|
Post by AcesWildAA on Feb 23, 2017 16:49:49 GMT -5
Or Maybe it's the benji XL1100 Or Ol Dan '72 .20 Blue streak Hard to decide but I'm thinking the Mrod wins it gets more trail time.
|
|
|
Post by AcesWildAA on Feb 23, 2017 16:35:03 GMT -5
Figured I'd chime in. My addiction is air rifles and Google searching brought up several posts here for air rifle hunting. Would like to kill a deer in my lifetime in Indiana with an air rifle. Would also like to try some turkeys. I've harvested every legal animal we have with an air rifle exept a fox. I've gotten a coyote recently and several racoons this year alone. Hope to push the future of air rifle hunting forward. Before you ask yes I have plenty of powder burners but after 35 years of rifle powder hunting I just find it boring and loud sometimes. I guess air rifle hunting is a bit like bow hunting where you need a good shot placement and get closer to your quarry. I own 8 air rifles from a .177 pistol to a .457 slug beast. I also own as many powder burners but every time I hunt other than deer and turkey anymore I grab an air rifle. And have had as much success in the last 3 years as I have ever had with my .22 or 12gauge ect ect. Hope to get to know some of you here and appreciate the company. I harvested my very first Squirrel & Rabbit with my .20 Cal. pellet rifle, at age 12. I still have the .20 '72 Dan I shot as a kid and it's still putting a wallop on em! I've followed Jim Chapman for years. He is a pioneer to the airgun community. I've already got plans to hunt Virginia deer this year with my .457 air rifle. So looks like early bow season in Indiana and may skip the rifle season this year. Sitting in my stand and hearing rifles and shotguns go off all around me makes me cringe. I live in the NE part of Indiana It's very flat and open and at times sounds like WW3. I did not see a buck this last season and saw just a few does. I could have taken a doe many a time but I don't shoot does when I don't see bucks. Numbers seem way down in my county for sure. I would like to see a single buck tag only for 3 or 4 years in this area but I know that's not going to happen. Thanks for the welcome guys!
|
|
|
Post by AcesWildAA on Feb 22, 2017 23:53:45 GMT -5
Meh, I'll use sometimes to pick a wood pecker off the house. I've used them in the past to hunt squirrels and do in chipmunks. Other than preventing damage to a building, it just doesn't make any sense to me. Anything you can hunt with a 22, you can hunt with airguns. But the opposite is also true and a $200 rim fire out performs the most expensive airgun there is. Only advantage I see for ME in airguns is quiet and a 22 short in a long barrel will give them a run for it in that category. Sorry you are wrong. There are air rifles that generat 5X and more energy than a .22pb. I shoot 340-400gr slugs in my .457 at 500fpe. And it's not the strongest there is. There are 20mm air rifles out there. And the sport just keeps expanding to better and bigger things. My hopped up .25 is near the power of a .22 powder burner and does MOA at 100yds and hole in hole at 50. Misinformation is what is slowing the advancement of air rifle hunting so please do research on the subject before writing an air rifle off as a viable and ethical means to take game. I've seen deer drop on the spot shot with air rifles Breaking both shoulder at 75yds. .22 and .177 is not the only caliber available anymore. But a .177 can easily kill a turkey with a headshot. It's either a kill or a clean miss.
|
|
|
Post by AcesWildAA on Feb 22, 2017 23:43:33 GMT -5
For Nutters it's my hot rod .25 Marauder for sure. Polymags or JSB Kings. JSB king Pass through head to tail Polymag noggin buster
|
|
|
Post by AcesWildAA on Feb 22, 2017 23:23:39 GMT -5
Figured I'd chime in. My addiction is air rifles and Google searching brought up several posts here for air rifle hunting. Would like to kill a deer in my lifetime in Indiana with an air rifle. Would also like to try some turkeys. I've harvested every legal animal we have with an air rifle exept a fox. I've gotten a coyote recently and several racoons this year alone. Hope to push the future of air rifle hunting forward.
Before you ask yes I have plenty of powder burners but after 35 years of rifle powder hunting I just find it boring and loud sometimes. I guess air rifle hunting is a bit like bow hunting where you need a good shot placement and get closer to your quarry. I own 8 air rifles from a .177 pistol to a .457 slug beast. I also own as many powder burners but every time I hunt other than deer and turkey anymore I grab an air rifle. And have had as much success in the last 3 years as I have ever had with my .22 or 12gauge ect ect.
Hope to get to know some of you here and appreciate the company.
|
|
|
Post by AcesWildAA on Feb 22, 2017 23:01:21 GMT -5
I'm all for Air rifle hunting. I have lots of powder burners but they have taken a back seat to my air rifle addiction. I have a .25 Marauder That shoots 80fpe pretty close to high velocity .22 powder. I also have an old sheridan and a .22 xl 1100 and a cheap ruger Blackhawk. I've just gotten into Big bore air rifles with a .457 Texan and cast my own 345gr slugs. At $5 per 100 it can't be beat. I would love to hunt turkey with my .22 and .25 air rifle. The .25 does MOA at 100yds. I'm near MOA at 100 with the .457 also. I also would love to hunt deer with the .457. I think 40cal and up should be legal for deer. My .457 has as much and more power than a .45acp. Here is where air rifles are today. Assorted 345gr HP 75yds with .457 3touching
|
|