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Joined: 02 Sep 2025
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    Posted: Yesterday at 12:02am
Hi,

At 67 years old I purchased my first air gun a couple of weeks back.  A Gamo Wildcat Whisper .22, primarily for pest control.    I live on a rural property not far from Norsewood  and we have issues with possums, Magpies and wild Turkeys.

Starting to get interested in targets and have just purchased a cheap 177 Gamo air pistol for a bit of back yard plinking.
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-Ec
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Welcome!
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Gday Ec, welcome here.
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Hi Ec,
Welcome to the forum.
Post some pics of your new air rifle and tell us a bit about it 👍🏻
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Hi Ec, welcome.
I have a few gamo units and have posted reviews.
Mid power unit like your Whisper are within the CAT2 trigger capabilities so good choice.

Experimenting with pellets can be costly and leave you with many unused tins, so well worth some investigation, with plenty of good advice available on this forum.

Pellet trajectory needs to be learned for different distances so set out some markers and practice until your chosen distance corrections become automatic.

Use the hunting section for reference and share success or failures and keep us up to date.

cheers
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