Air Gun Kill

[danny]

Had the mouse thing happen once late at night . Got my daughters trusty Daisy and drilled the varmint. What I hadnt expected was the penetration power of the Daisy. The blasted BB double lunged the critter bounced off the shoe molding and struck me nearly between the eyes. Wear protective eye gear. We have 3 big pecan trees around the house and every fall we manage to fill a few fry pans with squirrel. With the 177 you really need to go for the head shots. The 22s have more than twice the stopping power but tend to be a tad less accurate, they do damage more meat with body shots. The pellet guns dont upset any other squirrels in the area. I got a RWS 350P this winter, in 177 and its got it all accuracy , stopping power and range.

Hey kid, you'll shoot your eye out!

Danny

 

[snert]

My wife is fond of recounting this story...

We were living in a tiny apartment in the first month after we were married. It was a servant quarters in a large NY mansion near NYC. It also had an infestation of squirrels in the attic. I had no idea squirrels were so nocturnal. After several weeks of listening to crittters run about in the ceiling above our head, distracting her from ...well... we were just married ya know....I determined to eliminate the distraction. I waited till she was gone for the day, snuck outside into the heavy shrubbery in the backyard directly under the hole in the soffit that they were using to gain access. I had my Winchester/Diana 450 177 underlever that I had since I was 12. It was not long until the first bushytailed intimacy distractor came along a thin branch above me. One down...
Then two down
Then Three down.
Then four down.
Then five down
Then six down. All in about half an hour.
Now mind you I was in downtown Nyack, near NYC in 1987. It was NOT a hunting friendly area and lets just say that what I was doing wasnt exactly within the bounds of the law. But then, desperate times, desperate measures. (The statute of limitations applies here)

Feeling pretty proud of my manly accomplishments, I ditched all but one of the tree rats, but I really wanted wifey to know about my skill and studly protection of my..err...her...err...our... newly discovered night time intimacy.
So I took #6 in the apartment. When she came home I met her at the door with that tree rat held by the tail behind my back. As she came thru the door, I boldly said "Wait till you see what I got". She smiled. I then whipped out mr bloody squirrel, so proud of myself. She screamed. She ran. She shuddered. She yelled. And to this day reminds me that a newly married bride expects flowers, not a tree rat.

Ya, it took a week or so to recover from that one. But once we did, we were no longer distracted by a rodent scurrying about above our heads. We have been happily married for 38 years and have four grown children and four grandkids. She is now used to seeing videos of exploding groundhogs and dead squirrels. Our house is littered with empty cartridges, pellets, holsters, and safes. I made my living eventully, from guns. Now she just smiles, generally amused by my thinking...

There are a lot of problems that can be cured with the proper application of ballistic superiority!

 

[Larry Koch]

PCP Air Force .25 caliber. quick and quite. Or any quality .25 cal PCP rifle.

.22 is to small