FAC for someone without experience?

[PLEDGEY 496]

its pretty hilly with a road running through the middle of it, no houses in the areas i shoot ( well there is one on the actual golf course but i dont shoot anywhere near it). the only thing that concerns me is the potential for rebounding bullets, last think i want to do is send a bullet off the permission and injure any livestock or people.

Thats why part of me thinks that FAC air would be a safer bet ( give me a bit more range, still very quiet which is a must). Would FAC air be a more likely bet to be approved?

Only down side is the high price of the equipment.

 

i also shoot corvids because they have a bad habit of taking chunks out of the greens so an fac air rifle would probably be more suited to this too.

You say 'very quiet is a must'. 17HMR isn't very quiet so that kind of rules that one out. If you use a range finder, with a .22lr, then you know where to place the cross hairs on the rabbit at different ranges. Even out to 100yds, with a bi-pod, you shouldn't have any problems. The ammunition and rifle is cheap, compared to FAC Air, and it's quiet!.

[wabbit slayer 16]

What area do you live?