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airgun dealer

May 8 2006 at 7:55 PM
  (Login tomhorn)
from IP address 69.95.18.13

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need info of knowledgable airgun dealer within 100 miles
of Corning NY. looking for medium power 22 carbine to replace diana original 45. need lower power for shooting in barns and sheds, dont want to sacrifice accuarcy. any help appreciated.

tom horn
607 936 4933

 
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(Login ZVP)
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Re: airgun dealer

May 9 2006, 6:11 AM 

 Tom,

 There is a great airgunning resource at http://www. airguninfo.com

 Many on-line dealers and helpfull topics! Ya might find the  sorta "Local" info you need?

 Diana offers several mid-power .22's in the Model  28 family. Unfortunatelly, todays "Magnumitis" trend has created rifles of high penetration that are unusable in metal sheds.

 I know your dilemmia... I had to kill some Feral Pigeons in our Horse Arena once, and  had to go to a 650-700fps .177 to prevent shooting holes in the tin roof. I used Head shots and backed each up by aligning with wood beams to take any misses.

 I first tried a 500FPS .22 and it wasn't sufficent to pierce wing bone, then tried a  .177 Match W/C @ 650-700fps but it didn't penetrate said bone either. I finally ended up using the .177 with a scoped rifle at that velocity firing a Crosman Point. It did the trick out to 40-50 yards, even when only a chest shot was available, it did not over-penetrate.

 Doggone Pigeons are big birds and need to be hit well to bring down. Also, having the overpenetration concerns and using a .177 "Light Sporter", a follow-up kill shot was necessary. I don't like sloppy kills, but with these  Building preservation restrictions coupled with the fears of Disease concerns for the horses feed, I saw that shooting and eliminating the Pest Birds was paramount. In truth, a higher powered/ Larger Caliber rifle would have most "humane" but just could not be applied.

 Maybe in liew of purchasing a special rifle just for this, maybe a shooting buddy has one you can borrow? However, a fella always needs an excuse to get yet another air rifle tho...

 Good luck & HTH,

 ZVP


 
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