This has been an educational thread for me. I had never before heard of a SxS Daisy, atomic pearls, or seen British proof marks on an air rifle.
I got one of the model 94 copies for Christmas when I was 6. I treated it like a gun in every way and wouldn't have dreamed of intentionally shooting someone with it. I wore it out and owned a couple of other models over the next few years. None were powerful enough to kill a squirrel, but I did some serious bird hunting with them.
Whatever I killed, I cleaned it and my mother would fry them along with whatever else she was cooking. I was usually the only one who would eat my kills, but I remember the whole family once joining in and eating a bunch of migratory robins I had taken. They were just as good as doves.
As I remember, a woodpecker doesn't have a very good flavor, but I ate them. This was all back in the early 60s and the world was very different from today.