I have a Crosman G1 Extreme. I sometimes practice in my Work Shop with a homemade target box.
It's listed at 1000 fps or 1200 fps with special pellets. I ran some standard pellets through my chronograph and they registered about 950 fps. It is a little big and bulky like the Gamo Whisper but the price was fair. It came as a combo with a 1" scope.
I also have a Daisy Powerline 880. It's OK for Target Practice and shooting Starlings and such.
I like my Crosman. Very accurate, single break with good velocity. Very similar to a Gamo but much less expensive.
I would not recommend a Gamo Recon. It's their bottom line model and shoots at less than 600 fps. The one I had wasn't all that accurate.
Yes I do...it's a GAMO Whisper, .177 caliber with muzzle velocity of 1000fps at the muzzle with lead, 1200fps at the muzzle with PBA loads...drops squirrels and chipmunks in their tracks...
I have a BB gun target range out back that is mucho fun and perfect for getting daily shooting out of your system. If I need to drop something I use my 20 gauge coach with
number 9's out of my full choke side and it presents absolutely no danger to the neighbors even when knocking an animal from a tree. I've in-turn through demonstration got
them returning the same favor.
If you get an air gun, keep the velocity below the speed of sound and use only dome-top bullets. This is advice written by Dr. Beeman himself.
The speed of sound upsets the accuracy and it looses velocity faster. The dome-tops pellets retain velocity down range better than any other
fancy pellet.
For some reasons in test, the dometops retain better velocity,accuracy, and killing power down range. The .20 caliber/5mm is the best balance of velocity and killing power according to Beeman too.
I had a 5mm Sheridan as a kid and killed the heck out of stuff. I have a 22cal now and at sixty yards it really has killing power over the 177.
This is all science and testing, I didn't make it up.
I think the GAMO Whisper, .177 caliber with a weaver 4x rimfire is a good economic deadly combo. My son has one in town and uses lead dometops.
I liked the old metal pumps. Today, its easier to get a cheap one pump.
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