Long Rangers

[Privateer]

I'll start it here unless higher ups think it should go else where.

AirGunDepot has a little challenge for us.
Now I'm not after the FX that you might win but that killer patch!!
 

So I started setting up for this challenge with a large target set at 100 yrds.
I'll use that to adjust the AT44 .25 QE long with FX no limit rings to a zero of 100 yrds.
Yea. Kind of a cheat eh?
 

I'll start adding pictures and such as I go along.
I hope more people will chime in also.

[Privateer]

here's the target I'm using.


At 100 yrds with a 4 mil dot hold over here is what I got on the first shot.


Roughly 4 clicks left and 4 clicks up would put it darn close! But I'll use the FX No limit rings to adjust up.

Now you may ask why the No Limits. When you really want to reach out and NOT max out adjustments on your scope? I've found nothing else that beats them!
Shoot, adjust, and BANG!!

(I hung the target upside down to see if your paying attention)
(OK. I was not paying attention and the skeeters were bad!)

[Blue]

I think if that golf ball had a face it would be looking very concerned right now!  Can't wait to watch your progress.  I've hit milk jugs and 2 liter bottles out to 150 yards but a golf ball would be safe from me for many, many shots.

I think that patch is pretty sweet too.  I keep trying to figure out how it could be adapted/changed for our N.U.A.H. club.

Blue

[Privateer]

This is the same AT44 .25 I made the NUAH club with.
You can see how accurate it is with that first shot I posted!
It's still setup the same except for adjustments to the no limit rings.
Here's a short video.

[Bent]

Tried the competition once.... I'm for sure gona try again.. 




A five shot group at 150 yards.. 

[19Sheridan57]

The cataract in my shooting eye won't let me see a VW at that range !

[Bizill]

I already started a thread that got buried. https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=130647.0

 Already did the 200 yard and this morn I did 250 yards.  I'll be making the video of that tonight.

Already got the patch for the 200 yard.

[Bent]

Bizill, thats great.

Great shooting... it's a bit windy?

[Bizill]

Today was optimal.  5 mph gusts but I think I was able to shoot in less than 3mph.  I got 3/4 of the way out to the range which is about 35 miles away and forgot my darn golf ball.  Drove all the way back home and drove back to the desert and found out I forgot my Caldwell Fieldpod Magnum stand.  Grrrr.  When I did the shot at 200 I had all my ducks in a row the night before.  Today I woke up not knowing if I'd even try to go out but was bored so I decided to. 

[Bizill]

If ya'll are gonna get down with this challenge to enter the drawing, do so quickly.  You've only got until the end of the month.  I did end up hitting at 250 yards (only need 150 to enter drawing) but AGD has yet to update their website to show it.

[Erroln]

Bizill~ Congrats for making the top of the list!

[UpNorthAirGunner]

This is the same AT44 .25 I made the NUAH club with.

What is the NUAH club? Sounds intriguing! 

[UpNorthAirGunner]

350 Yard AirGunDepot.com Long Ranger Shot:
Well it's been a fun month of learning a ton from you all and proud to say I have hit all of the AirGunDepot.com Long Ranger yardage shots from the 150 yard (Hole-in-One First Shot - Talon SS) - 175 yard (it took 86 shots - Talon SS) - 200 yards (Another Hole-in-One First Shot - Texan .357)!  I am also proud that as of 2 days ago I hit a 350 yard shot with my  Texan .357!  Still waiting for AGD to approve the shot and update the leaderboard to put me in the top position (hopefully). During this time, I have learned a lot about my Texan .357 and what ammo it likes, what is doesn't like, where it excels, and what are the challenges of this rifle.  I posted this over at airgunnation.com, but though it would be good to post here as well:

Someone asked how I was able to tame the Texan since I had only owned it for 2 weeks to make that 350 yard shot. So how did I pull this all together in a short amount of time?  Pure obsession and a crazy amount of networking within the airgun community.  It is the spirit of shared knowledge that made this 350 yard shot possible.  I just absorbed as much info from all the subject matter experts that I could – lined up the cross hairs and squeezed the trigger.  Thank you to you all!

As far as learning about the .357 Texan – I have been chatting with Jimmy (the guy who won the AGD Texan Give Away) and learned a lot from him.  Through Jimmy I met Nick Neilson of Neilson Specialty Ammo who has been on a war path about the harmonics and twist rate concerns he has about the Airforce Texan series.  Learned A TON from his posts on other forums and hypothesized what tweaks I needed to make even before the rifle arrived.  From that info I was able to reverse engineered (at least some) of what the folks over at Hunters Supply are doing in their tuning services to turn the Texan to a real long range rifle.  It was from Hunters Supply photo and video research that I realized that this barrel was going to need some major harmonics and rigidity help (thus the de-resonator donut and homemade ABS plastic shroud).  See the 200 yard shot video to see what my DIY shroud consists of.

Then finally the introduction to Al Clark, the GENIUS behind Aeromagnum Ammo and the 128 gr. Devastator Hollow Point, is what really made this all possible. If you haven’t seen his rounds in person – words can’t describe….  Order a box and you will see what I mean.  Just for giggles – I am going for 400 Yards before the end of the challenge.  Just need to find a stretch of land as I am out of safe yardage where I have been shooting. So yes – it was a busy 2 weeks to make this shot.  But it has been a fun learning process!  Here are my video submissions so far from furthest to shortest:









...and lastly, here was my response to a few forum trolls who were doubting I actually hit that 150 yard shot because of the weird angle the ball flew up when it was hit by the pellet.  Watch to the very end for some ant-forum troll humor.