High Powered Air Rifles

[MyMistress86R]

So I've seen all kinds of threads about regular firearms and paintball stuff but I would like to see who all is into high powered air rifles. More than just BB guns, these are usually pellet only, single shot type guns. Most commonly break barrel type but sometimes charged system type.

I'm quite new to the scene but have developed an insatiable interest in it. I got my starter gun for Christmas but I intend to upgrade ASAP because I just love the power, accuracy and cheap shooting of these things. My starter is a standard .177 pellet shooter, but I'm looking to add a nice .22 to the mix very soon.

Here's my rig...its a Remington Vantage rated at 1200fps w/lead and 1500fps w/ ballistic rounds (cracks like a .22 due to supersonic delivery!). It carries a 4x32 scope and easily registers a quarter size grouping at 30 yards. It will also easily penetrate 3 soup cans back to back and hit targets out to 100 yards.

[shortline10]

I have a real nice one that I use to get rid of the iguanas on my property . Their a real pain and get into everthing . The high power air rifel does the job great and will suprise anyone that has never seen one in action .

[Rm250RF900R]

I always wanted to try one of those .22 cal shotguns. They look awesome.

[Gearheadtom]

Up here in Canada, we're only allowed to have pellet guns that fire under 500 FPS. The most you'll ever find aroung here is 495 FPS. Mine fires 490 FPS, enough to take out those damn squirrels at very close range.

[mopar_man]

I bought a Crosman Quest 1000x a couple months back. It's been great fun and pretty accurate. I'm happy with the $95 I have into it.

[Thorpe]

Mines not exactly air... But my 17 hmr makes meat slushies out of rabbits and squirrels in the backyard... 2550 fps

[MTS]

Up here in Canada, we're only allowed to have pellet guns that fire under 500 FPS. The most you'll ever find aroung here is 495 FPS. Mine fires 490 FPS, enough to take out those damn squirrels at very close range.

i picked up a crossman phantom .177 a while back from wally world, Supposed to be 1000fps, all i know is it go's through beer cans pretty good

[mtsnieg]

I have a Crossman Phantom. Nice pellet rifle. I put a nice scope on it. Squirrels at 50 yards don't have a chance.

[Gearheadtom]

i picked up a crossman phantom .177 a while back from wally world, Supposed to be 1000fps, all i know is it go's through beer cans pretty good

I assume this was before the 500FPS limit.
I do know a guy that bought a pellet gun online a few years ago and it is over 1000FPS, don't know how it got across the boarder.

[Woodsrider]

When I was 12 years old(1980), I hunted rabbits with my .177....it would go clean through them. I have no idea what it's rated for or it's make. I still have it and it works great, but it's in N.S. at my parent's house.

[hancadam]

I have a Gamo Wildcat. I think its rated at 1200 FPS with the Gamo Raptor Ammo. It went through one side of a small hibachi grill.

[okieRrider]

I have a beeman that came with both .177 and .22 caliber barrels. damn good gun and accurate too

[The Goat]

benjamin sheridan .177

And oldy but goody. at 10 pumps it'll go through 1/4 inch plywood at 40 yards...that's cooking pretty good for a little pump gun.

[MyMistress86R]

I have a beeman that came with both .177 and .22 caliber barrels. damn good gun and accurate too

I actually considered that one too Okie. I decided to go with something simper and slightly more powerful for my first one. I still might go back and pick up the beeman and just leave it as a .22.

[mopar_man]

My sister-in-law's boyfriend picked up a Remington Vantage last week. It's essentially the same gun as mine (Crosman Quest 1000x) but it's putting out an additional 200 fps. Wednesday we went and bought an assortment of pellets to try out. This is what we bought:
1) Crosman lead field points. I can shoot a quarter-size group at approx. 30 yards with these. The Remington is reasonably accurate with them. Not very loud and probably pretty slow at 7.4 gr.
2) Daisy lead wadcutters. These shoot fairly accurate out of my Crosman. Not as good as the field points above but good enough that I would feel comfortable getting a squirrel at 30 yards 4 out of 5 tries. These shoot as accurate out of the Remington as the field points shoot out of my gun.
3) Gamo Raptor. These things are ridiculous. Coming out of the Remington, they sound like a .22 rifle. They aren't quite as loud out of mine but still loud enough that I would never think about shooting pigeons out of my bedroom window here in town. Not only are they much faster (louder), they are incredibly accurate out of both guns. I shot a nickel-size 5-shot group at 30 yards. The Remington performed the same.
4) Gamo Rocket. These are interesting little pellets. They're obviously much slower at 9.6 gr but I imagine they would knock down just about any small game you shoot with them. The BB in the tip separates if you hit something hard enough with it (rib, skull, etc.) and this makes one small projectile and one large projectile to knock around inside of an animal. Accurate out of both guns to probably just over a quarter-sized group at 30 yards.
5) RWS HyperMAX. These are about as fast and loud as the Raptors. They didn't perform very accurately out of my gun but performed very well out of the Remington. I'm going to give them another try when I have a chance to see if it maybe it was just me.

I'm going to pick and choose some more ammo from Pyramyd Air since what I listed is about all that is available locally. I'd like to try the Crosman SSP to see how those work, especially since they're only 4 gr. Also on my list are the Crosman Premier hollowpoint, Eun Jin round nose, and Gamo Red Fire.