Springer ? 200yds possible ???

[Barryg]

How's this for a long range plinking.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...7122886192038#

[Artfull-Bodger]

erm, he must have a lot of faith in his mate to stand there!!

I have set my HW98 up to shoot crosshairs on at 100yds by using a sportsmatch one piece adjustable mount, a week ago I took my HW77 down the range for a balance test and once finished broke out the 98, conditions were excellent,very cold but absolutely still air with a that deathly hush you get in a woods covered with snow!

I set up a 6 spot resetting target on the shelf the side of the tree at 102 yds and firing off the bench went for a three down followed by three back up with no misses, it got a little frustrating when I kept getting five for five then missed the last one, but finally with a lot of concentration I hit six for six (40mm targets) at 102 yds

to top it off I then did a grouping test with my mossies I weigh for FT and managed a 29mm c-to-c five shot group at the same range!

I am now going to quit shooting and take up match box collecting or somethinga s i'm never going to top that one!

[Bellycrawler]

using a sportsmatch one piece adjustable mount,



to top it off I then did a grouping test with my mossies I weigh for FT and managed a 29mm c-to-c five shot group at the same range!

I am now going to quit shooting and take up match box collecting or somethinga s i'm never going to top that one!

I've got the two piece adjustable & find I need to dremel the back one.
The scope I'm useing has mildots in the center but has thick plain lines on the outer half, didn't give it much thought untill I stretched the distance.
Very hard to judge P'O'Aim even for paper punching & aiming at the top of the board.

[Mactavish]

... Shooting a standard .22 Weirauch HW80 (which I just bought new last month), over a GPS measured 206 yards at an empty Stella tin.

The target was sat on a wooden ledge on the broad side of a ruined old barn and I also decided the challenge should be shot standing and freehand just for the hell of it!

Chairgun helped the prep a bit, as did some improvised aiming and zeroing solutions together with a willing accomplice on a mobile phone who traipsed back and forth between each shot to mark out POI while I looked on through a spotting scope. It took well over and hour, over a hundred JSB Exact Express pellets, lots of frustration and the odd pause for thought/inspiration; but I cracked it in the end.

It has to be said however that the myriad of variables involved in this type of shooting caused a dire lack of consistency shot on shot. The size of the grouping during this exercise was over 3 feet (and that's excluding flyers and the slight shifts in wind throughout the session). In fact, if I'm honest it involved a modicum of luck to hit the can in the time I did, and to put this in perspective, a few weeks ago I had some tins out at 120 yards and was hitting them around once every 4 or 5 shots and out at a 80 yards was hitting them at least every other shot.

Satisfying as a satisfying thing when the 206 tin dropped though!

[Artfull-Bodger]

thats the lousiest excuse I have ever heard for drinking Stella!

[Mactavish]

thats the lousiest excuse I have ever heard for drinking Stella!

Looking for a no frills, freehand, minimum prep solution to the challenge with a totally bog-standard set-up; I decided to use the zoom on the scope to fix my zero at the intersection of the vertical cross-hair post with the scope's bottom margin... unfortunately this resulted in a mag of only x4 or so to shoot with.

Now I usually prefer a malt whisky but at 206 yards and x4 that bright white tin stood out a treat against the red paint on the old barn...

[Artfull-Bodger]

funny you should mention that, i'm sitting here reading this with a glass of 18 year old Glenlivet to sip!

a merry christmas to you!