Chip Hunnicutt, Marketing Manager for the Crosman Corporation, took this 11-point white-tailed deer in South Carolina with a Benjamin large bore air rifle. (Courtesy of Crosman Corporation) The ...

Big-bore airguns have been trending these last few years, and this is a department where Hatsan has excelled by offering one of the most powerful production PCP air rifles on the market with its ...

Idaho, the most permissive state in this regard, allows big bore air rifles for all of its big game, including elk, sheep and moose. Alaska allows them for caribou and black-tailed deer.

Until 2014, Arkansas hunting regulations only allowed air rifles for hunting small game and some birds. In 2012, Rowland asked the commission to formally legalize big bore air rifles for deer hunting.

In 2018, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission passed a regulation allowing hunters to use big bore air rifles for deer hunting. A legal air rifle for deer must be at least .40-cal., and must ...

Small bore air rifles are generally made in .117-, .22- and .25-caliber; big-game guns are bored at .30- to .50-caliber. Retail prices run from $150 to more than $1,000. With no gun powder ...