A chrony is a nice tool to have if your having inconsistent groups. With that you can see if your FPE is about what it should be and what the deviation is over a 5 shot string. Myself the first thing I would do is shoot some JSB 8.4 diablos through it. First 5-10 shots after switching pellets may have some flyers but after that I would check groups. The 35 may not like the H&N pellets your using. My HW97k will do ok with H&N FTT's but goes to one hole groups at 25 yards with the JSB 8.4's. In .22 I use the 15.89's. I use the JSB's as the base to compare other pellets by. Out of all my air rifles the JSB will be the best or a close 2nd which rarely happens. Also when using a rest anything other than your hand and shoulder touching the gun will throw groups off on most spring guns. Only exception to that is my Walther LGV I can get away with laying it on the bag most the time.
when using a rest anything other than your hand and shoulder touching the gun will throw groups off on most spring guns.
Quote from: Craymar on July 21, 2022, 05:16:48 PMwhen using a rest anything other than your hand and shoulder touching the gun will throw groups off on most spring guns. Interesting comment. I'm less than a year into spring guns (R9), and am still trying to improve my shooting. I had the impression that most of the successful target shooters used a soft support under the front of their rifle. Am I mistaken?
Quote from: Tom1340 on July 22, 2022, 12:56:37 AMQuote from: Craymar on July 21, 2022, 05:16:48 PMwhen using a rest anything other than your hand and shoulder touching the gun will throw groups off on most spring guns. Interesting comment. I'm less than a year into spring guns (R9), and am still trying to improve my shooting. I had the impression that most of the successful target shooters used a soft support under the front of their rifle. Am I mistaken?Your hand is a soft support. I've seen people use pillows, padded rests, paint rollers, paper towel rolls and all sorts of other stuff under their springers. They all can work. The key is to ensure whatever contacts the rifle, contacts it in the same places with the same pressures. I personally find it's easier to ensure that by placing the gun in my hands and steadying my left forearm on something. I use stock screws or pivot bolts to locate my left hand in the same exact place all the time. Holding the forend even loosely controls front end hop better than an open rest. Everyone develops their own method. Whatever you do just don't hold the gun tightly or rest it on a hard surface.
I'm almost 57 and I can only use Buckhorn sights in near perfect lighting. Peeps are the only way I can shoot reasonably well w/o a scope. I'd say you're doing very well at 76.
I took my five springers out this morning to adjust triggers, all with Rekord triggers. I got the pulls on all down to the 1lb range +/- about two ounces. Then a little later got my 35E out for some target work, just using the factory sights, I did replace the taper post in the front globe with a straight sided post, much better than my old eyes. I had been shooting soda cans at ten meters using factory settings, no problems but fine tuned it a bit on paper then moved out to 20 meters, and again with the factory sights could only get 1-1.5inch groups, probably my 76 year old eyes, along with sun coming at me through the trees from the front. I want to keep irons on this one, and have and Anchutz aperature sight on order for it. At my age I shoot much better with a peep type as compared to the leaf rear sights.