Waste of money air guns

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i find that most air guns are overpriced and don't pack a big punch unless you modify the spring "possibly illegal if speed increases dramatically". Why not buy a real gun and put your money into a fun and useful tool.
 
Different strokes for different folks. Air guns are great for pest control in areas where a firearm discharge would draw too much unwanted attention, they are great for cheap plinking and teaching younger kids firearm safety and can usually be done safely in the basement of a house. Many air pistols are exact copies of 'real' guns in terms of size and weight and a lot of people use them to practice drills when it's not practical to use the real gun. Also, they don't need an ATT or range membership to be taken out and shot.
 
If you don't have 10 acres to play around with airguns are great for some backyard plinking.
 
I don't regret the one's I've bought. A single shot pistol that will test your marksmanship as well as any bullseye type handgun, except you can shoot it in your basement. Repeaters / semi auto's that let you shoot action shooting in your basement or garage. Rifles that range from cheap fun at home, to high powered that nearly match 22 rimfire. There's some bargains in airguns, and there's some that are just plain cheap. As well, if you spend $350 or more, or a $1000 or more, you can get some fine airguns that have quality that rivals powder burners.
 
Just a curious question but..
What's illegal about increasing the FPS of an air rifle? In the old days (3months ago) you needed to register a 500+ FPS air rifle. Now that you don't even need to register a 30-06 what's stopping you from having a 'firearm ' air rifle if you have a PAL?
 
ciphery said:
Just a curious question but..
What's illegal about increasing the FPS of an air rifle? In the old days (3months ago) you needed to register a 500+ FPS air rifle. Now that you don't even need to register a 30-06 what's stopping you from having a 'firearm ' air rifle if you have a PAL?
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Nothing, no longer a need to register it after upgrading the velocity.
 
Brutus said:
So tell me fellas, if one had a +495 fps or whatever the rule is air pistol..........you would need by definition, an RPAL to possess it?
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I believe so.

In addition, one has to very carefully
take everything else into consideration,
(and not everything is black and white...)
For instance, if an air pistol is has 500+ fps,
would it require a mag of 10 rnds max?
Barrel of minimum length?

What about rifles?
I guess there are quite a few full auto air rifles
with less than 500 fps.
Perhaps making it over 500 fps would make it illegal (?)
 
Brutus said:
So tell me fellas, if one had a +495 fps or whatever the rule is air pistol..........you would need by definition, an RPAL to possess it?

I'm not picking a fight here, just trying to wade through the rules. Help me out please?
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it all depends on the airgun- remember lewis and clarke had an airgun in their armoury and used it quite effectively- you can read the account on the net
 
I just bought my first >495fps air rifle. It's a .22 rated at 950fps.

I'm more than excited, and don't feel that I've wasted my money.

I don't have enough room in my yard for "real" guns, and my new air rifle enables me to plink to my hearts content.

Any trigger time is welcome in my books.
 
Keep in mind that an airgun that shoots over 500 fps (the law is actually a little more complicated than that) is still considered a firearm. So, storage and usage regs for firearms apply. (ie: if you can't legally shoot a firearm in a given area, you can't shoot a high-powered airgun there, either.)
 
Air guns fill a niche; nothing else is quite so suitable for quiet, accurate, safe shooting at short ranges, say inside 100 feet. This is backyard/basement distance which many people have access to.

Pests in the garden, on the roof or the elderly woman next door is complaining about starlings in her bird feeder? The air gun can't be beat.

Want to teach a youngling or newbie the basics of gun handling and shooting? Lots of immediate feed back smacking cans or crackers - no loud bangs or recoil to interfere.

Long day at work and want to shoot a few rounds? A quick trip to the basement range can give you your fix.

Pellets are easily stopped by homemade traps, tree trunks and dirt and max ranges are measured in a few hundred yards rather than miles.

What air guns do they do well.

Dan
 
I have a Benajamin Discovery PCP Air Rifle 900FPS with a .22cal lead pellet

I love this thing it's reliable and I can shoot it safely in my basement to pass time.

It only cost me about $300

As for the high pressure air I have some 88CFT Carbon Fiber tanks I just get filled up for real cheap at a dive shop, lasts me a long time!
 
An option for a decently powerful pellet pistol is converting an existing design like a 1322 into a larger cal. I've shot a 1322 converted to .25 and it definitely had the punch to take small game to the limits of accuracy at ~490FPS. Makes me think about building a low-pressure PCP version for the same purpose.

-Grant
 
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