Thread: Air Rifle for Pest Control

Originally Posted by Reon Morrison

Morning all
Could anyone help me in which air rifle or fps should be needed for pest control. More for possums and rabbits in urban areas where a .22lr is probably not the best, shooting between 30m-50m if thats possible. Air rifle would be sorted with nightvision gear so wondering if 1200fps+ for a .22 would ruin the scope or not...
https://www.guncity.com/gamo-swarm-m...0-scope-373935
Sort of thinking something like this

First thing you need to know is you're not likely to put NV gear on it, or any spring. Springers have a double recoil that require specific scopes, and most NV gear will say springer air rifles are no go.

I'd check out PCP options, there are a couple of guys here that do some amazing work with PCPs, and from what i've seen the pricing is not to far off that gamo bundle.

And those Gamos are heavy.