650fps-or-so fps (never chronied this slug). The soul purpose of shooting this ram was to see with my own eyes what this rifle was capable of, and gauge what type of game I could take with it from the results (shades of Strasbourg). The first large animal I killed with my bigbore air rifle was an exotic ram. There are a select few air rifles that are a good bit more powerful than that! The most powerful air rifle I have shot personally, threw a 500grain slug at 735fps. 45 caliber 260grainer at around 900fps (sound familiar?hehe), and 500grainers at about 671fps. 45 air rifles out there that are A LOT more powerful than my own. No need to spend time, or money on reloading supplies/equipment. You can load your favorite boolit into the rifle the second it is cool, step out onto the back 40, and let er' rip. All you need is a HillPump (I'll explain), your beloved BOOLITS cast from about BHN10 or softer alloy, and the air surrounding you to propel it.
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These rifles are a boolit casters dream, seeing as there is no need to purchase powder, primers, shells or reloading equipment. I usually practice with the boolit I intend on hunting with. I do a bit of target practice, but I always consider target practice to be load development, and/or preparation for my next hunt. From the looks of things, most of the people posting here are completely unaware that these rifles exist.įirst off, I hunt with my. I posted a good bit of bigbore air rifle information under the thread titled "THANK YOU Dale53" in the Cast Boolits section, and thought it would be a good idea to make a post here to bring more awareness to these unique arms.