Same scope, just got it lower with a one piece medium Sportsmatch mount (40mm objective clears action by a few mm’s) instead of the Sportsmatch one piece high adj mount. Cheekpiece and buttpad adj sorted and it’s feeling steady and balanced with the lower positioned scope.
Beautiful day to shoot! Cleared out some brush downrange and set up a 3” steel gong 82 yards away from the edge of the deck. 85 yards if I scoot back all the way, which is exactly what I did
. Shot from a plastic foldable bench using a soft front rest (in pic). Being higher up on the bench instead of from a sitting position meant that now I had overhanging leaves at around 65 yards directly in the pellet path to contend with. A couple thin branches/vines on either side of the gong also at the 65 yd mark would move with the wind and at times I’d have only 1/3 of the target visible. Once I had the wind figured out most pellets were impacting center mass no problem. Very enjoyable with the thinking and timing involved to earn the impacts.
Before wrapping up I shot a 5 shot group at a clean piece of a shot up target at 58 yards. Using only the soft front rest (same in pic) the rifle printed a .47” center-to-center group that made me smile.
Group completely eclipsed by a dime.
A spent Lord’s caliber casing for reference:
With the mild shifty winds, earth’s rotation, crappy BC of diabolo pellets and all the engineering/mechanical magic that happens inside of a Whiscombe with each shot - my smile won’t wear off until later tonight
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Life is short, shoot and enjoy your grails! Cheers
Beautiful day to shoot! Cleared out some brush downrange and set up a 3” steel gong 82 yards away from the edge of the deck. 85 yards if I scoot back all the way, which is exactly what I did
. Shot from a plastic foldable bench using a soft front rest (in pic). Being higher up on the bench instead of from a sitting position meant that now I had overhanging leaves at around 65 yards directly in the pellet path to contend with. A couple thin branches/vines on either side of the gong also at the 65 yd mark would move with the wind and at times I’d have only 1/3 of the target visible. Once I had the wind figured out most pellets were impacting center mass no problem. Very enjoyable with the thinking and timing involved to earn the impacts.Before wrapping up I shot a 5 shot group at a clean piece of a shot up target at 58 yards. Using only the soft front rest (same in pic) the rifle printed a .47” center-to-center group that made me smile.
Group completely eclipsed by a dime.
A spent Lord’s caliber casing for reference:
With the mild shifty winds, earth’s rotation, crappy BC of diabolo pellets and all the engineering/mechanical magic that happens inside of a Whiscombe with each shot - my smile won’t wear off until later tonight
.Life is short, shoot and enjoy your grails! Cheers
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