Posted on 01/07/2012 8:05:33 AM PST by bjorn14
I live in Norway and as most of you know the handgun laws here are insane but I discovered that .177 cal. pellet guns are exempt from the avalanche of paperwork and most other rules.
With the increasing criminality in Oslo I was thinking of getting one to at least act as a deterent or precieved equalization of the situation. It is better than having nothing.
Prefer CO2 powered. Thanks in advance.
If you are going to use air power for defense, you better have a repeater and large caliber. That means you need one of the guns with a large refillable tank. I would go for a 25 caliber at a minimum...9mm if you can find one.
Then you got a one-eyed REALLY angry person.
I have a somewhat more modest Remington rated at
700 fps, manual limited to three pump cocks.
My buddy one day played with it thinking 8 cocks
would be modest since his was a 10 stroker. He fired
that thing and it went right through the door 10 feet away.
So, a well placed hitman shot to the head with
hunting steel/alloy pellets will work but u
cannot miss unless you use a repeat CO2 system.
Others tricked the chamber by putting butane. The sheer
heat will pop the round out but your rifle wont be living long that way.
Technically an air rifle could be built to have similar power as
a real one but regs limit their pumped pressure.
Check the energy in ft-lbs. A 22lr at 40gr and
1250 fps (about 100 ft-lbs) is
quite more powerful than a .177 at 30 ft-lbs
energy. But supersonic pellets are unstable.
I would get a 22 pellet at near sonic velocity rating
(1000 fps) like the Stoeger X50 (spring action).
I prefer hand air pumping actions because they are
more user flexible and modular.
We also have a Gamo Varminter. Its an awesome air rifle with scope, flashlight and laser. If you shoot someone with it it will definitely ruin their day. Especially if you use the Raptor ammo. This is not your father’s Daisy BB gun.
Then he would be really, really angry- and motivated.
It may be my internet provider and I am becoming increasingly suspicious. I've tried Internet Explorer and Firefox with the same result. There have been other problems that I didn't bother to investigate.
The C02 will leak out on you.
Nothing air powered has any use in self defense, good luck with your immigrant problems.
Do you seriously think you can shoot a moving person in the eye at any distance other than point blank? You’ve been watching too many cartoons.
He is supposed to walk around with a shotgun?
LOL
There are a number of people who get killed every year by brandishing a pellet gun when the other guy has something more lethal at his disposal. While there are certainly some very realistic looking pellet guns out there, few, if any, are powerful enough to stop an attacker. If you’re counting on it as a visual deterent you’re likely to find yourself in some very deep doo-doo. Re-think your options.
I use Firefox with so much security a lot of commercial sites are a pain, but Pyramyd works fine for me.
Try the older site
Baloney.
How much paperwork would a crossbow or longbow require?
That is not where the "tooth pick" comes from.
Carry a ham over your shoulder. That should work with most of the bad guys there.
Get a katana or other Asian sword and practice with it. It’s a pretty scary moment facing a 32” razor moving at high speed. Or move to Texas which makes more sense and the BBQ can’t be beat.
Those large-caliber air rifles are made in Korea, where it is difficult to get firearms for hunting. I’m sure they would be lethal at close range. They are powered by compressed air reservoirs filled from a large external tank (like a SCUBA tank). There have also been military airguns on the same principle (pre-charged pneumatic). Lewis & Clark carried one, and the Austrian army used them in the Napoleonic wars.
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