Air rifle Deer Kill

select-fire

https://www.carolinasportsman.com/hunting/deer-hunting/youth-hunter-kills-big-9-point-buck-with-an-air-rifle/?fbclid=IwAR1DxQbdhNwbkWe8A60_Ane5m2W9klU398mVo74mbOmT5HlYprd-AwdE-d0


The Weapon

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/benjamin-bulldog-357-pcp-air-rifle

brier-49

WOW nice buck he got ! Congrats !
$ 1000.00 for an air rifle ??????

SCOUT5

Sounds like the kid is enjoying it. He says in the article he made double lung shots on the three deer he's killed with it.

jimdeere

But a .223 Remington is inadequate for deer?

Sam06

I watched a video on YT of a guy shooting hogs with a 50 cal air gun. It was smoking the hogs.

That kid is a good hunter when he targets a specific deer and bags it.

I just wonder what it falls under? Its not a centerfire gun, a muzzle loader or really anything.

select-fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfBro-Hh64

allen griggs

145 grain slug at 800 fps. That is impressive.

I didn't know air rifles were legal for deer. I didn't know an air rifle could kill a deer.

SCOUT5

allen griggs wrote:

145 grain slug at 800 fps. That is impressive.

I didn't know air rifles were legal for deer. I didn't know an air rifle could kill a deer.

If you want to spend the cash you can get ones with a lot more power. But think about the are rifle Lewis and Clark took with them. Powerful air rifles have been around a long time.

buddyb

I had someone tell me they head shot at about 20 yards and killed a deer with a 30 cal springer.I think velocity on those are about 550 fps.

Sam06

Here in NC the regs are not very clear and vary from county to county. If I was going to try it out I would talk to the DNR before I dropped a G on the gun.

charliemeyer007

Lewis and Clark had an air rifle. One of them harvested a deer and the other shot a goose out of the air with it. 50 cal, 10 shot magazine, 5 at full power. 1000 strokes to charge it. The native american's loved it - no gun powder required.

Warbirds

145 grain projectile @800fps. I would not shoot a deer with that.
I don?t even need to do the math to know that wouldn?t even make USPSA minor power factor -which translates to mousefart 9mm.

Impressive for an air rifle. Not appropriate for game hunting.

select-fire wrote:

https://www.carolinasportsman.com/hunting/deer-hunting/youth-hunter-kills-big-9-point-buck-with-an-air-rifle/?fbclid=IwAR1DxQbdhNwbkWe8A60_Ane5m2W9klU398mVo74mbOmT5HlYprd-AwdE-d0


The Weapon

https://www.basspro.com/shop/en/benjamin-bulldog-357-pcp-air-rifle

Sam06

allen griggs wrote:

145 grain slug at 800 fps. That is impressive.

I didn't know air rifles were legal for deer. I didn't know an air rifle could kill a deer.

That is about as powerful as a 38 S&W shot from a rifle.

I would not think it has much killing power but evidently it does.

bambihunter

I was basically going to post the same as the last two.
It would not be legal where I hunt. It requires "centerfire cartridge of .23" or bigger. It used to be just plain silly using archaic restrictions of case length and such, particularly for handguns but thankfully the removed that some years back as it was silly. A .380 acp carbine would be legal, but a 220 Swift was not. A 38 special was legal, 10mm auto was not. The list went on and on...

danielgage

thanks Select the video was very interesting

RobOz

brier-49 wrote:

WOW nice buck he got ! Congrats !
$ 1000.00 for an air rifle ??????

A friend of mine has a FX Crown 25 caliber. Optioned out it was over 2 grand.

Sam06

danielgage wrote:

thanks Select the video was very interesting

+1

Now I know why the kid said the deer ran 30 yards then started bleeding out. I appears these guns kill like a bow, wound and blood loss.

select-fire

I imagine the gun has an application but with all the real deer rifles I wouldn't use one. Of course that is about as close as I would get to a scuba tank being used. I can only think of the man that went up to the deer the other day and it wasn't dead. Don't think I would want an airgun to support the attack.