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For culling anything you need a proper gun not a toy. Air rifles are toys. You don't see pheasant and grouse shooters using them so why would you try and kill a rabbit with what is little more than a pop gun? Target practice and tin cans. That's all air rifles are fit for.
Absolute rubbish
An air rifle putting out 12ftlb (or above if you hold a FAC) will easily do a rabbit, pigeon, corvid, rat, etc at a sensible range - and feild craft will get you close in the same way that it will a photographer
(Ive also used a FAC rated theoben eliminator to do Mink but I wouldnt recomend that with a sub FAC)
Anyone who thinks they are only fit for plinking obviously hasnt used a good one. (the proviso being that anything that outputs below 9ftlbs isnt powerful enough for live quarry and is restricted to target or plinking - that covers all sub fac pistols (The FAC limit for pistols being 6ftlbs) and a bunch of rifles but not by any means all)
They have the obvious benefit for hunting that they are quiet ( a precompressed rifle with silencer like the rapid 7 is virtually silent) and that overkill/over penetration isnt an issue - that is you can use one in a position where it would be insane to use a rimfire or shotgun. The other benefit when shooting rabbits is that there is only one wound and the meat isnt spolied in the way it would be with multiple shotgun pellets
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