Air Rifle Bench Rest Competition Shooting

[simona]

I have to agree that the P70FT is a one-hole machine. I have one in a P700 chassis with some minor mods and it's incredibly good at 30 metres indoors and it seems very flexible pellet wise. I would feel quite confident that with half decent JSBs at 25 yards this gun would not miss a 2mm target. The barrels on these must be good, I shot a load of reject JSBs out of the P70 and they still were one-holers, it doesn't need cleaning either. Cocking a P70 might make it move on the bags though.

Perhaps the most accurate thing I ever used at 30 metres was my much fiddled Walther Dominator when it was fitted with a hammer-forged poly barrel. I only changed the barrel because it was poor at longer range, only doing inch groups at 50 yards. It was so good out to medium range that it almost defied comprehension.

Having said all this there is no reason why your PT shouldn't produce results. What barrel shroud set up does it have? Is the crown OK? Does it throw the odd one whatever pellet you use?

I hope this sport goes somewhere, I've got a mint Baush and Lomb 36x40 BR scope ready and waiting.

[Hooty]

Nimrod, Bob's getting a FWB? God help us all! A shame his GC2 is moving on - it's a beauty - fantastic lump of timber. Stand it on its end, stick on some branches and a few seasonal baubles and it wouldn't be much smaller than the tree from whence it came. Good report on defiant pellets Bob - ascerbic as always

[Anaxes]

Just a side note.

Steyr produce a dedicated bench rested rifle too.

Have a look on the Steyr Sportswaffen website.

[Falcon25]

Nimrod,

The P70 at city air weapons was nearly bought by me several times but I had my mind set on a blue one and now I have 2. These P70 are No 1 in my book but have to be blue!!!. You wont be disapointed with the gun.

[Alegazmoz]

To follow on from Simmo's post.
I shoot a standard S400 off the bench at Buxted and I was getting a lot of flyers on AA452's. Worse with JSB's.
As has already been said, benchrest shooting is pretty well established at Buxted, therefore there was lots of good advice.
Lead the barrel, clean the barrel, find the sweet spot, establish a routine, find the right pellet, inhale and hold, exhale and hold, head position, body position, wear the right/same clothes, clean the gun, do this do that .......
...... and then it happened ....... someone gave me half a dozen expensive wad-cutters he used in his FWB and the results were amazing.
I was inspired, I ripped the gun to bits, polished guides and hammers, cleaned things, oiled others. No moderator, no stripper, no muzzle break, shot 'em straight out of the pipe. Twenty quids worth of select H & N flat-tops . I never shot so good .. except ... the pellets appeared to be striking the cards and rolling on impact, on the card-board backing, tearing an irregular hole. No good for the .22 guage as it was dropping straight through. This unusual pattern occurred at points where the target holder wasn't quite aligned, which was pretty much most of them.
Alignment was never an issue for FT diabolo's, they just shot up the target mount. It has been suggested the rifle's power may be down, so it'll get chrono'd ASAP.
Obviously the first set of targets were no good and had to be repeated.
Back on the AA452's and guess what my 10 and 10x averages are just the same, but the flyers are down to 10mm and not 10cm.
However, I did my cards with a moderator fitted next month without and a rabbit's foot in each hip pocket.
You just can't buy luck or accuracy either for that matter.
ATVB.
Gary.

[Sharpshoot1995]

I am not a serious air rifle shooter but might start seriously and could do with some advice. I have a Weihrauch HW80 and it is fitted with a 3-9X40 scope. Would that scope and gun be all right for 25m benchrest?

Many Thanks

[Alegazmoz]

You need to be able to see a 2mm roundel at 25yds.
Anything in excess of 24mag for unlimited or hunter class is fine, but you have to learn to die on each shot, otherwise breathing is a serious problem.
Sporter class maximum 12mag, get a fine reticle, otherwise the cross hair marker blots out the centre.
Have fun!
arf!