Pelet guns are awesome!

[YotoKiller]

I havn't had one since I was a kid but today I found my old crossman pnumatic-pump .22 pelet pistol in my storage barn. It was covered in rust but I restored it pretty good. It still works perfectly! I forget just how much fun these things are!

 

[Moss]

My brother had one a long time ago when I was a kid. He promptly shot me with it. Didn't hurt too bad though.

 

[Bugfatty300]

My brother had one a long time ago when I was a kid. He promptly shot me with it. Didn't hurt too bad though.

Me, my brother and some of our friends used to have BB/pelet gun wars in my back yard. I lossed a fingernail in one of them.

 

[stormbind]

Depends how you define pellet.

BB guns are way funny. There's a nice (Stauer?) sniper BB rifle online for $99 and it's great fun... apparently it's almost as accurate as the real thing (WW2 German sniper). The BB falls out of the air after 30 metres or so.. but that's still enough for a little fun.

However, if you define pellet as lead-pellets sold for air rifles, then they can kill. They have been used in war ... and currently for military training ... and currently for hunting foul and dear. You can get low-power high-accuracy sporting rifles for shooting little bells through a hole in the wall, which misleads people into thinking they are never dangerous ... but I kid you not, a high-power air rifle is fatal at 200 metres or more, and that's still "pellets". It's all down to muzzle velocity which is entirely dependent on pressure.

There's also CO2 pellet-shooting guns. I don't know anything about them, but suspect they are safer because the pressure cannot be tampered with. Believe they are still used for brining down small game, so don't shoot kids with them.

 

[Perfection]

Still doesn't beat a good Nerf weapon! Nerf kicks ass!

 

[GenMarshall]

This takes me to that famous quote from "A Christmas Story". "You will shot your eye out kid".

 

[rilnator]

You Americans are lucky being able to own pellet guns. Every day I sit on my back balcony and watch crows and Ibis' fly past unmolested and I just wish I had a some kind of weapon to send them on their way.

I am currently making a sligshot.

 

[stormbind]

You Americans are lucky being able to own pellet guns. Every day I sit on my back balcony and watch crows and Ibis' fly past unmolested and I just wish I had a some kind of weapon to send them on their way.

I am currently making a sligshot.

I don't like the idea of you shooting and maiming or killing crows, but it looks as though low-power air rifles fall under EXEMPTIONS. Summary of Autralian gun laws. Even weaker BB guns are not mentioned.

 

[~Corsair#01~]

You Americans are lucky being able to own pellet guns. Every day I sit on my back balcony and watch crows and Ibis' fly past unmolested and I just wish I had a some kind of weapon to send them on their way.

I am currently making a sligshot.

Is there any Kookaburra where you live?

Wretched creatures- the noise they make...ugh. The gun laws should make an exception in that bird's case.

 

[rilnator]

No way, never a Kookaburra! Such a beautiful, proud bird!

Theres some crows that harass my neighbour's dog. They know when he's fed and come down and muscle him out of his food. He's a little terrier and although his barking annoys me sometimes I can't help but feel soory for any creature thats getting stood over by a handful of scabby crows.

 

[Lab Monkey]

What the **** is it with this gun porn? I'm stuck on an estate where a dozen kids no older than ten have all been bought pellet guns, and now anyone with an open window risks finding their house full of shot. I threatened to tell the parents, but being alcoholics who give them the guns to keep their offspring out of their hair, these threats were pretty pointless.

I guess we're just lucky that they don't have real guns. Yet.

 

[thestonesfan]

Pellet guns are a lot more dangerous than BB guns. I don't think you'd laugh off getting shot with one.

 

[CruddyLeper]

Pellet guns are a lot more dangerous than BB guns. I don't think you'd laugh off getting shot with one.

A friend of mine took careful aim at the ground with a pellet gun. He was aiming for a fly crawling on the ground between his legs.

The pellet missed, richocheted, and hit him clean in the plums.

Oh how we laughed.

 

[thestonesfan]

Oh, well as long as someone else gets shot, it's pretty funny.

 

[luiz]

I have to agree that they´re fun, since I own one!

 

[Perfection]

What the **** is it with this gun porn? I'm stuck on an estate where a dozen kids no older than ten have all been bought pellet guns, and now anyone with an open window risks finding their house full of shot. I threatened to tell the parents, but being alcoholics who give them the guns to keep their offspring out of their hair, these threats were pretty pointless.

I guess we're just lucky that they don't have real guns. Yet.

Maybe the problem is alcoholic parents not the pellet guns.

 

[dgfred]

Me, my brother and some of our friends used to have BB/pelet gun wars in my back yard. I lossed a fingernail in one of them.

We did too! I got shot in the inside forearm and the pellet
stuck After that I stayed out of the pellet 'wars' :shakehead .
My mom .

 

[Atlas14]

My neighbors use BB guns to shoot cats that they see trying to stalk birds. I usually only use BB guns for shooting cans and such, but the pesky crows are quite tempting.

 

[dgfred]

My neighbors use BB guns to shoot cats that they see trying to stalk birds. I usually only use BB guns for shooting cans and such, but the pesky crows are quite tempting.

I have the same problem with squirrels , sometimes MORE
than tempting .

 

[IglooDame]

Don't you see, pellet rifles are simply "gateway guns" - soon you'll be shooting .22 rimfires, then smallbore pistols, then hunting rifles - before you know it you've got a Class III license and are going to the range to shoot your M-16 on full auto.