I'm not looking for explanations necessarily unless you might have something particularly interesting to contribute but I have a habit I MISS THE EASY SHOTS.
Shooting today at one of my farm permissions and I was sighted in well. The silo I was working on was at about 40 yards and has a metal railing running around its periphery. I typically sight the gun in on that railing. I can of course hear the pellet ping off the thing and usually can see the mark. So anyways I'm sighted in and NO wind. Not much bird activity but I was nailing sparrows rather easily. THEN ??? A pigeon lands and looks right at me still as can be AND I MISS THE DARNED PIGEON. I do this and I think I know most of the potential reasons. I have to assume that I jumped the trigger and pulled the shot off but honestly it drives me NUTS. Now I don't do this all the time but I miss more of the easy one's then I should. After that missed shot on the pigeon (and they have me figured out pretty much and didn't give many opportunities) I went back and sure enough pinged one off of the railing just to be sure. I'd like to claim it was the unexplained flyer but I don't think so. I thought I broke the shot right on is neck body joint but no wack sound and he flew off like it was a clean miss (which I'm sure it was)
I'm glad no one was watching I embarrass myself some times. Oh well maybe in a couple days he'll give me another try. I'm working on video recording and maybe some day I'll have something to post. Might also help me see what I did wrong??? Heckman
Shooting today at one of my farm permissions and I was sighted in well. The silo I was working on was at about 40 yards and has a metal railing running around its periphery. I typically sight the gun in on that railing. I can of course hear the pellet ping off the thing and usually can see the mark. So anyways I'm sighted in and NO wind. Not much bird activity but I was nailing sparrows rather easily. THEN ??? A pigeon lands and looks right at me still as can be AND I MISS THE DARNED PIGEON. I do this and I think I know most of the potential reasons. I have to assume that I jumped the trigger and pulled the shot off but honestly it drives me NUTS. Now I don't do this all the time but I miss more of the easy one's then I should. After that missed shot on the pigeon (and they have me figured out pretty much and didn't give many opportunities) I went back and sure enough pinged one off of the railing just to be sure. I'd like to claim it was the unexplained flyer but I don't think so. I thought I broke the shot right on is neck body joint but no wack sound and he flew off like it was a clean miss (which I'm sure it was)
I'm glad no one was watching I embarrass myself some times. Oh well maybe in a couple days he'll give me another try. I'm working on video recording and maybe some day I'll have something to post. Might also help me see what I did wrong??? Heckman