Best air rifle for me?

UK - airgun sales

http://www.guntrader.co.uk/Guns-For-Sale

In your price range I generally recommend a S/H Weihrauch HW35 or BSA Supersport

The Supersport weighs around 6.6lbs, the HW35 around 8.4lbs

Both have iron sights

Obviously the Supersport meets your weight requirement, the HW35 is a bit heavy

Both will deliver good(hunting) accuracy out to around 35 yards

the .177 is less expensive to shoot, and with average weight(8gr) pellets will give you a better trajectory, than the .22 shooting 14gr pellets.

Hunting small game(rabbit, squirrel) with an air rifle requires precise shot placement(head). So accuracy trumps any slight advantage in terminal performance one pellet(or caliber) might have over another.

.177 vs .22

http://kirschy.tripod.com/177vs22.html

"J Kirsch" has an excellent article on the subject

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Added for your info

The Supersport and HW35 are good air rifles.

Also within your price range, you may be able to find a nice S/H Weihrauch HW80**. Which IMO is one of the world's best. But, it does weigh around 8.8lbs

**often referred to as "The air rifle by which all others are measured"

.177 is more accurate for target shooting because of the flatter trajectory. However, a .22 delivers much more energy to the target because of the greater mass of the pellet and the bigger cross section.

So if you have any intention to hunt go for a .22 and practise so you can kill cleanly with one shot.

With a rabbit the only clean shot is to the head, just behind the eye. If you can't do that don't hunt. A wounded bunny will make it back to its burrow and die a slow death.

Id say get a gamo varmiter super accurate and its .177 but its 1400 fps making it as powerful as a 1200 fps .22 and it can shoot out to 100 yards accurately and its 300 US dollars