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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #1 on: Dec 26, 2015, 04:35:14 AM »
Surely they must be kidding! Absolutely ridiculous!

We have enough idiots in the field now, do we need guys afield with air guns for deer?
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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #2 on: Dec 26, 2015, 05:51:02 AM »
i have been looking at these for a couple of years they are very powerful i might get a 22 cal for small game hunting there are states in the us that now allow them for big game

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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #3 on: Dec 26, 2015, 06:05:06 AM »
No way,not for big game,small game fine,,

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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #4 on: Dec 26, 2015, 08:53:44 AM »
I'd like to know the idiot that put forth this proposal in the first place.

Hard to believe.

We better make our voices heard.

This is monumentally stupid.
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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #5 on: Dec 26, 2015, 09:30:07 AM »
these guns were developed in europe where you cant have most guns they are very powerfull and will kill as well as most hunting riffles you should check out some u tube videos on them

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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #6 on: Dec 26, 2015, 01:10:06 PM »
Lewis and Clark hunted with a big bore air rifle on their Voyage of Discovery...   Ive got a Day state .22 cal made in England with a built in legal suppressor...FPS is higher that a .22 LR at barrel.  It is a blast to shoot and honest I haven't shot any of my .22 LR since I bought it.  It has no problem killing Raccoons at 50-75 yds, but honest you could kill a deer with a head shot close by.( Im not suggesting trying though)   But went up caribou hunting in Northern Quebec 30 years ago and .22LR and .22 mag were all the guns they used for subsitence hunting (Caribou, seals, Polar bear)  Here is video from Air guns of Arizona Day state Wolverine .303 cal..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6x4VGKwTKA   If were legal to hunt with I'd get one...

Gee be happy they are thinking of allowing another cool way to hunt!

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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #7 on: Dec 26, 2015, 01:12:14 PM »
A few years back, I read an article in Guns & Ammo about hunting hogs with a .50 cal air rifle. ???
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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #8 on: Dec 26, 2015, 06:03:59 PM »
with the price of ammo this is a great way to shoot more for a lot less

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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #9 on: Dec 26, 2015, 07:04:33 PM »
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Re: Big-bore air rifles for big game?
« Reply #10 on: Dec 26, 2015, 08:08:19 PM »
yup been looking at them for a few years hoping the prices will come down

 


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