Do Any Of You Guys Know Airguns?

[shilala]

Originally Posted by AdamJoshua

Oh thought you were going with the .22 (and if you can get away with it you should, don't wanna just wound the vicious little critters and have to walk up, look them in the tiny little warm brown eyes and BLAMMM *double tap* them.


(that's of course if you do anything other than scare it away by giving it just a flesh wound.

Nah, they make air rifles in .177, .20, .22 and .25 calibers. .22 cal air pellets are a lot heavier and hit a lot harder but they're slower and don't shoot as far.
I don't think I have to worry about "far" at all. I gotta go step off my killing range.

I'm mainly gonna kill Italian Pheasants. Crows are delicious, I don't wanna shoot them all up.

[dwoodward]

Originally Posted by shilala

Nah, they make air rifles in .177, .20, .22 and .25 calibers. .22 cal air pellets are a lot heavier and hit a lot harder but they're slower and don't shoot as far.
I don't think I have to worry about "far" at all. I gotta go step off my killing range.

I'm mainly gonna kill Italian Pheasants. Crows are delicious, I don't wanna shoot them all up.

I wouldn't get too into the speed of the pellet. Keep in mind, the faster a pellet moves, the more likely it is to stray away from on target. Most guns used for target shooting only fire 500ish feet per second, this is because when you start approaching 1000-1200 feet per second your pellet starts to get close to the sound barrier. Think sonic boom, and what effect it would have on your pellet.

Also, I don't have any experience with it, but I would think a round that passes the sound barrier would include a slight bang when fired, which I am sure you don't want since you have neighbors.

[AdamJoshua]

Originally Posted by shilala

Nah, they make air rifles in .177, .20, .22 and .25 calibers. .22 cal air pellets are a lot heavier and hit a lot harder but they're slower and don't shoot as far.
I don't think I have to worry about "far" at all. I gotta go step off my killing range.

I'm mainly gonna kill Italian Pheasants. Crows are delicious, I don't wanna shoot them all up.

A the first problem is I'm old so there are bb guns / pellet guns, some that took both and then a .22 was a small rifle. The second problem is you'll put your eye out.

[longknocker]

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