My new (old) little .177 bullpup.

Hi Flock,
What rifle is that? Sure seems to shoot nicely to me 👍🏻

Took Elly out for a walk again tonight.
Went to a permission I haven’t been to in about a month. Well, it’s actually two permissions next to each other.
The property’s belong to an Uncle and his nephew. Combined they are about 15 acres of paddocks, gates and fences 😂.
It was actually a nice night, had two short spells of light drizzel, then the stars came out!
I find with these flat horse property’s it is more productive to walk around quietly in the dark looking for rabbits, there is just too much area to cover to sit quietly and wait.
These two property’s share a common boundary with a third property, and as Murphy would have it, all the rabbits seem to be on the other side of the fence, the side I don’t have permission to shoot 😡
Managed to get 12 tonight.
This little AirArms S510 in a bullpup stock is such a sweet little rifle. At 12fpe it is so quiet aswell. The hammer spring makes more noise then the muzzel.
I can’t fathom why it’s previous owner would have ever wanted to sell it… 🤔😂

It seems crazy that this little .177 shoots an 8.44gr pellet, when compared to the 30gr .22 slug the dream line is shooting. That is almost a quarter of the weight of the slug. A quarter of the weight!!!
And at 30 and 40m, those bunnies just keel over, every bit as dead as when they’r hit by a 30grain slug 😉

It's a Wildcat  sniper m3, were cherry picked, shows its capable.

Edited by flock - 11 Jul 2023 at 7:35am

Put a something equivalent  behind the apple, although a apple is easier to penertrate, feathers are a different ball game. Polymag Predators would be my pick at that distant & speed. Still aim for the thick chest area. Set scope up for the required range so you don't have to think about aim points.

Edited by flock - 13 Jul 2023 at 10:26pm

Miserable day today, but I managed to get out to one of my permissions and asked if I could use their bottom paddock which I turned into a little shooting range. Wind was strong enough to keep blowing our camp chairs over 😡 and the light rain was cold, but it was still nice to get out and do a bit of shooting.
It’s like therapy for me…

So I tested Elly and the apple today…
It was a small apple, only about 60mm diameter. The 4.5fpe .177 wad cutter unfortunately exited the apple, knocking it off its pedestal.
Second shot did the same again.
I then put a backstop behind the apple and tried it a third time. Wad cutter exited, and lodged into the wood behind it. But was only lightly embedded in the wood… 🤔






An interesting side note is that my sons little gamo delta fox shooting a domed pellet at 3.8fpe (so only slightly less power) was also shooting stright through the apple, but didn’t knock it off it’s pedestal.
So both pellets have enough energy to pass through the apple, but the wad cutter is delivering more energy into the apple and thus knocking it over.

Not convinced with todays results, I managed to get out to another permission where I know there are some pigeons and just before dark I managed to bag a pigeon, and a rabbit 😂.
So tomorrow morning I’ll do some pigeon testing 👍🏻

Edited by RangerPete - 14 Jul 2023 at 8:01pm