Ok, A quality BB gun ? If there is such a thing these days ? Had a Crossman pump many years ago, but must be something better out there.There really isn't a very accurate BB gun. The projectile is inherently inaccurate.
There really isn't a very accurate BB gun. The projectile is inherently inaccurate.
Many rodents and sparrows from my youth disagree.
I venture to say in my youth of shooting black birds out of the back yard trees, we were into that 1:3 ratio, maybe even better. Not sure if it was because they would sit on a branch about 15 ft above our heads, or if we are just the best BB gun shots in the FM area circa 1980Hard to impart much stabilizing spin on a steel BB @ "BB-gun" pressures. You can roll the thing in from the muzzle end, how accurate do you really expect one can be? How much stabilizing spin can be imparted upon something that's essentially rattling down the bore?
For those of you who believed that you or a sibling were Vasily Zeitzev, Carlos Hathcock, or Chris Kyle with any pneumatic device firing steel BB's, you weren't.
Damned few could correctly claim a 1:10 shot/kill ratio with 1:25-1:50 being more realistic speaking strictly for pneumatic and/or CO2 powered devices shooting specifically steel BB's.
I venture to say in my youth of shooting black birds out of the back yard trees, we were into that 1:3 ratio, maybe even better. Not sure if it was because they would sit on a branch about 15 ft above our heads, or if we are just the best BB gun shots in the FM area circa 1980
Well I am 50 now, so reflecting back on 40 years ago, I would say most definitely we did. I had 2 cousins next door that were part of the nonsense blackbird slaughter of the early 80's, I will send out some emails and get a consensus, then report back.You think you killed 100 blackbirds out of a 350ct tube of BB's?