Favorite Pellet rifle?

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Iron Pony

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Mine is the Sheridan Silver Streak .20 cal.
Eight pumps did the trick. I found pellets that were made by Beeman called Silver jets that increased my confirmed kills by 10%.
I'll never forget the times in Zilker park under MoPack in Austin taking all those fat stinky pigeons.
I shot so many birds with that thing I needed the valves replaced twice. How about your favorites?
 
Nothing could touch my Daisy powerline 880. Not the new one you will see now a days,that's an imposter. This was a 70s model and one pump would kill smaller birds,and it would go to 20 or so before you heard the leak in the piston. The more you oiled it, the more it spit oil with every shot. I killed rabbits with head shots with bbs as I could rarely afford pellets. Pigeons can take a hell of a body shot though. Head shots were the trick.Squirells were easy pickins too. I saved the whole $16 dollars for it then and got a scope with it. I have played arround with a newer powerline but no way is it as good. I had a benjamin single shot .22 that broke at the forearm and would kill anything you shot in the bean with it. That benjamin was taken away by the cops after a friend shot himself in the foot and it went through his foot and into the carpet! (Don't try this at home fellers!) Ahhhhh, the pump always won the wars too LOL, jerryboy
 
The only serious air rifle I had was a Sheridan Blue Streak. That thing put down a bunch of pigeons, dove, crows a few rabbits and lots of tree squirrels when I was a kid. I still have it but it has set for so long the seals are dried up it and it won't charge up now. Been wanting to get something new but not up to speed with whats out there.
 
Originally posted by FALFire:
[qb]The only serious air rifle I had was a Sheridan Blue Streak. That thing put down a bunch of pigeons, dove, crows a few rabbits and lots of tree squirrels when I was a kid. I still have it but it has set for so long the seals are dried up it and it won't charge up now. Been wanting to get something new but not up to speed with whats out there.[/qb]
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I had the same rifle with the same problem. Mine would make a funny farting noise when I'd pump it. If I pumped it real fast sometimes it would catch and hold air... if I didn't die laughing first.
 
My old 880 (back in the days when you had to spend extra $ and get the 881 to get a rifled barrel) was the last thing a tremendous number of rabbits, sparrows, blackbirds, gophers and one crow ever saw. We used to drop 7-10 BBs into the barrel and try to get birds on the wing, but never had any luck.
Just bought the new version, shoots like crap with BBs but is deadly on the gophers with pellets. I suspect the rifling doesn't agree with BBs. Not a problem as I can now afford pellets, but would have been a huge financial burden in the old days.
 
Fishnhunt,

You just brought back a great memory. My two brothers and I bought 10,000 bb's one time. Our goal was to shoot the crazy chimney sweeps out of the air. We too, would load the barrel with bb's. Guess how many be brought down out of 10,000 bb's

1 MFN bird, yea one. We sucked!
 
My Sheriden 5mm, had it rebuilt by Ollie Damon in Portland Or. a few years ago. earned it thinning sugar beets, in about 1960, earned a Ruger 10-22 the same summer, first one I ever saw. still have it, still better than any single stroke and any CO2. Killed hundreds of starlingsand a few rabbits.
Carl
 
I have a RWS model 38 (11 yrs), this is the "barrel break" for cocking the gun. It is in the .177 cal and it has taken probably around 100 crows plus lots of possiums,rats,starling, etc. etc.
It has served me well and now I am thinking of getting one of the new RWS models, love my RWS!
 
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I had a Sheridan Silver Streak that I bought in 1960, for $17.00. This one had a safety on the top of the reciever, that you had to hold down with your thumb, while you pulled the trigger. I wore it out shooting pidgeons at the drive in. They would roost on the top of the screen at night, and we got paid $.10 for each one we shot off the screen during the movie. Some times the patrons would complain about the birds "buzzing" the screen during the movie. Most of them had no idea that they were being shot, and what they were seeing were the dead birds falling in front of the screen. Sometimes we would make eight or ten dollars a night, and get to see the movie for free! I would still like to have one of the old Blue Streaks. Maybe someday.
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Feinwerkbau, no contest.
Although I have to admit the Anschutz are very good.

Walther is also very good.

Steyr is cheaper, but I hear good things about them.

Jack
 


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