun.\u201d Shane Kellar, whose…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,211,199,137,136,193,200],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}