Puerto Rico Airgun Adventure 2025 Iguana Hunt

In this video, I’m headed back to Puerto Rico on an iguana shoot, as a guest of Hatsan USA.

After a quick stop in Atlanta to change planes, we landed in San Juan, where a few of us converged at the terminal to meet up with blaine, for the hour and a half drive to Ponce.

I was pretty happy when we arrived at our campsite! Actually, I’ve stayed here a few times since Blaine and I did our first iguana shoot 11 or 12 years ago, and it’s nice to have a full blown resort to relax at after a day of shooting!

The next morning we had an early breakfast and got on the road for an hour drive to a local agricultural area, that we were told was having problems with a very large iguana population.

At the gates of the property we organized out gear, discussed logistics, and got started.

Blaine had organized guides to lead the group on a party shoot, but as ussual I headed off alone into the dense forest bordering the pastures. I’d come back to hang with the guys later, but I really wanted to spend the first day solo!

My gun of choice was the Hatsan Factor .30 caliber. Blaine had shipped the rifles earlier, and I’d asked for the Factor and the Flashpup .25, both of which I own and feel very comfortable with.

The factor is a tackdriver and the .30 was a great caliber for this application, and hit these big lizards with authority.

Puerto Rico is without doubt my favorite place to shoot iguana, the sheer numbers are a plus, but the lack of interferance and rural landscape make it more of an adventure than simple pest control. I’m heading back later in the year and will spend a week on my own exploring and shooting, so keep an eye out for that video.

After a break at the an outdoor grill in the little town down the road, we headed back to another section of the farm for the second session in which I planned to use the Hatsan Flashpup .25 caliber.

I mostly took head shots, but would use body shots when that was the only target. The Flashpup .25 did the trick even on some very large lizards!

This is a handy little bullpup that made my best budget compact PCP a couple years in a row, and it did everything I needed it to on this trip!

I’ve written and spoken about this in the past, but want to again explain why these green iguana are being shot. They are an invasive species with no natural predators. They mate throughout the year, lay large clutches, and damage both the natural ecology and the islands infrastructure. The governments aim is eradication, but I think reducing the population is the best outcome to be expected.

The next day we stopped at another farm on our way back to San Juan, and this time I spent the day shooting with Blaine, Adam, and Curtis, and had a blast. These guys are very good shots, and we bagged many more of these mini-dragons before calling it a day.

Curtis is a firearms content creator (and commentator), visit his site to see his video on the trip from a firearms guys perspective, I’ll put the link in the description.

On the drive back to the city we stopped along La Ruta del Lechon (the pork highway) for a feast of roast pig.

I checked into a hotel in San Juan near the airport, and got a good nights rest before heading back north in the morning. What a great trip, I had great travel companions, the locals were a lot of fun and very helpful, the shooting was nonstop, and both the Factor .30 and Flashpup .25 did a stellar job for me.

Curtis's YouTube Channel: UCtHPaq_1hCdwmM8rkcBTpvg