All the time. I shoot rabbits, squirrels, blackbirds, starlings, and any other pests in my backyard. I actually went rabbit hunting one time and walked some railroad tracks and came back with 6 rabbits in about an hour and gave them to my Grandpa. I have a RWS .177 and I shoot Beeman crow magnum pellets. I can drop a squirrel at 40 yds out of a tree and with a good head shot he is dead before he hits the ground. I kept track one year and I shot 74 squirrels out of my yd between september and end of january. I have 2 walnut trees in my yd. Pellet guns rock. By the way I live in TOWN.