An air rifle is safe to use near your house. A 22lr is not
$500 buys you a new piece of crap or an acceptable 2nd hand springer. There are several airgun forums in nz and you can snap up a cometa Fenix in .22 for about that with no scope. That will get you 1/2" accuracy at 25m.
I've got a little HW35S that I use for this purpose. Wish I had it yesterday, had a bunny cornered at less than 5m.
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