Here's a good recipe. 1cup peanut butter, 1 cup dogfood/Watford, and a 1½ cups of baking soda. First they can't resist it and an added bonus. Baking soda makes gas and they can't get rid of the gas before it will rupture there guts. Plus the momma rats take some back to the nest and feed it to them baybays. Sure makes a difference in how much they mess with my chickens feed.
AGN is nothing if not full of airgunners more than willing to sling a plethora of helpful answers and advice able to raise more questions than they answer. Thus leading to the inevitably of death by thread drift.
I'm real guilty of it, sometimes tangential knowledge becomes more interesting or controversial than the op topic. I come here to share what I've learned so it doesn't die, I know I'm a bit of an outlier where I am and want to keep it rolling.
Stay with the .25 for small game hunting with the JSB 25.39 gr Diabolo (the most accurate pellet I've found). I have thousands of rounds through my .25 caliber FX Wildcat shooting ground squirrels. I shot more than (400) pellets in one day this season. I have (6) eight shot rotary magazines for mine. I run through (48) pellets, then re-air from a 66 cu ft supply bottle. Takes 1-2 minutes to re-air. I get 800+ pellets from the supply tank. For hi-volume shooting this is the best set-up I've found. Best of luck on your decision.
Don't EVEN ask about ammo before you have gun in hand. Once you know EXACTLY what your equipment will be you can question other owners what works well in theirs. Even then, your mileage may vary. Such are the idiosyncrasies of airguns but without even knowing what you WILL be getting is a lost cause. Some guns will shoot just about everything OK others, not so much. You'll have to have gun in hand to find how finicky (or not) it will be.
