Power limit in airguns in its non-FAC version...
- Thread starter Vicente_M_Costa
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And yet Germany hosts the IWA...
⭓ PERU:
To buy:
No licenses required, no restrictions
▪ On power
▪ On caliber
To bring in your luggage or order online:
Required is a a stack of paper work, to request the "importation" of:
▪ Airguns
▪ Scopes
▪ Pellets
Time to process paperwork: More than 1 month....
Hunting:
▪ Permitted with a hunting license ($40, 2 day presential course requiered)
▪ However, beside a few ducks, pigeons, and hares there is not much on the government permission list that you can legally shoot at (scratch off your kill list: squirrels, pest birds like starlings, rats).
▪ Good luck submitting your paperwork to apply for a pesting permit in a certain location....(And you'll need more than luck, actually.)
⭓ GERMANY:
To own and to hunt:
6.5FPE (7J) is the limit.
If that seems unbelieveably low — it is. Outrageously low.
Hunting is strictly forbidden for airgunners.
Many city Germans consider hunters to either somehow related to contract killers or mass murderers.(—and this is only a slight exageration—)
If you want any more power in an airgun a fullfledged GUN LICENSE is required — which over the years has gotten:
➧ so difficult to obtain (think college level examination),
➧ so expensive to pay for (think 4 digits amounts in US$),and
➧ so laboriously long to get a hunting license (think a year playing wildlife conservation officer)
that in effect most people simply can't get it.
I consider America's Second Amendment a ray of SUNSHINE in this otherwise BLEAK picture.
Germany sorely needs something like this....
But after Hitler with WWII messed up most of the Western world — the Germans still haven't gotten over their national guilt — after 80 years(!!) — therefore German legislators prefer to prohibit anything related to guns and things that go bang (severe limits on fireworks, cap guns, etc.).
➠ Well, on the bright side — I'm currently living and shooting in Peru — so I'm doing A LOT of paperwork — but at least I get to shoot and hunt!!
I'm thankful!
Matthias
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In the Netherlands no power or calibre limts.
Yust need to be 18 years old.
No look a likes
No hunting.
Yust need to be 18 years old.
No look a likes
No hunting.
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And yet Germany hosts the IWA...
Yes.
And Germany builds some of the best weaponry....
Go figure that contradiction....
Matthias
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Certainly not, but shooting is not an option without possessing a shotgun or centerfire rifle and holding a license for big game hunting.
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I agree. Pellets have a bad BC and at normal hunting ranges (30-50m) they lose a lot of speed (and power). A 12fpe at 50m has less then 9fpe on target. Its easy to wound an animal and not kill with such a low power level. And you cant really use slugs with such low speeds.
About the "no hunting with air-rifles" in europe, in a way its a good thing because if they enforce hunting with airrifles most likelly all airguns will go up to FAC only like all the other guns.
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Look into that much deeper. Although there is no "power restriction" there are fps and caliber restrictions (last time I checked) which do parallel each other...
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