Thread: PCP Air Rifles

Pretty hard to find specific info on these since they were moved to A-Cat.

Not many places in NZ selling them anymore and those that are available are only available in .177 or .22.

Question: Is there any existing law that would prevent me from importing a .50 caliber air rifle from the US? For example these:

https://www.airgundepot.com/seneca-d...air-rifle.html

https://www.airgundepot.com/sam-yang...air-rifle.html

think u would have to get a police permit to import still as they do come under your A cat license.
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don't young air guns have some. there was a guy in Whangarei that was importing some.

Messed around with a few pcp rifles .Bsa r10 and a fx .

Quiet smooth and accurate however the faffing around with dive tanks negated the fun.
I see that you can get small home compressors now but still to much effort required over gunpowder

Originally Posted by Clint Ruin

Messed around with a few pcp rifles .Bsa r10 and a fx .

Quiet smooth and accurate however the faffing around with dive tanks negated the fun.
I see that you can get small home compressors now but still to much effort required over gunpowder

It's a real pity that .22LR isn't available with a 20grn bullet at 1000fps and at a reasonable price. PCPs are good for 50 shots or so, then it's back to fill.

Originally Posted by TheWuce

Pretty hard to find specific info on these since they were moved to A-Cat.

Not many places in NZ selling them anymore and those that are available are only available in .177 or .22.

Question: Is there any existing law that would prevent me from importing a .50 caliber air rifle from the US? For example these:

https://www.airgundepot.com/seneca-d...air-rifle.html

https://www.airgundepot.com/sam-yang...air-rifle.html

I recently bought an FX Gladiator from Young's Airgun Centre. Ron had a few PCP's to choose from .177 - .25. I'm pretty sure he could order other calibres. I also bought a cheapo PCP handpump from Aliexpress, which works pretty well. A lot of pumping, but great excersize.

ive got an airfoce talon in 22 pretty good rifle

Originally Posted by TheWuce

Pretty hard to find specific info on these since they were moved to A-Cat.

Not many places in NZ selling them anymore and those that are available are only available in .177 or .22.

Question: Is there any existing law that would prevent me from importing a .50 caliber air rifle from the US? For example these:

https://www.airgundepot.com/seneca-d...air-rifle.html

https://www.airgundepot.com/sam-yang...air-rifle.html

Why bother if you can still use a .22LR

Originally Posted by Cordite

Why bother if you can still use a .22LR

You should check out some youtube videos and see just what a .50 caliber PCP rifle can do. Think of it as a shotgun slug with 100-200 meters range at 20 cents per shot.

Originally Posted by TheWuce

You should check out some youtube videos and see just what a .50 caliber PCP rifle can do. Think of it as a shotgun slug with 100-200 meters range at 20 cents per shot.

Where would you be using it?

Originally Posted by Cordite

Why bother if you can still use a .22LR

There are places where a .22LR cannot be used, for instance around dwellings, flat ground where stock are kept and dwellings in the background, shooting up into trees etc. The wind decides the direction of approach and having a kill range of 30 metres is sufficient, especially at night. From my own experience anyway.

I would have thought something like CCI Quiet would be a substitute for an air rifle.

a couple I use to own some people believe it or not actually like air rifles same as golf fishing bowls darts just off the top of my head

there use to be a guy on nz airgunners forum from hawahi however you spell it that use to hunt pigs with a 50 cal air rifle

Just to add to the discussion - I see air rifles as being useful on small lifestyle blocks where 22LR could be too risky in terms of ricochet. As for large calibre/powerful air rifles, why? If you want a quiet gun, there are subsonic centrefire options. If you just like air rifles, then fine!

The way things are going, give it a few years, and we might all be using air rifles for everything

Dont know why people poo poo air rifles ive shot more possums and rabbits with an air rifle than a 22lr it teaches you about shot placement it almost seems like some wanky elietest thing