I believe you may have the name wrong. Are you sure it's not a "Pumpmaster" Crosman Airguns has made the Pumpmaster, Slidemaster, Trapmaster, Springmaster and Powermaster air rifles. I can-not find any reference to a Pelletmaster. This make me think you may have a Pumprmaster.
Only if the rifle is designed for pellets. If it is a "Red Ryder" then the answer is NO. Daisy makes PELLET rifles.
A pellet rifle has no firing pin. It also can not fire a bullet or gunpowder. It can not be made to do so either. The pellet has no charge (casing like a bullet) it just a pellet. However pellet rifles can be just as deadly as a real firearm. They use Air or C02 to project the pellet downrange. Some Pellet rifles are used for hunting, others for target practice. The Major difference between a firearm and an air rifle, is Gunpowder is use in Firearms and Air or C02 is used in Air rifles.
Air rifles can push a lead pellet at or close to the speed of sound. Yes they are lethal, and very accurate.
Cost prohibitive
Both are powered by Air or CO2. But a bb gun fires a bb. (.177 caliber) BB guns and Rifles traditionally have smooth bore barrels. Air Rifles (I assume you are asking about Pellet firing air rifles) fire .177 pellets usually through a "rifled bore barrel" giving the pellet more spin and causing it to travel straighter. Pellet Air Rifles come in .177 cal, but also come in 20, 22, 25, 45 and 50 Caliber pellets. They tend to be more powerful than the bb rifles. Crosman, Daisy Beeman and RWS are just a few of the air gun makers who make bb guns and Pellet Air Rifles.
no those are airguns. .22 bullet rifles are used in the Olympics --------------------correct answer:----------------- .177 caliber air rifles are used in the Olympics. These are high quality match air rifles.
Never put more than one pellet in the barrel of a rifle at any time. Break barrel rifles only hold one pellet for each shot. There are some air rifles that hold several pellets in a clip and are fired one at a time. These rifles are usually have C02 power plants. Break barrel rifles are spring or nitro piston systems.
Air rifles use compressed air or C02 to propel the BB or pellet. They do not use gunpowder. Their is no bullet shell and bullet just the BB or pellet.
Not necessarily, but similar. An air rifle can be a BB gun, or it can be a pellet gun. Pellet guns are rifled, have more power, greater accuracy. .
It all depends on the model, Pellet size and power of the airgun. Most are capable of shooting small rodents and game. Like birds. However high end pellet rifles that are in the PCP class ( PreCharged Pneumatic) air rifles are capable of bringing down big game like a moose. These air guns & rifles can be charged to 3000 PSI and can fire a 50 Caliber pellet.
It's not so much the website as it is the Class of Airgun/Rifles that are expensive. I am referring to the most powerful and expensive airguns around. These are known as PCP's (PreCharged Pneumatic) air rifles. This class of air rifles are used in the Olympics (Cost around $3.000) or for hunting medium to large game. Most pellet guns or rifles fire a .177, .20 or .22 caliber pellet. PCP's can fire up to 9mm, 45 cal, 357, or 50 cal. These are extremely big boar air rifles. see the links below for the air gun sites
The Olympic air pistol and air rifle events use a .177 caliber pellet. The biathlon (skiing and shooting) uses a .22 caliber rim fire rifle.