How to accurately fire a Springer with the Artillery Hold

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Catanonia

Catanonia

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Over the last month I have had a few people ask me what is and how to use the artillery hold.
So I decided to make it the subject of a short video in the hope it will spark conversation and aid those who are unsure.

The video is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV5yONIripI

Many have commented that they have never used it, but use shooting stick or bags. Although they are not actually using the artillery hold, they are obeying its principles of allow the rifle to move rather than gripping it to death.

Hope you find this video helpful as much as I did learning and making it.
 
"Grumpytroll"Watched your video early this morning I use the Artillery hold with my break barrel resting my hand in the fork of my shooting stick still need practice but using artillery hold on the bench I get 1/2" groups at 25 yds. My problem is during squirrel season carrying a shooting bench is a little much.
Thanks for the videos keep them coming.
Grumpy
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Yup artillery hold is a method of basically letting the rifle do the work in its rawest form, without gripping the life out of it. Using shooting sticks works the same as the rifle can move and you are not strangling the front stock of the rifle. It all comes with practice and most people are better bench rested :)
 
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Catanonia,

Where were you back in 1989 when I got my first real air rifle, a Beeman R7 springer? Back then I'd never heard of any "artillery hold", nor the natural vibration of springers. Neither did I know of any other spring airgunners who could have taught me. You can imagine the frustration I had for a time. But, eventually, the gun taught me how she wanted to be held. From that point on it was true love! 

Since then I've bought other pellet guns: a Baikal IZH 46M, an AirForce Condor .22, and my most recent purchase, a Daystate Huntsman Classic .22. I like them all and they each have their assigned duties to perform. But if poverty ever strikes and I am forced to sell all but one, the Beeman R7 stays. That's right; I'd keep my springer!

In all the years I've owned it, the Beeman R7 has caused me less grief than any of the others. It has gone through only one mainspring and piston seal in all those years. And it shoots as accurately today as it did the very first day that I finally learned how to shoot it. Thanks to the artillery hold, my spring piston Beeman R7 is not only the most accurate, but it's the most precise, predictable, dependable, rugged, and inexpensive gun I own. Had I never learned the artillery hold, I would never have learned to experience and appreciate the many virtues of my beloved R7.

Thanks for taking the time to do this video and thereby sparing others the frustration that I experienced early on with my springer. The artillery hold allows me to fully enjoy the simplicity, reliability, and low cost of spring piston airgunning without sacrificing accuracy and precision. Hold her lightly and she's the smoothest gal on the dance floor!

BeemanR7
 
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