You want to be impressed with a .25 cal

These pellets (below) are all I use set at 900 fps. ME 19 ft. lbs. It has taken a lot (hundreds) of birds and squirrels out to 75 yards. Maybe a few past that. The standard JSB of the same pellets are fine. My Baby Cricket has never had an oring or valve failure. It sounds like they are collectors items? :fishing: If I ever sell anything the .22 Cricket really duplicates the Mutant.

My Baby Mutant (.22) with the fancy walnut stock on it is a bit nicer IMO and it has that incredible trigger.

The two Crickets (.22 and .177 CC)

I also think I have the only Gen 1 shorty 30 cal Edgun that has not broken a valve stem in 3000 shots too (although I have a lot of spares). :biggrinn: It’s my coon gun. I do have it set only at 875 fps for about 75 fpe but it is sufficient on coons and ground hogs. It has mild hammer noise, etc. at this velocity but so many tried to get them up to 900 fps and it turns out it is really maxed at 875 putting a lot of stress on things to raise raise much. With 3000 shots on a stem I will simply replace the stem when it fails.

I hunted black bear in Ontario fifteen years ago and am happy to see them “restored” in my area. They might hold the first limited permit hunt in 2019. I think the large litters (3-4) and high viability with mild winters (most cubs live unless a vehicle hits them) have created a lot more than they expected so soon. They have about 4500 in northern Arkansas and I think they want to limit the maximum in Missouri to about 2500. Basically even now they are spotted somewhere in southern Missouri nearly everyday.

We also now have a small breeding population of mountain lions but they are saying maybe only 50 in total. They thought they were all males but they have since seen multiple females. They aren’t even managing those. They DNA tested one and said it had traveled from the west to here. My family spotted a pair in a state park maybe two years ago and thought they were owned and tied up to a tree they were under. They were wild. LOL

They also replanted elk here some time ago which also used to be here naturally and they found a dead elk that a mountain lion had taken last year. I don’t know how many elk we have now. I think it is only a few hundred.

Make me run! :suprisedn:

Now I mainly use a .177 Baby Cricket or .22 compact Mutant. More flop! 😛

Our chipmunk population has exploded here and I have bagged over thirty this season already. That is more than most years. I have bagged Alvin, Theodore, and Simon, and most of their relatives I think. :4:

Now we have bears running around since they started “managing” them about ten years ago and the population also has exploded. The estimate is 500 bear now live just south of me. We had dozens of sightings in the last two months within a few miles of the house. I am hoping to see one in the backyard any day now since it is heavy woods and they go after the feeders. :biggrinn: