>>Understand that you can't hunt with an airgun, it's so stupid airguns<<

Not sure where you're getting your info.

Since a great many people have taken a great many animals with airguns for hundreds of years (one went with Lewis and Clark, and they were used by poachers long before that), I'd have to guess that they'd be very surprised to hear that you can't do it.

The most powerful firearm is completely useless if you can't hit anything with it- and most people can't. Unlike in the movies and on TV, that is NOT an automatic thing... you can't just wish the bullet into the target, and the bullet doesn't care if you're the "good guy". It takes time and practice, and lots of it.

At, say, $5 to $10 for a mere 20 shots, most hunters will never get nearly enough practice with their hunting rifles. For most hunters (at least here in the East) it doesn't matter much- deer are so abundant that it's a struggle to keep from running over them in the streets, and if the hunter doesn't get one all season, nobody misses a meal, so marksmanship sometimes gets glossed over. It won't work that way anymore if they're hungry.

I've been shooting powder burners of various descriptions off-and-on for almost 30 years, and still do. In all that time, nothing improved my marksmanship nearly as much as getting involved with air rifles in the past few years. I stand by what I said.