PCP Pellet guns

[gbk]

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Was surprised to read about PCP Arrow Riles. Operate same as a PCP pellet gun but shoot crossbow bolts.
Would they qualify as a crossbow for Ontario bow season?

I wish they would allow use them in X bow season-looked at them few years back at one of the Sportsmans show.
They would be SWEET to use instead of an X bow.

[trky chsr]

Some interesting reads on PCP guns. Is a shame favored models are out of stock to actually purchase.
Hope that will improve in spring/early summer when new models are typically released to stores.
Same applies to purchasing many of the break actions.

Was surprised to read about PCP Arrow Riles. Operate same as a PCP pellet gun but shoot crossbow bolts.
Would they qualify as a crossbow for Ontario bow season?

A popular one you can get now is the Umarex Gauntlet. Send me a PM if interested in one. Also the airbows don't shoot crossbow bolts, they have their own arrows. As for hunting it's only small game and maybe coyotes but I'm not sure on that one. TC

[Big Tuna]

Thanks Trky for the offer on the Umarex. I am going to wait till early summer to make a choice.
Still hoping to get a simpler underlever or side lever like a Diana 470TH or 460 Magnum but am getting more and more interested in a PCP after doing daily research.
Hoping new models and Covid supply chain issues will start resolving by summer.
Letting the pigeons get past baby season and then game on again when the whse doors start getting left open on summer days.

[Fenelon]

You'll never own a "springer" again after you shoot a PCP! There is zero imparted error due to recoil/barrel jump from a PCP. Your accuracy goes through the roof, as in crazy sick accuracy! It's like shooting an Anshutz or Walther .22!

[gbk]

Just a an interesting fact:Lewis and Clark had air rifles back in the day ,discowering Amerca's west coast

[Species8472]

700 ft lbs of energy with the high end big bore models :O

I built a homemade pneumatic cannon that can be shoulder fired. Based on the thermo-dynamics model i used to design it, it develops about 1700 to 1800 ft-lbs.

Shoots a 2 inch potato slug (+/- 1150 grain) at about 800 to 900 fps (any faster and it becomes difficult to get a potato to stay in one piece - even at that speed typically need hard new potatoes) and at 25 to 30 yards it is minute of deer accurate. Video showing a "low power" shot hitting an 8.5 x 11 sheet with 2x4 backstop:



The mist on impact is the potato atomizing.

Damage pic showing potato blew through the 2x4s:



20 or 25 years ago i used to use it at my kids birthday parties for marshmallow scrambles. Load it with a potato slug to act as wadding and than put half a bag of mini marshmallows in on top of the potato and set the cannon at a 40 degree angle. Than get the kids to stand about 30 or 40 yards out. Fire away and the potato would land a 1/2 mile down range and it would rain marshmallows on the kids.