Long range airgun shooting

[Terry D]

Terry,

when you tried this, what results were you getting with 60 ft.lbs?

Worse than when I wound down the rifle to 38 ft.lbs., mate.

I was using Bisley Magnums, graded, sorted and individually weighed - yes, it's tragic but so am I when I'm in 'nth-degree' mode.

My average 10-shot groups at 100 yards, shot indoors with 60 ft.lbs. measured just under 3 inches. As I say, some pellets landed on top of each other, but others veered off to all points around the 1 inch disc target, sometimes by as much as 6 inches.

Outdoors, using range flags every 10 yards to assess the wind, those 'rogue' pellets would often miss by a foot, when I could feel or see not a trace of wind. Most frustrating, I can tell you.

[Woodie]

Worse than when I wound down the rifle to 38 ft.lbs., mate.

I was using Bisley Magnums, graded, sorted and individually weighed - yes, it's tragic but so am I when I'm in 'nth-degree' mode.

My average 10-shot groups at 100 yards, shot indoors with 60 ft.lbs. measured just under 3 inches. As I say, some pellets landed on top of each other, but others veered off to all points around the 1 inch disc target, sometimes by as much as 6 inches.

Outdoors, using range flags every 10 yards to assess the wind, those 'rogue' pellets would often miss by a foot, when I could feel or see not a trace of wind. Most frustrating, I can tell you.

What was the spread of fps between those 10 shots?

[Greendogg]

I can spin, draw and fire with my walther cp88 and get a 1 inch group at 200 yards.

[Terry D]

What was the spread of fps between those 10 shots?

At the muzzle, less than 10 f.p.s. At the target, often double that outdoors. I used regulated and non-regulated rifles, springers and gas-rams. Incidently, the two occasions I clamped the precharged rifles' actions to a rig, the groups actually got worse.

As so often happens, there are more questions than answers, mate.