[dsk]

The only live critters I ever hunted were slugs, which are plentiful here in the wet PNW. As a kid I would go around the yard with my BB gun, shooting them from about ten paces. My mom soon put a stop to it because she was grossed out looking at slimy dead blobs everywhere.

I never did tell her that when her back was turned I also used a can of my dad's WD-40 and a match to flamethrow 'em.

 

[tgt_usa]

right tool for the job

Yeah, here's my experience with shooting anything around the house... We had a damn pigeon, it would sit on the back wall and make a mess. I finally got out my wrist rocket and a steel ball bearing. Took aim, and let fly!

I missed the bird by a mile, the bearing hit my block wall, left a dent, bounced back about 40 feet and shattered the $60 glass globe on our patio ceiling fan!

And you think my spouse is going to let me shoot anything indoors?

The mistake there seems to have been using the wrong tool. For -that- situation, a Pb pellet shooter offers great precision.

My [very particular] spouse reluctantly encourages what's described near the end of this post:

https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?p=12730798&highlight=wasp+airsoft#post12730798

 

[ohio]

Shot a chipmunk with a pellet gun, pellet went through the chipmunk ricocheted off the concrete sidewalk into our newly vinyl sided house. Left a nice hole that my wife took great pleasure in showing friends and explaining that I shot the house.

 

[dsk]

Shot a chipmunk with a pellet gun, pellet went through the chipmunk ricocheted off the concrete sidewalk into our newly vinyl sided house. Left a nice hole that my wife took great pleasure in showing friends and explaining that I shot the house.

Even with a BB/pellet gun... always heed Rule Number Four!

 

[tgt_usa]

Just unboxed it ...

twist my arm?

OK, before anyone has a coronary, it's with .177 lead pellet.

I was using paper targets but for the past two weeks have been having riotous fun with a Gamo Pellet Rocker Trap thingy.

The big paddle in the middle is 1 inch. The two outer targets are about a nickel's worth in diameter, the two inside targets are about half a dime. It's a challenging yet achievable target at 8 yards. At that distance the little target is like the black on an NRA SR-1 at 50 yards. The big ones are like the black on an a B-16 at 25 yards.

When you hit a target they swing up and lock. When all four are up shoot the big paddle in the middle, and all targets drop down.

It's a ton of fun!

Yeah, the things I do to stay sharp when I can't burn through ammo every weekend...

Owww owww ...uncle! Sounds a great addition to the home office range.

Just unboxed it ... fixing to actually re-derange my ... er ... range ... this evening and give ‘er a whirl!

 

[dsk]

The biggest issue I have with airguns is that, except for the premium single-shot rifled barrel models they simply aren't accurate enough to interest me. They're okay for plinking tin cans outside, but indoors with a paper target they never hit anywhere near the same place twice. Kinda makes it hard to keep the enthusiasm up when practicing as I don't know if the miss was due to me or the gun. And with the Co2 models, after the first 3 or 4 magazines the velocity drops and soon you're just lobbing them in. I think most of the ricochets I had the other day were from BBs moving too slowly to bury themselves in the dirt and they simply bounced back.

I'm aware that there are some mighty accurate spring-powered airguns out there, but they are not replicas of real firearms so they don't interest me either.