pellet pistol for grouse

I carry a scoped 2240 but most of the time I I use my big gun for head shots. No wounding that way, either you miss or you kill. Sometimes it takes more than one shot because they are so good to eat you only want head shots..
 
Rugdoc said:
"If its under 500 fps it is not a firearm so it would be legal
it's not a gun "

Explain that to a B.C. Conservation officer.

Then the judge.
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Further to that, it's only "not a gun", with regards to certain other sections of the criminal code. Use it to chase someone out of your yard, wave it around at the 7-11, or any other criminally stupid thing, and you will find that it IS a gun, as far as all the nice people that will be dealing with you are concerned. That is, Police, Lawyers, judges. Those nice people.

Sucks, and it's foolishness, but you cannot shoot game with anything with less than a 12 inch barrel in BC.

Take a solid look at a 2289 carbine, if you can afford the weight and space, otherwise, load some grouse loads with different bullets than the regular ammo.
I use a Hammond Game getter, but an pretty convinced that I will try some cast light slugs over really light loads. Something I can differentiate between, by feel, when pulling them out of my ammo pouch.

Cheers
Trev
 
All legal garbage aside, both .177 and .22 cal pistol pellet guns will kill grouse at closer ranges with a head shot. The CO2 style pistols tend to be noticeably less powerful though, unless they are higher quality, "target" type.
 
Crosman 1377 with a collapsible shoulder stock was my rig some moons ago during the moose hunt. As others have said, limit yourself to headshots only and know your limits. Snowshoe made the mistake of flushing and then stopping 10 yards away, pellet entered the ear and made it into the brain.

 
In my pack or on my hip I have my CO2 .22 cal pistol.

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Northman999 said:
All legal garbage aside, both .177 and .22 cal pistol pellet guns will kill grouse at closer ranges with a head shot. The CO2 style pistols tend to be noticeably less powerful though, unless they are higher quality, "target" type.
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CO2 is sensitive to temperature, the spring guns and compressed air guns are not so much.

You pretty much need to tweak your CO2 guns to shoot as close as you can to 500fps, at the temperature you will be using them at. Another solution is to keep the CO2 gun inside your jacket (problems with concealed, as well as access)or otherwise provide a heat source (some guys have used the hand warmer heaters to good effect)

Good for the places that have not totally written off the idea of using a handgun of any kind for any hunting, as BC has.

Cheers
Trev
 
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