I think I made a mistake
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One looks well suited for critters from space. The other looks well suited for critters from Earth. No such thing as too much preparation.
James
James
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I got a funny story.
So I figured knew from the beginning there would be no way I can shoot this at my house, as I'm a corner property with no back yard. Even if I had one, houses are fifty feet apart from back to back and maybe twenty from side to side. With that said, I took the gun to one of my rental properties that is unoccupied, but I still felt it wasn't safe without having a beefy backstop and such.
So since I grew up in that neighborhood, I figured I'd just walk over to a wooded area a few blocks over and get this thing sighted in. After walking 100 yards back from the street, I set down my gun and a folding chair I was gonna use as a gun rest. I don't own a pair of shooting sticks as the military has that against my religion. I was always taught that if you can get your shot in the prone or sitting on your butt, you didn't deserve to eat it!
I walked back another 45 yards, as there was a natural incline of about 12 foot in 3 that had some fallen trees; like God just set me up a natural safe place to shoot!
I taped up a 12" target on some dead wood and popped back into position. I had already filled the gun to 3000psi from my scuba tank and I loaded up 5 H&N Grizzly slugs, as that's all that I had. I stretched my budget and bought some cheap Chinese branded scope, as I wanted to keep the UTG mounted on my Hatsan for plinking and smaller game. Anyway, I had no idea where this slug was gonna land, but felt confident that at least I would not accidentally hurt anyone with my positioning.
I sit down, make a cheek weld, peep through the scope and squeeze on the bottom of my breath as I've always been taught. That damn gun kicked so much scope almost gave me a black eye! Not to mention, it was like, super crazy loud, like I need hearing protection loud! I heard the slug slam into the tree. But my target was untouched!
I tweaked the scope and four rounds later, my target was still pristine. At this point and packed up and went home. As I pulled into the garage, I said what the heck, and filled my gun back up to 3000psi and loaded up more Grizzly slugs. I put two 2x6 pineboards back to back about twenty feet away inside my garage and have it three to four dots hold over, not knowing what that would even do. To my shock and amazement the pellet split both boards in half and still went through a stack of pallets that were behind it!
Oftentimes you've heard the saying, "This ain't your father's Red Ryder." This is the same times 100.
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I put a DonnyFL adapter and an EMPEROR on one of mine and the others have the large full size Pitbull at the ends. The DONNYFL EMPEROR is much quieter but is still boarder line not back yard friendly like a 25 Marauder. Yo
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I have an Emperor on mine too. It makes it shoot'll about as quiet as my Bullboss in .25 cal.
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