Thoughts Kalibrgun Cricket Wood 9mm vs Hercules Hatsan 30 Cal ?

[Shooting Targets]

I looked on the web and through this forum on the cricket 9mm and not much information ?

Does anybody have this air rifle and what are their thoughts comparing it to the much larger Hercules Hatsan. 

I heard the hecurles 30 cal puts out about 105 FPE and about 40 shots but is a tank to carry in the field. 

So is the cricket worth the money for shot count, accuracy at 100 to 125 yards ?

I want this for Coyote, fox, bobcat. How far do you think you could take a body shot on a coyote out to ?

Thanks, 

Jay

 

[T3PRanch]

Body shot at 50 yards with my .25 Cricket (50 ft/lb) got me one coyote. It was a heart lung shot and the dog still ran a good 100 yards. I suspect you would have seen a dog down pretty instantly with the .30 or .357 at the same range. I have been looking very hard at .357 guns lately but no magazine fed guns have been found that make the kind of power I want. There is a single shot, however, that I have decided will fill the bill because I can get 200+ foot pounds and my choice to use my own hollow point cast slugs.
I will be hunting coyotes and wild pigs mainly.

Thurmond

 

[zebra]

Not sure about that. I think that a dog size animal will still run from anything except a head shot regardless if it 25, 30 or 357 cal. They lack the hydrostatic shock you get from a firearm. 

Someone posted a video of someone taking a whitetail with an extreme big bore with a double lung shot and it still ran a little before dropping. 

I've taken a few foxes. Two with a 25 Cricket and one with a Career rifle and 55gr cast bullets at close to 100fpe. The Fox ran 50 feet from a heart shot at both 50fpe and 100fpe but dropped instantly from a head shot at 50fpe like most animals. 

Michael who runs this forum posted a review of the Cricket 9mm on YouTube. That has the most comprehensive info I have seen on that gun.

If you are looking for a less expensive 9mm, also look at the JKhan Krossa and Iluda 9mm, plus the Benjamin Bulldog 357. For hunting, I would look at the regular carnivore if you go with a Hatsan. You'd need to be Hercules to carry that thing...

 

[iride]

I really do not have a reason for anything that big, But I have been tempted with a few 500 dollar range 357 Bulldogs and with a little tuning you can get them shooting 900 FPS range and that's putting down some power at that money bracket.
Even over there on the Benjamin 357 site they say its a little much for sparrows,
What do they know, LOL.
Mike

 

[blackdiesel]

I think Wyshadow's 35 cal cricket still for sale in the AGN classifieds for $1125. There's video on his site of it in action.

 

[Sheharyar]

 

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