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Killing chipmunks is about to get serious damnit!
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<blockquote data-quote="Anschutz" data-source="post: 1204609" data-attributes="member: 33100"><p>It's okay to be uninformed. I'm assuming Engineering was fairly unknown to you when you began school but now you know more than I with my Statics and Dynamics, Thermo, and Design courses I had to take. I know a good deal about Airguns and have shot them at everything from Carpenter Bees hovering in the yard to electronic 10M Olympic targets at West Point. I'll start you with your caliber choice and move to the types of rifles you may want to consider. I'm not sure of your price range but I think we can get you to a spot you'd like to be to get rid of those Chipmunks.</p><p> </p><p>Caliber: You say .177 because it's what you know and Wal-Mart carries a Metric Buttload of choices I assume. The only real choice they carry is the Crossman Premier Domed Pellet and most of them carry .177 and .22. These are stable and hard hitting for their caliber. I will suggest going with a .22 because of the energy it delivers at the target. Airguns already don't have much energy so any extra you get is great. A 1000 fps .177 will have about 40% less energy at the muzzle than a 900 fps .22 and at 40 yards it will be about 50% more. This is important on animals with very small vital areas. A .177 will shoot flatter than a .22 but the wind will push it around a lot more. I find that I'm a lot better at range doping than wind doping so between energy and windage, I'm apt to go for a .22. </p><p> </p><p>Type of rifle: </p><p> -I'm not sure if you have shot a spring gun before but they are very finicky about how you hold them as they have a very violent recoil that pushes back until the piston stops then lurches forward. This requires an Airgun Specific scope as it will thrash any scope not made for airguns. They are also quite loud and the most accurate rifles can be quite expensive. </p><p> - PCP Airguns are fairly expensive but have a lot of advantages over a spring gun. They can be quiet, provide repeater capability with many models, and you can use any scope as there is no violent recoil. The other thing is that many of them have a shroud where the barrel ends a few inches in front of the barrel tube. This allows you to put a piece of tape over the barrel that makes it a lot quieter while keeping rain out of the barrel. My Anschutz with this configuration makes a louder sound when the pellet hits the squirrel or target than the report of the rifle. You can also leave the rifle charged for a long time where in a spring gun once it is cocked it must be fired or the spring will fatigue and lose power.</p><p> </p><p>Again I really don't know your budget but I can give some recommendations If I were going to buy an airgun I would be trying to get something that would allow me not only to hunt small game and kill pests but also allow me to practice shooting at range for the big game rifle. When 2000 pellets costs less than 40 rounds of rifle ammo you can get a lot of quiet, recoil free practice in the back yard. For me that would be a PCP, I have an air tank already from shooting competitively but a used one can be picked up for pretty cheap and then you can use that for a while and pay 10 bucks to have it refilled. For a lower end model I would go for a Marauder at around $500 or maybe a Discovery for around $400. You can work up from there to whatever you would like to spend but the only difference is that groups get smaller and quality goes up. I hope this helps at least a little bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anschutz, post: 1204609, member: 33100"] It's okay to be uninformed. I'm assuming Engineering was fairly unknown to you when you began school but now you know more than I with my Statics and Dynamics, Thermo, and Design courses I had to take. I know a good deal about Airguns and have shot them at everything from Carpenter Bees hovering in the yard to electronic 10M Olympic targets at West Point. I'll start you with your caliber choice and move to the types of rifles you may want to consider. I'm not sure of your price range but I think we can get you to a spot you'd like to be to get rid of those Chipmunks. Caliber: You say .177 because it's what you know and Wal-Mart carries a Metric Buttload of choices I assume. The only real choice they carry is the Crossman Premier Domed Pellet and most of them carry .177 and .22. These are stable and hard hitting for their caliber. I will suggest going with a .22 because of the energy it delivers at the target. Airguns already don't have much energy so any extra you get is great. A 1000 fps .177 will have about 40% less energy at the muzzle than a 900 fps .22 and at 40 yards it will be about 50% more. This is important on animals with very small vital areas. A .177 will shoot flatter than a .22 but the wind will push it around a lot more. I find that I'm a lot better at range doping than wind doping so between energy and windage, I'm apt to go for a .22. Type of rifle: -I'm not sure if you have shot a spring gun before but they are very finicky about how you hold them as they have a very violent recoil that pushes back until the piston stops then lurches forward. This requires an Airgun Specific scope as it will thrash any scope not made for airguns. They are also quite loud and the most accurate rifles can be quite expensive. - PCP Airguns are fairly expensive but have a lot of advantages over a spring gun. They can be quiet, provide repeater capability with many models, and you can use any scope as there is no violent recoil. The other thing is that many of them have a shroud where the barrel ends a few inches in front of the barrel tube. This allows you to put a piece of tape over the barrel that makes it a lot quieter while keeping rain out of the barrel. My Anschutz with this configuration makes a louder sound when the pellet hits the squirrel or target than the report of the rifle. You can also leave the rifle charged for a long time where in a spring gun once it is cocked it must be fired or the spring will fatigue and lose power. Again I really don't know your budget but I can give some recommendations If I were going to buy an airgun I would be trying to get something that would allow me not only to hunt small game and kill pests but also allow me to practice shooting at range for the big game rifle. When 2000 pellets costs less than 40 rounds of rifle ammo you can get a lot of quiet, recoil free practice in the back yard. For me that would be a PCP, I have an air tank already from shooting competitively but a used one can be picked up for pretty cheap and then you can use that for a while and pay 10 bucks to have it refilled. For a lower end model I would go for a Marauder at around $500 or maybe a Discovery for around $400. You can work up from there to whatever you would like to spend but the only difference is that groups get smaller and quality goes up. I hope this helps at least a little bit. [/QUOTE]
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