Gunshots on Kaloli Point

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The .22 Crosman nitro venom is only $130 on amazon with free shipping and it comes with a decent scope. They make a more powerful break barrel (you can do your own search on amazon to find easy) both in FPS and also up to .25 but you'll pay more for it. The venom is very accurate but you need to put a few hundred pellets through it before you get the accuracy. It has no detectable recoil and if you shoot lead pellets its nearly silent. Of course it makes a noise but I would say the pellet impact is just as loud as the gun is. There is a dizzying array of pellets available for it. I find the hollow point to be the best for hunting. Cocking it isn't easy or fast which is a pain if you miss your target. For accuracy you need to be careful what type of pellets you use and to inspect them. When I was sighting mine in I carefully inspected the pellet's skirt (or whatever its called) and selected only the ones that looked perfect. Frankly if the higher powered nitro pistons were available at the time I would have got one of them, the ones available now deliver almost 1/3 more energy making the .25 an option that was previously only available on a PCP rifle.

I really wanted to get a PCP rifle suitable for pig hunting. I know a guy on Kauai that uses a Benjamin Maurader and it's like shooting a gun with a suppressor (maybe even quieter). The high cost of the rifle and pumping accessories is one hurdle, another is that surprisingly the ammo for it cost about the same per round as traditional gunpowder ammunition (that doesn't make sense to me since you can get .22 pellets a few dollars for 500) but he hunts on his property in a subdivision and needed something quiet.