100 yard airgun

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What Caliber are your current? I think its more shooter than anything when you push it to 100 yards. You'd be amazed at the minor movements we make during/before trigger pulls in slow motion. If they can do moa-sub moa at 50 yards then they should theoretically do it at 100 if you do your job. Only suggestion I can make based more on reading than experience is go the fx route.
 
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.22 is my preferred caliber. Once I had a .25 Sumatra that did pretty good groups, but no where near 1" at 100 yards.

I agree on the smallest movements throwing off shots. I use sand bags or a fixed tripod to minimize that but still get a flyer or two.

Never had an FX, I heard the Royale can do wonders at long range. Now that the synthetic dropped down to 1499 I may give it a shoot, pun intended.

Thanks for your input.
 
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I think you barking up the wrong tree my friend. Most high powered, airgun costing over $1500 should be able to perform that task if they are properly paired up with the best pellet, shooting at the optimum speed for the barrel and pellet combination, and the shooter compensates for the elements and does his part (hold, breathing, parallax, trigger pull, etc). I've yet to do it with my collection but i do notice i'm getting closer and closer the more i practice. Lastly most will recommend that at 75 yard and further a 25 caliber or greater is often recommended, just because of the effects of the elements on the pellet are less. 1.5 inches @ 100 yard is great shooting. If one could just pick up and spend a certain amount of money and shoot less than a MOA then a lot more people would be doing it, and Extreme benchrest wouldn't even exist.
 
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"addertooth"Use a copy of Hawke Chairgun Pro with your pellet of choice, at the velocity you shoot at. Then see where your strike is with a 2 mph wind (set wind direction at 270 degrees), and then run it with a 7 mph wind and look at the difference in strike (left to right).
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Exactly.

The difference between 25yds and 100yds w/ a 2mph wind is about 2". And that's only 2mph. 
Now, with a 7mph wind (only 5mph extra breeze) the difference is nearly 9"!

And we're not even talking about thermals; hot concrete ground up range vs grass or dirt down range will cause all kind of crazy thermals that reek havoc on a light pellet, up, down sideways - measured in inches at 100yds.

Just have fun at 100 yds., don't judge a guns accuracy at this range.

(Edit: the same applied to a 55gr .223 at ~3000fps at 100yds. 5mph wind change, is only ~3/4"!)
 
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Wow, that's a lot of info guys.

I shoot in very low wind conditions, but regardless would need to understand better the effects of wind and temperature on pellet flight at different distances. Moving to .25 caliber would probably minimize those effects, specially with heavy pellets like JSB monster's of whichever the gun likes most. I'll get Hawke Chairgun Pro to get started.

I'll look at the Royale 500, heard good things about it.

Thank you all for your input. 

Cheers


P.S. This guys seems to have it figured out with a .22 Vulcan 
 
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