12 Best 22 Cal Air Rifle For Small Game (2023 Updated)

Very nice quality targets – we shot quite a few up over the weekend and I really liked them. Nice heavy paper and the rounds leave precise marks – they don’t tear out to where it’s hard to score. They help up well to being stapled to the cardboard and were easy to take off without tearing the whole corner of the sheet off.

Also easy to write on – some of these have a finish that doesn’t accept ink very well.

Very nice paper. Excellent print quality. Appears to be regulation. Great price. Thank you Domagron

I purchase targets looking for a product a little thicker than standard B2/B3 type targets for ease of scoring. The one I receive are fine targets but not the thickness I desire. Targets are great just if you like thicker targets these gdo not meet that standard.

For gas piston break barrel rifles, be sure to use only a couple drops into the chamber — NOT into the barrel. Break open your barrel as if loading a pellet, but instead of squeezing the drops in where the pellet goes, look at the opposite part of your rifle.

That unit has the chamber which also has a hole. This hole is where the “gas” is being pushed into the skirt of your pellet once you close the breach (and thus the rifle is cocked for shooting). THAT is where the silicone chamber oil goes into.

The OTHER hole from whence the air comes. The chamber. NOT the barrel. Just wanted to clarify that with some of our break-barrel shooter friends who have Nitro piston (gas piston) rifles, so that they do not drip this stuff down into the barrel at the breech, whatsoever.

No. Not into the barrel. Just an FYI. Do this every 250 shots or so. Into the CHAMBER. Not the barrel.

From Crosman; “this lubricant specially created for Crosman Spring and Nitro Piston air rifles. Never use regular pellgun oil for a Spring or Nitro Piston air rifle”. I’ve looked everywhere for this oil, and places on the Internet want massive amounts of money.

I got into air guns a few months ago and since bought 10 different types, mostly Crosmans. The Nitro pistons need this oil and if you use pellgunoil which is organic oil based it may cause an extra bang in the gun that you don’t want hapoening.

Something to do with tiny droplets vaporizing and Flashpoint. I’m not an expert so don’t quote me. Just use the recommended oil in the suggested places by the manufacturer and you won’t go wrong. Hopefully my store has it in stock.

I tried to right a review, explaining that I use this to lubricate an electrical contactor in the winter. However, I could not submit the review because off “offensive language”. I don’t know if “electrical” or “contactor” is offensive but maybe this one will satisfy the Uber lords.

Bought this for the kid to target practice with there bb guns. So far it works great no problems so far the bb’s don’t even penetrate the cloth back drop so the bb’s just fall to bottom and we can even reuse them.

I shot with my air pellet rifle and it will go through the cloth but hits steel back plate. I wouldn’t use it with anything more powerful than a air pellet rifle. It also folds back down for easy storage but, ours has been taken down twice so far we use it often enough.

comes with a bunch of paper targets and seems standard size for new targets. I will recommend as another reviewer mentioned to buy plastic golf tees to replace the plastic pegs the target comes with, only 1 or 2 stray hits and they will break easily.

Great Only problem is that once you buy from Domagron, you will never ever cease to receive their emails. They thank you for buying about twenty times. Then they email you to say they are sorry if they did something to offend because you haven’t bought targets again in.

3 weeks. Then they send you those emails to review a product you have bought and reviewed before. I swear I’m afraid I’ll have a visit from the CEO next time I don’t buy anything for one year Targets are good though.

Nice thick paper, aiming black dark with sharp scoring ring edges. 22 rimfire and. 223 match bullets cut clean holes with almost no tear out with multiple rounds enlarging the same hole. Fast shipping & packaged well.

I also have other Birchwood steel targets which hold up very well and so i thought I’d try this one for. 22. With ammo prices still being quite high I shoot more. 22 and it’s always more fun to hear the “ping” of the steel and see something move than shooting paper all the time.

Paper splatter targets are around $1 each so you’re saving a LOT of money with a resettable target and probably having a lot more fun shooting it. You also don’t need to walk down range to reset it, just shoot the top plate to reset.

Works great! I may even pick up a second one to compete with whoever I bring to the range. Check out their higher caliber spinners too. My range has some steel but I bring these in case I can’t get a bay with steel or I just add it to what they have to change it up a bit.

Fun to shoot at. Spring guns and bb guns will “tink” but it won’t operate as intended unless you have a higher powered air rifle. Only complaint is that it is pretty small. Each target is about the size of a silver dollar.

The whole thing is maybe a foot tall.

I was concerned about the function of the product based on a video review. Fortunately, the product functioned poorly because it was set up incorrectly. The legs that fold out fold towards the front of the target.

This allows sufficient rotation of the lower targets to stay up until reset by the upper target. I have used the target at various ranges from 20 yrds to 40 yrds with a Benjamin maurader. 177, tuned to 830 fps muzzle velocity with a 10.

5 grain pellet. My usual targets are paper and cans. This target is more fun and provides the added benefit of minimal cleanup and no time wasted walking from the shooting station to replace the target.

The paper dots will soon disappear, but can be replaced with adhesive target dots or paint. Hint, it would be nice if these were available as an accessory. The target folds flat for easy storage. No signs of target damage.

Going to purchase 4 more and place them at various ranges.

Hi, I bought one of these things after seeing it in a youtube video from “Eric the car guy”. I’m not a mechanic and I’ve never cleaned an air filter or a radiator in my life. I am however in a position where I have to wash and detail my car alot, sometimes daily and when I saw this product I saw a potential for using this tool to dry the car after washing.

It works quite good for this purpose, I should have bought the 12″ instead of the 24″, it would have been long enough and this one tends to get in my way from time to time. It would be more useful to me in this length if I had a bigger car to dry.

Also I had to find a rubber cap that would fit on the end of it, its made from aluminium and has quite sharp edges, not good to be swinging that around an expensive car. That being said, you should really look into this, putting a rubber cap on the end of these things and market them as car drying tools.

You could even send some out to youtubers that are making detailing videos “junkman2000” or “ammo nyc” for example. I hope this can be of some use to you and help sell a few units. Best regards from Reykjavik, Iceland David.

I have been looking for this type of item for cleaning out between the radiators of my tractors. This item fits well and has the power to blow the weeds out of the fins of the radiator. This products works better than any other product we have ever tried.

I not only recommend it to my friends, I bought two more.

I rarely write product reviews, but this item deserves one. I needed a device to blow out my tractor’s radiator and other coolers – this product works! The air stream is strong and it’s thin enough to fit between the stacked coolers.

IMR4227 is my powder of choice for 357M, 44M, 45 Colt, and 454 Casull. Yes, choosing different powders for each of these loadings can give slightly better performance in terms of muzzle velocity, accuracy, and burn; but this powder is an excellent choice for loading all these power handgun rounds.

All modern powders seem to be very stable across ambient conditions. Specifically, over a period of five years, an 8lb bottle of IMR4227 yielded extremely consistent performance loaded in rounds regardless of temperature and humidity.

I’m on my third bottle, ready to purchase the 4th.

I was an Alliant 2400 powder user for my magnums (44 and 357) but with the powder shortage for the last year plus, I happened to find this. It works very well for my 200 grain XTP. 430 cal (44 mag) at 26 grains and I have taken a deer with this load out to 45 yards.

It is a little slower powder than the 2400, so a longer barrel is better to get the full velocity out of it. Compared to 2400, this seems to push in the recoil a little softer, which is good, but 44 mag is stout stuff.

2400 is loaded in my loadings at 23 grains for same 200 XTP. In my Ruger Super Redhawk 9. 5 inch barrel, I can group both 2400 and 4227 within inches at 100 yards on rest. Don’t have chronograph, but they seem to be similar.

4227 is more expensive and you have to use more of it for same or similar velocity is the only negative, but it is available right now from time to time. 2400 not yet. I will probably go back to 2400 when it’s available because I’m so used to it and it’s a little more economical.

As far as dirtiness, both powders are very similar. Remember, short barrels and this powder will not get more velocity than 2400 as the powder won’t have finished burning in the barrel to generate the velocity.

As far as temperature finickiness, I have not seen any problems from warm to cold outside. Always goes bang.

12 gauge loads for trap, skeet and light field loads can be loaded with IMR 700x. I have used 700x since the early 1960s and it works great. To load 12 ga. Hibrass use the 800x. Either of these powders can also be used in the 16 ga For 20 and 28 gauge loads 800x is the best choice because the smaller the shotgun bore is, the slower the powder burn rate must be although 700x can be used in a 20 ga for target loads but data is no longer published.

As to the 410 bore, I use another brand of powder but I have used IMR 4227 with good results in the past. Today there are so many different powders available that it boggles the mind be they for rifle, shotgun and handgun.

I keep it simple and use IMR for shotguns. Be sure to consult a loading manual before reloading any type of cartridge.

The Mantis X2 has already started to help me with my shooting accuracy. First night I used it I improved from the low 60 percentile to the high 90s. I like that it tells you what you did to earn a low score so that you can correct it immediately.

I’ve had the chance to use it for dry fire drills and also live fire.

Highly recommend this product to everyone gun owner. After 200 dry fire rounds and a 100 live fire rounds, there was an obvious and clear issue with my method of holding the revolver. After getting comfortable with the advice, and the new position, and I developed a new issue.

I fixed that with the help of this training aid. By the end of my hour at the shooting range I had drastically improved my shots on target. I can’t wait to get back there this weekend and train again.

I have both the X2 and the X3. We have the ability to train with live fire using the X3. They both help you with trigger squeeze, muzzle control, and even tips on finger placement. The best thing is that you dont have to use ammo.

Beautiful solid structure, with simple mechanisms that are assumed to last over time. Shooting small silhouettes is a lot of fun and I absolutely recommend it! Have a good fun!

Great target, just what hubby wanted. Seems sturdy to me, going by the weight of it. I’m sure hell have lots of fun.

A well constructed long lasting item. Great fun to use whilst maintaining the necessary practice to enable to improve and remain competitiveness.