Hi All,
We are into Air rifles because they are usable for small game, a friend of mine has a fairly large colection of airweapons, he started at the tender age of about 10 tears old and has never stopped, he has an old gem made in about 1880 and others right up to a firearms rated Stealth which has about 30lbs of power.
Unlike the US we have no seasons on rabbits and Pigeon(doves) and air irlfes do an excellent job on them
he also has a superb collection of shotguns English and Belgian made Brownings
they we get into Firearms he is going to be thinning them out as he simply does not use some of them, so why have them and he enjoys wing shooting better. ome gunshops have less then he does
Me well my Feinwerkbau was used to control the Starlings that used to break their way into our loft, we lived in a half timbered property and the starlings would peck away the plaster next to the timbers to get in and nest in the loft, we turfed them out adn i shot loads to keep them out, that and the Squirrels, Pigeons and Magpies Grrrrrrrrrrrr, I really don't like those
We grew up with air rifles and still use them occasionaly I have my dads old airgun in the cupboard a Haenel Model 15 tin plate he brought in the early 30's. Airguns are excellent for teaching youngsters, even another friend who has no interest in guns at all brought a Weirauch for his daughter who joined the Sea Cadets and asked me tpo show her how to use ti so she would not be shown up as not knowing about shooting, when we go out and have a practice with it he enjoys it as well and as soon as his 2nd daughter is old enough she wil join us they the boy
I have her shooting .22 r/f as does the cadet force
and soon it will be a soft shooting full bore
trouble is waiting for her to get big enough to hold them properly so she can do well
I think it will be my Brno 601 in .308 with some 125 grn bullets loaded down to be accurate but low in recoil as this one has about the shortest butt on the rifles I have, most are long about 14 1/2" pull but this one is less. With return to zero rol off mounts she can use both open isights and the scope