Wow! It’s really expensive in the UK for a decent air rifle. I’d say absolute minimum you could ever pay brand new would be about £175 for a bottom of the line Crosman. Shame you can’t mail order them any more!
Really? Didn’t know that. I am eating them, not doing it for the sport and am on private land. Is that just as bad? Have I made some major faux pas?
Would love to but not an option for at least a year.
Ok, well I won’t be cheeky and ask for a different bit, I’ll stick with what he offered me. Apperently it’s in good shape but will check it for bruising before I start.
In the US, almost all hunting is done on private land or on the water, so there’s no difference there. Also, I’d estimate that as many as 90% of hunters (100% of the ones I know) plan to eat the animals they kill.
Even so, shooting ducks on the water is extremely taboo, though perfectly legal in many/most states around here. It just isn’t done, though, and a bunch of hunters will get pretty angry about it. There isn’t a duck hunter out there who hasn’t spent a couple of hours in a blind waiting for the $%#@ ducks to get up. It’s just more fair for the ducks, since they’re almost completely immobile on the water, and defenseless. It also helps keep duck populations at sustainable levels.
Lastly, it is much, much more safe to fire a shotgun up in the air.
Yes, you have, I’m afraid. Shooting ducks on the water Just Isn’t The Done Thing, regardless of where you are.
There’s nothing wrong with hunting animals you aren’t going to eat, but you still have to be sporting about it, and that means not shooting ducks on the water.
And it’s very dangerous to fire a rifle in the air- the projectile will go for quite literally miles, and can still cause injury or death when it comes down. Shotguns are much “safer”, in that the shot has a much, much shorter range and less “oomph” after it’s reached that effective range too.
Now, if ducks are a plague where you are and they need to be culled, then it’s understandable to shoot some of them “on the water”. But don’t tell anyone about it. Not Cricket, you see.
An old Airgun forum I used to frequent:
It has lots of info on Crosman airguns and modifications, along with links to other airgun forums. If you have questions, they’ll point you to where you can find the answer, if they can’t answer it themselves.
They helped me out when I purchased and modified/improved a Chinese knockoff of the old Crosman 160. I also used info from that site to purchase a Crosman 2240 pistol, and modify it into a carbine. There’s a wealth of knowledge there.