[cwo4uscgret]

Here’s some details about a .22 Caliber air rifle for small and medium sized pests. Although penetration isn’t as deep as a .22 LR round I wouldn’t want to be shot by one!

The Beeman Commander blends good looks and performance together in a budget friendly package that is just about ready to shoot right when you unbox it. This kit includes a 4x32 scope, so all you need is a fill source for this 3000 PSI max fill PCP and you'll be slinging lead in no time. Boasting up to 100 shots per fill in .177 and up to 80 in .22 cal, the Commander leaves very little to be desired. The handsome hardwood thumbhole stock handles like a dream and the included sound moderator keeps your shooting backyard friendly. Just fill up the 3,000 psi air cylinder, load a 10-shot magazine and send rounds downrange at reported velocities of up to 1,100 fps in .177 cal. and up to 1,000 fps in .22 caliber. If you're a hunter, target shooting, or just in the market for a good entry level PCP, the Beeman Commander combo should be at the top of your list. Get yours at Airgun Depot, today!

3,000 psi, 10 shot magazine, $219.00 for when using a firearm shooting a projectile using gun powder for ignition isn’t allowed!

Available on Amazon as well as is the ”Teton” a spring piston gun which fires a .22 pellet at 950 psi; $145.99. I may have to buy the Beeman or Teton just for fun! Of course there’s always the errant feral Tom cat Spreading his scat all over the neighbor hood! Of course seeing him on our video camera he looks nasty enough to spit the pellet back at you.

We could start a 1911Forum Air Gun Monthly shoot...for the hell of it! 🚔👮‍♀️

 

[Electricmo]

I don’t know how a air rifle could be classified as a firearm. Stupidest thing I’ve heard in a while.

 

[7.62Kolectr]

I shot a lot of woodchucks, ***** and super size crows with my Beeman R8 growing up.
Dropped everyone right in their tracks if hit right.

 

[7.62Kolectr]

Seriously? I can’t type the short version of raccoons?

 

[bmcgilvray]

Do you think a .177 caliber pellet rifle firing at 1000 fps is capable or maybe better put adequate for killing small game like a possum cat or rabbit?

Yes, a .177 pellet rifle will kill small game and critters. I've been doing it with 750 fps since 1968 with a Benjamin Model 347 I got for my birthday. Just requires good hits same as any other gun used for the same purpose. Penetration has never been a problem. To this day the mighty Benjamin has been the actual home defense gun around here for it's the one pressed into service for any pesky back yard critters.

This squirrel died happy with the peach in his mouth, taken while sitting in the top of a pecan tree.



The Benjamin was advertised to make 750 fps with 12 pumps in the brochures. After getting a chronograph I tested this. 10 shot average was 752 fps with the Benjamin brand .177 pellets in the green metal cans with the screw-on lids with a 10-shot extreme variation of only 10 fps. Never saw a self-contained metallic cartridge firearm achieve such consistency.

I hunted rabbits with the Benjamin as a teenager, even long after obtaining a .22 rifle. Cottontails never proved very tenacious of life when fairly struck with a pellet traveling 750 fps. 750 fps will drive a pellet through an armadillo's shell to the vitals. They leap into the air then expire. I took out a large raccoon with the Benjamin fairly recently with a head shot from behind the car to where he was crouching underneath next to the inside of the right tire. Sometimes the .177 pellet exits the skull with raccoons, 'possums, feral cats. Nearly always exits with skunks, squirrels and rabbits unless the shot is very long.






I had shoulder surgery back in the fall. Both right before and right afterward the ol' Benjamin was difficult for me to pump, especially rapidly pumping 12 pumps as in an "emergency." Only a couple months back I picked up an RWS Diana Magnum 350 in .177. This one's suppose to deliver 1250 fps Came equipped with a RWS branded 4X scope made in China. Has accounted for one squirrel so far and was undeniably effective. Discharge of the RWS is quieter than that of the ol' Benjamin. We love squirrel and they get turned into squirrel and dumplings . We have both apricots and peaches coming on and the squirrels are already bedeviling the green frunt, but I'm ready for 'em this year.

 

[tgt_usa]

Seriously? I can’t type the short version of raccoons?

Y-e-a-h I couldn't get typed one spelling of the name of a small range of mountains; but this spelling is okay: Ouachita. Jimmie Webb's song about the area got transplanted to Wichita.

 

[7.62Kolectr]

Op should keep in mind some of these high power air guns crack like a .22 when fired.
They can be loud.

 

[BrokenGrunt]

These do not result in humane kills for larger critters like possum, and accuracy is so-so.

STOP This is/was a 18 year old thread. There was NO reason to revive it.

Shame on the rest of ya for piling on.

 

[PEF]

Whoops! Didn't see it was 18 years old. Came up as a thread. Oh well, there are worse things in life than dealing with a thread resurrection! It happens.

 

[bmcgilvray]

STOP This is/was a 18 year old thread. There was NO reason to revive it.

Shame on the rest of ya for piling on.

It's not your place to scold us.

Maybe we just didn't notice the date on a question that was still relevant. An old thread isn't necessarily invalid.

 

[tgt_usa]

Whoops! Didn't see it was 18 years old. Came up as a thread. Oh well, there are worse things in life than dealing with a thread resurrection! It happens.

Particularly when there’s new, and relevant information. Clearly people are / were reading it.

On the dormant thread topic:
Taking a break from complaining about policy of discouraging reviving long-dormant threads to try the recommended practice: I’ve revived one discussion by linking the old thread in the first post of a new thread; and adding a link to the new thread in my last post to the old thread:

What is the most accurate full size 1911 .22lr pistol?

[ modern ] Replacement for: https://www.1911forum.com/threads/what-is-the-most-accurate-full-size-1911-22lr-pistol.362212/unread ... in what I’d say is the appropriate forum: Rimfire!

www.1911forum.com

... in case you want to try it with this thread.

It’s a lot more work ... but giving it a try to see if I can detect the benefit of the approach, seeing it’s what’s recommended by people whose opinions I respect.

 

[Tactical Rico]

Who cares if it's an old thread or a new thread.............If someone wants to comment why would anyone care either way.....
GEESH.....................Get a life.
TR

 

[Trick1911]

It's the forum doing this. It puts 'interesting' things at the bottom of the page. They may be 10yrs old and no one notices. Tell the developers to stop reviving old threads, don't chastise us.

 

[tgt_usa]

It's the forum doing this. It puts 'interesting' things at the bottom of the page. They may be 10yrs old and no one notices. Tell the developers to stop reviving old threads, don't chastise us.

My habits not yet changed to using the “Recommended Reading” (nor do I expect that). So I get caught seeing an interesting entry on the “New Posts” page. Those posts are new, but often I respond to the thread O.P. without checking the date ... unless there’s a tell-tale in the subject, text or it’s s-o-o-o old that I don’t recognize the username and get suspicious enough to actually read the date. 1 of 30 or so.
j -:

 

[Glynn863]

I don't know if they're still available, but several years ago I used a Daisy 880 variable pump .177 pellet gun to kill pigeons and squirrels that were damaging the trim and attic of my parents' Victorian home. I put a 4x20 scope on it, and over 90% of my shots were "one and done". I used flat-nosed Daisy "target" pellets, and usually 10 pumps on the pellet gun, for what I needed to do.

 

[dsk]