Tail-less Charlie gets "Snerted"

[snert]

This veteran campaigner was marauding local crops and had several run-ins with a dog, losing his tail in the process. The notorious nefarious Tail-less Charlie has now met his end, getting "snerted" at 30 yards by a 25 Caliber Marauder PCP.

DRT, RIP Charlie

Snert

 

[ARW]

Looks like a real nice shot. Those PCP's do a number on them with the right shot placement and are perfect for areas where a centerfire might not be.

Alan

 

[IMMORTAL]

Nice shot. Yep.....he got "snerted". LOL

 

[MrMajestic]

I bow before you! Great shot!

 

[snert]

The Marauder makes me look a better shot than I am. The Weaver GS 4-14 is perfect for it. Popping 50 yard English sparrows is not hard. "Charlie' got it between ear and eye on the right side, out the left same place. Oweeee!

Sometimes you just have to match the firearm to the job at hand!

Snert

 

[jds holler]

With a perfect meat saving shot like that, he'd be a perfect hog for the roaster. ;D jd

 

[jonbearman]

I guess it tastes like chicken.

 

[fredo]

I guess it tastes like chicken.

don't knock it til ya try it

Good shootin', P!

 

[snert]

For the record, Charlie was one nasty old beat up and diseased critter. he is fertilizer.

 

[CaptainMal]

Don't know what a PCP is but the rifle looks like some kind of air rifle. In the last couple months I have taken at least a dozen (more) squirrel that keep trying to move onto the walls of my house. Nothing better than air rifle fun and now I see ... PCP fun.

Isn't PCP some kind of drug?

 

[snert]

The rifle is a pre-Charged-Pneumatic...PCP air rifle. It is a benjamin Marauder in 25 caliber. The pellets are about 28 grains...a 177 is max 12 grains. It shoots at about 850-900 FPS and is very quiet because the barrel is suppressed with a muffler around it. The pellet hitting makes the most noise. 50 yard sparrows off the barn roof are pretty simple from a rest. Pigeons are like shooting at a cow with a bench rifle....hard to miss. The Grandslam on it has a BDC reticule and works well for hold off. At 25 yards it plops pellet after pellet in the same hole or very near it off a McFadden rest.

Only down side is it charges off either a high pressure pony tank or with a dual stage hand pump....only 16-18 shots per and then time to pump and pump. or run regularly to the scuba shop for air. Still beats the springer (and I had some good ones) by a long shot.

 

[CatShooter]

The rifle is a pre-Charged-Pneumatic...PCP air rifle. It is a benjamin Marauder in 25 caliber. The pellets are about 28 grains...a 177 is max 12 grains. It shoots at about 850-900 FPS and is very quiet because the barrel is suppressed with a muffler around it. The pellet hitting makes the most noise. 50 yard sparrows off the barn roof are pretty simple from a rest. Pigeons are like shooting at a cow with a bench rifle....hard to miss. The Grandslam on it has a BDC reticule and works well for hold off. At 25 yards it plops pellet after pellet in the same hole or very near it off a McFadden rest.

Only down side is it charges off either a high pressure pony tank or with a dual stage hand pump....only 16-18 shots per and then time to pump and pump. or run regularly to the scuba shop for air. Still beats the springer (and I had some good ones) by a long shot.

What make/model??

 

[CaptainMal]

Thanks for the explanation. I had no clue something like that existed.

Just have a "springer". Not as accurate but still quite useful.

 

[snert]

The rifle is a pre-Charged-Pneumatic...PCP air rifle. It is a benjamin Marauder in 25 caliber. The pellets are about 28 grains...a 177 is max 12 grains. It shoots at about 850-900 FPS and is very quiet because the barrel is suppressed with a muffler around it. The pellet hitting makes the most noise. 50 yard sparrows off the barn roof are pretty simple from a rest. Pigeons are like shooting at a cow with a bench rifle....hard to miss. The Grandslam on it has a BDC reticule and works well for hold off. At 25 yards it plops pellet after pellet in the same hole or very near it off a McFadden rest.

Only down side is it charges off either a high pressure pony tank or with a dual stage hand pump....only 16-18 shots per and then time to pump and pump. or run regularly to the scuba shop for air. Still beats the springer (and I had some good ones) by a long shot.

What make/model??

second sentence. Benjamin Marauder, 25 cal. had springers before..RWS 48 and an old Diana/Winchester 450 in 177. Got that when I was 12 and still own it.

 

[CaptainMal]

No way will I steal your thunder with my Beeman RS2. WalMart $100 special with 177 and 22 bbl's. The 22 shot lousy so it's been .177 for my years of use.

 

[snert]

I think air rifles are really overlooked as varmint guns. I would love to set up in a small turkey blind and shoot PDs or squirrels in ranch yards or tight spots. I think they are perfect for that kind of work. In the dairy barns here, when it is 25 below, we shoot starlings in the free-stalls. 100-150 bird nites are norm. A springer is perfect for that.

Snert

 

[Brians356]

I've never shot a PCP. Seems like a good approach for accurate hunting, though. I have a classic Beeman R7 springer, and the "old Bentley" of competition air rifles, a recoilless FWB 300S I bought in (of all places) a pawn shop. Not a lot of velocity, but the trigger is heaven, and it shoots into one hole at 30m off a steady rest. The Swiss watch of action designs, its zero recoil never fails to impress first-time shooters.

 

[snert]

Brians,

I always lusted for the early Beemans, and loved the r7. I also shot a Beeman FWB match gun that was just awesome. When I was younger I could shoot a springer like it was the extension of my mind. Now my mind wanders all over the place! For a long time I kept my winters (brutal here) and skills sharp offhand by wearing out the Diana 45/win 450 177 in the hallway of my house. That gun was rebuilt by RWS using a heavier spring in the early 2000's after being made and shot a lot since 1975. Now it bucks and barks like a cannon...not smooth like it used to be. Much harder to shoot and not as fun.

A PCP is a different animal, and the 25 is a different class altogether. It is like shooting a silent 22 short subsonic, only very accurate. The pumping does turn into a pain...time to spend on a pony tank!

 

[CatShooter]

Brians,

I always lusted for the early Beemans, and loved the r7. I also shot a Beeman FWB match gun that was just awesome. When I was younger I could shoot a springer like it was the extension of my mind. Now my mind wanders all over the place! For a long time I kept my winters (brutal here) and skills sharp offhand by wearing out the Diana 45/win 450 177 in the hallway of my house. That gun was rebuilt by RWS using a heavier spring in the early 2000's after being made and shot a lot since 1975. Now it bucks and barks like a cannon...not smooth like it used to be. Much harder to shoot and not as fun.

A PCP is a different animal, and the 25 is a different class altogether. It is like shooting a silent 22 short subsonic, only very accurate. The pumping does turn into a pain...time to spend on a pony tank!

I had one of the Beeeman R-1s. It was a magnum of it's time, and would would penetrate 10 soda cans.
It was very acurate, and would make tiny groups - except from day to day, the tiny groups would be in a different place each time... it was good for cats and crows, but it moved on to someone else.

 

[fredo]

All this airgun talk has inspired me to dust off my old RWS Diana Model 36 and get to shootin' it again!