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re: My son wants an airsoft rifle for his birthday...what is exactly the point?

Posted on 2/21/17 at 9:50 pm to
Posted by DownSouthDave
Beau, Bro, Baw
Member since Jan 2013
7366 posts
Posted on 2/21/17 at 9:50 pm to
That's a pellet gun. Used for punching holes in paper or birds. He's not wanting to shoot people with it. It's different than airsoft.
Posted by Chicken
Jackassistan
Member since Aug 2003
21961 posts
Posted on 2/21/17 at 9:53 pm to
Got it. I think he wanted an air soft at some point but now wants this air gun.
Posted by OntarioTiger
Canada
Member since Nov 2007
2115 posts
Posted on 2/21/17 at 9:57 pm to
First u make a roux.... that bad boy will be hell on the squirrels and Robins .....
Posted by pjab
Member since Mar 2016
5645 posts
Posted on 2/21/17 at 10:02 pm to
Gamo is overrated. I've shot two. Both were very inaccurate and could not be dialed in. Get a benjamin and knock a squirrel out its shoes with open sights.

Speaking of squirrels and airsoft. While walking my dog one night, I came across a dead squirrel with numerous airsoft bbs around him. So to answer your original question of what do you shoot with it, evidently squirrel is an option.
Posted by Muice
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2013
1268 posts
Posted on 2/21/17 at 10:06 pm to
Yeah if he wants an air rifle get him a Beeman

This one served us very well in college Beeman 12.5
Posted by Bill Parker?
Member since Jan 2013
4468 posts
Posted on 2/21/17 at 11:29 pm to
Chicken, let him have the airsoft. Kids in my neighborhood, ages 8 to 12 wear each other out with their airsoft guns. Buy some eye protection and he's good.

We take them out to the woods later and let them shoot semi 22s and AKs at targets and they're like kids that just discovered Playboy.
Posted by CHEDBALLZ
South Central LA
Member since Dec 2009
21910 posts
Posted on 2/22/17 at 7:18 am to
Your son wants an FX Wildcat even though he doesn't know it yet. This thing is a beast. Accurate out to 100 yards.
Posted by Mac
Forked Island, USA
Member since Nov 2007
14656 posts
Posted on 2/22/17 at 7:37 am to
We used to do drive-bys in the high school parking lot with them.
Posted by NYCAuburn
TD Platinum Membership/SECr Sheriff
Member since Feb 2011
57002 posts
Posted on 2/22/17 at 8:08 am to
quote:

This is the gun I think he wants...

LINK

This doesn't seem like something you want to be shot by...


I have this gun with a different stock, tell you son its actually quite loud, if he thinks its going to be quiet.
Posted by NASA_ISS_Tiger
Huntsville, Al via Sulphur, LA
Member since Sep 2005
7979 posts
Posted on 2/22/17 at 10:42 am to
Back in the day (80s and 90s)...it was all fun and games with Daisy BB/Pellet guns for wars until the one neighborhood bad-arse showed up with his Benjamin. Game over. Nobody wanted a part of that thing.

Daisy's and Red Riders would sting....but a Benjamin would put a hole in you (not deep...but it was there nonetheless).
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