Hi Guys,
I know that this is quite an old thread. I hope this information is useful to your members. I have a large collection of spring air rifles and PCP's. I have spring air rifles up to 30ft lbs of energy and feel if you are going to have a PCP it should be over 35ft lbs. If you are going to hunt with your PCP you should use a .25cal or .30cal, which has harder hitting power and causes a bigger wound channel. I have a .25Cal Daystate Air Ranger Extreme 80 ft/lbs however I was getting 88 ft/lbs with 43grain Eun Jin pellets. Devastating on small to medium game up to 100metres and surprisingly very accurate once you get used to it. I love power so I ended up buying a Daystate Wolverine 303 with 102ft/lb, the 30 Cal is much more powerful and more effective out to further distances and also very accurate. Even though it only has around 14 ft'lbs more energy than the Air ranger it has a bigger wound channel and therefore more effective. When hunting small game at closer distances I use my English made Webley Patriot in .25Cal or Beeman CroMagnum in .25Cal ( AKA Theoben Eliminator). I also have Weihrauch HW90 .22cal , HW 97 .20cal, HW80 .22Cal. I also have recently bought a Beeman Super 12 ( AKA Theoben Rapid MK1) in .25cal haven't shot it yet.
Regards
Jim
