aaron airgunner

pics please. are they neoprene?

hmm you could get a decent springer for that but not a PCP. average airgunners can shoot a springer accurately to about 35yrds. good springers are the following: hw77k hw90k hw97k hw80k bsa supresport theoben springrifles air arms prosport air arms tx200 these are all in your price range but handle them in your local gunshop to see which one fits you best in terms of weight, balance and handling.. optics, something from hawke would do you good with a magnificaiton like 4-12 or 3-9 will be fine for hunting. as for calibre both will do fine if you put the pellet in the right place, just behind the eye and below the ear on a bunny. although baring in mind the heavier the pellet the more it will drop over range, so in my opinion the .177 gives an advantage for rabbits overf .22

mtc optics are very clear and good quality. the IR models illuminate the scb reticle only

damn, i would have swopped my s400 for this....

slip a catty in your pocket next time, quiet and dicreet.... joking mate my park has a lot of squirrels which feed out of your hand.

whats your budget matey? ultimately, the more money you have the easier it will be to achieve accuracy with your air rifle.

i would recommend these: http://snipersystems.co.uk/id46.html there tilting and very lighweight.

is this mulltishot?

i'm 14, am i still aloud to hunt unaccompinied?

neck shots work too but headshots garruntee a kill, unlike shoulder shots where you could end up hitting a hard bone and just wounding the rabbit michael- with£400 you can buy a decent single shot pcp and a scope. i have an air arms s400 .177 which cost around £375. £50 will get you a decent set of optics and mounts. of course if looks dont matter to you then you can get the cheaper, ugly but just as good in performance air arms s200 which cost around £340 in my local gunshop. thee are excellent little guns, deadly accurate, powerful, and light weight definetly not as pretty as the s400. you can fill up your gun at a gun shop or dive shop for a very low cost or buy a tank or pump.these will set you back £100 second hand.

nice shooting but it should really be headshots only with a .22

everytime i see this rifle i want it more and more.

i realised that it looked good when i was writing it! i have edited it into words now.

welcome to the site! whats your budget mate? epople usually go for PCP's becaus they are easier to shoot accurately and you can reat them on anything and the zero wont change as they have no recoil whatsoever. S200's are great rifles and perfect for someone starting hunting. although you will need to fill it up every 60 shots from a dive shop or you can buy a pump/bive tank for around £100 second hand. divers shops wont charge anymore than a £1 per fill. you really do need to practice prctice practice before you even think about shooting live quarry. just behindd the eye or the neck is the best place to aim on all quarry. you need to be able to hit a pound at the range you intend to hunt at before you even think about hunting. after leaving the barel the pellet tavels upwards, reaches a point and then starts to drop. like a big streched out arc. this arc means that airgunners have to aim low (i.e below the target) before the range that they zero at (i.e the range that the pellet is hittng where you put the crosshairs) and high (above the target) on any targets further than the range you zero at. on a .22 this arc is quite prominent but on a .177 this arc is not so loopy hence .177 being the 'flatter' calibre. so lets see how this would effect you in a hunting situation. you have zero'd at 30 yrds. you spot a pigeon which you think is at 30 yrds but it is actually at 40yrds. with a .22 the pellet would have dropped significantly and you would end up with that pigeon flying off wounded. with a .11 if you aimed at the head of that pigeon it would have only dropped to the neck and would still be a clean kill. .22 might make a bigger hole and 'hit harder' but all responsible airgun hunters should be going for headshots anyway and if you put a pellet through the brain of your quarry, no matter what the sixe of the pellet it will kill that quarry.

have you got chairgun software? it will tell you where your pellet will be hitting on the crosshairs. for example i zero my gun at 35yrds and chairgun tells me i will need no holdover or holdunder (i.e hitting the crosshairs) at 15yrds. this is because the pellets trajectory is like a big ark and unless your zero rnage is right on top of that ark there will alway be 2 places where your gunis zeroed, and the other ranges you need holover/holduder for.

i'll take the knock down target off you. you have PM. enjoy your swim Aaron

bump please pm me if you have an offer.

hi all. my birthday a few days agor and my MTC Mamba lite 4-16x44 arrived safetly in the post today. I was impressed with the packaging and you could see from just opening the box that its a quality product. after removing the packaging i carefully read he insructions and then double checked them. NOT! i could'nt wait to get it on my rifle and test it out. as i was taking off my old scope i realised how light this scope was. judging by hand, it weighed the same than my old scope, a hawke reflex 3-10x44. this is suprising for quite a high mag scope like the mamba. the picture quality was very good, as clear as day. the first thing i tested was the rangefinding capabilities of the side parrallax which go's from 10yrds to infinite. i first placed a pigeon decoy at 25yrds then put the side parrallax on 25yrds. it was perfectly focused unlike many scopes which don't have accurate range marks on the parrallax. i then randomly placed some decoys at different ranges and started to rangefind every one with the side parrallax. i wrote down what range i thought the decoy was at. when i went out to measure the decoys distance from me i was amazed that i was never more than 3 or 4yrds out! i zeroed the rifle at 35yrds and calibrated the reticle so i knew how much holdover/holdunder i needed from 10-45yrds. with MTC's SCB reicle it was very easy to use holdover/holdunder with so many aim points your never guesing where to put it between 2 widly spaced mildots. http://media.photobu...de/DSCF0025.jpg this version dose not have illuminated reticle or a sunshade but the point of this scope is to stay as light as possible. all in all i am ver happy with it and will be hitting the rabbits on the weekend. i will also be doing an article for Airgun World. i spoke to Terry Doe at the kelmarsh gamefair in he said he would like me to do a 'first day alone' article as this will be my first hunt without having to have my dad hanging around. ATB Aaron.

i think that its really important that you cover the pink of your face whn shooting pigeons as, unlike rabbits, pigeons have excellent vision. they can see the white flashes of their buddies tucking into rapeseed 100's of yards away. so it shouldent be too had for them to spot a flash of pink.

if this was the huntin life foum this thread would be deleted by now, and for good reason too. air rifles are not suitable for foxes as the risk of wounding is just too high. the only place where it would ever be acceptable to shoot a fox with an airgun is in a live cage trap, and theat airgun would have to be at least 30ftib.

leave him alone its just a bit of fun. although it must be said i would never try that with my gun as i would be too afraid of wrecking it.

yes it is important. anything which breaks up your shape will help. it dose not have to be top end reeltree just some cheap DPM will help break up the human shape which your quarry sees as a threat. i always where a face veil but lately it has been too hot from neoprene gloves so i need to buy some light camo gloves. i use danish m84 camo which is very good at breaking up your shape and blends in much better with hedges and fields than either DPM or APG.

sorry, i probably have O.C.D and am very fussy but i do wash and lube pellets and take out any defromed ones. i have tested it on a chrony and washed and lubed pellets are more consistent than straight out the tin ones. i know many top shooters you take shots out to 50yrds who wash and lube there pellets.

nice shooting! i'm not sure spoons are on the general licence though...

i tend to mess up when people are watching me because i am pressurized to look good.