I personally had enough of the craziness of trying to find (or pay outrageous prices) for .22 ammo. I spent a couple of weeks researching the internet for a quality air rifle. With the gun and scope on the way Im looking forward to getting back into some target shooting.
Finally gave up.....bought a air rifle
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Welcome. What are you getting? We are a nosey bunch and want to know a lot so we can help when needed.
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I am in the exact same boat, ended up buying two air rifles and I am back to shooting happily.
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Welcome to the hobby and have fun with your new rifle. Learning to follow through the shot is more important than ever with air rifles having subsonic velocities, especially if your first choice is a springer type air rifle. The tighter you grip it the worse it will shoot and vice versa in general.
You will have to experiment with several different types of pellets until you find one that groups well so don't get discouraged if your first choice isn't as good as you first imagined.
Enjoy the new adventures
You will have to experiment with several different types of pellets until you find one that groups well so don't get discouraged if your first choice isn't as good as you first imagined.
Enjoy the new adventures
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Welcome. The things that work to make rimfire and centerfire very accurate usually arent the things that make airguns accurate. Enjoy the journey.
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Welcome all . so how are you two newbies doing now ? starting to get things sorted ? it Really does take a while to discover exactly what you can and can't do on your own property .
I have a friend , lives in an unfriendly to airguns place . He shoots from his kitchen , out the back door across his yard , through the garage window across the garage and finally hits the target on the opposite garage wall . Not saying you should do this , just an extreme example .
I have a friend , lives in an unfriendly to airguns place . He shoots from his kitchen , out the back door across his yard , through the garage window across the garage and finally hits the target on the opposite garage wall . Not saying you should do this , just an extreme example .
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Welcome!
I came to the same conclusion and did the same thing two years ago. Still have all my PB stuff but I shoot my airguns far more than my firearms. Just fell in love with the quiet precision. My first step down the quality airgun rabbit hole was a .22 HW98. Fast forward two years and over a dozen additional air rifles and pistols later, and I'm thoroughly addicted. The 98 wasn't my first airgun by any means, but it was the first with a level of quality far above anything I'd owned at that point.
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Welcome to the rabbit hole. Can get deep and twisty! There seems to be a lot of airgun shooters in Florida. Google airgun ranges near you. Find some like minded shooters to get ahead of the curve. Tons of information available here, have fun!
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Joel649, As "implied " in other posts ,yes it can be a bit "addictive". I started by inhabiting an apartment in Utah 1/2 mile from Utah Airguns & driving past it on the way to the project site . Stopped one day to investigate , gabbed for a while w/ Justin and a couple of his "merry band of thieves"
. A week later I had a rifle , hand pump & a soft case . Now I have 2 compressors , 2 pumps , a tool pouch for pellets + 2 boxes in holding and 6, no 7 no, 8 airguns !Upvote 0
Hmm…not really sure where you are looking for your .22lr. I say heck ya to getting the airgun for sure but to get an air rifle because it’s cheaper than shooting .22lr ?? I don’t know about that. I guess if you have to shoot match grade .22 and plan on a .177 air rifle maybe. Really airguns aren’t a huge saving over 22 lr.
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Yeah , just ask my wife ! BUT , I can shoot a lot of places that I can't safely shoot even suppressed subsonic .22lr. And it's ,,, different ! All ammo is costly now .
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Yeah definitely many reasons air power makes sense. If you look around you can still get 22 lr for .04-.05 a round.
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I shoot .22 RF all the time. Where and what are you buying for $2.00 or $2.50 for a 50 round box of .22 LR ammo?
I shoot two Anschutz .22 LRs regularly, and unfortunately they only shoot upper end ammo. I.e., Center-X, Midas, RWS 50/100, Eley Match our Tenex, Lapua long Range and Super Long Range. …
None of these are less than $18 per box of 50 rounds.
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I got curious so I looked at the "lucky gunner" website for 22lr prices. By buying ~4000 rounds I found plain, not match, ammo at 6 to 7 cents per round. That is within the range of pellet prices, the JSBs my 25s prefer are close to 10 cents apiece. But I expect good target shooting accuracy from the JSBs (and H&N Match other guns prefer) so it is at least a bit of an apples versus oranges comparison. Match versus Match ammo for both I am sure airguns are less expensive to shoot. Pellets like Crosmans are more like 2 cents apiece and good enough for plinking in many guns.
But my bigger reason is I can shoot airguns in my yard. Legally. I would have to drive 20 miles or so to a range to shoot my 22lr or other powder burners. I used to handload my PBs and I enjoyed that added complexity. Airguns have similar complexities with hammer spring tension, and regulator setting. Air supply is also a very solvable technical challenge. I have both and plan to continue to have both but I shoot the air rifles a LOT more.
But my bigger reason is I can shoot airguns in my yard. Legally. I would have to drive 20 miles or so to a range to shoot my 22lr or other powder burners. I used to handload my PBs and I enjoyed that added complexity. Airguns have similar complexities with hammer spring tension, and regulator setting. Air supply is also a very solvable technical challenge. I have both and plan to continue to have both but I shoot the air rifles a LOT more.
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Just went on ammo seek the other day and there were rounds as low as 3.4 c if I remember correctly. Over a year ago I ordered a bunch of cci standard that ended up just over 7c a round which is what I pay for my pellets pretty much. Factor in air source and I don’t think it’s any cheaper even at 7.5 c. Here is an example of 5 cents per round free shipping over 200.
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