Pictures and Stories of our hunts with Springers/Gas-Ram Rifles.

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JaketheMeatGOD

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Hello Nation, this thread is to share the fun and the delicious side of Spring/Ram airguns: Hunting and Nature that is.🙂🌵🌾
Please share yours too; it would be lovely to see and hear each one of your stories.
Okay, here is one of my hunts with Diana 35 T06 in 4.5mm:

A successful hunt for Grey Partridge and Chukar Partridge:
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Very delicious indeed😁
 
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Septicdeath said:
This will get the PCP guys feathers ruffled.😁 They all think you can only hunt with a PCP. However us that hunt with springers know differently.
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Well, I think we have to give them some credit too, the reason they think like that is because it's actually very hard to hunt many species with springers, especially this type of game bird, which is a bird to hunt with shotguns while flying.
They are super agile while running and would fly away from you if you got too close. You can only chase them uphill, never down, because uphill they run but downhill they fly.
I remember in this particular hunt I was crouching uphill for about 150meters with all the gear.🥲
So, if looking to get in shape, get a springer and then go hunting.😅

This one is a much easier game; doves:

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Still great meat.
 
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JaketheMeatGOD said:
Hello Nation, this thread is to share the fun and the delicious side of Spring/Ram airguns: Hunting and Nature that is.🙂🌵🌾
Please share yours too; it would be lovely to see and hear each one of your stories.
Okay, here is one of my hunts with Diana 35 T06 in 4.5mm:

A successful hunt for Grey Partridge and Chukar Partridge:
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Very delicious indeed😁
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there will be no partridge in a pear tree this xmas
 
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Charlie350 said:
much prefer using an air gun to hunt birds head shots and no picking out lead pellets from the meat.
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Hi, I think I'm not that good of a shooter to begin with, but it also isn't easy to do so after crouching or running up hills for a while, and these guns are not laser accurate, so I didn't risk it, but as you said, it's preferred.
About the pellet getting stuck in the meat, it happens maybe less than 5% of the time for me; It's always a clean pass through because the gun is 4.5mm.

Charlie350 said:
Also whats with the tape holding your gun together ?
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It's protecting the stock and barrel from scratches caused by stones; the gun is fine, held together by bolts.

This is the terrain:

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So you can imagine the land is not very kind to a beautiful marriage of steel and wood, hence the need for protection.
 
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JaketheMeatGOD said:
Hi, I think I'm not that good of a shooter to begin with, but it also isn't easy to do so after crouching or running up hills for a while, and these guns are not laser accurate, so I didn't risk it, but as you said, it's preferred.
About the pellet getting stuck in the meat, it happens maybe less than 5% of the time for me; It's always a clean pass through because the gun is 4.5mm.


It's protecting the stock and barrel from scratches caused by stones; the gun is fine, held together by bolts.

This is the terrain:

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So you can imagine the land is not very kind to a beautiful marriage of steel and wood, hence the need for protection.
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Location? That terrain looks a lot like the US southwest. Hunting Chukar is very challenging, even with a shotgun and a dog. Impressive to get them with a springer 👍
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JaketheMeatGOD said:
Hi, I think I'm not that good of a shooter to begin with, but it also isn't easy to do so after crouching or running up hills for a while, and these guns are not laser accurate, so I didn't risk it, but as you said, it's preferred.
About the pellet getting stuck in the meat, it happens maybe less than 5% of the time for me; It's always a clean pass through because the gun is 4.5mm.


It's protecting the stock and barrel from scratches caused by stones; the gun is fine, held together by bolts.

This is the terrain:

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So you can imagine the land is not very kind to a beautiful marriage of steel and wood, hence the need for protection.
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The landscape is straight out of a western movie... very nice, thanks for sharing.
 
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EMrider said:
Location? That terrain looks a lot like the US southwest. Hunting Chukar is very challenging, even with a shotgun and a dog. Impressive to get them with a springer 👍
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Thank you.
It's interesting you mention the US southwest, because this is right around the globe, on the other side of the planet.
It is South of Iran.

I've hunted them with shotguns as well, but the level of satisfaction you get with an airgun is unmanageable.😅
 
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JaketheMeatGOD said:
Thank you.
It's interesting you mention the US southwest, because this is right around the globe, on the other side of the planet.
It is South of Iran.

I've hunted them with shotguns as well, but the level of satisfaction you get with an airgun is unmanageable.😅
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Very interesting, thanks, and I do understand the satisfaction of hunting with a spring gun. Just curious if hunting with an airgun is common in Iran? In the U.S., many (maybe a majority) of states permit hunters to use airguns, but the vast majority of hunters still use firearms. In 40+ years of hunting, I have only encountered one other hunter in the field who was using an airgun.
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EMrider said:
Very interesting, thanks, and I do understand the satisfaction of hunting with a spring gun. Just curious if hunting with an airgun is common in Iran? In the U.S., many (maybe a majority) of states permit hunters to use airguns, but the vast majority of hunters still use firearms. In 40+ years of hunting, I have only encountered one other hunter in the field who was using an airgun.
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Well, it depends on the species of game we hunt; it's something like this:

1) sparrows, and birds that size, up to doves = mostly springers.

2) From doves and pigeons up to rabbits = mostly PCPs.

3) Partridges, rabbits, porkpine, docks, and some larger game = shotguns mostly, and also PCP in some cases.

4) Wild hugs, Rams, Ibex, and alike = centerfire and, in some cases, shotguns with slug/buckshot.

But compared to the US, we do a lot of airgun action, simply because it's very hard to get a simple hunting firearm, and then it's even harder to get a hunting licence. Luckily for me, I have a feature that I don't listen to anything a government has to offer or say, Lol.
 
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