New member, getting back into air rifles.

Hi.
Think my first question would be, what will you do most?
If its going to be mostly target at end of day you may want to get something of lesser power than usual for hunting... Buy still have the fpe for closer range pests.
Makes the gun easier to shoot. A lot of target guns are low powered.
Visa versa too. If your going to be using mainly for pest control you might want a slightly more powerful gun that though accurate wont give you hole in hole accuracy.
Then there's the scope. I have a hawk vantage on one rifle with wedges.
Its ao and about 24x mag.
For target shooting its great or being in set place.
The wedges give me a much wider spread over the vertical mildots which in turns gives me a lot more points of aim on the scope distance. ao adjusts out any parralax error. Awsome scope and leathal for accuracy.
How ever for hunting i hate the bloody thing. Have to dial in foucus if its out, have a lot more distance marks to remember, i find it difficult trying to dial a scope standing and rabbits you spring out of blue, close by don't tend to hang around while you fiddle with scope.
Now.im trying 3-9.x 40 scopes fixed parralax. Just killed a none air rifle rated one and about to try an air rifle rated one.
For me the advantage of a set parralax scope hunting is to much to ignore.
No time wasted focusing objective lens..smaller and sleeker.. less moving parts to go out of aline... Less aim points to rember as without wedges the line of sight intersects the pellets path much higher in it arc.
Down side is hold... Inconsistent hold will lead to parralax issues.
Once you're looking at few models guns and scopes you want, then put them up here before you buy. You can avoid a few pitfalls with the knowledge stashed in members heads.
Welcome to the slippery slope of air rifle addicts


Edited by kruzaroad - 13 hours 3 minutes ago at 9:57am

vault wrote: If your in Dunedin I got a Prosport you can try, heavy but it's a mans gun, accurate as, last forever.

Edited by R0b0tMaf1a - 4 hours 20 minutes ago at 6:40pm

-Ec wrote: Sounds like you came into air gunning and ultimately this group along the same path as me.  A life sentence block with a pest problem. I purchased a Gamo .22 on Tradme only because it was the only .22 on TradeMe at the time that wasn't too expensive What part of the country are you from?

Lifestyle sentence block gave me a good laugh I must admit. I've been lopping trees, doing hedges, lawns, weeding and garden edges all day today. I'm wrecked.

A Gamo was the first rifle I thought about getting. A Magnum IGT Mac1. But a friend has just offered me a Benjamin Trail NP. I should be able to get it at a fairly good price...but I'm not sure if it's a suitable pest rifle.

I was also eyeing an HW50 in the for sale section of this site.