01-07-2004, 11:09 PM
I have worn out just about every air rifle ice owned but one.
gone through several daisies and crossman. crossman are nice till you get through about 1000 rounds, then you have to start to rebuild them. you cant take a head shot at a bunny at 50 with a crossman, you wont kill the bunny.
what I sugest you do is go to the bass pro shop they have an indoor range. test fire all of them prior to buying one.
you will end up with a 20 mm or a .22 caliber.
the problem with the 177 pellet is there is just not enough mass to the round to be efffetive out past 50 feet. you will not be hunting squirls with a crossman 177. them squirls will just laugh at ya when you tickle them with the slower speeds. maybe the 177 at 1000 fps might work, but after shooting in to 55 gallon drums and found the 177 just would not penitrate the drum and the 20 mm and .22 calibers would, my mind was made up then.
the largest varment I have ever managed to kill with the 177 crossman at 50 feet is a starling. grackles if they get with in 20 feet, could not drop a crow at any distance. the bellets and bb's bounce off the fethers.
there is another modle not listed by bass pro or cabellas. it ranges around the 150 price range. if you can hold off till after next wensday I will get the name and modle for you. you can compare it to the ones in the catalogs.
this one you can pump up several times, 8 max. the 20 mm will benitrate a 55 chavy fender at 100 feet. that will kill any varment you will ever want to shoot at.
the crossman 177 will not kill a ground hog, racoon, skunk, squril, oposum, fox, or a bardrock let alone a phesant past 20 feet.
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gone through several daisies and crossman. crossman are nice till you get through about 1000 rounds, then you have to start to rebuild them. you cant take a head shot at a bunny at 50 with a crossman, you wont kill the bunny.
what I sugest you do is go to the bass pro shop they have an indoor range. test fire all of them prior to buying one.
you will end up with a 20 mm or a .22 caliber.
the problem with the 177 pellet is there is just not enough mass to the round to be efffetive out past 50 feet. you will not be hunting squirls with a crossman 177. them squirls will just laugh at ya when you tickle them with the slower speeds. maybe the 177 at 1000 fps might work, but after shooting in to 55 gallon drums and found the 177 just would not penitrate the drum and the 20 mm and .22 calibers would, my mind was made up then.
the largest varment I have ever managed to kill with the 177 crossman at 50 feet is a starling. grackles if they get with in 20 feet, could not drop a crow at any distance. the bellets and bb's bounce off the fethers.
there is another modle not listed by bass pro or cabellas. it ranges around the 150 price range. if you can hold off till after next wensday I will get the name and modle for you. you can compare it to the ones in the catalogs.
this one you can pump up several times, 8 max. the 20 mm will benitrate a 55 chavy fender at 100 feet. that will kill any varment you will ever want to shoot at.
the crossman 177 will not kill a ground hog, racoon, skunk, squril, oposum, fox, or a bardrock let alone a phesant past 20 feet.
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