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Air guns can be found in two forms, the air rifle as well as the air pistol. As the name suggests, both drive their projectiles with the use of air, but the air is compressed in one way or another.

Historically, the air gun certainly existed in one form in the 16th century as there is a surviving example in the Stockholm museum! By the 17th century, air guns had developed enough to be used in hunting. Most of these examples were usually in the form of air rifles, and by this time they were developed enough to enable you to penetrate 1 inch thick wood at a distance of 100 paces. Quite impressive even for today!

The pressures attained on a range of these guns amounted to some 800PSI which was pretty amazing. Today however, we're limited to low pressure purely for safety and legal reasons. The truth is in some countries, air guns are still classified as firearms, so you wouldn't be able to buy or use one unless you had a license.

Power To The Air Gun

Nowadays we have a choice of types of air gun. By that I mean the choice of how we power that gun. It's still principally driven by air, but the method of how that air is compressed varies substantially.Let's look briefly at each of the options and see what advantages or disadvantages each offer.

CO2 Air Guns

Much like the Crosman 1077 rifle described elsewhere, these type of guns are driven by CO2. The CO2 is stored in either small 12g caplets, or containers, or in larger 88g containers. Both are fitted to the rifle. The smaller caplets offer around 50 - 80 shots before you need to replace, whilst the larger CO2 cylinder gives a massive 300 - 400 shots!

Clearly, the greatest advantage of this method is the continuity of fun! You're not constantly stopping to re-charge the gun, and if you're hunting small vermin, this is pretty essential as you won't have time to re-pump and aim at a critter as it's likely they'll be a long way off by that time! The downside is you have to pay for the CO2.

Break Barrel Gun

As the name implies, you 'break' the barrel at the point where it's hinged, in order to compress a steel spring which is hidden away inside the gun. The best thing about this gun is that the air is 'free'. All that is required is a but of muscle power to compress the spring. Some air rifles require quite a bit of muscle power and that is one of the disadvantages of this type of gun. The other disadvantage is the time taken between each shot. Not so bad if you're just plinking, but a disaster if you're vermin hunting and scare the thing off with your 1st missed shot! Some makes of gun use a 'gas spring' instead of a coiled steel spring. Some brands that make use of of this are Weirauch, Crosman and Arowsmith.

Pneumatic Gun

This is where you use pre-compressed air as the source to fire the pellet. Compression is achieved by priming a lever somewhere on the gun. The pneumatic gun includes a few variants. These are:

- single stroke - where you only need to prime the pump once on the gun for it to be ready to fire

- multi stroke - where you need to prime the pump lever around 2 to 10 times to achieve variable power

- pre charged pneumatic (PCP) - where you charge the reservoir not from a lever fitted to the gun, but from an air reservoir such as a diving cylinder or possibly a hand pump

Like the CO2 air guns, these offer an advantage where you want uninterrupted shooting, as you can achieve up to around 500 shots on a good reservoir. The disadvantage is usually the higher cost of acquisition since the production of these types of gun is costlier. In addition, you will need to buy a decent high pressure hand pump or a diving cylinder. Usage costs will probably be lower though than say a CO2 gun.

So there you have it. A brief synopsis of air guns and an outline of their relevant good and bad points. I hope it helps any choices you need to make when considering an air rifle or air pistol.

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