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Pellet Rifles.

finelyshedded

finelyshedded

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Jackalope said:
I've been a pump up $35 pellet rifle guy since childhood. I finally decided to move up and buy a big boy pellet rifle. I have what appears to be a constant need to manage the squirrel and raccoon population around the house. I went and Purchased a Gamo Wildcat Whisper yesterday that won't see two sunrises at my house. Complete junk. Like any of them you might as well not take the scope out of the box but I gave it a shot. Adjustments were funky and hopped all over, no consistency, get the elevation right change windage one click and elevation would jump 2-3 inches. Junk. So I put a $250 rimfire scope on it that I had in the safe.

The rifle itself. Also junk. I sent 4 different brands of pellets through it and the best it could achieve wpuld be 6-8 inch MOA. Jumped all over the place. This was the best group it could manage at 30 yards. I can shoot better than that with a compound bow. 🤣 What good is a pellet rifle that only has a 50/50 chance of actually hitting a squirrel at 30 yards. 🤣 Junk, back to wence she came.

So what brand rifles have you guys found good accuracy out of?

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Joe, I’m laughing not atcha but with ya on your honest and accurate(unlike rifle) assessment of that rifle. Dude, I have that exact same shit shooting rifle but just kept it cuz I used my rewards money getting it and nice supply of ammo for free after buying a gun safe at TSC.
I still managed killing many squirrels mostly with head shots or neck/shoulder area. The most lethal range for me is 5ft to 22 yards. It seemed 18 was almost always money.
Im glad it’s not just me. I tried everything like you to get “any”/some consistency with that thing but it was all over the place just like you. Anywho, it kept the dang thing but it’s served me well enough to stack em up in the freezer and get the numbers down to a much more tolerated amount. 😎👍🏻

Killed two this morning from my spare bathroom window at 4 yards and 13 yards.
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Two females for a change! Almost always males. I put two other males in freezer last week. Haha
 
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I bought a 350 dollar Benjamin that was a break down cocker. .22, can’t recall FPS. Fairly accurate. I shot a coon with it at 15 feet, twice in the head and it just made a growl then scurried under my shed. Shot another in the chest, screamed and ran off. 2 years later some seal in it failed and I couldn’t find anyone to fix it. POS in my mind. I still have my late fathers pump Benjamin and it’s a friggin beast.
 
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Mason has a Benjamin Maurauder and a Discovery. Neither are cheap. The Discovery is way cheaper than the Maurauder, and shoots exceptional. It’s much lighter and fits the hand better. The Maurauder is too much gun honestly. I’d consider the Discovery if I were you. They shoot far better than most spring guns and do not destroy scopes.
 
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Smawgunner2 said:
I bought a 350 dollar Benjamin that was a break down cocker. .22, can’t recall FPS. Fairly accurate. I shot a coon with it at 15 feet, twice in the head and it just made a growl then scurried under my shed. Shot another in the chest, screamed and ran off. 2 years later some seal in it failed and I couldn’t find anyone to fix it. POS in my mind. I still have my late fathers pump Benjamin and it’s a friggin beast.
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Is it just the O-ring at the break? Any parts/hardware store will have them. You can usually flip it over too.
 
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Smawgunner2 said:
I bought a 350 dollar Benjamin that was a break down cocker. .22, can’t recall FPS. Fairly accurate. I shot a coon with it at 15 feet, twice in the head and it just made a growl then scurried under my shed. Shot another in the chest, screamed and ran off. 2 years later some seal in it failed and I couldn’t find anyone to fix it. POS in my mind. I still have my late fathers pump Benjamin and it’s a friggin beast.
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I have a 25+ year old benjamin, 5mm pump up. 700ish fps that’s accurate and deadly.
 
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giles said:
Is it just the O-ring at the break? Any parts/hardware store will have them. You can usually flip it over too.
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No, I did replace that one and still wouldn’t work. That was the first thing I thought because it would hold air, but when fired nothing happened. Seemed like air escaped somewhere other than the breach.
 
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Reminds me of a story from college. My then girlfriend and I were in a condo that backed up to a thick undeveloped brush field. We put up a bird feeder and the tree rats took it over.

Gf was adamant that I was not to shoot them because we would get in trouble. Nevertheless, I took out my old pump action crossman from the 1980s. I was deadly with that thing. Anyway, she went to class and I popped two squirrels out of the feeder and fed them to the local feral cats.

All was well until gf got home and asked why there was blood on the bird feeder. Oops.

I blamed a pair of blue jays or cardinals that were constantly fighting each other. She wasn't too bright.
 
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Tipmoose said:
Reminds me of a story from college. My then girlfriend and I were in a condo that backed up to a thick undeveloped brush field. We put up a bird feeder and the tree rats took it over.

Gf was adamant that I was not to shoot them because we would get in trouble. Nevertheless less, I took out my old pump action crossman from the 1980s. I was deadly with that thing. Anyway, she went to class and I popped two squirrels out of the feeder and fed them to the local feral cats.

All was well until gf got home and asked why there was blood on the bird feeder. Oops.

I blamed a pair of blue jays or cardinals that were constantly fighting each other. She wasn't too bright.
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Sgt Fury

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RWS in 22 cal. Use pellets and it is super accurate. They are a little heavy though. 30 yards is a gimme and I once took a 70 yard shot at a squirrel that was sitting up and facing me. I held an inch over his head and it hit him in the throat. Bloodiest squirrel I ever shot….looked like a murder scene. RWS rifles aren’t cheap but you do get what you pay for.
If you can find an older (30 years) pump action Benjamin, you should buy it….they are super accurate for a ”bb” gun.
 
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Dropped one over the fence in the woods, I'm not going to get him. He was probably 35 yards, far enough there was a good pause between the sound of the gun and the thwop of the pellet.
 
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J said:
I grew up with the Crossman 760 and the 1400 in .22 cal pellet. The 1400 had a shuttle instead of a bolt. We killed a lot of small game with that 1400.
They were very clear in the instructions not to exceed 10 pumps. As far as I remember we stuck to that…..
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Crossman 760 was the same BB gun me and my buddies grew up with. Hate to say it but many birds contributed to my marksmanship skills.
 
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