Need suggestions for an air rifle to take some varmits. I would shoot them with my 22 but can not run the risk of a glancing bullet. All shots will probably be inside 40 yards.

Gamo Whisper. I also like the Crossman Nitro piston stuff. .

Hippi is the resident air rifle pro.

Remington&cci make CB caps at 710/740 fps.

RWS

https://www.amazon.com/Rws-Air-Rifles/s?k=Rws+Air+Rifles

I got that Model 48 for my son several years ago. Shoots HARD and is nearly as loud as a .22 rifle.

Gamo whisper is a good one!

If you can’t shoot a sub sonic .22, you’re splitting hairs between that and a pellet gun that’ll kill a squirrel or chipmunk. It sounds like a lot less fun, but I think traps are what you need.

Hatsan 125 sniper

I bought a Hatsan 22 cal from Hippi a couple of years ago and it's a nice rifle.

FX impact in .25 cal. Use fx brand pellets and set to 910 fps to drive tacks.

Gamo swarm in.22 cal. Awesome little gun.

I got a crossman nitro I like it but don't have experience with other new ones...

How much do you want to spend?

Mine is a Crosman 22 cal. that was a combo gun. It will wear the squirrels out. One thing I'll say is there definitely was a barrel break in period. It really wasnt very consistent until I went through probably 300 shots. Since then it's been dead on even with the junky combo scope

Well, looking at some of these rifles, I may just wait till they are up a tree and shoot em with sub sonic ammo. I was gonna try and stay around 100 but...
Thanks for all the input, definitely will check them out.

I bought a gamo big cat when they came out several years ago and was to the point of throwing it away..but after about to full cans of crossman premiers it started putting them in the same hole at 50-75 yards...bet i shot it more than a thousand times before it got remotely accurate...my remedy...by a better gun cause that thing was junk

Are the "whisper" rifles actually quieter? I could get anything I needed done with a reasonably accurate quiet gun.

Only shot one whisper an it was a bone collector model..i liked it

I've got a Gamo that's louder than a 22 LR.
When I'm shooting varmints in the city, I use the 22 CBs.

I've killed 4 squirrels in my yard today with mine. Theyve been getting a break because I've been gone every morning on the weekends turkey hunting. They were thick this morning

Upon further investigation, I think I’m gonna get some subsonic 22 ammo, I know it won’t cycle the 10/22 but I can charge the bolt on it quicker than cocking a pellet gun.
Dang squirrels were digging up seed we planted in the garden, old lady was ballistic...

I have a crossman semi auto 12 shot co2 with iron sites that will wear a squirrel out. If you can acquire the target in the little site you can kill it. Has a 12 shot cartridge.

Aguila colibri is what you seek in 22lr

^^^this

I thought .....



That subsonic .22 is still powerful and gonna "glance" and travel a good ways with killing potential if you hit something that causes it to "glance"

Understood, I read about the pellet rifles and also about the 22 ammo. Gonna take em out of the trees with my 22 “safe angle”. From the sounds of these high speed pellet rifles, they are almost like a 22. I figured I probably won’t ever use a pellet gun for anything else.
Thanks for all the input fellas.

Just put out some rat traps.

God Bless,
David B.

Like Wiley said, a 22 sub may sound similar to a pellet gun but that’s about it. 22 pellet weighs ~15gr and travels 900fps? 22sub weighs 40-60gr and travels over 1000fps, that’s a lot more momentum & energy. 22 subs have taken the place of pellets at my house.

RWS

I've been using the subsonic 22 around my house the past few months. One thing I haven't been impressed with is the precision, or lack there of. These are 710 fps though. I may try the one closer to 1000 and see how that goes.

My 8yr old can keep an 8” plate swinging all day from 300yd with cci standard velocity. Box says 1070fps, I haven’t shot them through a chrono yet. Cci quiets get shot the most and have been accurate enough

CCI Standard Velocity is subsonic and, as far as I'm concerned, the best .22 ammo out there for all around use. Very consistent and very accurate. It really shines when shot thru a suppressor.

The "trick" with a break barrel is not to hold the foregrip like a conventional gun. You open your hand and simply lay the rifle on your plam. Do not grip it. Dont even curl your fingers up.

X3 super quiet and only around 500fps

I went by Larry’s today and picked up a box of CCI quiet shells. I think the box says 710 FPS.
They had a couple of brands but not the ones you recommended. I shot 10 in the 10/22 to see how low they impacted. I set up at 25 yards, used the 100 yard tic on the reticle and was shooting a ragged hole about 1/2” left ; couple of clicks had it center mass.
This is a 10/22 with a Cabela’s brand caliber specific scope, has the BDC reticle.
Let the games begin tomorrow....

Pretty quiet?

I think they are very quiet. I didn’t wear any ear protection. I think I can clap louder than the report of these rounds. Did I mention they are very consistent....
I could really see myself buying that Savage heavy barrel that is suppressor rready. Or the Ruger. Both look nice.
Maybe Christmas......

These get used when pesky varmints have their head out of a hole around 20yrds out. Not much louder than the colibri in my plinker. The colibri isn't fast enough for Alvin at that range as he'll duck at the report before the projectile reaches him.

I'm surprised the cci quiet cycles in your 10/22, it won't cycle in my pistols

The colibri have to be loaded single and not from a mag in my 10/22. The quiets can be fed from a magazine but will not cycle semiauto. I've got an old Winchester semi tube fed that will cycle the quiets in semi fashion but the colobri still won't cycle in it either in semi. I mainly use the 10/22 tho as it's got a volquartsen trigger in it that i can be quite surgical with. I've been meaning to pick me up savage rascal or other small single shot to mainly use the colibri in for mainly convienance of loading ease as sometimes they have issues in that winchester when loading by hanging up and have to charge the bolt a second time.

The colibri have to be loaded single and not from a mag in my 10/22. The quiets can be fed from a magazine but will not cycle semiauto. I've got an old Winchester semi tube fed that will cycle the quiets in semi fashion but the colobri still won't cycle in it either in semi. I mainly use the 10/22 tho as it's got a volquartsen trigger in it that i can be quite surgical with. I've been meaning to pick me up savage rascal or other small single shot to mainly use the colibri in for mainly convienance of loading ease as sometimes they have issues in that winchester when loading by hanging up and have to charge the bolt a second time.

I gotcha. I like using them with a suppressor, because they're whisper quite 😀

Might want to check out the Wing Supply website today if you are still looking for an air rifle. They have a sale going on with some pretty good deals.