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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: bowman on May 26, 2009, 08:05:56 PM

Title: air rifle
Post by: bowman on May 26, 2009, 08:05:56 PM: Here's my new air rifle, it's a .20 cal., Beeman R9 with a 3-9x40 scope. It shoots 800 fps. I can't wait until this winter when I can get out and shoot some crows.
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Post by: stumprat on May 26, 2009, 08:43:02 PM: Looks like a stout gun. Should be fun.
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Post by: saylean on May 26, 2009, 09:12:13 PM: Is that a break barrel? Looks fun. ;)
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Post by: bowman on May 27, 2009, 09:30:32 AM: Quote
Is that a break barrel? Looks fun.

Yep it is a break barrel. I am surprised how quiet and accurate this gun is.
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Post by: saylean on May 27, 2009, 09:52:52 AM: My dad had a break barrel pellet gun when I was a kid, used for starlings...that thing was awesome!
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Post by: Bofire on May 27, 2009, 12:13:16 PM: I bought a Gamo a couple months ago .177 1200fps, with an air rifle scope. it shoots well but the trigger is just horrible. Is there anything to be done with it???
Carl
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Post by: woodswalker on May 27, 2009, 12:18:36 PM: still have the 20 cal Benjamin Sheridan that was Granddad's...its still deadly on Starlings.
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Post by: blindpig on May 28, 2009, 09:01:00 PM: That rifle has fun written all over it.
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Post by: Gearhead1940 on June 02, 2009, 09:20:28 AM: Quote from: Bofire on May 27, 2009, 12:13:16 PM
I bought a Gamo a couple months ago .177 1200fps, with an air rifle scope. it shoots well but the trigger is just horrible. Is there anything to be done with it???
Carl

YES!!! Gamo triggers are aweful. Definitely the last Gamo air rifle I will ever buy. Then again I think I was spoiled with my Feinwerkbau 601.
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Post by: Intruder on June 02, 2009, 09:42:22 AM: Quote from: Bofire on May 27, 2009, 12:13:16 PM
I bought a Gamo a couple months ago .177 1200fps, with an air rifle scope. it shoots well but the trigger is just horrible. Is there anything to be done with it???
Carl

I got the same problem with my Gamo. I hate the trigger and it has a nasty jump too. Don't know if its the brand or just the lower end guns (at least mine is a lower end one).
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Post by: boneaddict on June 02, 2009, 09:45:18 AM: Weird. I LOVE MINE
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,26669.msg305738.html#msg305738 (http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,26669.msg305738.html#msg305738)
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Post by: Wanttohuntmore on June 02, 2009, 10:35:37 PM: Nice Beeman! I have one of the cheaper models (GS950 in 22Cal) and am happy with it. I'd like to know what kind of groups you all get with these airguns? I sat down at the range, shot 6 types of pellets at 25 yards, 5 shot groups. I was getting 1/2 inch groups at that distance. I'm not sure what to expect out of these. At 50 yards it was like 1.5 inch groups, about 7 inches low when sighted in at 25yds.

I keep wondering what to buy next for an even more accurate airgun (pcp or springer), and what to expect.
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Post by: demontang on June 04, 2009, 07:49:51 AM: Some of the new air guns are just plan accurate. I know the air force we have at work will almost shot a 1 hole group at 50yd. I have shot pigeons at 100yds on some of the projects with an HW77, you just have to watch then wind and know the drop.
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Post by: bowman on June 04, 2009, 09:30:33 AM: The gun is really accurate. When I was sighting it in I put 3 shots in the same hole at 30yrds :IBCOOL:. I haven't been able to hold it steady enough to do it again though :bash:.
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Post by: demontang on June 04, 2009, 10:28:10 AM: Lol yeah thats about the limit of the new rilfes.
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Post by: boneaddict on June 04, 2009, 10:53:40 AM: I put about 50 rounds into a three inch circle with a "rest" (leaning against a fence post)at 50 yards the other night with no outliers that I know about.
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Post by: bow4elk on June 04, 2009, 10:56:09 AM: Will you please come to my house and clean up the &%^#(#&!&!(@#$(#*@*&(*#(*!(#**$&$^%**$*@*# Starlings!!! The crap machines are repainting my house, my porch, ,my driveway and my truck!!
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Post by: h2ofowlr on June 15, 2009, 04:50:56 PM: I was chatting with a guy from Sweden that hunts deer with his 9mm air rifle. I guess they make hunting calibers. For big game on the European continent. Might be fun.
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Post by: BigGoonTuna on June 18, 2009, 10:45:54 PM: deer? how about bear with an air rifle? :yike:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/message/1244378327/DAQ+Black+Bear
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Post by: Grizzle on June 19, 2009, 04:44:44 PM: I've just ordered one of the new Benjamin Marauders in .22cal myself, finally an affordable PCP with a shrouded barrel so its nice a quiet.