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Extreme Long Range Pellet Rifle
Western Shooting Journal ^ | 2/24/2015 | Eric Nestor

Posted on 02/24/2015 8:32:17 AM PST by w1n1

For many of us, our first experiences with shooting included BB guns and pellet guns. These air pellet rifles are like nothing we’ve used before!

Check out the video on this pellet rifle hitting its target from 90 plus yards. Spoiler if you're a "Birdman" fan you may not like this. :)


TOPICS: Hobbies; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; flybyebye; guns; longrangeshooting; pestcontrol; sniper
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To: Fightin Whitey

I killed a sparrow with a BB gun when I was ten. He was on top of a telephone pole. I didn’t think I would actually hit him when I pulled the trigger. I felt so bad about it.


21 posted on 02/24/2015 8:54:49 AM PST by JohnnyP
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To: OKSooner

I would love to see that call to the electric company explaining why the rest of the county highway residents don’t have power.

Thats gonna be ‘spensive.


22 posted on 02/24/2015 8:57:14 AM PST by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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To: Gaffer
I’ll take your word for it.

No need. It's mentioned in the accompanying article.

23 posted on 02/24/2015 8:59:46 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?)
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To: Lee'sGhost
You sure it’s not an African Swallow?

Positive. You can tell by the video. The average wing speed velocity on these unladen specimens gives it away.

24 posted on 02/24/2015 9:00:58 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Where am I to go now that I've gone too far?)
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To: Gaffer

Naw you aren’t wrong.

Just thought I’d convey their rationale for icing the bird.


25 posted on 02/24/2015 9:01:12 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: JohnnyP

Tell you what when I was little we lived and breathed to take our bb guns out.

We weren’t supposed to but we would shoot songbirds given the chance. Got in trouble around the neighborhood, hiding out in the hedges and lilac bushes trying to shoot somebody’s purple martins etc.

Pretty dumb.

But we all grew up shooting and at times we kind of went astray.

Then for years I hunted everything that was legal to shoot. Couldn’t get enough of it. Years and years of that, pheasants, grouse, partridge, ducks, geese, deer, antelope, cottontails, squirrels, coyotes.

Always ate everything except of course the coyotes.

Then suddenly the bloodlust ceased, just simply left me. And now I will hunt only an elk cow every year or two, ‘cause I love the meat, and will shoot skunks and other critters that might bother my cats.

Also I will shoot every vicious murdering wolf I possibly can, though they are hard to come across.


26 posted on 02/24/2015 9:09:01 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: w1n1
air rifles have come a long way in the past decade

Perhaps not as far as it appears.

Lewis & Clark Girandoni Air Rifle

27 posted on 02/24/2015 9:10:32 AM PST by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: Fightin Whitey
just simply left me

I am familiar with the concept. The older I get the less I want to see anything die, especially at my hand.

28 posted on 02/24/2015 9:13:00 AM PST by MosesKnows (Love many, trust few, and always paddle your own canoe.)
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To: JohnnyP

You felt bad? I killed a Mockingbird and then someone went and wrote a book about it.


29 posted on 02/24/2015 9:14:18 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: w1n1

LOL!!!


30 posted on 02/24/2015 9:14:51 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Fightin Whitey; Gaffer; Cold Heart
I reiterate: killing something just for the fun of killing it is sadism, a mental defect, a waste. People who kill things for fun, not eating, are the same sort of people who when they were kids pulled the wings off flies back when they should have been learning something productive.

Look out for the one that considers you an "invasive species, a messy, noisy pest, within 90 feet of their living spaces".

Want real sport? Join the Marines. We fight species that shoot back.

31 posted on 02/24/2015 9:15:10 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: w1n1

You’ll shoot your eye out.


32 posted on 02/24/2015 9:15:45 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: JohnnyP

My Dad loved his peaches. I got a 10 cent bounty on each ‘peach-eating’ finch.

They would peck a few bites out of the sunny, ripe side of the peach.

Still have that Daisy Model 25.


33 posted on 02/24/2015 9:16:19 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Bo: capitalized is the dog.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

Hank: Well, I follow the moth in the helicopter to lure it away from the flowers, and then Roy comes along in the Lockheed Starfighter and attacks it with air-to-air missiles.

Roy: A lot of people have asked us why we don’t use fly spray. Well, where’s the sport in that?


34 posted on 02/24/2015 9:18:27 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Fightin Whitey
Starlings and sparrows are vermin and I wouldn't shed a tear if they all dropped dead.

I finally had a pair of chickadees build a nest in one of my bird houses until I saw on two occasions a starling trying to get into the box. The chickadees left the nest and never returned.......

35 posted on 02/24/2015 9:22:09 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: Chainmail

Oh shut up and go iterate yourself.

No one here was advocating killing anything, Big Man.

I mentioned my own experiences because at times they are a puzzlement to me too.

You are a mental defect and a pile of waste. Piss off with your keyboard threats, defect.


36 posted on 02/24/2015 9:24:00 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Hot Tabasco

I have a hard time killing anything anymore, but I do on occasion-—skunks, aggressive coons, weird-acting coyotes and so on, because of my own animals.

But I know what you mean.


37 posted on 02/24/2015 9:28:05 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

I didn’t detect a threat “Fightin Whitey” - unless the idea of joining the Marines frightened you. If so, I apologize. We don’t need those who know ahead of time that they won’t make it.


38 posted on 02/24/2015 9:37:05 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: dfwgator

And I have hunted grasshoppers with my .177 pellet rifle.

As challenging as any hunting.


39 posted on 02/24/2015 9:38:27 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (Bo: capitalized is the dog.)
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To: Scrambler Bob

“The mosquito’s a clever little bastard. You can track him for days and days until you really get to know him like a friend. He knows you’re there, and you know he’s there. It’s a game of wits. You hate him, then you respect him, then you kill him.”


40 posted on 02/24/2015 9:39:29 AM PST by dfwgator
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