RE: is the .17 enough gun?
We have not hunted with ours yet, I say ours, my son got one for his 10 year old birthday. We shot it at the range and after we sighted it in the target at 100 yards he was right on. Rain was one the way and with a bit of wind, I did not see much change at all on his groups. He was even shooting bits of clay pigeons on the side of the hill, with range officers permission, and was hitting very small bits.