pellet guns

[charlie cleveland]

I have 2 break open barrel pellet guns one is a 22 cal. rated at 1000 fps and a 177 sal. rated at 1300 fps...I shot these guns for about 2 hrs... really gave my arms a work out...the 177 is a little easer to cock than the 22...so I tend to shoot the 177 more...the 177 will shoot thru a 5 gal. plasti bucket both sides at30 steps...its a cheap way to spend a evening shooting...charlie

[Dean Romig]

I have a Ruger air rifle or pellet gun in .22 cal. I've got a scope on it and I've got it all tuned and zeroed to make 30-50 ft. head shots on the varmints that are chewing up my bird feeders.





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[CraigThompson]

I’ve got one friend that does air rifle matches and he shoots several classes . He has them up to 25 caliber I believe he said . Another guy that hangs around the shop bought his grandson a 35 cal air rifle . If I’m not mistaken the boy plunked a deer with it two years ago .

[charlie cleveland]

these air rifles have come a long way since my benjimen pump up 22....I would not mind getting a 25 cal. gun some day .......charlie

[CraigThompson]

About thirty years ago I ran across a Quackenbush circa 1890-1900 air rifle . I bought it and gave it to my pop for Xmas that year , think I paid $100 . Ive been liquidating some stuff and sold that air rifle last year think I got about $400 for it if memory serves .

[Phillip Carr]

Charlie I love my air rifles and pistols. Last year I bought 2 PCP rifles, portable bottle and compressor.
These rifles are suppressed and are unbelievably quite.
It was way too hot last summer so I came up with a set up to shoot at night.
With a heavy metal bullet trap, a portable rechargeable light, I can open the doors from my office at night with the A/C running and practice in the dark. The loudest noise is the pellet hitting the trap.
I enjoy shooting my pumps and Break barrel rifles but you are right it flat wears you out.

[charlie cleveland]

boy you got the right set up for shooting on a hot day....a fellow can get quite good at shooting with these air rifles the best I ever was I shot a dasisy bb gun...birds beware....I would like to have seen that quackinbush air rifle....charlie

[Bruce Hering]

About thirty years ago I ran across a Quackenbush circa 1890-1900 air rifle . I bought it and gave it to my pop for Xmas that year , think I paid $100 . Ive been liquidating some stuff and sold that air rifle last year think I got about $400 for it if memory serves .

Interesting.... Quackenbush is my mother's family name and yea, we are distant relatives to the gentleman who invented that gun.

[CraigThompson]

Interesting.... Quackenbush is my mother's family name and yea, we are distant relatives to the gentleman who invented that gun.

If I’m not mistaken there’s still a Quackenbush air rifle company in TX think it is . They build kinda a semi custom deal .

[CraigThompson]

Heck of a coincidence this thread started and two days ago my brother in law was after my wife to have me bring a I think it’s called cpc air rifle to him in the Philippines . I’ve always been sort of intrested in the big bore 35 cal and up . So naturally I started looking around :rolleyes:

[Andrew Sacco]

Phil, can you explain how much hassle it is to fill a gun with air and how many shots you can expect? I have two break opens, and can't stand that "boing..." spring/air sound and trigger feel. I haven't gotten a CPC because I imagined running to a scuba shop every 100 rounds to get a tank filled. I'm clueless. But I hear they're amazing to shoot.

[Milton C Starr]

Charlie have you seen the 20mm air rifles? They are technically a little bigger than 20mm at .825 cal which is really close to a 8 bore. They use a fast twist though since they are 20mm vulcan barrels just turned down. Im not sure if you can call a 1760gr projectile a pellet. I have considered buying one but not sure if its something I would want to drop $2500 on.

As well the pcp air rifles like that require a 4500 psi compressor or you can use oxygen tanks to refill if you have a local source for that.

The neat thing about the large caliber air rifles is once you get over the initial cost all you will be paying for is lead scrap from your local tire shop to cast bullets.

[Rick Losey]

or

you can go old school

http://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries/a-prospering-new-republic-1780-to-1860/case-8-romance-of-the-long-rifle/girardoni-air-rifle-as-used-by-lewis-and-clark.aspx

[Phillip Carr]

Never use oxygen. Mixed with any petroleum based product can result in spontaneous flash fires.
I bought a small filler bottle. Also a portable 12v/ 110 portable water cooled compressor. Once your bottle I’d filled in takes me less than 20 minutes to top off. I then use the bottle to top off my rifle. I get about 3 fills off the tank and it takes less than a minute to fill the rifle.
About 25 shots per rifle fill. The magazines I use hold 10 pellets. My rifles will result in one ragged hole at 50 feet. note my bottle is about half the side of a scuba bottle.
Bottles can be filled at Scuba shops. I joined a local air gun club and they provide a compressor to be used by members free of charge.

[Stan Hillis]

A good friend of mine has a black air rifle with a scope. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of that rifle, but it's something I'd never heard of. It's a compressed air job with a rotary clip, semiautomatic. When you look through the scope at a squirrel, for instance, you see two images of the squirrel. Focus it until you see one sharp image, put the crosshairs on it's head, and it's a dead squirrel. It compensates for the range by moving the crosshairs to match the ballistics of the rifle.

I saw him head shoot three, at out to 75 yards, with it last year. I wanted one bad until I looked into the price and realized how much he has in that rig. My yearning faded .......

[Phillip Carr]

Daystate and Brocock are the name of the rifles I own. Both made in the UK.Both of these rifles are very high quality. Both can be adjusted for velocity and will effect the number of shots you get per fill.

[CraigThompson]

A good friend of mine has a black air rifle with a scope. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of that rifle, but it's something I'd never heard of. It's a compressed air job with a rotary clip, semiautomatic. When you look through the scope at a squirrel, for instance, you see two images of the squirrel. Focus it until you see one sharp image, put the crosshairs on it's head, and it's a dead squirrel. It compensates for the range by moving the crosshairs to match the ballistics of the rifle.

I saw him head shoot three, at out to 75 yards, with it last year. I wanted one bad until I looked into the price and realized how much he has in that rig. My yearning faded .......

A so called “friend” lols is trying to talk me into a 45 or 50 caliber air rifle . I’d wanted one of the Quackenbush guns for awhile but they’re kind of a semi custom thing . Anyway my friend and I are going to an air rifle shop about 60 miles from us Wednesday to “look” . Like you the cost is kinda prohibitive but worse case we’ll go eat lunch then look them over . The gun I’m semi intrested won’t leave much change from 2K and then I need to get a little compressor deal etc . Doubt I’ll cave in and buy , but like I said doesn’t hurt to look especially if we eat somewhere decent for lunch .

[Milton C Starr]

A so called “friend” lols is trying to talk me into a 45 or 50 caliber air rifle . I’d wanted one of the Quackenbush guns for awhile but they’re kind of a semi custom thing . Anyway my friend and I are going to an air rifle shop about 60 miles from us Wednesday to “look” . Like you the cost is kinda prohibitive but worse case we’ll go eat lunch then look them over . The gun I’m semi intrested won’t leave much change from 2K and then I need to get a little compressor deal etc . Doubt I’ll cave in and buy , but like I said doesn’t hurt to look especially if we eat somewhere decent for lunch .

Theres a production 50 caliber air rifle now I think there is the Air Force Texan now comes in 50 cal. I was watching a video awhile back of them slinging some 750gr Amaxs out of it to 900 yards. You're basically duplicating the 510 Whisper but without the hassle that a rifle in that caliber entails. If I remember correctly a 750 amax launched at 750 or 850 fps only looses around 200 fps out to 1000 yards.

[charlie cleveland]

that sure beats my old daisey red rider bb gun...charlie