Anyone here really into airguns?
I started getting into them when I bought Gamo Whispers for my wife and I a couple of years ago for target shooting and pest control. Now with my Marauder .25 I'm really hooked into airgun shooting. Who else on Jesse's has the airgun bug?
We've got a old pump Crosman, and a springer for rifles (.177). I also have a C02 Crosman .22 pistol.
I'm starting to get the itch for a PCP. I usually go squirrel hunting a couple times a season (love them on the grill), and figure an air gun would be fun. The .25 sounds like a great hunting option.
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I've had it for a long time. I use a Hammerli Pnuema in .22, also a Beeman Walmart special .177, and .22 barrels, and the kid shoots a crossman multi pump with the stock cut short. I use the PCP (hammerli) for most of my hunting, but it is too loud for the back yard. I shoot the beeman at squirels and crows in the back with Jr. We also have a few targets set up at about 25 yards. I love air gun hunting.
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I had some weak bb guns growing up. My first powerful air gun was a Benjamin Sheridan .177 multi-pump that I was given when I was in middle school. My brother and cousin also received matching guns and we had loads of fun slipping around the farm pretending to be mountain men hunting for our dinner. I still have that gun somewhere. Its not as powerful as it used to be. I would like to try to re-build it one day. After we got older we all graduated to firearms and we never looked back to the pellet guns. I can't remember what made me decide to get the Gamo Whispers but I've enjoyed them now for a couple of years. But its been my most recent .25, my first PCP, that has hooked me for some reason. I think I'm infactuated by the concept of having an air rifle that can do just about everything a .22LR can do if not more but is so smooth and quiet to shoot. The idea of using it to hunt with makes me feel like I'm somehow cheating.
I've hunted very little with my adult air rifles, mostly because married life and my job hasn't given me much time to just piddle around and go small game hunting. Or actually, its not that those things don't allow me, its just that it took me a while to figure out how to balance it all. I have the time now and I intend to really get into small game/varmit hunting. The biggest animals I have dispatched with my Whispers are armadillos. My wife killed an armadillo with her .177 with a headshot. I killed a couple of armadillos with broadside shots with my .22.
I'm excited as can be about the prospect of hunting with my .25. I have high hopes that it will turn out to be quite the hog gun (with headshots of course). Even if it doesn't work out as a hog killer I'm going to try to clean up the squirrels with it. I'm also thinking about getting into crow hunting and non-native bird hunting. Some of the most entertaining Youtube hunting videos I've ever seen are from a fellow that videos his pigeon and pest hunts. It makes me want to try some serious de-pesting with my guns.
Last edited by Bullfrog 31581; 01-18-2012 at 07:43 PM.
I've owned a ton over the years. First was a red rider and my favorite was my 20 cal Sheridan. I had two gamos and hated them both for one reason. The trigger on a gamo is the worst! they slope back so your finger does not get proper seating. Makes the trigger feel really heavy. I have no idea why they designed them this way. Best gun i own is my 177 RWS. None shot better. Next air rifle is going to be a an Airforce talon.
The Gamos do come with a poor trigger. I replaced my gamo triggers with a custom trigger.
i wasnt aware that they made custom triggers. where did you get it?
Here it is:
http://charliedatuna.com/GRT-4G.htm
It really made a big difference.
(Actually mine might be a GTR III)
Last edited by Bullfrog 31581; 01-19-2012 at 05:02 PM.
Far back slope design looks the same, and that's the problem i have with it. I don't think those guns are worth putting money into. Thanks for the link though!
This last fall i dropped a turkey deader than I've ever seen before. I hit it somewhere around 40 yards, the pellet hit exactly where i aimed it, in the upper back quarter of her head. She died instantly. I've blown there heads clean off before, and they still kick around for a while. Watching the impact through the scope is truly priceless. If I got another one I would probably get a .25 cal. I have till the end of the month to try for upland birds, I keep looking for quail at a property I hunt but they have eluded me so far. the PCP's are the sweetest shooting guns around. Mine says 1000fps, but I definitely get a supersonic crack. For me airgun hunting is the easiest to balance with family life. I can do it in less than two hours including drive time and still have a great time.
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Wish i had my old Winchester lever bb, going to look into the custom triggers for the gamo, do have 2 sheridan 5mm, 177co2 and a 20cal,co2. Good luck u guys.
Definitely got the bug. Had an R-9, sold it to get a Marauder in .22. Also an fx revolution semi auto in .22.
I use em mainly to cull pidgeons at a dairy.
My newest weapon is a BB gun that holds 900 rounds and shoots full auto 1,200 rpm @ 900 FPS. Can't wait to get on them pidgeons with it.
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It would be awesome to see some video of that BB machine gun unloading on a pigeon!
Depending on the weather and my work I'm going to try to get out to the dairy this weekend.
Don't know how to do the video though.
Tape the cam right under the gun and hold on.
I'm about to head out on a varmit hunt and I'm going to try to do some videoing. I've got a cheapo digital camera that will do some 480 video I'm going to try.
Here's my attempt at using a scope cam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Q-41hpbqh3c
I did kill a squirrel this evening but the battery on my camera died before I had a shot.
I've been itching to get my gun well tuned so I went and bought a chronograph. No better tool for an air gunner. After a few days and trial and error I have my Mrod shooting thus:
3200 fill pressure
883.7
890.6
894.6
892.3
893.3
893.7
Error
899.0
904.5
901.4
897.5
896.0
891.0
881.7
879.2
Ending fill pressure 2600.
That's an average of 892 feet per second, an extreme spread of 25, and a standard deviation of 7. Those are consistent and powerful numbers for shooting a 26 grain pellet. That amounts to 45.9 foot pounds of energy on average. I'm very proud of those numbers and it was a hoot to work on the gun to get to that point. Tuning the gun is an addiction of its own. I ended up modding it with an aftermarket hammer spring I bought from an industrial supply company from Georgia. I was able to max it out to 941 feet per second on the 26 grain pellets but I only had 8 consistent shots and no bell curve and I had to fill to an unsafe pressure of 3500 PSIs.
Wow that's really consistent. Too bad you're in FL or we could do some hunting together. I saw a video of a guy with my gun doing a 60 shot string on a single fill. The first 20 shots were pretty close in speed, somewhere around 980 with heavier pellets; I think they were 18's or 20's. The amazing part is that even when the speed dropped to about 700 fps, the POI was the same. All 60 shots into a dime size hole at twenty yards on a single fill.
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I did some shooting this weekend and my feet per second rose by 20 feet. However, I also lost three shots off my string. Only reasons for this change I can figure is that either my spring has set now or my hammer stroke has worked itself a tad longer.
My brother just got a Benjamin Discovery .22 with a TKO muzzlebreak. Very cool gun. Much quieter than my Marauder with the muzzle break.
If you ever come out this way give me a hollar. I was able to put Buckeye on an Osceola gobbler a few years ago. It was a very fun hunt. Other than my brother I don't know any other air gunners here. High powered air rifles are unheard of to just about everyone I tell about my Marauder. Its probably a good thing because so far our poachers are very unaware of them too. If they knew just what they could do with a silenced PCP air gun our already bad poaching problem would be much worse.
I have a benjamin Sheradin springer .22 i use it mostly for shooting squirels and crows. Im allowed on a ranch about an hour away and i can kill 50+ squirrles in an afternoon easy. Best part about air guns is they are quite, they dont spook the game. Once while i was at the ranch shooting a coyote came over a little hill about 70 yards from me i turned and dropped him in 3 steps, got a clean pass through the lungs with an RWS superpoint pellet. My air gun has killed many jacks hundrends of squirrles some possum, lots and lots of crows and the coyote. I love air gunning, so yes i have the itch
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