Air Rifle Calibre Advice

[Mortblanc]

Do you fellows keep full power springs on hand to install in your rifles if you ever really have to shoot something, or is their possession elligal?

[Devonian]

[Scythe13]

STEVE!!! LEGEND!!!

Nice one mate. I was worried that I was adjusting too little, so I just kept adjusting until I was frustrated and stopped with it. So basically, I need to 'under adjust' my shots with a .177 as opposed to a .22? As my wife says Kentucky Windage isn't as easy as you'd think :-(

[Midnitemo]

spring for my rifle to take it upto 18/20ft lb is about £40 I believe you can just buy them over the counter and I have thought about getting one to store.

[Midnitemo]

just as a word of warning if your rifle is close to 12ft/lb already then you need to be aware certain all singing & dancing super slippery type pellets may take you beyond 12ft/lb meaning you are commiting the offence of illegally possessing a firearm rendering you subject to a min 5 year sentence at her majesties pleasure......if you use these whizzbang pellets I urge you to chronograph them.

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have chrono ed all my regular pellets and wasp's are the closest I use at 11.92ft/lb average

[bigpaul]

I had a friend who put a too powerful spring in his air rifle, after that the rifle was on a hair trigger, you barely had to touch the trigger and it would go off.

[SlyUrbanFox]

I went through this conundrum just over a year ago before splashing out on an Air Arms Pro Sport in .177 It's a springer so no air cylinder to charge, the barrel is fixed helping accuracy, and has a fully adjustable trigger should you choose to up the spring rate (PSHTF of course!) It's beautiful too......

I went for .177 over .22 for the reasons mentioned by everyone else, flatter trajectory so more tolerant of newbie range estimation. If you can't hit the quarry because of a loopy .22 trajectory the (alleged) extra killing power is lost. Result=no dinner