Air rifle vs. .22lr

i'd like to see someone try an reuse the pellets i shoot from my rws!! at 50 yrds all i can find is small slivers of lead............
 
your air rifle is not useless crazylarry... it's just one more means of launching lead down range:cool: ..........................
 
I don't think its necessarily that the 22LR has more actual killing power it just has more range. If I had to make a 50yd shot there is no doubt I would take a 22LR rifle over a .177 caliber off the shelf air rifle. In my experience a .177 at close range will kill just about anything that the 22LR will. Pointed pellets are mandatory for long range penetration.
 
A good single cock .22 cal air rifle can muster about 27 ft/lbs of E
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There is one single cock, gas piston gun I know of that can match that figure. It's the Beeman Crow Magnum/Theoben Eliminator and it runs about $1000.

There are several rifles that advertise numbers in that neighborhood, but they rarely live up to it when there's a chronograph about. ;)

The top end metal spring guns in .22 caliber are more likely to have energy numbers around the low twenties ft/lb range.
Jeez, it's legal to hunt elk with just 500 ft lbs? That must be like trying to hunt elk with a .45acp pistol.
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More like hunting one with a traditional black-powder rifle. There can be legality issues--for example it's not legal to hunt ANY game animals (including squirrels and game birds) in Texas with an airgun--regardless of the power level.
 
Wharf rat shooting. Big, mama rat, with .22 950 fps high quality air rifle shot.
PISSED HER OFF,bounced off, AND I RAN, BEFORE SHE COULD CHASE ME.
22 short, 6-8 inches of rat, and, dead rat.

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