Thread: Do cheap air rifles actually work well for rats etc?

If you try a few different types of pellets you will find one that the rifle really likes. I used to do as Cordite did by reversing the pellet you end up with a huge hollow point, can't remember if they shot different have to try it again some day. In our younger days we used to shoot anything up to a 1000 pellets a weekend when I lived in Auckland. Not far from me mates place was an undeveloped area teaming with Birds and Rats and at night there were possums about . With our BSA Meteor 177 rifles we used to shoot rats swimming the river in the head it was great fun kept us youngsters busy all day. That was back in the late 60's, I don't even think the bush and scrub is there now it's all houses.