pellet guns
 

i have a problem with a few pests around the house and i need to take them out. but, i need to use a pellet gun. does anyone have any experience with some higher end pellet guns? I dont want to spend a ton of money but i want something that is accurate and shoots at least 1000 fps. Also, i would like it to be pretty quiet

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You should look into a Gamo Hunter.

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All of the better pellet rifles that I've seen were far from quiet. My little Winny 1906 pump with sub-sonics is quieter.

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How big are the pests? And how much are you able to spend?

I picked up a Beeman P3 pistol that shoots pellets through its rifled barrel with out the need to worry about replacing CO2 (it's a pump). It shoots over 400fps with great POA accuracy past 15 yards. I love practicing with this pistol in my back yard in the city and have dropped adult rabbits on the spot with single shots.

I got lucky and stumbled across it at a pawn shop for less than $60. It retailed for $200, but you should be able to find it for less than $100.

Check out the Beeman website for more info on their quality guns.

http://www.beeman.com/index.htm

J

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Just use A .22 CB, its a low velocity short, but way more power than pellet gun, it has almost a zero report.

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I grew up with the pellet rifles and worked my way up into the higher end rifles. I just sold my last one last year it was an RWS Diana 54 side lever .177 with the fixed barrel. I have also owned a really neat Gamo that had some type of pellet magazine that would self feed a pellet while cocking the gun. The poster above that stated they are not quite was correct on that. Probably similar to a .22 short in sound? Check out that gunbroker.com site, I was browsing on there the other day and they have a pellet rifle category where you bid on the guns. Some of the prices are definitely cheaper than when I bought that RWS from a dealer. I think that I can get a Tikka for not to much more. I believe the RWS might come from Germany and the Gamo may have been of Spanish origin.

On another note, how well do you like that Tikka? I have a post asking a question on one of those for in Minnesota in a .270 caliber.

Mike

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As a kid I used to kill rabbits with a .20 cal Sheridan Bluestreak (less than $150). It's slow to load because you have to pump it multiple times, but you can also vary the power. I used 3 pumps for indoor shooting, and 8-10 pumps for hunting. My indoor backstop consisted of a box of old JC Penny catalogs and newspapers. This rifle does a good job on rabbits with accurate head shots.

I have also used a fancy (over $300) 1000+ fps .17 cal pellet rifle for critters. I didn't think it dispatched animals as well as the slower, .20 cal Sheridan. I had a hard time putting pigeons down with the .17 cal. The .20 cal was much more effective.

For the money, I think it's hard to beat the old .20 cal Sheridan air rifle.

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Oh ya ! I had several of those 5mm sheridans. They were awsome. If you do decide on a pellet gun I would go with a.22 caliber, they are a little slower than the .17 but kill more efectively. But serious, you should look at the .22 CB shorts and your .22 would have to be able to shoot shorts but those little rounds are super quite.

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Howdy Dan, I forgot about those Sheriden's, I also had one of those blue streaks. I was able to take a fed fox out with mine when I was about twelve. I think that it was a .20 caliber, if I remember correctly. They were a great gun, along with the selective power. I did suffer from the problem of never using it unless maximum pumped.

Where you at in AK? We had moved up to Valdez last year, the job prospect was not quite what my wife was thinking it would be. We ended up moving back down to MN[:o]

I sure do miss the beauty of your State, now we are planning a trip up there on our bike.

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i also like the sheridan blue streak, i have had one for 20+ years 5mm/.200" cal. pellets, deadly on squirrels and rabbits, very accurate also, the down side i crono'd mine once and it seams it only shot around 700fps, may have been 680, but it will flat put little critters down, i alsolike the .22 "cb's" they are extremley quite, unless your niegbors had their windows open they'd never here it;)

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I know that I am probably going to sound like a tard for saying this, but we used to kill rabbits, cats, birds, mice, etc. with our .177 caliber Crossman pump bb guns. We could use pellets in them too but they where expensive for a kid and you could get 10X more bb's for the same money. Idunno, you hit a cat in the head with a bb moving 350fps and it usually goes down. It might twitch a little but it is usually dead with one more shot. We where accurate with our little bb guns and usually killed what we hit.

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I've got an RWS model 48-B. It's just like the model 54 stated above, but a little less expensive and not as fancy. The 54 has a Monte Carlo stock and has some checkering.They say they shoot 1000+ fps, but they really shoot closer to 860-930, depending on pellets used. I got mine for $250.00 I think. Extremely accurate and very powerful. I killed a good sized possum with it in the back yard. One shot.I also have a .177 Benjamin Franklin, predecessor to the Sheridans I believe. It's a good gun, but loud. I also have a Crosman 2100. It shoots about 700 fps. It's fairly accurate (alot of plastic), but it's only about $50.00-$60.00.

I guess it depends on how much you want to spend. The Gamos are from Spain, but some models are manufactured in Indonesia I believe, and their quality-control is terrible.

I'd say the RWS Diana model 34 is a good bet. Not too expensive, powerful and accurate. It's a barrel-break design and they last for ever. You can find them for less than $150.00 and your grandkids will enjoy it.

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Thanks for all the help guys. Right now I have a Beeman but it only shoots around 600 fps I think. Maybe if i just sight it in at a longer range i will be more accurate. How far do you think I could kill a squirrel at with a good shot? Also, will those new Gamo pellets (shoot faster or something?) work in any gun?


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The problem with this is, the 22 bullets ricochet all over, much worse than a pellet.

I have several pellet rifles, includeing Gammo and RWS... If i could only have one pellet rifle, it would be a RWS 45.... I've chronoedmine at over 900 fps with heavy pellets and over 1,000 fps with light pellets...

Thr CCI CB long or shorts do kill better than pellets, you just have to bemore carefull of ricochets when useing them.

The problem with 22cal pellets compared to 177 cal. is, the 22's are harder to hit with at longer ranges because they drop more...

DM

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hey there Tuk101,
I almost forgot about that little gem. I had one of those also, I think it was possibly a model 760. It had a little slide button behind the bolt that would let about 20 BB's in, that was a very fun gun. My Dad had the same idea on the pellets those were only allowed for "big game expeditions";)
Man, those were fun days, no T.V games back then we had to find things to do outside.

Thanks for refreshing the memory,
Mike

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I own a gamo shadow 1000 and love it. It's an awesome pellet gun, very quiet and accurate.I paid 200 for mine a long time ago but I now see them at Wal Mart for like 120 bucks.I recommend a good scope too. It will help a lot with them. Mine shoots 1000 fps and has a lifetime warranty which is cool. Good luck with the infestation.

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Lol, shooting one of those taught me how to be a head hunter lol. If you shot anthing larger than a field mouse in the body it would usually just get p'oed and try to figure out where it came from. With one of those guns one of my uncles (only 5 years older than I) killed a neighbors cow with it. I know, not funny at the time but we where out plinking and he took a pot shot at it from accross the road. Hit it in the head and the thing fell over and started doing the funky chicken. So yes, head shots have a tendency to be able to kill things even if the projectile is only going about 400 fps lol. I was only about 9 or 10 years old when that happened but I remember it like it was yesterday.

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Hey Tuk,
I hear you on the head shots being an important trait of that gun. I treed a squirrel once, thought that I had a good kill shot. I ended up clipping him out of the tree. My dog took chase and the big Grey decided the only safe place to seek cover was inside my pants leg. Man! that thing scared the crap out of me. I think I might have invented a new dance step that day trying to shake him out and the entire time my dog was trying to get the squirrel. He was one of the best Squirrel, Chipmunkdogs alive back then. He would wait forthe bus and he knew where we were going asfast as I could get my clothes changed and grab thegun.He never quite understood what was going on when I outgrew that pellet rifle,
dang girl's.;)Now that I think about it, I should go down and pick a pellet rifle up again some day, nah! I could never duplicate those days, they are better memories that way. They sure made a person develop shot placement back then. I guess that we were practicing the "One Shot, One Kill" theory way back then and didn't even know it. You basically had too, because by the time you got the gun re-pumped the quarry was looong gone!

Nice meeting you,
Mike