Okay I’m guessing this is a new one to the community, let’s see. I have a friend who owns a herd of African oryxes. They are a gazelle like creature with long scimitar horns. Lately one has been more aggressive and they can be quite dangerous to humans and especially the other animals. They have had fights to the death and they use the horns to stab the other male and they bleed. Sometimes the horns break off in the opponent.
So, we want to reduce the effectiveness of the aggressive oryx horns by shooting the tips off the horns using an air gun. If it takes a lot of shots over a period of months that’s okay. They are tame animals compared to in the wild, however you can’t touch them at all in captivity and they don’t respond well to sedation so that’s why we are trying to discover the right method for achieving herd peace. If we have to we will kill the offending male, but the air gun challenge is what we are working on now. So my question is what do I need to be looking at for accuracy in an air gun? I understand firearms accuracy principles but I don’t know how many of those apply to air guns. We have a gamo break action rifle that came with a cheap scope.
Does ammo matter? Bore slugging? Brands? Does a compressed air gun make a lot more precision than a Spring type unit?