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to cock, but again is very well-made.
If you want to move into a PCP, the Benjamin
Marauder has an entry-level price in a gun you
won't outgrow, and is available in .177. .22. and
now .25. It's a multishot rifle with a very nice trigger,
shrouded barrel, and is accurate and powerful.
This gun is an excellent choice for hunting, plinking.
and more of them are showing up in field
target all the time. I've hauled the gun in all three
calibers through South African veld, Midwestern
snows, blast furnace deserts out West, and reliability
and performance have never let me down.
You can make a good argument for all three
calibers and a book could be written on this topic,
but in short my personal opinion is that if I only
had one air rifle it would be a .22. In a springer you
might have to work out the holdover a bit more,
but this isn't really a problem with the right scope
(mil dots or MAP reticle). In a PCP. the velocity difference
between the .177 and .22 isn't that great
so it's even less of an issue. Hope this helps, and
good luck with finding your perfect rifle!
—Regards, Jim Chapman
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Dear Mr. Chapman, I notice in your biography
that you have recently taken big game with
both production and custom big-bore rifles. I
read where Lewis and Clark took big game with
air guns, but never see the big-bores advertised.
Would you send me some names, addresses and
phone numbers of some of the big-bore manufactures?
I certainly appreciate it.
—Sincerely, John in California
RESPONSE:
You're right, Lewis and Clark carried a .32 caliber
repeating air rifle on their cross-country trek, and
they've been around a couple hundred years longer
than that. With respect to modern day big-bores there
are a few options. Pyramyd Airguns carries the Sam
Yang and Shinsung big-bore rifles in .308 to .50 caliber
(the BigBore 44 is a favorite of mine). Quackenbush
Airguns builds a line of excellent big-bores ranging
from the .308 to .50 calibers and are the favored guns
of many big game airgun hunters (I've used these almost
exclusively in Africa). Adventures in Airguns sells
a couple of big-bores including the new Corsair .308 (a
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