prarie dog with pellet gun!!!! must read this

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donavan

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i bought an air rifle a few weeks back- a .25 cal theoben from england- this gun shoots over 100 fps with 30 gr pellets! ive been shooting birds, turtles, and other small animals with it. today i got up early and went out to a pasture full of prarie dogs and shot a few with it. i hit one at 83 steps! 83 steps with a pellet gun- talk about fun.
 
Originally posted by donavan:
[qb] this gun shoots over 100 fps with 30 gr pellets![/qb]
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Don't believe the manufactures claims for velocity. When they say it shoots at 1000fps they generally don't specify what weight pellets and when they measured the speed they used light pellets like cleaning pellets.
 
I have a 20 cal BEnjiman sheridan it's a nice gun i've killed lots of rabbits/squirrels And 1 of the enighbors dogs when it Decided to kill a bunch of chikens it's a Sturdy hard hitting gun suprised me at frist
 
I've been lookinn into the .20 caliber blue streak looks like a nice compromise between the low end and high end of the airgun world from what i understand the .20 caliber cylindrical pellets are made to even closer tolerances than the match grade .177 caliber pellets.
 
damn cant a guy get a break in here- tough crowd. its a .25 cal and its shooting 1043 fps through my chrony with 34 gr pellets. i killed a coyote with it sunday and a dozen more prarie dogs. it rocks!
 
My first, second, and third pellet guns were all Sheridans. I bought the first one in 1959, for $7.00. My Dad didn't really want me to have one,(I was only nine years old), but I told him I would only shoot at things I knew I could hit, and I would be really, really careful with it. Three days after I bought it I was standing on the back porch of our house, and two houses away,(about 175 feet) on a telephone line, was a sparrow. I told my dad that I could hit it with one shot. He said the gun wouldn't shoot that far.I bet him that if I could hit the bird, he had to buy me the next can of pellets. If I missed, he could have the gun. I shot and the bird fell, and Dad took the gun anyway. My first lesson on where does the bullit go if it passes thru. I never saw that gun again. It was a really nice gun. Walnut wood and a really unique safety. The safety was on the tang, and looked like a front blade sight. You had to hold it down with your thumb while you pulled the trigger. I think the barrel was brass!
Later, I bought another one, and got a job at a drive-in movie theater shooting pidgens off the top of the movie screen. It was really funny to be watching the show, and just when the guy would get the girl, a large dead bird would fall off the screen. I would make about three or four dollars a night. That was back in the early sixties. That would be a fun job to have now. Does anyone know where a drive-in is?
 
My first prairie dog was killed with a Daisy pump bb gun. Sat in a small depression about 30 feet from the hole. Hit him in the head /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Many more have died since that day in good old Okie land!!
 
My hunting buddy has a silver streak and a blue streak. They are excellent guns. I have seen him put one pellet on another at 40 feet with the blue streak with open sights. 20 caliber hits hard. He has killed squirrels, rabbits, cats, and town crows with it. I think they are top of the line for their price range. I dont think I would go coyote hunting with it though.
 
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