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Originally posted by skeet
Lever cocking is easier and in my opinion a bit more accurate. Heed DMM's advice on the scope issue though. Airguns tear 'em up calibers also. He was right about the calibers..except I wouldn't shoot a fox with an air rifle. Get a decent 22 for that.
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Skeet, I really don't think I'd be popping foxes with an air rifle either so thats good advice as well but our hunting cousins from across the pond seem to have a lot of good luck hunting foxes with their "pellet guns" so I thought I would throw them in list. hehehehee
It's kinda funny if you think about it. The difference between the way Americans and other countries view air rifles, I think because we were raised that BB/pellet guns were made for plinking tin cans and shooting pesky bird and basically a child hood amusement item, we don't view even the most powerful air weapons as viable hunting tools. On the other side of the fence (across the ocean) a lot of countries have always used them to hunt rabbits and pigeons and foxes and it probably seems a bit strange to them that we a blasting something as small as a rabbit with a 12 gauge shotgun.
I guess us Americans just have to submit to bigger is better.
