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Killing chipmunks is about to get serious damnit!
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<blockquote data-quote="Anschutz" data-source="post: 1204673" data-attributes="member: 33100"><p>On my air rifle, I have kept the cylinder charged for weeks at a time and it always had air in it unless flying. My competition gun was only meant to shoot well at 10m and had a muzzle velocity of 550 fps. It would shoot under an inch out to about 40m but had really lost all of its steam here and opened up a lot. Look up AirArmsSA. That guy shoots some really high quality air rifles at some animals we just don't have here in the States and he's deadly accurate. As far as the .22 airguns go, you have to completely separate yourself from the .22 LR when thinking about them. A 40gr standard velocity .22LR has about 5 times the energy of a .22 pellet. As far as filling it, your standard compressor is definitely not up to task. A PCP airgun typically fills to 3000 PSI. How do you achieve such high pressures? A dive tank is what I used. It would fill the tank several times before needing to be refilled itself. I got a used one and it was less than $15 for the shop to fill it. Most fire departments will do it for you as well, I'm sure a few bucks into the lunch fund wouldn't hurt your chances either. Back to caliber for the airgun, I'm pretty sure no one ever did anything because someone on the internet told them it was better. Hell, more than once I shot squirrels with my comp airgun at my grandmother's. With a scope on, that rifle is so accurate their isn't a chance inside 20 yards. I told my Wife once to just aim for the eye and there was a one eyed dead squirrel a few seconds later. I am of the belief that for headshots a .177 on a squirrel is fine. At my low velocity, I just used my match pellets because the flat head hits and pushes back into the skirt (expansion). I'm not sure that I had the energy to go through a squirrel's head but they mostly just twitched after getting shot. All in all, I think you would be satisfied with a PCP in either .177 or .22 with a decent scope and maybe a bipod. I'd like to set one up just like a hunting rifle and practice on little pictures of game but that's the kid in me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anschutz, post: 1204673, member: 33100"] On my air rifle, I have kept the cylinder charged for weeks at a time and it always had air in it unless flying. My competition gun was only meant to shoot well at 10m and had a muzzle velocity of 550 fps. It would shoot under an inch out to about 40m but had really lost all of its steam here and opened up a lot. Look up AirArmsSA. That guy shoots some really high quality air rifles at some animals we just don't have here in the States and he's deadly accurate. As far as the .22 airguns go, you have to completely separate yourself from the .22 LR when thinking about them. A 40gr standard velocity .22LR has about 5 times the energy of a .22 pellet. As far as filling it, your standard compressor is definitely not up to task. A PCP airgun typically fills to 3000 PSI. How do you achieve such high pressures? A dive tank is what I used. It would fill the tank several times before needing to be refilled itself. I got a used one and it was less than $15 for the shop to fill it. Most fire departments will do it for you as well, I'm sure a few bucks into the lunch fund wouldn't hurt your chances either. Back to caliber for the airgun, I'm pretty sure no one ever did anything because someone on the internet told them it was better. Hell, more than once I shot squirrels with my comp airgun at my grandmother's. With a scope on, that rifle is so accurate their isn't a chance inside 20 yards. I told my Wife once to just aim for the eye and there was a one eyed dead squirrel a few seconds later. I am of the belief that for headshots a .177 on a squirrel is fine. At my low velocity, I just used my match pellets because the flat head hits and pushes back into the skirt (expansion). I'm not sure that I had the energy to go through a squirrel's head but they mostly just twitched after getting shot. All in all, I think you would be satisfied with a PCP in either .177 or .22 with a decent scope and maybe a bipod. I'd like to set one up just like a hunting rifle and practice on little pictures of game but that's the kid in me. [/QUOTE]
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