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We gave it a hard try this afternoon and I have to say the rifle did it's part.
I was hoping for a new personal best today, but it was not to be.
Conditions were challenging.
On a better day, the rifle did this.
At 1PM I took the rifle out to the bench to shoot and shot this target while trying to zero.
It was a fail by the time I shot the second bull but I figured I continue and make sure I had the zero dead on before starting the second target. Conditions just got worse and worse as I shot.
This is the second target. It took a couple of hours to shoot it as I spent a lot of time watching wind flags for calmer air. The wind looks predictable and over the water it pretty much is but between my bench and the wind there are the house and some bushes and a couple of trees. The wind is always boiling and shifting because of the turbulance behind the obstructions. That makes it tough to call if it is blowing harder than ten MPH on the river.
It is also a fail but there are some noteworthy groups so I figured the target itself is a lesson. It was a fail on the next to the last bull. If you zoom in on group two you will see it is four shots, nothing in the rules about shooting extras
. The fourth shot of that group was the one closest to the bull. The shots were clustering so tightly in that black ring that I thought I had not shot three on that bull.
The rifle will obviously shoot one hole groups with that pellet at 25 yards. When a miss happens it is pretty much obvious the shooter muffed the shot. I muffed the next to the last bull. Groups which were not one hole are down to doping the wind incorrectly and "fiddling" with zero. I muffed that group on the first shot and shot the next five shots in about two or three minutes time as I had given up and the ribs were calling my name.
Another day and the shooter will honor the rifle properly. Not bad for a $150 spring rifle.

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I was hoping for a new personal best today, but it was not to be.
Conditions were challenging.
On a better day, the rifle did this.
At 1PM I took the rifle out to the bench to shoot and shot this target while trying to zero.
It was a fail by the time I shot the second bull but I figured I continue and make sure I had the zero dead on before starting the second target. Conditions just got worse and worse as I shot.
This is the second target. It took a couple of hours to shoot it as I spent a lot of time watching wind flags for calmer air. The wind looks predictable and over the water it pretty much is but between my bench and the wind there are the house and some bushes and a couple of trees. The wind is always boiling and shifting because of the turbulance behind the obstructions. That makes it tough to call if it is blowing harder than ten MPH on the river.
It is also a fail but there are some noteworthy groups so I figured the target itself is a lesson. It was a fail on the next to the last bull. If you zoom in on group two you will see it is four shots, nothing in the rules about shooting extras

The rifle will obviously shoot one hole groups with that pellet at 25 yards. When a miss happens it is pretty much obvious the shooter muffed the shot. I muffed the next to the last bull. Groups which were not one hole are down to doping the wind incorrectly and "fiddling" with zero. I muffed that group on the first shot and shot the next five shots in about two or three minutes time as I had given up and the ribs were calling my name.
Another day and the shooter will honor the rifle properly. Not bad for a $150 spring rifle.

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