Is there any pellet gun laws I should be aware of? I gave my 10 yr old son my Benjamin Sheridan c9 silver steak for target practice. I know Kitsap County has strict laws to firearms. Thanx

Best to hear it from the horse's mouth,if you've concerns.

In a worst case scenario,I'd be happy to pay the ticket for one of my kids doing with a pellet rifle,that which pellet rifles were engineered to do.

Hopefully it would have something to do with a cat.

Use a safe backstop, don't parade around with it. I'd also monitor usage.

Still have my old Blue Streak from about, well, too many years ago.... Put a significant dent in the local starling population and other related carnage. Don't forget to put a drop or two of air gun oil into the intake hole on occasion and it'll last a long time. That said, I'd agree with Dogfish and use it both as a reason to spend some time with your son and to make sure you don't have local LE show up at your door because of wayward projectiles.

Although not for the purposes of a cat, my old Feinwerkbau 124 has been handy the past few days for the squirrel that keeps raiding my walnut and hazelnut trees

I put a plywood backstop that faces a hill in the backyard. Hes pretty responsible, and he only shoots under my supervision or under my dads at my parents house. When i was his age it was truly diffrent. Would take that thing on hunting excursions on my bike for crows or anything that flew, it was wrong.... TOTALLY WRONG. How have things have changed.

I've yet to feel compelled to apologize for being male and I know I've killed more stuff with a Sheridan air rifle than Peter Hathaway Capstick has with every centerfire arm he's imagined using.

None of which affects my sleep pattern.

I would say that using it safely, with eye protection, and not showing it off too much should suffice for ground rules.

The house I am remodeling came with a Sheridan air rifle, it was my grandmas and now she lives in the heart of town, so I have it.

It is a sweet gun, dear old granny used to use it on those black and blue, jay-type birds. They would get into the food she put out for the smaller, cuter birds, and instead of shooing them away, or getting a feeder designed for small birds. She would kill them at basically point blank out the kitchen window. A little vigilante justice for the little guy, or bird.

Much to be said for keeping the boy out of the bubble.

This watered down World and it's make believe "perils",surely do crack me up.

For conversation I keep a coupla thousand pellets in easy arm's reach for even the youngest and I ask no question in regards to where the various RWS's had been in the day's time.

Some things are just natural.

Sheridans, RWS? You boys need better toys

RWS triggers and ergo's are pretty skookum and they've plenty of punch on top of the fact that they live well,while shooting minute agg's. I prefer break barrels to side-cockers,but such things are subjective. Running around with a SCUBA-esque nurse bottle on a PCP rig,is akin to having windshield wipers on a Billy Goat's ass in my book. All show and no go.

Though as per always,it's the Indian not the arrow.

Admittedly,5mm SD's do dig nicely through Critters and there's not much that is going to shake such abuse(s).

We have two Webleys, a Vulcan and a Patriot. They are both break action barrels, one in .177 and the other in .22. Both shoot over 1,000 fps, and the Webley Patriot is a solid 50 yard crow gun in .22.

We set up a "clanger rig" for the boys. Hung from the trees on the property line are a few metal targets in the area that abuts the timberland behind us, they give a sense of sight and sound when hit. Not quite like hitting the 300 yard gong with the small bore cannon, but satisfying none the less.

Not to highjack the thread but shot velocity is way more consistent than a break barrel or side cocker not to mention 900fps for .22 and another 350 if you swap for a longer barrel. Consistent velocity translates into accuracy in an airgun and an RWS isn't punching dimes at fifty yards.

Windshield wipers on a goat? Classic Big Stick line...

I have owned a model 34, a Crow Mag, most of my cohorts have R-12's and now having seen the accuracy and power from my nurse bottle it is an easy sale. If you haven't played with one you should. I didn't mean any disrespect really, I am an airgun afficionado and any tool is better than none. Like some rediculous hook debate- the best airgun is the one in your hand when it counts.


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http://www.talontunes.com/id22.html

I've played/play with a multitude of things that go "bang" and noone serious about low ES can say that precompressed trumps a piston,under the assumption that they have a chronograph. Guilty of a PACT Pro here.

RWS will often run SD's in the mid single digits,while a high zoot Feinwerkbau will delve in the nothings on the average. PCP's require being topped incessantly to hang,which negates any perceived "advantage".

When it's time to make blood spill like a river and stealth is a requisite(less a can),then I'm in Marlin 39 Mode,stoked with 31 rounds of CB's and a Leupie scope wearing an ele turret.

Tournament Crow Hunting being that fixation,on the average.

Steel is rewarding and if shooting something that doesn't bleed,it assuredly is my favorite medium.

It's soothing.

We ran out of birds, so that is why they shoot steel.

86 Crows in one setting,remains my personal best.

86 crows would be easily ten times my best but I don't pursue it seriously. It is more of a crossing of paths- Sunday morning and one is squawking outside my window sort of thing.

I have been asked to clean out my daughter's stable a few times. The birds are territorial of their nests and in defense swoop at the horses heads which in turn is dangerous for the girls. Usually I dont shoot anything unless I intend to eat it, with the above exceptions and the occasional coyote.

Have you ever seen this?


http://www.crowbusters.com/recipes.htm


I also saw a video once called "Eating Crow." No thanks.

Oh,I'm going to Crow Hell,most assuredly.

Tough to beat hitting the first one in the belly button,get him hitting the high note while suspended in plain sight via leader material and coaxing in the rest with an electronic caller...while hiding unsuspectingly in the shadows of a killer hide.

Should upload some Crow Carnage video,as it is without peer.

I've eaten alot of stuff that I didn't kill and have killed a lot of stuff that I didn't eat,none of which affects my sleep pattern.(grin)

If there is a hell then for me a "Crow Hell" would be about as bad as I could imagine. Unless crows are more sacred than I am currently aware mine may only be "Crow Purgatory" but if I see you I will wave.