I had a Crosman 760 as a kid and loved it, but I was taught to NEVER shoot at anything living, although I bent the rules a bit to except minnows, horse flies, and the neighbors' dogs when ours were in heat, with weak shots in the butt calibrated to sting not harm (the 760 could be varied by power, depending on the number of pumps you gave it - I swear it was a disguised exercise program for kids, you had to pay for each shot with several pumps and you learned to make each one count). I pumped that sucker up quite a bit and sank an inner tube that was floating in a local pond once, and innner tubes (car type) are tough. NOT a toy.