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On 2/12/2017 2:50 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
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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
Even back in 1963 I shot several squirrels out of a tree in the back
yard with a Crosman pellet gun. The kind you could pump up to 10 times.
There are some now that are even more powerful, and I think it only
takes one pump.
My Gamo only takes one pump. Back when I was a kid I used to dispatch
birds with my Red Ryder BB gun. Even killed a crane once which
surprised me.
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