{"id":8324,"date":"2024-04-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:30:08","slug":"dont-disregard-air-rifle-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/dont-disregard-air-rifle-power\/","title":{"rendered":"DON\u2019T DISREGARD AIR RIFLE POWER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Few of us ever got through a December without seeing the iconic movie \u201cA Christmas Story\u201d in which the most memorable and much repeated line was, \u201cYou\u2019ll shoot your eye out, kid!\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The kid in question desperately wanted, and finally got, a Daisy air rifle that shot BBs. The general public sees \u201cair guns\u201d as something that can hurt you but not kill you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Au contraire.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are air rifles, and then there are other air rifles. The Lewis and Clark Expedition fed their team members with game killed with high-powered air rifles of that long-ago time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a subscription to the excellent magazine\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.airgunhobbyist.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Airgun Hobbyist,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>which in a recent edition\u2019s cover story focused on a hunter who had killed a Cape Buffalo with a Dragon Claw air rifle.The Dragon Claw is profiled here:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DRAGON CLAW 2 \u2022 Extreme Power .50 Cal Air Rifle\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aoppl40HweY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>or watch <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aoppl40HweY?si=uLXllEV9k56F4bOi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">video here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It can send forth a lead projectile of substantial size or, yes, an arrow.&nbsp;&nbsp;The hunter in question apparently used their \u201cair rifle arrow option\u201d to kill the Cape Buff in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I hunted Cape Buffalo in 1987 in the Eastern Transvaal of South Africa, I carried a .458 Magnum \u201celephant gun\u201d and my partner Cameron Hopkins wielded a powerful .425 wildcat of his own design, and if you had told either of us \u201cI\u2019m coming along with my air rifle\u201d we would doubtless have replied in unison, \u201cYou\u2019ll stay back at camp!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keith Warren made it work, given that his air rifle was a powerful Dragon Claw 2 with the arrow option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take air guns seriously.&nbsp;&nbsp;As an expert witness, I did one homicide case where the death weapon was an \u201cair pistol\u201d that sent its pellet through an intercostal space and into the victim\u2019s heart. If that poor guy was alive, he\u2019d tell you to take air guns seriously, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few of us ever got through a December without seeing the iconic movie \u201cA Christmas Story\u201d in which the most memorable and much repeated line was, \u201cYou\u2019ll shoot your eye out, kid!\u201d&nbsp; The kid in question desperately wanted, and finally got, a Daisy air rifle that shot BBs. 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