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Frank in Fairfield:
Diablo had their monthly informal match today. I shot with Jim C and Scott (Motorhead). I shot a couple of months ago with Scott, and my R1 in .177. Packing a 2-7X Beeman scope, range-finding was quite limited. I shot 18%. Today I had the .177 Marauder with Blaster stock and Hawke 4-16X Eclipse 30. 54%. Now I have a new set of rings to lower the scope a bit. As an aside, one target (a blue bird) had a kill zone just a hair larger than .25". Hit the bird, score zero. Hit the kill zone, 1 point (if it falls). It was great fun as just as you squeeze the trigger and send the pellet on its way, you feel a gust of wind. No benchrest. Real fun.

nced:

--- Quote from: RETATCDUDE on July 21, 2013, 06:43:48 PM ---Diablo had their monthly informal match today. I shot with Jim C and Scott (Motorhead). I shot a couple of months ago with Scott, and my R1 in .177. Packing a 2-7X Beeman scope, range-finding was quite limited. I shot 18%. Today I had the .177 Marauder with Blaster stock and Hawke 4-16X Eclipse 30. 54%. Now I have a new set of rings to lower the scope a bit. As an aside, one target (a blue bird) had a kill zone just a hair larger than .25". Hit the bird, score zero. Hit the kill zone, 1 point (if it falls). It was great fun as just as you squeeze the trigger and send the pellet on its way, you feel a gust of wind. No benchrest. Real fun.

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At DIFTA they have a pesky gopher target with small killzone that usually gets placed 20ish yards away and for me shooting holdover in hunter class it's pretty much a lottery shot! I was counting hits vs shots and at last count I had 4 knock downs for about 12 shots! LOL.....I do better on the 50 yard targets in a breeze than that pesky gopher!

I'm guessing the issue is the fact that the pellet is rising rapidly to the line of sight for the close targets so it's difficult (for me) getting the holdover right!

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