Anyone know anything about air rifles?
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Got one as a freebie about 13 years ago, not touched it for about 12 years and 11 months 
Dug it out the other day and it still worked, and it got me wondering on two things.
First of all, is it any good? Theres no marking or branding on it, can anyone identify it?
Second of all, are these dangerous? No doubt anything in the wrong hand is dangerous, and I'm sure it would take your eye out. But other than your eye, could you cause serious injury with one?
A google search revealed a few kids have killed themselves with one, but in many cases its a case of an unlucky hit and loss of blood (eyeball or artery).
My sadistic side got the better of me so I tried shooting a few things, first thing was my dogs bone. Point blank, it just bounced off and left a grey mark. So I tried some old metals cars that I couldnt shift on ebay. I thought it would do more damage to be honest.
My point being, BBC news claims Mr Bird killed some of his victims with a .22 rifle that looks identical to mine but with a scope. Did he really use a pellet rifle alongside his sawn off?
Dug it out the other day and it still worked, and it got me wondering on two things.First of all, is it any good? Theres no marking or branding on it, can anyone identify it?
Second of all, are these dangerous? No doubt anything in the wrong hand is dangerous, and I'm sure it would take your eye out. But other than your eye, could you cause serious injury with one?
A google search revealed a few kids have killed themselves with one, but in many cases its a case of an unlucky hit and loss of blood (eyeball or artery).
My sadistic side got the better of me so I tried shooting a few things, first thing was my dogs bone. Point blank, it just bounced off and left a grey mark. So I tried some old metals cars that I couldnt shift on ebay. I thought it would do more damage to be honest.
My point being, BBC news claims Mr Bird killed some of his victims with a .22 rifle that looks identical to mine but with a scope. Did he really use a pellet rifle alongside his sawn off?
That looks like an old Relum Tornado, underleaver action. They are ok, depending how long it has sat around the rubber on the internal piston mechanism could have perished.
You can double spring them though which is nice
In the air rifle world, things have moved on quite a bit since then.
You can double spring them though which is nice
In the air rifle world, things have moved on quite a bit since then.
Vieste said:
No,bird did not use a pellet gun.
I did not know you can get .22 bullets, they must be very small? Unless i'm being dumb.I notice these pellets appear to crush on impact with absolutely anything, can you get anything a bit harder? Google reveals "hallow point" pellets that expand on impact, apparently for hunting "game".
I'm guessing Derrick Bird's rifle was a .22 with proper bullet-type ammunition, rather than a .22 pellet air rifle.
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_LR
Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_LR
It may need a service, new seals etc to get a reasonable amount of power. I have a 30 year old BSA meteor (cheap air rifle) that was last sericed 12 years or so ago. It works fine and kills pigeons with 1 shot from a distance of about 18-25 metres. I use pointed hunting pellets. If you get new pellets dont get anything too heavy as the rifle wont cope well and they will be sloooooow
blueg33 said:
It may need a service, new seals etc to get a reasonable amount of power. I have a 30 year old BSA meteor (cheap air rifle) that was last sericed 12 years or so ago. It works fine and kills pigeons with 1 shot from a distance of about 18-25 metres.
SNAP! Got one of them too, got it serviced 12 years ago - great old thing. 
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