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Wolf Killed with Pellet Rifle in Minnesota
AmmoLand ^ | December 1, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/04/2025 6:55:35 AM PST by marktwain

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To: TheThirdRuffian
It’s absolutely insane. Sprays .22 at .22LR velocities.

And I'm sure that loading the magazine with the required pellets is just as fun.....LOL!

61 posted on 12/04/2025 8:32:04 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: PGR88

Pellet guns come in .17 and .22 caliber.


62 posted on 12/04/2025 8:33:55 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: NorthMountain

https://www.airgunsofarizona.com/precharged-pcp/


63 posted on 12/04/2025 8:37:22 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: NorthMountain

Air guns did have a few advantages, such as no powder smoke and usefulness in the rain. Also, once L&C’s air gun was pumped up it would shoot 22 shots quickly without having to reload. As you say, though, pumping up the reservoir was not quick.


64 posted on 12/04/2025 8:43:27 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Hot Tabasco

That’s some impressive ... and expensive ... hardware. Still falls short of a .22LR, though. Good news is it can be suppressed without NFA complications. And those airgun suppressors work quite well.


65 posted on 12/04/2025 8:43:42 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: PeterPrinciple

There was a reaason our predecessors tried to exterminate them. Wolves, Somalis, democrats...Minnesoda has problems.


66 posted on 12/04/2025 8:51:15 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
Gives a Michigander like us quite a few options as we keep and bear.

There's a photo of the .22 cal PCP air rifle I have, but mine also has a suppressor on it.

When the DNR added squirrels to the "nuisance kill list" in 2023, you can now shoot them year round without a hunting license.

I live in Macomb Twp, and in the past year and a half, I've shot 81 squirrels in my back yard. Evidently word hasn't gotten out in the squirrel community, since they keep coming......

I also shot 5 skunks this past summer and 1 raccoon.

The great thing about PCP air rifles is how quiet they are. Your neighbors won't hear them.....

67 posted on 12/04/2025 8:53:09 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

It’s a belt. Very easy.


68 posted on 12/04/2025 9:05:28 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: TheThirdRuffian
It’s a belt.

What kind of a pellet rifle is it?

I only joked about it because my air rifles have 13 round magazines, and with my arthritic fingers, it's kinda hard to pick them out of the tins and place them into the mags.

69 posted on 12/04/2025 9:09:35 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: NewHampshireDuo

Lewis and Clark had one that would drive a ball through whatever it had too.


70 posted on 12/04/2025 9:17:51 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: NorthMountain

Went thru BCT at Ft. Fix NJ in 1969. One of our training mods. was called quick-kill we Were given daisy bbguns that had plastic furnicher on them to look like m16s.pairing up one of us would flip a silver dollar sized coin in the air while the other would try to shoot it to train is in instinctive shooting.One of the few fun things in basic trainimng!


71 posted on 12/04/2025 9:19:51 AM PST by Mackie_Messer
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To: PGR88

In an air gun, that’s what they call it because it is just a pellet, no cartridge.


72 posted on 12/04/2025 9:20:34 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Bonemaker

Yup!


73 posted on 12/04/2025 9:21:12 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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To: Freedom4US

Man of the hour PG!


74 posted on 12/04/2025 9:22:05 AM PST by wardaddy (If u hate Trump you’re stupid or clueless what’s going on)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Well, Kammy is drunk a lot. I think Tim can’t use that excuse.


75 posted on 12/04/2025 9:22:18 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: NorthMountain
That’s some impressive ... and expensive ... hardware.

Those are just a couple rifles, they get much more exotic and expensive.

Then, there's the necessary accessories. A scuba tank with regulator and fill hose will cost approx another $600 then you will need a scope.....

They're not for the faint of heart.

76 posted on 12/04/2025 9:48:26 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Nature’s bounty, glad you enjoyed it!
Waste not, want not.
I eat beef about 4 times a year, otherwise it’s all venison, all the time.


77 posted on 12/04/2025 9:53:13 AM PST by Fireone (1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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To: Hot Tabasco

My Benjamin nitrogen-piston .22 cost a couple hundred bucks. It does the job.

Those PCP rifles cool. They’re also ‘way beyond me, but I’m glad I live in a world where they exist.


78 posted on 12/04/2025 9:56:41 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain
My Benjamin nitrogen-piston .22 cost a couple hundred bucks. It does the job.

I had a nice Beeman Kodiak, .22,that was much too loud for where I'm shooting so I gave it to my niece's son.

79 posted on 12/04/2025 10:00:49 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco
This:

is very quiet. The suppressor works well.

80 posted on 12/04/2025 10:04:50 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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