On 02/12/2017 09:07 AM, micky wrote:
Do people really go hunting with an air rifle? I though that was
another name for a BB-gun. Like we used for target practice when I was
10 years old at summer camp.

Those aren't your old Red Ryder. The modern air rifle owes a lot to history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle