12/11/2021
I didn't really need any more proof to the massive step up in air-rifles, that is the new gas piston technology.
For me the way R***r do it...in •177, paired with H&N's Baracuda power "pellets", coming in at 10.65 grains, I was hooked last year doing stuff I do with the •22 LR, without the noise, and it continues.
It makes me grin everytime I pull the trigger, and have memories of my old •177 BSA Meteor...you could watch the trajectory to target...at whatever speed that was....
Retired the •177 R***r Air Hawk Elite II, after, I have no idea how many shots, and a full on year.
The comparable mid market model on the market this year is the Targis.
Throw the 4 x 32 scope...as you take it out of the box...
First up, it felt heaps lighter than the Air Hawk, which fooled me for a bit, thinking it sounded "Tinny", and wasn't very powerful...
A tin, and a half of pellets later, it's bedding in pretty well, and im starting to get wicked groupings, and smoking Bugs, out to some silly distances.
The wee chap, on the right, in the pic, poleaxed a big mature Buck Rabbit, facing me at around 60m, stew tonight, so as I was dressing it later, found the pellet in mid muscle, of the back leg?? I knew it was the one I smoked through the head..this thing went right thru the head bruised the spine, before entering the lung, through the intestines, and into the leg....bring on this seasons fun.