Does a pellet gun have it's place?

I was thinking back to the day of shooting my .177 pellet gun 1,000FPS took out many pests around the house out with this rifle when I was younger. Other then it being another great training tool does it have any place with the rest of the weapons? Also if you were to get a pellet gun would you go for the .177 or .22 for a small game rifle?

I use my Beeman for squirrel eradication around the house. I have both the .177, and .22 barrels. The .177 is more for punching paper, the .22 puts squirrels and like sized game down with authority.

I keep one for possible pests and small game. I have a few thousand pellets in my preps.

I wonder if anyone makes pellet moulds to cast your own? A pound of lead would give you pellets for years to come.

My gamo .177 1000 fps drops squirrels and crows like its going out of style. Well place shot is all that matters. Pellet guns are perfect if you ever need to hunt silently maybe in a shtf situation

storing up a few thousand pellets takes up no space.
And quieter so zombies don't hear you shoot!

Asked that question at the reloading forums and there is just that it costs $120 you can only make one pellet at a time and it seems to take about 1.5 to 2 mins to make one! To me so not worth it.


Link to post about pellet mold

gamo "whisper" FTW larger investment but almost no sound. next option is just a silenced .22.

As a misguided youth who spent most of his time wandering hills with a pellet gun.... I really liked the .20 caliber. More power and penetration than the .177, but still fast enough. On longer shots with the .22 air guns of the time, I watched more than one animal run from the sound, THEN saw the pellet hit. Newer rifles may have the velocity in .22 to negate that.

Still... a bolt-action .22 with CBs is as quiet as my pellet gun was as a kid, so unless newer air guns are much more quiet, only legality of using a firearm would keep me from just using CBs.

I think they are a lot quieter! Friend has a .177 pellet rifle and it is stock just the plain rifle I'm sure you and I had and it was no louder then??? Well have nothing to say it's louder then but you could shoot it from your home all day picking off things and no one would know were the shoots were coming from

I had an RWS 52 in .22 caliber. It had good punch, but it was loud as heck so I got rid of it. I replaced it with a P22, a Savage Mark II FV-SR, and a YHM Mite suppressor. More punch and really quiet. The Savage is stupid quiet. I shoot it with CCI 40gr. Subsonic HP's.

I had wanted the RWS for high quality and longevity, but the Savage comes in way cheaper, lighter, and I won't ever have a seal or likely anything else wear out. For the price of the RWS I got the Savage and a Leupold Rimfire scope... Pellets do store smaller than rimfire ammo, but rimfire hits harder, is still cheap, and is even more available than pellets are. Its also a lot easier to cycle the Savage than it'd be to cock the RWS (or other heavy springer) if you were ever hurt, got old, etc.

Don't get me wrong, pellet guns can be fun, but for my situation at least I am much happier with the rimfires. If I lived in some jurisdiction with wacked out laws or something it might be different.

I was given a Crosman 180 (.22 cal C02 cartridge fed) pellet gun from my uncle a few years ago and would have no problem relying on it to procure small game. It has a rifled barrel and claims to put quarter sized groupings at 30 yards using iron sights. Power is 800fps at max setting. Plenty enough power and accuracy for small game and plenty quiet enough.
I have considered my pellet gun part of my preps for a SHTF incident for years. I am sure if I got caught shooting a squirrel in my back yard I would be in much more trouble if done with a .22 rimfire as opposed to a pelllet gun.

You can buy a 22 that will last ten thousand or more rounds before having a hiccup and some ammo for the same price as a quality pellet gun.The pellet gun would likely have maintenance issues well ahead of the 22. I have no idea how many rounds I have through my 10/22 but its a shitload.

A pellet gun is pretty quiet compared to an unsuppressed .22. You don't have to pay a $200 tax stamp and get your name into the NFA registry to be quiet with a pellet gun. Ammo is 1/5th the cost of a .22. It isn't a "firearm" with all of the scariness that term engenders with certain segments of the population. Storage of pellets is somewhat less dangerous than storage of live ammunition.

Pellet guns are the sort of thing that are either considered or dismissed out of hand, depending on who you talk to. There seems to be strong feeling involved, too. Like the Coke and Pepsi debate.

Ammo is WAY cheaper and recoil is non existant. If you have alot of small work you might think needs to be done its a better choice than zapping away at your 22 stash.
Its going to be slightly quieter than a 22 and if youre in place with neighbors close by you can always blame the noise on your air nailer.

I have an RWS Diana in .25 caliber. Used it quite a lot until I got a couple suppressed .22 rimfires. They're quieter, more powerful, more accurate, and lighter. Now the pellet rifle mostly gathers dust.

I scored 6 pellet rifles for 400.00 at a storage barn sale. I didn't know what I was buying but turns out I got a killer deal.

Mine's a Chinese side cocker in .177 and I wouldn't be without it. Plenty accurate with good pellets and powerfull enough to hole a soup can.

In fact, I was going to get rid of it untill I discovered that cheap pellets were the only issue.

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