Looking for Pistol for pest control

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Hey folks,

As the title reads I'm looking for an affordable pistol to shoot some small rodents with...doesn't have to be anything fancy, I'm just looking for reliability, semi-auto (blowblack preferably), and be able to knock down little rodents. I don't even know where to start in terms of what kinds of velocity to look for, bb vs pellet, etc?

Any help is super appreciated.

Cheers
 
Most (not all but certainly the most common) of the blowback semis are BB guns in the 300-400 fps range (and pushing a BB much faster seems counterproductive to accuracy). I can tell you BBs aren't that effective on larger rodents, unless you get them exactly where they need to be (and the little b####rds move so dang quick you rarely get a chance to take careful aim).

IMHO I'd suggest a pellet firing pistol....and the Crosman .357 comes to mind as a great option. I have blasted mice with these successfully...

There are some good quality pellet semis most use a cylinder like .357 but they do change quickly.

Just my 0.02 there, good luck....had my share of rodent infestations.
 
I've got one of the Crosman 357, 6" barrel. It's surprisingly accurate if I haven't had too much coffee, but I'm just knocking cans off the fence. Flat-nose pellets seem to put the biggest hole in the cans, the flat nose transfering most of the energy to the target instead of boring a hole in it. I'd suggest you use the same - instead death and less chance of damage to objects behind the vermin.
 
Noltz said:
I've got one of the Crosman 357, 6" barrel. It's surprisingly accurate if I haven't had too much coffee, but I'm just knocking cans off the fence. Flat-nose pellets seem to put the biggest hole in the cans, the flat nose transfering most of the energy to the target instead of boring a hole in it. I'd suggest you use the same - instead death and less chance of damage to objects behind the vermin.
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I agree - and some folks on the airgun forum suggest you can't use pointed pellets in these???

I've had several different models of these going back to 1983 and I've used the pointed pellets in them so I'd suggest you can - but I agree with Noltz that the flat pellets will transfer more knock-down to the little monsters.


I remember one log home I lived in waaayyyy out in the sticks, the brazen little buggers would show up on top of the TV (actually still ran an aerial at that time) and overran us, I was at my wits end with them so I'd sit there with the Crosman .357 while watching TV... they move so fast though I don't remember the hit/miss ratio. This lasted until I hit some PVC drain pipe one of the mice was running down (plumbing necessarily exposed in this particular house design) and decided the richochet potential outweighed my consternation over the damage from the mice - and rats. Had foxes under the blasted house as well at one time. Edit: Note I don't recommend or condone doing this - we were swamped with the little devils (that's a real good description of them when you have this many)

And actually with the foxes, after a lot of non-violent alternatives to discourage them from playing with our animals, I finally used a low power pellet gun with flat pellets to discourage them. The last straw was when the (now full grown) fox kits came right in the house like they owned the place. Understand they have ticks, lice, who knows what diseases...can't have that. Plus they were getting rough with the dog :) Anyway, I think that was a Crosman 1008 that wouldn't puncture a can with flat pellets - it sent the foxes running and took only a few "educational lessons" and they disappeared, bruised but definitely not wounded. Very effective.

Peanut butter is your best trap bait BTW....in my experience!!
 
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How small? My father used to get a glass bottle, place it on an angle, put a piece of bait inside it and come back the next day to have some shrews or mice at the bottom, unable to climb up.
 
Ya lots of tricks - can also use a pail full of water with a stick or wire hanging over it on a teeter/totter set up. Rodent runs out to get the bait, stick tilts...it works although some experimenting required to find a stick the mouse will slide off the easiest.


The OP may also just want to pick them off in his yard for fun, I don't know :)
 
Bury a empty peanut butter jar to ground level and mice will fall in and can't get out.Used that in my garden many times.Harold
 
You guys are hilarious. I appreciate all the help with my "pest problem" but I think you've gotten the wrong idea. I'm just looking for something to take pop shots with while I'm out in the field and something is close while I'm reloading!
 
2240 (single shot though).....accurate, hits hard and you can be kept busy for a long time with mods, parts, accessories. Turn it into a carbine, rifle, HPA etc. Possibilities are endless if you're willing to spend.
 
JRodko said:
Hey folks,

As the title reads I'm looking for an affordable pistol to shoot some small rodents with...doesn't have to be anything fancy, I'm just looking for reliability, semi-auto (blowblack preferably), and be able to knock down little rodents. I don't even know where to start in terms of what kinds of velocity to look for, bb vs pellet, etc?

Any help is super appreciated.

Cheers
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if you dont mind, may I ask what the situation is? A close friend of mine (sitting right next to me actually) is an exterminator and he says your gonna be shootin' a heck of a lot depending on the problem. anyways, post here or shoot me a PM he can help :)

JRodko said:
You guys are hilarious. I appreciate all the help with my "pest problem" but I think you've gotten the wrong idea. I'm just looking for something to take pop shots with while I'm out in the field and something is close while I'm reloading!
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just seen this post lol nvm!
FWIW, I use one of those lil .22 pellet handguns that are CO2 powered. I got about 12 squirrels under my belt :D
 
There's the Gamo PT85 if your looking for a blowback
Shoots the average weighted .177 pellet at about 400fps or upwards of 480fps using the $$$ lighter pellets.
It uses a 8shot rotory clip at each end of the mag for a total of 16 rds
Accurate and definatley a lil' rodents worst nightmare.
Crosman has a couple of interesting pistols - the C11 and C21 , which are bb and their velocitys are really crackin' at 480fps. These are not blowbacks but that will save you alot more shooting per co2 powerlets.
I've been itching for the C21 , myself.

Gamo PT85 Blowback

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Personally I would NOT recommend the crosman 357. I have experience with this revolver and its more of a toy - not very powerful or accurate. In the right lighting you can track the pellet all the way to the target (not moving very fast). I would suggest a rifle in .22, such as the Crosman Phantom 500 in .22 if you don't have a PAL. If you do have a PAL you can move up in power from there, depending on how much you want to spend. The Crosman Nitro Venom is a pretty sweet pellet rifle. There's also many other brands of rifle that would serve you better than the 357. They may be rodents, but you're a human and I assume you have some kind of compassion for the suffering of another animal. Clean kills, bud.
 
I had the 8" .357, actually i still have the gun and 4" barrel but the 8's been lost for years and i think its missing some parts to rotate the cylinder of i remember correctly. I modded the thing eons ago to get more velocity out of her and let me tell ya, i did!

I have no idea what the final velocity was but i can tell you i was smart enough back in my early teens to test penetration and impact energy. The advertised velocity was 490fps, it would penetrate about 1/4" into the phonebook. Or i would fire it down a 6" tube at a piece of polished marble, they would flatten about to the waist.

After the mods, burry themselves 3/4" into the book or litterally flatten as thin as tin foil or fragment into foil flakes.
 
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