air rifle thread

>>28095949
i once killed a woodchuck with a gamo hornet .177 . hit it from about 40 feet, caught it right in the eye and killed it instantly shit was cash.

>>28095967
Sadly, the overlords here in Poland have yet to acknowledge the existence of pests, so shooting anything with an air rifle here is illegal (besides targets ofc, that's fine).


The two rifles I use (the ones in op) are both .177.
Walther lgv challenger with a BSA 4-12x50 AO; and air arms s400f classic with a hawke sidewinder 6-24x56 30sf ir.

Mostly using 8.44 gr. jsb exacts and 9.57 gr. H&N baracuda hunter extreme.

Good for hitting bottle cap-sized targets at 50 yards.

Just got my first air rifle Crossman PumpMaster 760

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>tfw hunting with air guns in finland is illegal
>tfw when law just came in effect that all air guns with .25 and larger caliber are treated as firearms and need a permit
Feels bong mang

>>28096176
That's awkward. The usual standard is muzzle energy, not calober. Granted, you'd be hard pressed to find something other than .177 or .22 around here.

>>28096176
i thought finland was gun friendly? dont you guys have over the counter sound suppressors/?

>>28096212
After the school shootings in 2007 and 2008 the general attidute has been pretty anti-gun

>>28096176
well get a .22 airgun then

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>>28095949
Fuck off with your fancy britbong polyshit.
Iron sights and a little bit of com-block engenering is all you need...

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Muh BSA Supersport .177

Shoot critters every weekend for local farmer. Rabbit lethal to 50 meters.

Loadsa fun

>>28096316

The polymer one is german. Slavia can't hold a candle to the LGV - Jerry did an outstanding job here.

Also - i'd like to remind you, that the CZ200 is a british design (made under license for AA in CZ Brno).

Iron sights are good for 10m paper punching, but for FT/HFT you need a good scope.

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>>28096335
Year, you are right depends on your needs...
For instance, looks like you use it for real terget shooting, I just blast birds and bic lighters in my backyard...

>>28096319
BSA still exists?

>>28096358
Yes. They make both rifles (piston and pcp) and scopes.

>>28096356
If you want to blast things in your backyard, you might want to try the h&n baracuda hunter extremes - really nice dffect in targets.

>>28096358
They sure do. Nice and cheap in the UK. The supersport is fantastic.

I Cross-threaded a bolt a few months after buying mine. One phone call to BSA and they had it collected fixed and returned at their cost. Awesome.

>>28096458

yeah. Not as good as AA, Weihrauch, Walther, and Steyr, but definetely a well build gun (some god lines too).

>>28095967
That's not very christian.

>>28097957
Mine cost 250 including scope. People spend thousands on them here in the UK. At the end of the day they are just short range small game guns. I cant understand why people buy expensive pcps. I can hit a 1 inch target from 40 yards. Good enough for me.

Its even more amusing going down the range and seeing a guy with a £3000 pcp tactical flashlight, bipod and he doesnt even have land to shoot it on...

I shoot an RWS Diana model 48
The ultimate pellet rifle .22 cal pushing @~1050 fps I use the Gamo Rocket pellets and I've 1 shot Raccoon

Just talked to the cops about air rifles here in Norway. Need a permit for anything larger than.22 air rifles, but you just have to apply for it and you get it.

Just bought a walther p88. Preddy fun for plinking in the basement

>>28098107

it's really more about the stock at that point, than the action.

The Walther LGV, for example, starts at around 500 bucks for the basic model, going up to about 700 (without scope), and they all have the same internals - difference is in stocks.

When you get something like the HFT500, or EV2, or one of the other competition guns, the problem is not shot-to-shot consistency and grouping, but getting the gun to shoot for you.

There is a huge difference in shooting from a rest (even as simple as a bean bag with 6 pounds of rice in it to rest the stock on) and shooting freehand.

At the level of precision required, your heartbeat cna throw the shot off target, so it's basically a game of getting the gun to rest in perfect alignment with the target, and only the slightest touch from you.

Kind of like the time a couple of weeks ago, when I was plinking and let my friend's 6yo son take a few shots. The little tyke wasn't big enough to reach the grip (stock too long), so even rested it was basically a game of "uncle aiming the gun at rest, then holding steady enough that he doesn't move it when pulling the trigger" (shooting a fall-down FT target at 20 yards, in almost no wind, with a 45mm KZ - not even remotely a challenge for the gun, but he had some fun and that matters).