What are the best attachments I can buy for my pellet gun?
I'm thinking about getting an holographic sight, bipod and a scope.
But I'm looking for suggestions.
I also gonna buy a rangefinder for practice.
Yes, other than airsoft and pellet guns I can't get any other firearm in my country so easily as the US.
A real gun.
Carry handle, laser, sling, gauntlet so it doesn't chop your finger off, might want a weapon light, ohhh and an adjustable cheek riser too
Night vision optic. Start setting out grain and leftover food for rats. Spend your Saturday nights getting drunk and sniping rats with night vision. You've never had so much fun, I guarantee it
This is retarded
If you want to get a scope, get one designed for air rifle recoil. Air rifles recoil forwards then backwards and will destroy any optic which is not designed with air rifles in mind, most night vision optics included or holographic sights. Also if you want to get a bipod get one which does not latch to the barrel or you will effect overal accuracy, most air rifles are free floating for a reason.
>retarded
That may very well be, but you cannot tell me with a straight face that this doesn't seem fun.
I will give you that.
When you machine something to have tolerances for shock in one direction, it wont have those same tolerances in the other direction. This is why you have scopes designed for air rifles in particular.
Now I know. Thanks anons.
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You're seriously telling me that optics meant to handle proximity to explosions wouldn't be able to handle an air rifle? Forgive the incredulity, but I'ma need sauce.
It's the second recoil impulse of the spring slamming forwards that ruins conventional firearm scopes when mounted on spring-powered air rifles.
https://www.airgundepot.com/air-rifle-scopes-overview.html
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=52364.0
http://www.lasc.us/rangingshotrifleairgunscopes.htm
That's only true for break actions, and only when talking about sporting scopes of old. Modern PCP rifles will take any scope.
Op doesn't have a pcp though, does he? Also no its not break actions is spring action as under leaver or side leaver contribute to the same recoil.
>only when talking about sporting scopes of old
I have seen my fair share of young or new shooters attend the air weapon range I shoot at, and its almost a right of passge for one of them to look shocked after their scopes become warped, mount come off or just become misaligned despite being zeroed in on the day. Eventually you ask them questions and they say its a new rifle with a new scope and they let slip the model which when you look up online and its states its an lr scope. Its not an older generation scope thing it is very much still an issue today.
it's not just old scopes, you can put a modern high-end scope on a springer and if it's not designed for air guns it will quickly get wrecked. A normal scope is designed for standard rearwards recoil. The way the lenses mount inside the scope simply isn't designed to withstand the forward recoil impulse that happens when the piston ends its travel.
You are correct about PCP airguns not doing this but that's not what OP posted.
Not l OP, but I'm thinking of picking up a cheap sumo gear ir laser to mount to my BB gun since I already have a pvs-7 just to see what shooting at night is like.
>Ibfo "just shoot real guns at night"
I live in Wisconsin where public land you can target shoot on is scarce and a several hours drive away.
>Rangefinder
Anon the ranges you will be operating at will not be far enough to utilise a range finder effectively. You are probably going to be looking at 60 yards at the most which is a range not that difficult to identify with the naked eye with practice. Or you can just get a mil dot scope and you use that identify instead.
>will not be far enough to utilise a range finder effectively
Nonsense. Sure he's not going to be shooting at hundreds of yards but pellets have shit aerodynamics and therefore have a rainbow trajectory. Take this example where the guns are zeroed at 35 yards. Take a 50 yard shot, and now you're hitting two inches low.
The point was that he didnt need a range finder to determin range as the short distances are not difficult to identity. You dont need a range finder with air rifles to compensate for drop.
If you are good enough to reliably estimate distances then go for it but most people are not. Anyone who shoots an airgun for precision at varying ranges is concerned about distance. People who shoot Field Target competitions put oversized wheels on their scope's parallax adjustment and then use this as a rangefinder, at which point you can look up your drop from a DOPE card. In this example someone has put tape on the parallax wheel and has marked the different ranges on it so they can just read the range directly. They do this because the information is critically important but the rules disallow rangefinders.
I think the issue is that we don't know what the poster want's to do with his rifle or what it even is. If he is doing plinking or string up targets with an under leaver like his pic he does not need that level of precision compared to a PCP competition rifle down the FT range. I just find the prospect of him buying something which may be a bit overkill may be better spent in other areas, after all getting to learn distances unaided is a good skill to learn. But if he is playing with paper targets and using a gun that precise I can see the justification.
What is your gun?
>I think the issue is that we don't know what the poster want's to do with his rifle
That's fair, though he seems to be at least somewhat interested in precision given he's talking about bipods and rangefinding. A lot of people want to hunt pests or small game with their airgun. If so the precision is important. If your range estimation is off by 5 yards you can easily miss by an inch, easily enough to miss a squirrel's vitals.
Now I totally agree it's good to learn how to estimate yourself, but I'd also argue that having a rangefinder while learning makes it much easier. You try and guess first then you check and see if you got it right or not. Feedback is important when you're trying to learn.
The break barrels with really strong pistons and automatically feeding magazines are so fucking cool. I want one so bad. PCPs are cool too cause you can shoot fat ass slugs out of them. If you want to really kill something dead from very far away you get yourself a big bore air rifle made for hog hunting.
Depending on OPs country he could get one of those easily, or even a crosman 2240 and modify it to be a high powered semi auto carbine.
All Crosman 2240s
Buy a set of shooting sticks. Or make them; they are very easy to make from two pieces of bamboo and some tape or rope. They help a lot while hunting or even target shooting.
I love my Gamo Swarm. Should shoot it more often. Just get a later generation like pic related as the comb of the stock is retardedly low on the "traditional stock" models. Chinweld-tier.
>someone else here watches SHC
I wonder how many people I've directed his way on here. Glad to hear someone else watches it; I've gotten oddly into both American coyote hunting channels and British hunting channels at the same time.
>I wonder how many people I've directed his way on here
I haven't watched it in a few years but I do remember they had some demonstrations on budget NV so I always bring them up whenever the topic comes up. I also love to bring up their double rabbit headshot video with a UK legal air rifle whenever people think they need absurd amounts of power to hunt with an airgun.
Despite being a hasguns, I loved pellet guns while growing up. They let me practice and kill shit innacity limits without pigs being called. What are you getting the pellet gun for OP? Just to target practice? For hunting small game? Home defense?
The type of pellet gun you buy and it's attachments will directly correlate with what you want it to do. There's some semi-auto air rifles out there that shoot a 9mm sized slug at 9mm velocities. They would be as deadly as a Ruger 9mm carbine. Perfectly viable for home defense or hunting bigger game. If this is what you're getting, then a red dot and a white light and a sling is all you need. No different than what you'd want to attach to a real rifle.
If you're going to target practice, then there's two routes you can go. A cheap springer and lots of ammo so you can shoot bottles/cans in your backyard, you could add attachments to a cheap springer but I find it unnecessary. Maybe a scope if it's a particularly accurate springer. Or a quality target PCP air rifle in .177 or .22, with a good scope and bipod (dont get a bipod that attaches directly to the barrel). I guess a light if you plan on target shooting when it gets dark. Night vision if you're rich. Would make for plinking small game at night very fun.
>Night vision if you're rich. Would make for plinking small game at night very fun.
There's a lot of people rigging up cheapo NV to blast pests like rats at night. Check the videos linked off of
Squirrel Hunter Channel on YT has a lot of videos of it as well.
But a bayonet on it for skewering rodents
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