Hmmm. After reading all of this, I'm glad I procrastinated for 50 years over buying a .22RF Magnum. This frees me up to start procrastinating on a .17RF Magnum.
Yup. There was a time when something like the Hummer would have been very useful for me. We used to spend a lot of time at a couple of places in PA sitting on the porch shooting at starlings and other targets of opportunity. That time and those places are long gone; Hell, I'm shy about shooting my spring-air gun outside at my current digs because of the noise.
Smallbore CFs, reloaded, cost about the same as the magnum RFs, are more versatile, and save the cost of another rifle and scope. Reloading takes time, but that's something I've got plenty of.
