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Now that is one situation where I would advocate the use of a catapult launching an arrow before I would use an air gun.

And if you are controlling pests that is one thing, if you are fetching food home in a survival situation another.

Unless you have an audience made up of animal rights activists you can always just poke a hole in the critter with a sharp stick and let it bleed out.

As for the use of air rifles, even the weak ones legally allowed, I am not all crazy-ways against their use. Just their misuse, and the unrealistic expectations many have of them since "that is all we have so it will just have to do!".

I have found from long difficult experience that things do not always work just because they "have too".

But, if you want to make a meal from pidgins, robins, ground squirrels or other plump critters of about that size they are dandy devices.

My FIL, long dead these 20 years, was born in 1920 and a young boy when the Great Depression hit. He was also partly orphaned due to his father dying when he was 5, leaving his mother with five kids to feed when there were no social services to lean upon.

He told the story of many meals made up from a mess of robins killed with the Daisy air rifle, or often a catapult and pebbles if there was not a penny available for a pack of B-Bs.

Forage hunting and fishing kept the family alive for 15 years.