pellet pistols for grouse

Is it because carrying anything that looks like a handgun illegal?
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well who knows. It's in the bc wildlife regulations - and they define an airgun as a firearm for the purposes of the act.
 
Foxer said:
well who knows. It's in the bc wildlife regulations - and they define an airgun as a firearm for the purposes of the act.
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Well anyways, you can always use a pellet rifle for hunting grouse as a alternative.:popCorn:
 
Pellet pistol

I have the Crossman Medalist .22 calibre pellet pistol. It dispatches magpies and pigeons with ease. I'm pretty sure it would killl a grouse to. Custom holster was made by my uncle.
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Arch :)
 
BC hunting regulations page 9. It is illegal to hunt with a handgun in BC.see page 3 for definition.
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Handgun is a firearm that is designed,altered or intended to be aimed and fired by the action of one hand or that has a barrel less than 305mm(12 in.) in length.
 
Of course if you're a highly skilled pistolero , it's headshots or nothing but a bobbing head isn't that easy to hit . I carry a Webly Tempest .177 caliber that actually chronographs 460 fps with 7.9 grain Crossman Premier Lites . I can do headshots if i have something to rest my forearms on but usually that isn't available . I limit my shots to 10 yards or thereabouts and shoot them in the back . .177 or even .22 caliber under 500 fps doesn't have enough energy to drive a pellet through the layered feathers on the breast , through an inch of meat and into the vitals . Shooting them from the side through the wing is even much more difficult . If you move slightly or just wait a grouse will usually turn it's back to you to walk away and that's your best shot . The feathers on the back are more like thin fluff , there is no meat and the spine is 1/8th of an inch under the surface . Even a lower velocity pistol of 400 fps will shoot right through the spine and into the vitals at 10 yards . A slight mis-calculation on the aim and you may miss the center for the spine but you're still into the vital organs . The Webly isn't the most accurate air pistol i have but after carrying it for 30 years and re-sealing and re-springing it 3 times , we're old friends . The 1377 works just fine as does the 2240 and the Crossman .357 but the last two are co2 temperature sensitive . With any kind of bird using a low velocity airgun the backshot is always the best as the pellet will break the spine and get into the vitals and there is more room for error than going for a brain shot . I have a 2240 that i use to pick starlings off my feeder at 20 yards . Songbirds native to North America are welcome but an introduced pest species like starlings are shot on sight and they all get a backshot . Below is my 2240 and below that are some 30 yard targets . Below that is my HW 45 in 20 caliber that i hunt rabbits with to 20 yards with headshots .

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Before anyone asks , no , that isn't a silencer on the 2240 . It's some kind of aluminum fitting that i found at work and with a bit of drilling it fits over the muzzle and is held on by a setscrew . Looks cool from the side but the muzzle end has a hole about 3/4's of an inch in diameter . For a day of shooting with it i have a Cooper T bottomline remote with a 3.5 ounce co2 tank . It has a custom machined breech , B Square rings and a leupold EER 2x pistol scope and i also had it nickle plated . The HW 45 has Millet rings and a Leupold/Gilmore 1 moa red dot scope . The most consistantly accurate pellets in all of my airguns are domed JSB EXACT and Crossman Premier Lites .
 
I have a .22 cal. CO2 pistol. I have used it to dispatch a red squirrel (in our garage) and a couple ground squirrels. It should work on a grouse with a head/neck shot. However it would not be legal in Alberta.

Robin
 
arch1965 said:
I have the Crossman Medalist .22 calibre pellet pistol. It dispatches magpies and pigeons with ease. I'm pretty sure it would killl a grouse to. Custom holster was made by my uncle.
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I was just looking at my crossman and I did shoot many a grouse with it and I'm sure my BSA Scorpion would do fine as well.
 
I used my 6" Crosman 357 .177 CO2 pistol in Ontario. Always during the early hunting season, while I was working.

I limited my shots to 15' to 20'. If I kept the distances short, that .177 doing about 400 fps dropped grouse and spruce hens, no problem.
 
I tried that last year with my son's "Grizzly" pump bb gun.

I shot the bird, the bb bounced off and it laughed at me as it ran into the bush.:wave:

I didn't check the fps on the bb gun , but I will next time:D
 
Check the Regs where you hunt. In Ontario it's illegal to hunt with any pistol, no matter what powers it. You can hunt with an air rifle though. Another one of those messed up hunting regs. Go figure.:onCrack:

EDIT- ok, so I just checked the regs. I guess I'm smoking it. Here's what it states for Ontario:

Firearms
Firearms include air or pellet guns, bows and crossbows. You
may use semi-automatic or repeating firearms for hunting in
Ontario, but not handguns or fully automatic firearms. Air
and pellet pistols with a muzzle velocity less than 500 feet
per second may be used for hunting in Ontario.


-Jason
 
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I will put a spin on this.


how about red squirells? We shot quitte a few with .22's growing up. (dad has a trapline)


Looking back on it, maybe a pellet gun would have made the skinning a little easier...
 
powder burner said:
I will put a spin on this.


how about red squirells? We shot quitte a few with .22's growing up. (dad has a trapline)


Looking back on it, maybe a pellet gun would have made the skinning a little easier...
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When I was a kid on the farm I trapped lot's. I shot dozens of red squirrels with a .177 pellet gun and many rabbits. I shot those right behind the ear. I shot lot's of grouse too. And I had a .22 airgun too and shot magpies with it. When I got a .22 rimfire I still shot squirrels with my pellet gun to reduce damage to the head and upper pelt area.
 
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