Well, the key difference is this: Traditional pellet guns or BB guns are rifles which discharge small, mostly innocuous BB’s or pellets. These guns are the ideal toy to tinker with when plinking in ...

Hard-hitting air rifles are tailor-made for squirrel hunting. The almost non-existent report lets you and a buddy work a plot of trees together without alerting every bushytail to your presence. But ...

Modern air rifles have all the accuracy and fun of a suppressed .22 LR, but are backyard friendly, cheap to shoot, and far more versatile than powder burning alternatives. We tested a wide variety of ...

If you hunt, you’ve owned an air rifle or two at some point. I still have a handful and even take them out every now and again should a cottontail get into the garden or the crows grow too fond of my ...

If you or your family want to try your hand at air rifles, it’s a good idea to try a pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) rifle. These rifles are powered by pressure from a prefilled reservoir. When you pull ...

Pneumatic models dominate the airgun universe, but traditional piston models are more powerful and more dependable than ever. Unlike pneumatic models that use regulated charges from compressed air ...

Thanks to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission, squirrel hunters next season can use an air rifle to bag their bushy-tailed game. That’s assuming the air rifle will shoot a .177 or larger caliber ...

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At first sight, air guns and air rifles may appear relatively harmless. But they are in fact potentially lethal weapons. They use the expanding force of compressed air (or gas) to propel a projectile ...