pellet pistol

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I have a rabbit problem. I live in the city limits, so I have to use a pellet gun to take care of it. I have a GAMO rifle, but I can't just walk around with it when I go to my garden. I was hoping to get something I could keep in my console for when I pull in the drive and they are nibbling at my garden.

Any pellet pistols suitable for rabbit hunting?
 
Benjamin/Crosman HB22, .22 pellet gun. 460FPS w/8 pumps and 14.3 grain pellet. I love mine. At 10-15 yards, in the head, it should solve your problem.:D
 
On second thought, if you are closer when you first pull in, say under 10 yards, what about a Trumark wrist braced slingshot w/black heavy pull bands and .44 cal lead balls? Much quieter than the HB22, and more lethal with a bit of practice. I have taken out problem raccoons and porqupines in my garden with my slingshots and lead balls. My favorite slingshot is an old 50's vintage Milligan with flat gum rubber bands. Silent and devestating! Instinctive shooting is easily mastered with a slingshot in a few hours.
 
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IMHO, the .177 is great for birds, and at over 800/1100fps in some of the rifles out there, quite deadly on small game. But for pump up rifles/pistols, I prefer a .22 pellet. This is kind of like the 9MM vs. .45 debate...
 
Worked for me

When I was growing up I killed probably hundreds of cotton tails with a Crossman CO2 .22 cal pellet pistol. The kid I hunted with did too and he had a Benjamin pump .177 pistol. All we used was the cheap pellets of the day. There are much better hunting pellets now.
 
If you have a .22 LR pistol you could try that with Aguila Colibri ammunition. Gets about 600 FPS and as quiet if not quieter than most pellet guns. There is no powder charge in the shells, just the force of the primer material which pushes a 20 grain pointed lead bullet.
 
I do not know the model # but a daisy .177 cal target pistol. Looks like a bolt action, has a cocking lever on the bottom. Loaded with Gamo Raptors it works extremly well for the little critters around here. My neighbor uses on to kill opossum, and the ocasional squirell. I saw one at Acadamy for something like 50 or so dollars I belive. I personaly just use my .177 cal break barrel rifle, I have a light and lazer combo mounted on top of the scope to use it at night.
 
crosman .22 pump pistol

Years ago, I had a Crosman pump air pistol, a .22. It was very much like the Benjamin that has been recommended.
I hunted rabbits with it part of one summer. Nine shots gave eight rabbits. All but one were dead in their tracks. The one ran about ten yards and took a second shot.
A .22 will do it - BUT....I had that gun pumped WAY up, probably 18 pumps. Eventually, I blew the seals and had to have it repaired. I still have the gun.
Shot placement, as always, is the kicker.
Pete
 
Webley made a spring powered pistol, the Tempest, that I have found to be an EXCELLENT pest dropper. It's nicely accurate, has an adjustable trigger, and is perfectly reliable (only ONCE have I ever had to push a pellet out, and that is because the skirt seperated in the barrel.) Rifling is nice and sharp, and I've put enough pellets through it that my Mom has flat-out threatened to brain me if I try to foist any more empty pellet tins off on her, she has ENOUGH of them, thank you very much.....
 
Rabbit problem? What the heck is a rabbit problem? Are they getting in your garden and eating your carrots, doc?
 
My Beeman Hurricane does good work on the tree rats that tear up my patio furniture.

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I love my Hurricane...I've put unknown thousands of pellets (it loved Beeman Silver Jets) down it's barrel. It's a bit long in the tooth now, and needs some seals and a spring. The only fault I can find with it is the difficulty some people have dealing with the firing behavior- it does move around quite a bit and you have to have a really well developed sense of "follow-through" with your hold to get the most out of it.

I've taken it camping and put it and and two tins of pellets out, and still had to run into town on Saturday for more pellets, and I never even got to shoot it myself.
 
Rabbits v Pellet Pistol

A pellet pistol should work fine.
I would try miixing some of the old type [poison] ANTI FREEZE in with food the rabbits like. If it works they should....
 
Pellet Gun

I have a .22cal that is great except its loud, I have to set back from the window about 15 feet just not to give my location away to my neighbors but it takes care of the tree rats around the place.
 
Well, that's interesting.....It looks like the Beeman Hurricane and my Webley Tempest are exactly the same pistol! Wonder which company actually makes them, and which license sells it?
 
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