The Ultimate Air rifle

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Sorry, completely forgot about RWS guns, they have a wood stock generally, and shoot extremely well, and are high powered. The only problem that I have with them is that they are 2-3 or more times the price of the Gamo guns. You will want to get a pellet trap if you want a good gun, and you don't want to pollute your yard.
 
It's possible to get that kind of accuracy out to about that distance (10yds), but that's about the limit of steel BBs, even from a good quality smoothbore. I've done a lot of shooting with airguns using steel BBs from smooth & rifled bores, pellets from rifled bores and even some lead BBs from rifled bores. Steel BBs, in my experience, seem to be less accurate from rifled bores than from smoothbores, probably because they're significantly undersize for the rifled bores. Pellets from rifled bores are more accurate than steel BBs from any bore size. Lead BBs from a rifled bore can be very accurate, but they shouldn't be used in smoothbores as they will be oversize.

The comments about wearing out rifled bores with steel BBs are also correct in my experience. I shot out the steel barrel of my first pellet gun using steel BBs. It would have likely lasted literally forever had I used only lead pellets. I wouldn't consider using anything other than lead pellets or lead BBs in a rifled airgun barrel unless I considered the airgun (or at least the barrel) disposable.

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You can't make steel bb's accurate primarily because they're made of steel. Steel won't form to the rifling, so you can't put a good spin on it. It will wear the rifling out though. Plus, about the only projectiles with worse BC's are airsoft bb's and paintballs. They literally have a BC of around .01! That means they shed velocity like crazy and any little gust of wind will blow them off course.
 
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