Sub $200 22cal pellet rifle

[p12]

Where are you?  Depending on the place, a trapper permit and snares might end up being a lot cheaper.

Of course, snaring neighborhood cats might not go over well, so live traps are often preferred if anyone is likely to see what's going on.

Cats I'll live trap. Damn rabbits is the issue. I'm one of the few that has Bermuda grass. They love that stuff. One rabbit can eat 2-3 square feet of grass in an hour. Kills the spot off. 

One saving issue is a new lawn treatment company is starting in a couple of weeks. He says rabbits hate the stuff he puts out. May be a non issue this year.

Standard city neighborhood. Close neighbors. Measured in feet. Only shoot them in the back yard.

Tried some sub sonic 22 from a friend. Too loud inside the fenced area. May buy some colibri and see how that sounds out of my single shot bolt.

Hopefully the lawn stuff will drive them away.

[Balog]

The longer the barrel the quieter the report. If you're a few feet back from a window and it's a single isolated noise even if it was a little loud no one would be likely to recognize it.

[BobR]

I used to shoot sub-sonics out of my house quite a bit. If you have the barrel inside the house by 3-5 feet it will just be a random noise in the neighborhood. The screaming of the rabbit in its death throes will probably be more noticeable.


bob

[lee n. field]

Tried some sub sonic 22 from a friend. Too loud inside the fenced area. May buy some colibri and see how that sounds out of my single shot bolt.

CB caps are very quiet.  May not have the power for what you want.

[brimic]

I used to shoot sub-sonics out of my house quite a bit. If you have the barrel inside the house by 3-5 feet it will just be a random noise in the neighborhood. The screaming of the rabbit in its death throes will probably be more noticeable.


bob

Jeez they scream. I arrowed one in the yard with a field point once, the arrow skewered the rabbit to the ground, and it SCREAMED. I couldn't get to it fast enough to dispatch it. I switched to judo points afterwards.

[MechAg94]

Jeez they scream. I arrowed one in the yard with a field point once, the arrow skewered the rabbit to the ground, and it SCREAMED. I couldn't get to it fast enough to dispatch it. I switched to judo points afterwards.

I guess napalm wouldn't be great either.  

You could use 45/70.  They wouldn't scream much then.  That doesn't help with your neighbor problem though.

My Dad and I shot some 1 gallon water jugs with some CCI 22 mag ammo for varmints.  It seemed to expand very rapidly.  Maybe that or the 40 grain 223 varmint rounds.  

[roo_ster]

CB caps are very quiet.  May not have the power for what you want.

They will have the power. 

Folk(1) shoot bunnies at that range with air rifles that have a fraction of the power.  Just got to get a CNS shot or one through the boiler room.  I am thinking of re-purposing my son;s Crickett rifle after he gets more "grown up" .22cal rifle.  Add the adult stock, stoke with CCI CB or the Aguilas, and get busy.


(1) AKA, "My neighbor down the street who is an 80+YO coot who long ago ran out of effs to give and wanted an upgrade from his .22cal pellet rifle to protect his pecan tree from squirrels and garden from rabbits."  Bolt action plus good sized low power scope allows him to be especially successful around dusk.

[KD5NRH]

.243 with a muzzle brake.  The neighbors will hear the first shot, but they won't hear much for the rest of the day.

[Fly320s]

So, any updates on this?

I'm looking for a decent .177 pellet rifle.  Primarily for fun, but also for that damn chipmunk that keeps digging up my new grass.  Something that I can mount a small scope on and get hits to 30-ish yards.

[MillCreek]

Last month, I bought a new Benjamin 392 .22 pellet rifle for $ 160 on Amazon.

[RoadKingLarry]

Jeez they scream. I arrowed one in the yard with a field point once, the arrow skewered the rabbit to the ground, and it SCREAMED. I couldn't get to it fast enough to dispatch it. I switched to judo points afterwards.

Head shots.




I was about 13 years old the first time I heard a cotton tail scream.
I had been hunting an abandoned section line road one early January afternoon and had pretty well gotten my limit (6).
It was getting dusk and I was still close to a mile from the truck when I took my last shot for the day. I was wearing one of dad's old game vests and stuffed the "dead" rabbit in with the rest of them. It got dark fast. No big deal but still a long walk back to the truck. I'd gone maybe a couple hundred yards and a kids imagination being what it was I was getting a bit skittish, my uncles tales of having seen a panther the week before didn't help.
About then I heard  the most blood curdling scream and something was clawing at my back.
I shucked that game vest and stuffed my last shell into my trusty single barrel figuring the big cat was gonna get me.
Turns out I had just stunned the last rabbit and it didn't take well to being stuffed into a blood soaked game vest full of his kin.

[p12]

Solved my issue. Obtained some Aguila Colibri to shoot out of my 10/22.

Can hear the hammer drop on the rifle. The thud is the bullet on a piece of plywood is the loudest of the sounds when firing. Put a scope on it and zeroed it at 15 yards. (damn bifocals). Put five rounds in a 1/2 circle. Good enough.

Come on thumper! Your days are numbered.

[lee n. field]

Solved my issue. Obtained some Aguila Colibri to shoot out of my 10/22.

Can hear the hammer drop on the rifle. The thud is the bullet on a piece of plywood is the loudest of the sounds when firing. Put a scope on it and zeroed it at 15 yards. (damn bifocals). Put five rounds in a 1/2 circle. Good enough.

Come on thumper! Your days are numbered.

i'm guessing it doesn't cycle the 10/22?

[Hawkmoon]

Solved my issue. Obtained some Aguila Colibri to shoot out of my 10/22.

Can hear the hammer drop on the rifle. The thud is the bullet on a piece of plywood is the loudest of the sounds when firing. Put a scope on it and zeroed it at 15 yards. (damn bifocals). Put five rounds in a 1/2 circle. Good enough.

Did you get Colibris or Super Colibris?

Inquiring minds want to know ...

[zxcvbob]

So, any updates on this?

I'm looking for a decent .177 pellet rifle.  Primarily for fun, but also for that damn chipmunk that keeps digging up my new grass.  Something that I can mount a small scope on and get hits to 30-ish yards.

Out of stock right now, but they'll get more:  http://www.airgundepot.com/refurbished-rws-34-177-scope-combo-1000-fps.html  I don't recall if I bought from airgundepot or pyramyd...

I put a Williams peep sight on mine.  Use it to kill cottontails DRT (once I found the right pellets) usually at about 75 feet or so.

[HankB]

I have an RWS M-48 which will do the trick - made quite a few consecutive one shot kills that were DRT on rabbits. But you'd probably have to turn the clock back 25 years to get the price under $200. ( I just checked the price at MidwayUSA . . .    )

Aguila .22 Colibri will do for a rabbit, and out of a 10/22 its quieter than most air rifles. (VERY different zero than standard .22 lr ammo, and of course it won't work the action.)