Pellet Rifles

I've been a pump up $35 pellet rifle guy since childhood. I finally decided to move up and buy a big boy pellet rifle. I have what appears to be a constant need to manage the squirrel and raccoon population around the house. I went and Purchased a Gamo Wildcat Whisper yesterday that won't see two sunrises at my house. Complete junk. Like any of them you might as well not take the scope out of the box but I gave it a shot. Adjustments were funky and hopped all over, no consistency, get the elevation right change windage one click and elevation would jump 2-3 inches. Junk. So I put a $250 rimfire scope on it that I had in the safe.

The rifle itself. Also junk. I sent 4 different brands of pellets through it and the best it could achieve wpuld be 6-8 inch MOA. Jumped all over the place. This was the best group it could manage at 30 yards. I can shoot better than that with a compound bow. 🤣 What good is a pellet rifle that only has a 50/50 chance of actually hitting a squirrel at 30 yards. 🤣 Junk, back to wence she came.

So what brand rifles have you guys found good accuracy out of?

I've often thought those would be an excellent idea for that survival rifle for plinking critters to eat but with that accuracy I guess I'll be sticking with my Daisy Red Ryder, I killed everything with that gun back in the day LOL!! Well, maybe it would only piss off a squirrel tho.

Switching to a .22 LR sounds like the smart move if quiet pest control is the goal. For fun target practice in the backyard, I grabbed a great CO2 pistol from https://www.bespokeairsoft.co.uk/airsoft-gun/pistols and it works perfectly for plinking without the fuss of that dual recoil. You get solid accuracy right out of the box for a fraction of the hassle those spring-piston rifles cause.