Hi Ash,
What licence have you applied for?
Sandy
Hi Ash,
What licence have you applied for?
Sandy
hi Raven! well thats a pretty varied question. first off you need to decide what it is your predominately going to be shooting at. All air rifles will pretty much do a similar job its just how they go about it. I myself shoot mainly birds and small game, IE, rabbit. a bit of pest control to, rats, mice. So i felt best suited to me was a multi shot air rifle, a rifle with a magazine. i also wanted something easy to load, so i can snap back to a target extremely quickly, so a bolt action rifle appealed. this of course led me to the PCP (Pre - Charged Pneumatic) type rifles. Also weather you want to venture to .177 or .22. personally having owned, owning, and fired both types of rifles i would always use a .22.
the initial start up cost is quite expensive. As said, a good rifle like an Air Arms, or Daystate or BSA is going to set you back a few coins, plus the extra's IE, gas bottle/ high pressure foot pump, site, accessories, hard case (very important), ammo etc... However, after that it is extremely cheap. Pellets cost next to nothing online and some of the best quality pellets i use are found on ebay believe it or not. I fill my divers bottle up around once every 2 months whihch costs around a tenner, thats including petrol money getting myself there.
you then need to be thinking about the type of environment. i hunt a lot of crow. Crows have phenomenal eye sight. so camouflage is must for me! this may sound a little extreme but if your going to hunt successfully you may as well do it right!!
hope this helps!
I shoot everything from .308 to .22 I recently got one of these things from my local Gunsmith for clearing Squirrels. I don't eat Squirrels anymore having seen what they have done to Cousin Cleetus £200 PCP air rifle
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na its not a mistake to correct buddy, just elaborating on it a bit
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Alright matey, when I first got it yes definitely. I was using CCI Minimag and it really did not like it. It loves fast ammo. Anything slow and it has a hissy fit with the ejection. After trying various loads I found GECKO to be the best round for it. I started using GECKO after around 3/400 rounds, never cleaned the rifle other than a quick spray with gun lube or WD40 from time to time and up until the point I chopped it in for a Colt M16 tactical rim fire, over 14months later, the only issues I ever had involved the bullets themselves.
The faster ammo the better with the new generation GSG's as the bolt is very heavy. Old generation GSG's I'd advice to shift them as soon as. Owing to the fact that the charging handle impacts on the front iron site mounting and cracks it after a while.
Hope that helps