Well, they may be cool, but I fear the more feasible these weapons get, the more the left may win over the less politically-aware people by saying “look, you don’t even need firearms to go hunting anymore!”
I hunt a lot and a friend has a couple of airguns he hunts deer with. One is .38 caliber and one is .45 caliber if I remember right. They're quite effective within 100 yards or so. He charges them with a scuba tank and the charge will last several shots, they have the ability to adjust the charge pressure and thus the velocity with a valve.
What kind of noise levels do these produce? And these are interesting in another way. Lewis and Clark carried one air-rifle on their exploration across the west.
Question, if these use air rather an explosive propellant, how much noise do they make?
The high pressure big bore air rifles are not quiet when fired, so you're not going to keep the neighbors happy in a suburban subdivision.
There are bicycle-type hand pumps that can recharge the onboard air tanks of these rifles, but you'll get quite the workout between strings of shots. Most rifles in this class are recharged from scuba tanks, and you get your tanks refilled by the local Dive Shop.
Depending on model, you get around 10 shots per charge.
“It shoots through schools”
Do you need a permit for these?
I have #1 in .22 cal. I have the hand pump too. Need to look at getting the .50 cal!
Neighbor just picked up a Pioneer Air Bow - fires eight 27 inch arrows at up to 450 ft/sec on a charge.
50 cal Hammer ‘n Texas Pt1 “Big Whitetail Bucks” : Real Air Gun Hunting
9:30 is the actual shot on the deer-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBKelBAWYnM
Massive airgun power- they take down bison and cape buffalo with htis gun-
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Two of my fav reads in F&S are Ask Petzal and A Sportsman’s Life. DEP is still around (he’s too much of a crank to die), but where did Bill Heavey disappear to? Retire? Suffer an ignominious death his family held back, per his living wish? And did F&S cut back their circulation to just a few dead tree editions a year? Bassmaster, American Rifleman, and F&S are staples in my bathroom magazine rack beside my porcelain perch..........
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