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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2016 10:49pm
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I had a Cabelas gift card so I went there today. What did I buy? A Gamo .22 cal. air rifle. This thing is awesome!! Can't wait to sight it in and plink and shoot small game.
It came with a 3-9X40 scope.
I keep a Red Ryder at the cabin for plinking. I know they are kids guns, but I really enjoy sitting on a lawn chair and shooting cans off the fence. I pretty good with a Red Ryder.
Do you shoot BB guns? What kind do you like? And do you kill anything with them? My Gamo should be great for squirrels, rabbits, skunks, and the like.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2016 11:00pm
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Gamo Varmint Hunter .177 with 4X32 Air Rifle Scope with Laser and flashlight
Never killed anything other than pine cones.
Fun to shoot though.
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shall
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# Posted: 16 Dec 2016 11:04pm
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I've been wanting to get a .22 pellet gun since I saw the Keith Warren video on youtube where he takes down 2 hogs with his Gamo .22
Which Gamo is that and how silent is it?
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 01:09am
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I have a Sheridan 5mm pellet rifle, very powerful.
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 08:33am
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shall
It's the Hornet Maxxim. Rated at 975fps. It's subsonic and has fancy silencing technology.
It's amazingly quiet.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 10:05am
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Santy O’s gonna bring cabi a .17 HMR…if….she makes him some fudge
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Borrego
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 11:32am
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I have 4 air rifles...My favorite is the 'Bone Collector'. I mostly plink at targets, cans and such but we used to have an influx of ground squirrels at our place (not tree squirrels) and they eventually learned that the barrel cocking meant somethin bad was about to happen......
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Gary O
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 11:52am
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Quoting: Borrego we used to have an influx of ground squirrels at our place
Heh
We have a horde of ground squirrels
Mostly in the meadow
After the winter snows melt off, you can see their dirt tunnels…hundreds of yards of tunnel weaves.
One time we were looking at our little crop of beans when they started disappearing before our eyes, like in the cartoons…getting shorter and shorter, then ‘foomp’ gone.
Little bass turds.
22 shorts got a lot of ‘em, but there’s a lot
Yeah, gonna get a .17 HMR
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FishHog
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 12:13pm
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Quoting: Gary O Santy O’s gonna bring cabi a .17 HMR…if….she makes him some fudge
hell, I can make fudge Gary
as for the red ryder Salty Craig, hard to have much more fun for the cost. I got one for my neice and nephew for xmas as they had a riot up at my cottage this summer with mine. But that gamo is a nice toy. I'm sure the squirrels won't like it much at all.
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 02:49pm
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toyota_mdt_tech
Tell me more. Deer legal? In Virginia air guns are legal for deer as long as they meet caliber requirements.
Borrego
Laugh out loud!
Gary O
Did you make the ground squirrels into sausage?
FishHog
Yull shoot yer eye out....
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Nate R
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 05:49pm
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Also, there are subsonic. 22 LR rounds available for quieter shooting with a normal powder driven firearm
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Gary O
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 08:04pm
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Quoting: Salty Craig Gary ODid you make the ground squirrels into sausage?
not on my watch
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Just
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 08:11pm
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I have the Diana 27 my dad gave
me in 51 ..Killed a black squirrel last week.
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Asher
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# Posted: 17 Dec 2016 08:50pm
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Air guns are very sensitive to ammo, I chrono graphed a half dozen rounds in a couple different air guns...
One air gun shot one brand of pellets 70fps faster than other brands... Another air gun preferred a different brand of pellets... It was pretty crazy but both had best accuracy if you kept the speeds around 900fps...
The reason we got out the chrono was because of the sound difference between different brands of ammo and we confirmed what we suspected, certain pellets where flirting with FPS in the sound barrier range...
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gunseller
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2016 01:30pm
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The air rifle that I am currently playing with is a Gamo Whisper Fusion in 177. I went with 177 because there are more types of pellets to try. The biggest animal I have killed with it is a 30 pound racoon. The new air rifles take a break in peroid that may take up to 500 shots. My youngest (15) and I have had several shoot outs from the back porch at steel swinging targets. After 100 rounds hits on target happened more often.
Steve
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spoofer
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2016 03:59pm
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I have a 22 cal. Tons more knockdown power for tomato stealing chipmunks and squirels.
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Mr RoC
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2016 06:43pm - Edited by: Mr RoC
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I've been a avid air rifle enthusiast for a very long time. Started off with high powered spring air rifles but found it destroyed most scopes I've mounted from the double recoil. I switched to pre-charged pneumatic air rifles and never looked back. I shoot a FAC Air Arms S510 Carbine in .22 and .177cal.
I thought about a springer for the cabin but ended up purchasing a Browning BL-22 Lever Action rifle. Shoots everything from a 22lr all the way down to the 22 CB Shorts with the ladder having the same velocity as a high power 22 cal air rifle and just as quiet. I've dispatched just about every nuance rodent/ pest around the cabin with the BL-22.
Enjoy your new toy.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2016 09:42pm
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Quoting: Salty Craig I had a Cabelas gift card so I went there today. What did I buy? A Gamo .22 cal. air rifle. This thing is awesome!! Can't wait to sight it in and plink and shoot small game.
Guess I wuz wrong
Had ya for a no nonsense shotgunner
Don’t shoot yer eye out, Salty (luv ya, man)
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2016 09:50pm
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Gary O
  
I love it!! You made my day. Oh, I do sling shotguns around! Now if only I had a huge beard to go with my awesomeness.
Ya gotta ask yerself one question: do you feel lucky? Well, do ya?
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2016 10:00pm - Edited by: MtnDon
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Quoting: Asher both had best accuracy if you kept the speeds around 900fps...
Depending on air pressure, altitude, humidity a bullet traveling over 1100 fps (or so) breaks the sound barrier, is supersonic.
The reason a sub sonic pellet or even a sub sonic 22LR can be more accurate than the higher velocities is the pellet or the small 22LR bullet makes a slight wobble as it slows from supersonic to sub sonic. That is caused by the weird thing of there being greater air resistance right around the speed of sound. Start out sub sonic and there is no wobble. However, to notice the difference in accuracy you pretty much have to be shooting from a bench rest or a bi-pod and laying prone.
Subsonic is easier on the ears too although the wise shooter will still use sound suppression ear protection if they want to be able to retain good hearing in later life.
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2016 10:04pm
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MtnDon
Say what? Just kidding. I put in earplugs to fart.
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Gary O
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2016 12:01am
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Quoting: Salty Craig Ya gotta ask yerself one question: do you feel lucky? Well, do ya?
always
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Bevis
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# Posted: 22 Dec 2016 12:29am
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Have a Benjamin .22 Air Rifle, that I got for christmas in 1976. Shoots just as good now as it did then.
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Shadyacres
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# Posted: 29 Dec 2016 05:48pm
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I just ordered a Ruger silent hawk .177 caliber from Ruger. It was on sale at 119.99 with scope. Does anybody have any like this ?
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OutdoorFanatic
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# Posted: 29 Dec 2016 07:09pm
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Have one for years now, but the older style. Still works fine though.
https://youtu.be/jejT_DOIgO4
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OutdoorFanatic
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# Posted: 29 Dec 2016 07:22pm - Edited by: OutdoorFanatic
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Quoting: Gary O Santy O’s gonna bring cabi a .17 HMR…if….she makes him some fudge
Did you get one? Which one? I love my 17 with a redfield 6x18x40 scope. 1/2 MOA @ 100 yds.
https://youtu.be/SMKNWwEWHzQ
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 29 Dec 2016 09:04pm - Edited by: toyota_mdt_tech
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Quoting: Salty Craig toyota_mdt_tech Tell me more. Deer legal? In Virginia air guns are legal for deer as long as they meet caliber requirements.
Salty, found some more info, its apparently a 20 caliber. Called a Benjamin Sheridan. Mine is blue, so I guess its a Blue Streak
http://www.airguns.net/reviews_sherdan.php
http://www.pyramydair.com/article/Sheridan_Blue_Streak_combo_May_2008/50
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 29 Dec 2016 09:44pm
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toyota_mdt_tech
Thanks for links. That's a sweet gun!
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Gary O
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# Posted: 29 Dec 2016 10:21pm
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Quoting: OutdoorFanatic Did you get one?
No
dang it
priorities
did get the fudge though
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Salty Craig
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# Posted: 30 Dec 2016 02:25pm
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Gary O
So... You got the fudge
And cabi got the shaft?
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