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Finger on the Pulsar

At my new permission I’d noticed some rat activity while shooting there, and the big one that I’d shot last time on the rubbish mound was certainly making me want to go for a night out with the Pulsar 550.

Lite Fantastic

You’ve heard the expression, ‘a kid in a sweet shop,’ meaning that you’re so spoiled for choice that you don’t know what to go for; well I was that ‘kid’ recently.

The long and the short of it

I’ve heard many times that for close-range vermin control, a powerful air pistol is a better bet than a rifle. It’s claimed that they’re handier in tight environments such as farm buildings and stables, which is perhaps true, but that’s not the only consideration. Let me firstly put on my ballistics hat and describe what our pellets do in flight, so we can compare the performance of the two types of gun. A high-power air pistol can only have 6 ft.lbs of muzzle energy by law, whereas the rifle can have 12ft.lbs. It’s suggested that at 15 yards, the pistol will have plenty of energy to dispatch such quarry species as feral pigeons and rats, but what are the hard numbers?

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