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Airgun hunting reviews you can
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I'm James. I hunt small game and run pest control in Southern California with an FX Impact M4, and I film every shot through the scope cam. Reviews here are backed by chronograph strings and field footage — not spec sheets.

Field Reports

Caliber Guide

Best Airgun Caliber for Small Game: .22 vs .25

The energy math, the trajectory truth, and when .25 actually earns its price — plus slugs vs pellets from someone who shoots both.

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Rifle Review

FX Impact M4 Review: Worth the Money?

Months of hunts, honest cons, and who should absolutely not buy this rifle. My primary hunting gun, reviewed like it isn't.

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Optic Review

DNT Zulus 4K Review: Honest Field Verdict

The day/night scope cam behind every hunt video here — 5 hunts in, with the 30fps lag and the external-IR truth nobody else tells you.

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Buyer's Guide

Best Air Rifles for Rabbit Hunting

Three honest tiers — budget springer to no-compromise PCP — and the energy floor a rabbit gun has to clear.

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Beginner

Pellet Gun vs PCP: Which Should You Buy First?

The real cost of each path, the "artillery hold" problem nobody warns you about, and a straight verdict by budget.

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Buyer's Guide

First PCP Air Rifle: Complete Buyer's Guide

Everything you actually need on day one — rifle, air, chrono, pellets — and the hidden costs that wreck budgets.

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Field Guide

Squirrel & Backyard Pest Control With Airguns

Energy requirements, shot placement, legality, and safe backstops — with real pest-control hunts on camera.

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The Data Locker

Every load I hunt with gets a public 10-shot chronograph string — average velocity, extreme spread, and foot-pounds of energy, measured on a Garmin Xero C1 Pro, not copied from a box label. First published strings land here with the next range session; every review then links its claims straight to the data.

Want to run your own numbers now? The FPE calculator uses the same formula I use at the bench.

The Loadout

What I actually carry on hunts — not a wish list:

James's field kit

FX Impact M4My primary rifle for rabbits, doves, and pest work. Full review, including the cons: Is it worth the money?
DNT Zulus 4K day/night scopeThe scope cam behind every hunt video on this site — records exactly what I see at the moment of the shot.Check price on Amazon →
Garmin Xero C1 Pro chronographThe radar chrono behind every Data Locker string. If you hunt, you need to know your real velocity — not the advertised one.Check price on Amazon →
40.1gr ACE FRAG slugsMy hunting projectile in the Impact. Why slugs, and when they're the wrong call: the caliber guide covers it.
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Watch the hunts behind the reviews

Scope-cam rabbit hunts, dove shoots, and pest control — new field footage on the channel.

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