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11-02-2006, 11:36 AM
Hi All
I thought I offer my review regarding my new AirArms 410 .177 classic, please bear with me as I'm a newcomer to the sport but thought it may help others that are thinking of buying a rifle for FT.
I joined a club (Redfearns) after contacting Darren, who invited me down on a Saturday, I turned up bringing my Webley Rader 10 .22 with a cheapish Tasco 4-16x 50 sight and realised immediatly that although the guns is very accurate after being setup in my back garden, out on the Zeroing range its a completetly differnet matter!
I couldn't belive the amount of drop when trying out the 45 yards tagets. I was really dissapointed.
So I decided I'll do some research on the Web and read hunderds of posts on this froum, magazine articles etc then found someone selling a Air Arms Classic 410 .177 if the For Sale forum here.This is the gun form me.......at least I hoped!
Well it arrived and was I was impressed with the look and feel, superb chequering and apart from a dink on the stock near the bolt it was in excellent condition. I also knew I needed a clearer, better quality scope. I picked the Hawke 6.5-20X50 Mil dot on offer from BAR and within a couple of days the Scope had arrived!
I initialy attached the scope, again using my back garden, ensured it was more or less aligned as I've only 15 yards to Zero it in and then off I went back to the club range.
Well, what a difference! Using the table as a rest I shot 5 at the 25 yard target and the result was a clover leaf at about 7 o'clock and 1" down, I set the scope to 10X mag and ajusted the group until it was bang on, this was so easy, I couldn't beliveve how accurate the gun was.
I then moved out to 30, 35, and 40 yards without ajusting the Mag of the scope and amazingly the dop was only about a 1" at 40/45 yards
By using the first dot above centre I could place shot after shot within a 10 pence piece group. Of course I'm still using the table as a rest but I knew the rilfe was capable now and I was so pleased that within 15 minutes I'd a good idea of the accuacry of this combo.
I then did a couple of shots free standing at a spinner at 25yards and both on target without having to hold under so I sat down a then shot about 3 magazines at various distances, I didn't realise at first but I zoomed the scope to about 16 x and used the first Mil Dot again and was mssing my target....and then it clicked, of course if I zoom the dots are also different!
So I'll be back at the club tomorrow and trying to work out the relative dot shift against magnification and then I've got to practise as I'm the weak link in the accuracy of this gun!
I hope my little review helps some other newcomers and I'll keep my Raider 10 for ratting at my friends farm but the Air Arms 410 classic .177 is a cracking gun for the money.
I thought I offer my review regarding my new AirArms 410 .177 classic, please bear with me as I'm a newcomer to the sport but thought it may help others that are thinking of buying a rifle for FT.
I joined a club (Redfearns) after contacting Darren, who invited me down on a Saturday, I turned up bringing my Webley Rader 10 .22 with a cheapish Tasco 4-16x 50 sight and realised immediatly that although the guns is very accurate after being setup in my back garden, out on the Zeroing range its a completetly differnet matter!
I couldn't belive the amount of drop when trying out the 45 yards tagets. I was really dissapointed.
So I decided I'll do some research on the Web and read hunderds of posts on this froum, magazine articles etc then found someone selling a Air Arms Classic 410 .177 if the For Sale forum here.This is the gun form me.......at least I hoped!
Well it arrived and was I was impressed with the look and feel, superb chequering and apart from a dink on the stock near the bolt it was in excellent condition. I also knew I needed a clearer, better quality scope. I picked the Hawke 6.5-20X50 Mil dot on offer from BAR and within a couple of days the Scope had arrived!
I initialy attached the scope, again using my back garden, ensured it was more or less aligned as I've only 15 yards to Zero it in and then off I went back to the club range.
Well, what a difference! Using the table as a rest I shot 5 at the 25 yard target and the result was a clover leaf at about 7 o'clock and 1" down, I set the scope to 10X mag and ajusted the group until it was bang on, this was so easy, I couldn't beliveve how accurate the gun was.
I then moved out to 30, 35, and 40 yards without ajusting the Mag of the scope and amazingly the dop was only about a 1" at 40/45 yards
By using the first dot above centre I could place shot after shot within a 10 pence piece group. Of course I'm still using the table as a rest but I knew the rilfe was capable now and I was so pleased that within 15 minutes I'd a good idea of the accuacry of this combo.
I then did a couple of shots free standing at a spinner at 25yards and both on target without having to hold under so I sat down a then shot about 3 magazines at various distances, I didn't realise at first but I zoomed the scope to about 16 x and used the first Mil Dot again and was mssing my target....and then it clicked, of course if I zoom the dots are also different!
So I'll be back at the club tomorrow and trying to work out the relative dot shift against magnification and then I've got to practise as I'm the weak link in the accuracy of this gun!
I hope my little review helps some other newcomers and I'll keep my Raider 10 for ratting at my friends farm but the Air Arms 410 classic .177 is a cracking gun for the money.