Thread: Air rifle hunting pics

Most of the hunting I do is small game, and I almost always pick up one of my airguns to do the job. 90% of the time I am hunting on orchards or vineyards with houses around the boundary and using an airgun vs a rimfire gives me much more confidence in taking the shot safely, it also helps me gain more permissions to shoot on as land owners are generally much happier to allow airguns than rimfires.

I have loads of old photos of pests I have bowled over so I thought I will post some of them up here and start a thread for people to add to with their own airgun pics - I'm sure lots of you have airguns in the cupboard that get used occasionally.

These 2 rabbits were taken last night on an apple orchard 5 mins from home, both were shot at around 50m. The rifle is a Russian Edgun Matador in .22. It is currently tuned to run the 18.1 gr pellets at 905fps but I have some new 25.4gr pellets that I will be tuning it up to around 915fps in soon.

Originally Posted by Mintie

90% of the time I am hunting on orchards or vineyards with houses around the boundary and using an airgun vs a rimfire gives me much more confidence in taking the shot safely, it also helps me gain more permissions to shoot on as land owners are generally much happier to allow airguns than rimfires.

@Mintie

Great approach, not just the obvious safety aspect. No rimfire cases about, and less lead than .22LR. Could even use lead-free / low-lead pellets to impress. (-:

+900fps sounds impressive . . . what kind of range can you go out to ?

R.

Originally Posted by rossi.45

+900fps sounds impressive . . . what kind of range can you go out to ?

R.

This platform is very adjustable, The tune is set to the most stable speed for the pellets. This could easily be tuned up above 1500fps if I wanted to make some noise with it but it wouldn't be accurate I haven't had this particular rig too long but I have taken rabbits at 100m with it, with the heavier pellets (and more powerful tune) it should be able to take rabbits out to 200m. The rabbit that was taken at 100m was interesting, it was a lung shot due to a little bit of wind drift and the pellet passed through the organs without hitting any bone and was captured just under the skin on the far side with no damage to the pellet at all other than the clean rifling marks - see the pic I took of it.

Originally Posted by Mintie

This platform is very adjustable, The tune is set to the most stable speed for the pellets. This could easily be tuned up above 1500fps if I wanted to make some noise with it but it wouldn't be accurate I haven't had this particular rig too long but I have taken rabbits at 100m with it, with the heavier pellets (and more powerful tune) it should be able to take rabbits out to 200m. The rabbit that was taken at 100m was interesting, it was a lung shot due to a little bit of wind drift and the pellet passed through the organs without hitting any bone and was captured just under the skin on the far side with no damage to the pellet at all other than the clean rifling marks - see the pic I took of it.

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What pellets are they?

Originally Posted by Lore

What pellets are they?

Those are the 18.1gr Edgun pellets, Same as the JSB Exact heavy but a slightly better die used and better QC (rumor has it they are sorted by hot Russian chicks)

Originally Posted by Mintie

Those are the 18.1gr Edgun pellets, Same as the JSB Exact heavy but a slightly better die used and better QC (rumor has it they are sorted by hot Russian chicks)

Yeah, right!

PCP needs FAL.

Air rifle threads are always of interest to me as I grew up shooting them. Now I have a FAL, don't think I'd bother - heavier rifles, less range and more to go wrong versus rimfire, but I see why you use them. I wonder how low velocity 22LR compares?

@MightyBoosh

Not enough difference to matter for Brer Rabbit, methinks. (-:

Finally, got this thing off mobile setting.
Its horrible can't like, can't post pics drives ya mental.
Anyway first magpie with 1322.
I thought coming here from the farm would be a bummer, but still cleaning up starlings and mynars, another 2 possums, magpie, trying to bait rats in to where can shoot them. Apart from rabbits and hares this place has been an unexpected goldmine of pest critters. Such a small section too.

Here's a picture from about 40min ago.
This is a .22 stoeger air rifle.

It seems to have no problems dropping possums from trees with a well placed shot.

Its actually really handy when spotlighting as often come across 2 possums at the same time. One gets the .22 rimfire and one the air rifle

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30m sig asp20 177, AA heavy .
Torch.
Went through top of lungs.
I get the back straps and back legs. Dog got the front legs. Cat got the heart. Good to be back on the farm.

Can't beat a decent PCP. Rabbits are in serious trouble under 100yds and certain dead meat at 60 with any sorta rest

Went looking through at some of my old airgun hunting pics for you guys to bring this thread back to life.


A couple of Rabbits shot with the Cometa Fenix and a Hare shot with the BSA HV Sportsman both in .22cal




Boris the Rusky out doing his job.


This one is a custom built PCP by a friend of mine for me, Its .30cal and shoots at 46fpe. Grunty little thing!



These 2 are custom Crosman 2250's that I have built up, co2 powered bolt action rifles which are very modifiable!




This beast is a Korean Evanix AR6 Hunting Master. Its a 6 shot revolver style action PCP rifle in .22 cal shooting at around 60fpe! Took many many pests with that rifle!