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To: kjam22

Been looking at semi big bore pellet guns. These things Wil. Take down cape Buffalo, large pigs, bison, bears etc. Even the .25 cal pellet rifles can take down big bores

Best thing is they are unregulated, and you can buy them right over the net too. Ammo is cheap, sort of.

Check out some of the vids on YouTube for “big bore air rifles”, pretty powerful little guns. I never even knew they existed till this last year lol


41 posted on 03/29/2021 10:23:32 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Boars I meant lol


42 posted on 03/29/2021 10:24:22 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

I have a 22 break barrel rifle that I shoot with round lead balls. They carry some mass. Lewis & Clark brought a Girandoni .46 air rifle on their expedition.

“ The earliest known example of the Girandoni air rifle is currently on display at Stockholm, Sweden’s Livrustkammeran Museum and dates to around 1580. Featured in fairly large calibers, these pneumatic weapons were employed by the very wealthy in hunting large game such as deer and wild boar. But around 1780 an enterprising Tyrolean gunsmith named Bartolomeo Girandoni developed a rugged new model air rifle that was soon adopted by the Austrian military. Produced in .46-caliber, the Girandoni was a quantum leap forward in weapons technology.”


44 posted on 03/29/2021 10:32:04 AM PDT by zek157
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