air pistol - hunting?

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looking for the most powerful air pistol, and wondering what the laws are on if you can carry it hunting and use it for small game?
there is a 10 shot revolver that shoots .177 @ 435fps, is this enough for small game? and most importantly, is it legal? they arent even technically a firearm.
 
I know that NB and ON both allow air pistol hunting for small game. I'd like to know what other provinces allow it but I'm just too lazy to look it up. :redface: Obviously the gun must not have a velocity greater than 500 fps. I'd recommend a .22 over a .177. Just this year I took my first snowshoe hare with a pellet pistol. I used a Crosman 2240. It was definitely powerful enough as the pellets went clean through the hare. The first pellet entered in the back, passed through the left lung and exited the chest. A follow-up shot entered the base of the skull and exited the mouth. I should point out that I was using pointed pellets. Perhaps wadcutters or hollowpoints would have less penetration and transfer a bit more energy into the animal.
 
I spent a while on the phone with a BC CO to see if I could use one here in BC.
I wanted to hunt American Bullfrogs. They are an introduced species and can be hunted and killed "by any means". But another part of the regs say no handgun hunting.
 
in ont its legal ive used my cosman 1377 for squirrel with pointed pellets (this is what you want to use with sub 500 air guns) it will get double lung shots on them

im looking into mod ing a 1377 into a 1325
 
tootall said:
I spent a while on the phone with a BC CO to see if I could use one here in BC.
I wanted to hunt American Bullfrogs. They are an introduced species and can be hunted and killed "by any means". But another part of the regs say no handgun hunting.
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a sling shot is much more challenging for frogs
 
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