Rifle suggestion for backyard plinking & pests?

[Bryan Heimann]

Slower speed don't mean less effectiveness if it comes with more weight.
Would you rather get hit 10 times from Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini or just once from Mike Tyson?
Hint: You might remember getting hit by Boom Boom.

^!!

[Bryan Heimann]

Just a solid hit in the ribs with 18 grain JSB, inside 30 yards with 570-585 fps at muzzle (Stoeger X20S's) lays the smackdown every time.  The 18 grain JSB often gives you that dime size group, that makes it easy to hit small game in the ribs, a target many times larger than a dime.  It knocks the breath right out of em and they stiffen and fall, don't even bound or anything.

[avator]

Likewise with a headshot..... lights out.

[RedAir]

Thanks guys. Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was insulting lower speeds. It just seems like everything is zipping along mighty quickly, at least if you listen at all to the marketing claims. It was meant mainly as a joke.

That makes sense about the heavier pellets lowering the point of impact. I'm not worried about it hitting high, at least using the scope. It does seem kind of odd with the open sights. But as I'm already using the scope anyhow, it doesn't matter too much.

And if I don't need to get a drooper mount, great. My Prowler needed about 15 of the 17 (?) total elevation adjustment of the scope (almost 1 full turn of the turret), to bring the POI up to where I was aiming, at 10m. So here, to bring it down a little, I'd need to make a much smaller adjustment, which is good.

I'm looking forward to trying some different pellets.

[SteveP-52]

The 3 pellets you've been shooting don't shoot well in mine. Yes it will cost more and you'll have to order them online, but better quality pellets will help you a lot in the accuracy department. Your mileage may vary but mine shoots both the JSB 15.89gr and 18.13gr very well along with H&N FTT 14.66gr and Predator Polymags.

That trigger, being the rifle was fully tuned, should also have Mike's 2 screw modification in it and is very adjustable. I never touched mine as it shot very very well just the way he set mine up for me.

This one is mine with a Hawke 2-7x32 AO IR scope and it's taken plenty of tree rats out to 30 yards very easily with Predator Polymags.