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Shooting BBs for target practice, my rifle punches through galvanized trash cans at 25m-35m.
I shoot ground squirrels and rabbits at 35m-75m with pellets.
Some of the competition quality air rifles we fired with the BW mountain troops for target practice were much more powerful than my Powerline.
The Ukrainians are fighting in a city, and I would think a competition quality air rifle (like the one in the CNN pic appears to be) coulld be pretty effective in close quarters if properly employed to wound, maim, disrupt against an unsuspecting target with little or no ballistic head protection.
I wouldn't poopoo it off as somebody's Red Ryder BB gun and, to me, that pic is more an example of the nature of the fight going on (e.g., show up and fight with what ya brung) than of any misreporting by CNN or some other news network.
MOO.
Richard
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