Do you shoot metallic silhouettes and/or fileld target air rifle, air pistol or rimefire?
May 19th, 2010
Mrs. Tammy Knows Better asked:
This summer my kid wants to shoot at a local “sports” camp. They offer basically two categories, air and rimfire. For air rifle, they suggest this:
http://www.compasseco.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=361
or this:
http://www.compasseco.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1060
or some others, with or without a scope. Of course one can get a more expensive rifle, but keep in mind this is for a 14-17 year old.
If one has a .22 or .25 air rifle with at least 24 ft lbs muzzle energy, one must compete with rimfire shooters, which doesn’t seem fair.
This summer my kid wants to shoot at a local “sports” camp. They offer basically two categories, air and rimfire. For air rifle, they suggest this:
http://www.compasseco.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=361
or this:
http://www.compasseco.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1060
or some others, with or without a scope. Of course one can get a more expensive rifle, but keep in mind this is for a 14-17 year old.
If one has a .22 or .25 air rifle with at least 24 ft lbs muzzle energy, one must compete with rimfire shooters, which doesn’t seem fair.
You have to also provide the kid with two of these:
http://www.compasseco.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=745
two sets of these:
http://www.pyramydair.com/cgi-bin/accessory.pl?accessory_id=558
no less than 2 cartons of these:
http://www.pyramydair.com/cgi-bin/accessory.pl?accessory_id=2225
They will provide the paper targets.
My kid wants to shoot rimfire. I’d prefer he shoot air rifle. They said this would be OK to compete with rimfire:
http://www.pyramydair.com/p/mendoza-rm-2800-air-rifle.shtml
What do you think I should do? My wife says get the Gamo and let him compete with air rifles. We are both against .22 rimfire at this moment.
Thanks.
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