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Offline SunTracker

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Hunting with a pellet gun
« on: December 06, 2004, 05:58:20 AM »
Can a person hunt rabbits or squirrels with a pellet gun?  Would like some more information on this.  Thanks
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Offline ra

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2004, 07:33:43 AM »
Why not?
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2004, 08:06:35 AM »
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Can a person hunt rabbits or squirrels with a pellet gun?  Would like some more information on this.  Thanks


depends on your state and local laws.
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Offline yb11

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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2004, 08:13:55 AM »
back in the late 70s early 80s i got a rabbit with a crosman pellet gun but 1st shot did not kill hin i had to RUN him down and put a fue more in him before it dyed
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« Reply #4 on: December 06, 2004, 08:19:26 AM »
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back in the late 70s early 80s i got a rabbit with a crosman pellet gun but 1st shot did not kill hin i had to RUN him down and put a fue more in him before it dyed


Cool.
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« Reply #5 on: December 06, 2004, 08:24:46 AM »
Same thing happened to me with this larger type bird (quail or something like that). It kept running into this brush and it'd take me a while to find it again. But after each shot, ya have to pump the thing about 7-8 times so I kept losing it. Musta hit it 5-6 times over the course of 20 minutes.... and then I never did find it after that. Ugh...
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Offline Lizking

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« Reply #6 on: December 06, 2004, 08:28:18 AM »
And that is the reason it is illegal to use them for hunting in most states.
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« Reply #7 on: December 06, 2004, 09:09:53 AM »
I have one but it is a single pump pellet rifle. Seen a rabbit at the corner of my property and took a shot at it just to see if I could hit it. First shot hit it right behind the ear and killed it. I think I only paid maybe $30 for it but this sucker has a recoil on it, a lot stronger then those that you find at wal-mart. Picked it up at one of them Cummins truck tool sales.
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« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2004, 09:38:55 AM »


Can't do any better than Anschütz.  They will kill that 'wascally 'wabbit from a goodly distance.

Were are some of their products.
http://www.championshooters.com/Anschutz.htm
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« Reply #9 on: December 06, 2004, 10:32:55 AM »
I was going to say hunting with a pellet gun is unethical and not humane, ala  that's why you don't hunt deer with a 22 caliber rifle or a 410 slug.

But WMlute has a point. Good jebus, I bet that would rock the tree rats day 10 fold!
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« Reply #10 on: December 06, 2004, 10:35:37 AM »
.22 cals are also illegal for hunting deer (in Texas), but a .410 slug works well in the piney woods.
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« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2004, 10:38:18 AM »
Takes my Grandfather like 5-6 shots at pointblank to kill a squirrel with a BB gun.  It is sad to watch.  

He doesn't like them cause they are pests.. traps em in a cage and then puts the BB gun right up next to them and shoots them, then pumps it, shoots them.. etc.  

I watched once.. either that squirrel was superman, my Grandpa is a friggin horrible shot from 3 inches away, or it takes way to many shots to kill anything with a BB gun.
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« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2004, 10:46:42 AM »
Yes you can hunt them with a pellet gun. There are .22 pellet guns manufactured that will do the job with one shot. I used one many years ago hnting with a friend that had a very sensitive ear problem He couldn't hunt with a firearm so he got a .22 pump pellet gun for small game. It worked very well. I haven't seen one for several years now but haven't been looking either.
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« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2004, 11:07:08 AM »
Here is the Texas law:

Firearms
Game animals and game birds may be hunted with any legal firearm, EXCEPT:
• white-tailed deer, mule deer, desert bighorn sheep, and pronghorn antelope may NOT be hunted with
rimfire ammunition of any caliber.
• shotguns a re the only legal fi r e a rmthat may be used to hunt Easte rn turkey during the s p ring Easte rn
turkey season (see County Listings). Rifles and handguns may not be used to hunt Eastern turkey.
• pellet guns and other air guns are NOT LEGAL.
• fully automatic firearms are NOT LEGAL.
• firearms equipped with silencers or sound-suppressing devices are NOT LEGAL.
• a shotgun is the only legal firearm for hunting migratory game birds and lesser prairie chicken (see
Definitions - Legal Shotgun, pg. 66).
Nongame Animals (Non-Protected): Any lawful firearm, pellet gun, or other air gun is legal.
Magazine Capacity (number of shells/cartridges allowed): There are no restrictions on the number of
shells or cartridges a legal firearm may hold when hunting game animals or game birds (except migratory
game birds, see Legal Shotgun, pg. 66).
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« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2004, 01:04:55 PM »
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.22 cals are also illegal for hunting deer (in Texas), but a .410 slug works well in the piney woods.


.22's are illegal in Alabama as well. However I had a friend in high school whose family owned several thousand acres of farm land and they had a night hunting/year round permit to kill deer on their farm lands (for their soy bean crop deer were/are considered a nuisance animal). The only guns we had one evening were .22 pump rifles and as we pulled into the drive way leaving that evening there were four large does about 100 yards in the field beside their house. I killed one with a lucky shot by hitting it just behind its ear. He killed another with a couple of neck shots inside of 75 yards. The deer never ran off due to the low report of the guns in the wide open field which was several hundred acres.
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