I have an absolute ball shooting squirrels here at home with a Benjamin break over .22. I'll kill 30, maybe 40 per year. I killed a coyote with it here in my neighborhood.

I like the gas piston’s myself. I just understand their limitations.

luke clayton talks alot about his air rifle expeditions in his colums. (he is an outdoor writer here in texas if you didnt know)

I’ve taken blesbok, zebra, Cape buffalo, dozens of white tails, dozens of hogs, all manner of small game all over this country and South Africa with them. They are getting more powerful and more popular and because of that it’s just a matter of time before they are regulated like firearms. As far as the comment about there’s nothing they can’t do that a firearm can that’s not true, being owned by a felon is one. Half the folks I know that own them are felons.

The Cape buffalo hunt sounds interesting.

It was. The hunt itself was pretty straight forward but afterwards it got pretty hairy. The herd attacked the downed buffalo then surrounded us while trying to load it. There was dogs barking, my wife running for the truck, .416s coming out, people yelling. Good times!!

It certainly sounds like a memorable trip. Sometimes I think we are defined by the events we survive. Then again, buffalo hunting falls into the “adult swim” category, and shouldn’t be expected to be either easy or entirely safe.

I have 4 PCP's that I have acquired over the years. My first was a Crosman 2240 co2 gun. They are so bad, if you got lucky and actually hit a squirrel hanging of your bird feeder on a cold day, the pellet would just bounce off. So that little gun got me hooked on HPA. I bought a high pressure tube, modified the valve ports and bought a 25acp barrel from TJ's and before long that little rifle was stacking slugs and producing 95 FPE.

Once the property behind me was developed and considering the un-reliable nature of the 2240's design, I moved on to the Airforce Condor platform where a few of us tinkers would Trick them out with .257, .308 and .457 caliber custom barrels and valves. A friend won a long range bench rest competition with is custom AirForce Condor and it got the factory's attention. It wasn't long afterward AirForce began designing and manufacturing the AirForce Texan. These days my main hunting airgun is a .308 Texan that has been modified to produce 330 FPE with a 150 gr bullet. I have shot so many hogs with it I rarely take a photo or post an account of my hunt. My largest to date was a 300 pounder shot in Coleman County and most interesting was a Mountain lion on the same lease. So I guess I am a bad person for laughing when I read a post about guys shooting 150 lb deer with a 300 WinMag and wondering if they have enough gun to do the job. lol

I have Two other airguns for pesting around the house. One is a Dana StormRider in .177 that has a built in noise moderator and is quiet enough to be backyard friendly. The other is a custom Hatsan AT-44 PA .25 caliber that has an aftermarket LDC that is absolutely silent and still produces about 45 FPE. It will poke a hole through a SPF 2x4 pretty easy and really does a number on marauding armadillos and acrobatic feeder raiders. So the moral of the story is they are just like any other gun, 1 is never enough.

Texans are good guns but I had a bad experience with their customer service so I have zero interest in messing with them again. For most of big game I shoot the Umarex Air Saber.

That's unfortunate and a rare occurrence. They are one of very few companies that offer a Lifetime Warranty and actually stand behind it. But considering they are such simple devises there isn't much that can go wrong. I noticed Airforce has finally released their Airbow. I heard that it can shoot a 400 grain bolt 400+fps. I think I will be waiting for someone I trust to review it before I go out and spend twice as much as a Air Saber.

I use mine quite often. The old Daisy 880 is not very fast but quite accurate. As these vermin can attest to. This lady wouldn't leave my feeder alone.