From time to time, I've written about my hunting exploits while growing up in the Buttonwillow area. Armed with a Sheridan air rifle that fired .20-caliber pellets at around 700 feet per second, I ...

Air rifles were once considered accurate if they shot minute of soda can, but a lot has changed in the last 20 or so years. There are now air rifles capable of shooting pellets into one ragged hole at ...