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Pellet guns #8434270
07/11/25 05:43 PM
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What's your favorite?

Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434282
07/11/25 06:11 PM
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Hope you find out....I found a good deal on a Hatsun 22, don't get one of those....it's extremely heavy, and I have all I can do to (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) it.... I hate the darn thing.

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Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434316
07/11/25 07:25 PM
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I am shooting a 22 cal Benjamin nitro piston right now. I would like a PCP, but can not see $1000+ in a pellet rifle. By the time you put a scope on it and get a compressor it will be $1000 +. I have thought about getting a nitro piston in 25 cal. I think I would like it more then the 22 cal


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Re: Pellet guns [Re: MJM] #8434340
07/11/25 08:12 PM
07/11/25 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by MJM
I am shooting a 22 cal Benjamin nitro piston right now. I would like a PCP, but can not see $1000+ in a pellet rifle. By the time you put a scope on it and get a compressor it will be $1000 +. I have thought about getting a nitro piston in 25 cal. I think I would like it more then the 22 cal


You really don't have to spend that much , there's a ton of pretty nice PCP's for under $300 now days , a lot of decr rimfire scopes with adjustable parallax can be had for $150 or less and there been a lot of companies dropping compressers for $200 so $6-700 and reading some reviews


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Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434344
07/11/25 08:15 PM
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But I love my gamo urban think I got mine on sale with for like $275 ? Dead quiet and I can pop pigeons out to 75 yd pretty easy if it's a calm day. Get about 25-30 shots before I need to start pumping it up again due to low air but I've ran it all the way out and get like 50-60 I think . O and it's DEAD QUIET usually all I hear is the puff of air the hammer mechanism drop and the sound of whatever I'm shooting getting hit
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Never got around to really doing any pellet testing though

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Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434350
07/11/25 08:24 PM
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I bought a Ruger Airhawk Elite II .177 Pellet Rifle. It might be a little heavy for some, but for what I'm using it for, it works great. I think I gave a little over $100 for it about 4 years ago.


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Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434375
07/11/25 08:58 PM
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Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434376
07/11/25 09:00 PM
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I picked up my boys both a Benjamin Maximus .22 cap pcp on sale for 125 off midway years ago during the panic and ammo shortage. I figured it would keep them shooting and out of my .22 ammo pellets were always available when bullets were not. It only holds up to about 2k psi and gets about 30 shots befor it drops off and needs pumped. Got a t0$ hand pump off Amazon and it takes about 70 pumps to go from low to full. Added $40 Simon's rim fire r x scoped and it is a deadly cheap combo. Killed everything from coyotes down to mice with them.

They are loud and could use a moderator if wanting to shoot them I. town. and a bit long but was a nice cheap entrance into pcp.

Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434417
07/11/25 09:49 PM
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I bought a Gamo Whisper. Shoots hard and fast but I'm not accurate with it.


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Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434420
07/11/25 09:51 PM
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Re: Pellet guns [Re: MJM] #8434421
07/11/25 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by MJM
I am shooting a 22 cal Benjamin nitro piston right now. I would like a PCP, but can not see $1000+ in a pellet rifle. By the time you put a scope on it and get a compressor it will be $1000 +. I have thought about getting a nitro piston in 25 cal. I think I would like it more then the 22 cal


Which model?

Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434422
07/11/25 09:55 PM
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Idk, it was a $100 from bass pro 10 years ago. Only use it for up close trapping use when I need to be quiet.



What are you planning to use it for? There are some cheap ones and some really expensive ones. I gotta friend from Nebraska who shoots in Olympic style competitions. Hers is line $3k or something.


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Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434454
07/11/25 10:50 PM
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I have an 22 cal Airforce Airguns PCP air rifle which I fill with a scuba tank. It is almost 20 years old and it may be the most accurate rifle that I own.
It has held up well, and I am a little rough on my tools.

Re: Pellet guns [Re: WI Outdoors] #8434456
07/11/25 10:51 PM
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I have one and its a Gamo Whisper. I use it trapping mainly for dispatch.

Re: Pellet guns [Re: BandB] #8434469
07/11/25 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by BandB
Originally Posted by MJM
I am shooting a 22 cal Benjamin nitro piston right now. I would like a PCP, but can not see $1000+ in a pellet rifle. By the time you put a scope on it and get a compressor it will be $1000 +. I have thought about getting a nitro piston in 25 cal. I think I would like it more then the 22 cal


Which model?

It is a Predator. I have had it for 5-6 years. The trigger was crap at best. I shot five pellets and figured that was all I would ever shoot out of it. When I was walking in I figured I would check you tube on doing a trigger job to it. I found a video on how to add a RC car axel bearing to a stud and it told the size to get. I found one on line for $8 shipped and ordered it. When it came I pulled the barrel out of the stock and slipped the bearing over the stud. I put the barre and action back in the stock and went and shot it. I would guess it has a two pound trigger with no play. I shoot it at thirteen lined ground squirrels and kill them out to 50 yards pretty regular.


































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