So.....what did you shoot today?

[Privateer]

Here's the video. set it to 25% speed and full screen to really see the pellet.

[avator]

Morning.... same here. I been up for an hour or so. Betty Lou just rolled out and Rambo has been outside barking at things that go bump in the night.
I also took my coffee out and sat at the new shooting bench contemplating the next steps. I'm going back out in a few to work on the target end and try to get some junk moved off of the deck and into an out building.
Dan... trust me, you don't want to see pics of the mess I have just yet. Pics will come soon.

BILL, LOL, I understand,  I'm ashamed of my old shed and try to crop it out of all my pictures ior not have it in the background or foreground.

Posted some pics of the 'shootin range' in the "What airgun related" gate.
https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=148550.msg155776556#msg155776556

[Privateer]

Did a quick video of the steel target Matt and I giggle over.
You might hear the ricochet sound if you listen close. It's much louder in person!
The pellets fly off at a 45 degree angle into the woods and at times you hear them hitting the leaves.

[wolverine]

Shooting w/c out of the 2260 at some creamer pods i found in the boat from last year.  They give off a  bright white explosion

[Insanity]

I love that plate ding zing.

[UlteriorModem]

Did a quick video of the steel target Matt and I giggle over.
You might hear the ricochet sound if you listen close. It's much louder in person!
The pellets fly off at a 45 degree angle into the woods and at times you hear them hitting the leaves.

This is a little embarrassing but one time I put up a plastic cutting board that my wife was throwing away. I shot at it with a .22 springer and much to my surprise the pellet ricochet off it buzzing back towards me and actually hit me! Oops!

Now I tilt it at a 45 degree angle and listen to the pellet whistle off into the distance

[Privateer]

Did a quick video of the steel target Matt and I giggle over.
You might hear the ricochet sound if you listen close. It's much louder in person!
The pellets fly off at a 45 degree angle into the woods and at times you hear them hitting the leaves.

This is a little embarrassing but one time I put up a plastic cutting board that my wife was throwing away. I shot at it with a .22 springer and much to my surprise the pellet ricochet off it buzzing back towards me and actually hit me! Oops!

Now I tilt it at a 45 degree angle and listen to the pellet whistle off into the distance

The orange stakes I painted black are for marking under ground cables. Made of a heavy plastic that can take a 33 grn pellet hit at around 30 yards and not break!
Only problem is they DO send the pellets back at you at times. Matt and I figured that out pretty quickly!
I'll be driving them in the ground at a longer range and turned to a 45 degree angle hence forth.

[Insanity]

They are fun to shoot also sway in the breeze and nice reusable reactive target.

[Matchstickshooter]

Re-sighted the 1740 long rifle,after putting the longer barrel back on.

[maraudinglizard]

I found a little time to shoot some pistols. The CP99 and XFive were the can killers for the day. Nothing more satisfying than the thunk of a can being hit and spun around. Kept the session short due to the heat outside. Not even August yet and it's miserably hot.

[Back_Roads]

 I made an attempt to shoot some aerosol cans at 20 yards off hand, with the ole .22 Benjamin Genesis with CP 4-16 x40  scope that has been on the gun since I brought them home from Wmart many years ago. Longest DRT kill shot I have made was with that gun  . 85 measured yards, head shot on a rabbit on a calm afternoon.
 Today I hit 3 out of 7 cans  I think something is up with the rig and needs to be looked into  or I may just be having an off day. Guess I will take some springers out and see if I can shoot any one of them better. Will start with the K98 Mauser, If I can't do any better with that I will break out the PCPs   

[bear air]

No cars parked along the house today so I got an opportunity to shoot a little further than I have inside. It's around 30 yards to my little plinker target. I shot the .177 marauder with 16.2 gr jsb pellets and then shot some 21 gr H&N piledrivers and to my surprise they were very accurate. Then pulled out the 22 marauder and shot 3 mags of hades pellets and then 3 mags of JSB 25.39 gr pellets. That's about it. I just peeked out and no one is parked there so I might go back out again.

[Lefusil]

I was plinking today at some spent shot shell hulls.  Decided to try challenging myself, and laid them on their sides with the metal base of the hull facing me (about 50 yards out).
When I went to set them back up after a round of shots, most of them looked like the one on the left in the pics.  The one on the right was unique and kind of cool, the pellet lodged itself right into the shot shell primer.

[BackStop]

I was plinking today at some spent shot shell hulls.  Decided to try challenging myself, and laid them on their sides with the metal base of the hull facing me (about 50 yards out).
When I went to set them back up after a round of shots, most of them looked like the one on the left in the pics.  The one on the right was unique and kind of cool, the pellet lodged itself right into the shot shell primer.

SWEET!!!

[Arch_E]

I was plinking today at some spent shot shell hulls.  Decided to try challenging myself, and laid them on their sides with the metal base of the hull facing me (about 50 yards out).
When I went to set them back up after a round of shots, most of them looked like the one on the left in the pics.  The one on the right was unique and kind of cool, the pellet lodged itself right into the shot shell primer.

Great shooting!

Archie

[bear air]

BULLSEYE! Nice shootin.

[BackStop]

Shot 2 tree rats.  Both ran away... (heavy sigh)

Although I did hit them both (or I think I did?), I could not find either.

Well, either I have lost it or my recent trials of pellets that I had already tried that did not do well in my first tests may have screwed up the barrel for a little while.

Yeah... that's my story and I am sticking to it!  I mean... it couldn't be ME?!?!  (chuckle)

Anyway, it is time to do some zero checks at 25 yards with the Crosman 10.5 domed (brown box) again.   Just to make sure...  (heavy sigh)

Maybe I need to check the chrony again as well?

Happy 4th/Independence Day to everyone!

Freedom is taken for granted and should not be.   It can be so easily lost, or taken away by politicians.

[Arch_E]

Got 50 good shots out of my Crosman Vigilante today. It started with a lot of CO2 emission but calmed down. Nice shooting pistol, though loud.

Spent some time shooting my HW95, testing various pellets from 6.9-7.3.  Mostly good results. Ended my session with RWS Superdomes 8.3: sweet shooting pellets!

Archie

[BackStop]

Shot 2 tree rats.  Both ran away... (heavy sigh)

Although I did hit them both (or I think I did?), I could not find either.

Well, either I have lost it or my recent trials of pellets that I had already tried that did not do well in my first tests may have screwed up the barrel for a little while.

Yeah... that's my story and I am sticking to it!  I mean... it couldn't be ME?!?!  (chuckle)

Anyway, it is time to do some zero checks at 25 yards with the Crosman 10.5 domed (brown box) again.   Just to make sure...  (heavy sigh)

Maybe I need to check the chrony again as well?

Happy 4th/Independence Day to everyone!

Freedom is taken for granted and should not be.   It can be so easily lost, or taken away by politicians.

I didn't do the chrony, but I did test zero with my favorite Crosman Domed 10.5 grain (brown box) pellets at 25 yards.  At night...

My hands are pretty shaky, but I did find that the zero was a little bit low.   The left and right shots were all me, but the center shots... I knew when I pulled the trigger where the pellet was going!  The lower 3 shot string was before I adjusted the scope UP.   The center ring of that target is exactly one inch.  And, yes, the pic is oriented correctly.  The target was just placed that way.

So, the misses I have recently had, once again, were ALL ME and not the gun.   Even though the zero was not exact, it was close enough that I SHOULD have had clean kills.

Sometimes I think I *overthink* a shot, instead of just doing what works when I am practicing/zeroing.

Now, to find a way to stop my shaky hands...  (sigh)

Happy 4th to all!!!   Freedom is too easily lost through apathy.
Freedom is NOT FREE!  NOTHING IS FREE!

[AG72]

Went to the cabin with my hatsan at44 and 2 tins of pellets, jsb 15.89 and jsb hades, sun was shining but it was windy, set up some target at 30 meters and zeroed my new scope with jsb 15.89, then shot a 5 shot group, a bit low so adjusted 2 clicks up, then the wind picked up more and the sun dissapeared behind very dark clouds... Quickly opened the tin of hades and shot a 5 shot group, same accurasy as the ordinary, maybe even tighter! Then the rain started to poor heavily so i only shot these targets, but looking promising! And the scope is fantastic too...