is very quiet. The suppressor works well.
Posted on 12/04/2025 6:55:35 AM PST by marktwain
In the winter of 2014, an adult female wolf was found dead in northern Minnesota, on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation. When the necropsy was performed, the cause of death was determined to be from a single wound from an ordinary pellet gun. Described as “low powered”, the pellet was almost certainly either .177 or .22 caliber. Although this incident occurred in 2014, I only learned of it this year. Ordinary pellet guns have been powerful enough to kill humans and even a black bear.
The wolf was a lone female who had been driven out of the pack on Isle Royale. It had a radio collar as part of the Isle Royale study. Researchers said the wolf had almost been killed twice, in fights with another female wolf, presumably, to keep her out of the pack. During the winter, ice had allowed the wolf to reach the mainland, 18 miles from Isle Royale.
It was suspected that the wolf was shot not far from where it was found on the Indian Reservation. Investigators speculated the shot was intended to drive the wolf away, rather than to kill it. The pellet entered between two ribs and punctured an artery, leading to death. The Isle Royal pack was on the edge of extinction, with only eight members left in 2014. It was reduced to one animal by 2019. The moose population was also down, as it had nearly eliminated aspen on the island, subsisting on the far less nutritious balsam pine.
The wolf probably weighed about 70 lbs. Wolves are not particularly hard to kill. A .22 rimfire in the same area would have easily penetrated wolf ribs if the bullet encountered them, causing serious bleeding in the thoracic cavity. Death usually occurs within minutes.
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And I'm sure that loading the magazine with the required pellets is just as fun.....LOL!
Pellet guns come in .17 and .22 caliber.
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.
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.
There was a reaason our predecessors tried to exterminate them. Wolves, Somalis, democrats...Minnesoda has problems.
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.....
It’s a belt. Very easy.
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.
Lewis and Clark had one that would drive a ball through whatever it had too.
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!
In an air gun, that’s what they call it because it is just a pellet, no cartridge.
Yup!
Man of the hour PG!
Well, Kammy is drunk a lot. I think Tim can’t use that excuse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
is very quiet. The suppressor works well.
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