Thread: What air rifle for rabbits?

For rabbits at the distance, I would suggest 750fps or more for a 22 cal air rifle or 1000fps for a 177 cal. Find out what pellets give you the best accuracy and go from there. I am not a fan of hatsan and we had some really nice Baikal 513Ms that would have done the trick a few years back. Not sure if anyone else is importing them. We will again but it wont be anytime soon.

A heads up though, generally if the spring air rifle is powerful enough for rabbits, then it will have enough rattle recoil that scopes will fall apart. Especially when you get up to the Webley Dominator at 1300fps etc. The vibrations form the spring after it fires is what destroys all but the hardiest of scopes. (we have not found one that will handle the dominator yet)

Anything that uses compressed air ill require a license. (just in case that needs mentioning)