We had friends over this morning who we’ve not seen for 3 months. I played some What a Tanker! and had a chat. I had a quick lunch and then went to the range to meet up with my shooting friends. I had my BSA Lightening GRT .177 which was a Christmas present that hadContinue reading “Pleased lockdown is lifting.”
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A problem with pellets.
I was loading pellets into an Umarex .177 magazine when I noticed that some of them are filled with lead and some aren’t. These are all from the same tin. This means they are different weights and will have different flight characteristics. Another tin of pellets has different sizes of head in the tin. SomeContinue reading “A problem with pellets.”
Pellet selection.
I’ve had the HW75 for about 6 months now. The person I bought it from said they used JSB Exact pellets, a good quality pellet and the one I use in both of my PCP rifles. I was pleased with the performance of the pistol but often got a “flyer”, a shot that didn’t goContinue reading “Pellet selection.”
Lockdown blues? Cheer up!
Can’t get to the range? Time to get online with this little gem. Take your time setting it up and then see if you can knock down all the targets.
Zeroing my Christmas Air Rifle plus rambling chat.
I had a sub 12 ft-lbs BSA Lightning GRT air rifle for Christmas. Here are 3 vlogs as I zero the telescopic sight. YouTube part 1 YouTube part 2 YouTube part 3
What the “shoot’n’see” target looked like.
More zeroing on a cold and frosty morning.
Zeroing in my BSA Lightening GRT air rifle.
Bad advice, when using piston powered air rifles.
A follow on to my last range report. Noticeable that evening was one guy had a very powerful gas piston air rifle. What was also VERY noticeable was the scatter gun results he was getting courtesy of the advice he was being given by the resident ‘ex-spurt’ who kept on telling the guy to useContinue reading “Bad advice, when using piston powered air rifles.”
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