hello to everyone

Greetings,

I have a 125 sniper in .25cal it is my prefered choice for rabbits, possums and anything else in my sights. It makes a brilliant hunting rifle and yes the noise of the pellet hitting the rabbit is louder than the rifle going off. JSB Diablo Exacts are the best pellets through this gun. H&N Barracuda Hunter Extreme are also very good too.
I have sighted mine in for 40m and with a mill-dot scope i know where the pellets are gitting for 60 and 80m. Furtherest kill shot on a rabbit is 65m so far.

I got mine without scope. Is your gun the QE version? I haven't tried polymags yet but have seen on youtube them being used through these guns. The JSB's do fire better than the H&N pellets. Once you are happy with a pellet Leave it sighted for it and stick to that type. The H&N group 4 inches below the JSB's at 40m with my gun.

Mike you need to join me in Ashburton district hunting wild cats. I haven't taken a cat with my .25 yet but i agree with you that they are very tough and .22 at long distances dont do much to them. We have had a plague of cats around our block over the years and i would often stalk them for ages untill they were with in 15m for a clear head shot. Baiting them was the best way to get them close

I have bought one tin of the Eunjin 43.2 grain hunting slugs. There are supposed to have around 500 FPS at the muzzle on my rifle, and were quoted as have good effect on larger small game, Groundhogs,Raccoon etc. I'd guesss in a PCP they would hit like a hammer.

hi Paul,some years ago i had a korean lever action 22 pcp rifle that could push 32 gr pellets out muzzle at 1050 fps,at time that was heavest 22 pellets there were it wouldve been a great rifle for those 40 plus gr pellets got rid rifle because it was so heavy,best thing bout the real heavy pellets is they hold velocity better and for much further than light faster pellets,so actually shoot flatter over longer distances and buck wind lot better as well,i shoot 16.4gr pellets out of the BSA rifle got from you Paul at 24fpe at just over 800fps they shoot flat out to as far 100yds and will penertrate 200mm balistic gell at 100yds,still cant get over just how well that little 177 rifle performs mate,havnt shot it for groups at 100yds but accurate enuf i can keep 3/4 shots into a 100mm x 100mm block of gell at 100yds,no probs on magpies out to 100 m,just drops them on spot,ran out of 18 and 32 gr pellets long time ago in 22 cal but the other BSA 22 rifle pushs 25.4 gr jsbs out at 780fps for 40 fpe and shoots flat out to 100yds as well,not powerful enuf i think for heavier pellets tho,velocitys would be too low to get a flat trajectory with any thing heavier,now these 40 plus gr pellets out wish had kept that heavy korean rifle eh!!wouldve been fun to try with these new heavier pellets,actually had 2 different korean lever riles the other had tuned in US for 40gr bullets at approx 105 fpe,this one wouldve been just ducks nuts with 40 gr pellets tho wouldve been close to supersonic with 40gr fine for bullets but so great for pellets eh!!bout to do first test firing with the 22 pcp revolver Paul,so that guna be interesting and bit fun,going do tests tethered without reg fitted but run gun at the same 1800psi reg set for,so can tune gun to suit reg before i fit it,but wont really know shot counts until reg fitted and filled to its 3200 psi fill pressures,gun set up for full power setting at approx 30 /33fpe depending on pellet weights etc,expecting at lest 12 shots on this setting off reg at 3200 psi fills,but time will tell eh!!

i would think they would if they had a bit more velocity behind them be nasty,velocity not everything tho,just gives more energy and flatter trajectory,but a 42gr 22 pellet going to have lot of penertration and over penertration not allways a good thing as it wastes energy unless it does massive damage on the way thru and the higher the velocity is when it hits the more damage it will do,the other side is that if it stays inside the animal due to low velocity,it will dump all its energy inside the animal.seems to work either way,i have killed foxs in aussie with a 22 cal springer and 16gr pellets doing approx 750fps at muzzle for approx 18fpe at muzzle,its not allways bout the amount of energy but more bout pellet placement,i alls have shot quite few good sized feral goats with 22 cal pcps 16/18gr pellets at 800/900 fps in the 24/35 fpe range,all were brain shots and death was instant,25 would be better choice with 30 gr pellets for larger animals like goats and small pigs than 22cal,but both work just fine with good pellet placement, i have no doubt my little 177 firing 16,2 gr pellets at 830 fps for 24fpe would kill a goat with a head shot as it will put that 16,2 gr pellet thru just over 200mm of ballistic gell at 100yd leaving an impressive wound channel,would be interesting to see what that 42gr pellets does out of your rifle over the chrony as thats lot of lead for a springer to push.