71-year-old with air rifle? Unreal. My friends from 66-75 are all past 75. Not a one owns an air rifle, nor would one shoot any weapon near a fellow human unless threatened.
Obviously you have better friends than this dope
Got four air rifles myself - great fun, excellent accuracy - and I’m pushing 77. Killed two copperheads this year but I’m quite careful to make sure that I know what’s behind my target.
At 70 they should be issued AR15s...
I thought I’d use a pump BB gun to keep the squirrels off the bird feeder. Somewhere since my old Red Ryder somebody got serious about BB guns. The first squirrel I nailed died.
I don’t want to kill the tree rats I just want to feed the birds so now I keep about a dozen tennis balls near the door to throw at them and once a day I have go collect them. I have learned to throw a pretty reliable strike though.